Shite in Miniature II

[Datsuncog]

14 minutes ago, NorfolkNWeigh said:

Cool, if that green Lesney 250 Lusso is still there, could you pick it up please?

Can surely.

Heading back over shortly to see what's what, so I'll try to pick up any further requests on my phone (which can be a smidge hit and miss at times, so apologies in advance).

[flat4alfa]

57 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

[SPV]

Yup, though it was a fairly rough partial repaint with the tracks and most of the moving bits missing... have you an upper price in mind for one of these? I'd like to think no more than a fiver, hopefully less.

They seem to go for daft money even when tatty, but even I baulk at a fiver 

Can see front door ramp missing too so it’s probably been a donor so probably best leave it if not quid tat box money 

[flat4alfa]

I’ve got a thing about that Tonka (Buddy L?) AMC comedy Gremlin. Looking at the size against the Tr 2000 it’s about 1:32 yes?  Couple of quid might do it

and what is that - a clockwork walking Walnut Whip??!

The London to Sydney Hillman Hunter that’s been got at by Scousers...  how much?  Five is  too dear though 

[Tenmil Socket]

That MK1 Escort is great...

[flat4alfa]

Complete with Dagenham Door Fit too!

[MarvinsMom]

IF the renner 16 had a tailgate i'd have snapped your hand off - sadly missing that means i'd like to pass on it, though thank you all for remembering!

now a regular wheels mark 4 zodiac and a matchbox long wheel base landrover, i would be interested in them.

[Split_Pin]

3 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

No worries - not sure if Split_Pin's also interested in the Zod from upthread, but will certainly put the Miura aside for now!

I know, I couldn't believe it! Missing rig aside, the paint's not bad at all. Find Of The Year, for me.

My grabby hands were all over it; hopefully no-one harbouring Covid-19 was clutching it before me.

What a way to go, hey?

 

Yup, though it was a fairly rough partial repaint with the tracks and most of the moving bits missing... have you an upper price in mind for one of these? I'd like to think no more than a fiver, hopefully less.

I am indeed interested in the Zodiac, been after one with a bonnet for ages!

[DoctorRetro]

Would be interested in the blue Mercedes and if nobody wants it, I'll take the tailgateless Renault 16, would be an interesting challenge to restore. 

[Datsuncog]

Okay, news is good from the lunchtime return match...

7 hours ago, Tinytim said:

If the husky forward control hasn't been snapped up from the stall, it would be welcome here.

It's yours, at a mere £2 plus post - happy to either get it out to you now, or set it aside in case anything else of interest appears in future weeks?

Welcome to the wonderful world of the Tatbox!

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7 hours ago, NorfolkNWeigh said:

Cool, if that green Lesney 250 Lusso is still there, could you pick it up please?

Not a lot of green left on it, but I'll add it in with your other items!

Absolutely lovely casting, nonetheless. Lesney captured this one well.

£1 for this one seem ok?

 

6 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

I’ve got a thing about that Tonka (Buddy L?) AMC comedy Gremlin. Looking at the size against the Tr 2000 it’s about 1:32 yes?  Couple of quid might do it

The London to Sydney Hillman Hunter that’s been got at by Scousers...  how much?  Five is  too dear though 

Secured, for a fairly reasonable £2 each.

Yeah, the Tonka Gremlin's about 1:32 scale, though cartoonish proportions make it hard to assess... bigger than Corgi 1:35, I'd say.

 

The Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle really wasn't up to much, being basically just the shell, base and axles - all the rocket propulsion stuff had been filleted from it...

But if it appears in a future 50p box, I'll swipe it...

Speaking of futuristic weirdness, I'd seen this 'Lunar Bug' before in Corgi catalogues but never encountered a real one. Even more strangely, the base says it's part of the Corgi Comics range, like the Magic Roundabout toys.

Only 50% of the wheels were still there, and no tailgate, but it's an odd one nonetheless. Bit like Dinky's Joe 90 car, in my view.

Also this Dinky SHADO thingamyjig, another Gerry Anderson design for the UFO series.

Doesn't stir many memories for me, but I'm sure it does for some others here...

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and what is that - a clockwork walking Walnut Whip??!

I've no idea what this is meant to represent, and I was hoping someone here might be able to cast some light on it!

A figure wearing a black hat and red trousers, carrying a glass of liquid... all the while wrapped in something brown? String? Wholewheat spaghetti?

No walking mechanism or anything - just a soft rubbery plastic figure, with no maker's mark or clue to its identity anywhere on it. A walnut whip's about as good a guess as any...

 

4 hours ago, MarvinsMom said:

IF the renner 16 had a tailgate i'd have snapped your hand off - sadly missing that means i'd like to pass on it, though thank you all for remembering!

now a regular wheels mark 4 zodiac and a matchbox long wheel base landrover, i would be interested in them.

No worries - the search continues!

I think today's MkIV and Landie have already been claimed in the late-morning scrum, sadly, but I'll make a note for future markets!

 

3 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

I am indeed interested in the Zodiac, been after one with a bonnet for ages!

Thought so - will set that one aside for you! Wasn't sure if it was specifically a Superfast version you were after. Few scuffs but still lovely.

 

3 hours ago, TheDoctor said:

Would be interested in the blue Mercedes and if nobody wants it, I'll take the tailgateless Renault 16, would be an interesting challenge to restore. 

Blue Dinky Mercedes - sure thing!

I think @egg has next refusal on the R16 - still kicking myself for not picking up the complete one a few weeks back. But hopefully there will be others!

 

I also picked up this Husky Mk10 Jag, and a Lone Star Tuf-Tots motor boat and trailer (having found both components separately of the bottom of the box, along with some shite-tastic newspaper shreds).

Bought purely because I like them, but equally happy to send them on their way to pastures new.

£2 takes the Jaaaag, £1 for the boat and trailer combo.

 

I did spend a fair while just poking about on the stall again - I mean, come on, this vista is a minishiter's delight, no?

The JOAL Alfa and the Pilen Ferrari had gone from earlier, but the majority remained.

I swiped the Hunter for @flat4alfa; not quite as good as the one which went to @Amishtat last month, but for £2 it's a viable resto. MGC GT and Olds Toronado also shabby but not too far gone to be rescued.

There were a few Superfasts that seemed almost as-new: a Hairy Hustler, and a Porsche 910.

More to do with feel than just the amount of chips to the paintwork. They somehow 'felt' new.

 

Superfast and Regular Wheels versions of the Ford GT.

Dubber heaven.

That orange buggy is a Corgi Rockets that's lost its wheelset, as it happens.

 

I've been after a King Size Mercedes ambulance for a while - but I don't think this was the one for me.

Looks like it requires its own emergency response. Ouch.

 

This is the first time I've had a proper look at any of Corgi's original Classics range, and I have to say I'm very impressed.

Detailing top and bottom is absolutely superb on the big Rolls...

...and on the little Ford. Cables (rods?) running to the brake drums at the back are a particular highlight.

Comparing the MoY Model T to the Corgi version shows just how much better the Corgi is in terms of detail, with the starting handle and glazing (though the Lesney's still pretty good, in fairness).

It's evident that Marcel Van Cleemput, the head of Corgi's design team from the very start until Mettoy went into receivership, spared no effort in making these adult-aimed models the absolute best they could be. The lifelike tension to the hood on the little Renault is everything.

I'm not normally into the vintage stuff, but this could turn me yet...

 

I also found the late 60s/early 70s Superkings very appealing, and I idly wondered how hard it would be to construct a sandpit for myself to while away some happy hours digging a trench with the K-1 Mechanical Excavator, scooping the spoil up with the K-3 Hatra earthmover, before transferring it into the K-19 Scammell tipper and then letting the K-12 Scammell crane truck and K-13 ERF cement mixer move in to do their stuff... hmmm.

The Ford D-type, possibly with one of its original tractor load still remaining, was also very appealing.

But I feared that if I bought one, I'd buy them all...

At one point, however, I looked up from my puerile reverie to find that Market Blokey wasn't there. I was on my tod behind the tat stall. 

I waited, assuming he'd just nipped across the way to get some notes changed by another stallholder, or borrow some carrier bags or something.

But he didn't reappear. Other stallholders were now packing up, and some of them were giving me parcels and stuff to hand to him. Like I was somehow involved.

I spent a few minutes sorting out the loose Lesney tyres in the bottom of the box, trying to match them up with the toys themselves, and so pretending to be otherwise engaged.

But then customers started asking me questions about the price of stuff on the stall. I bluffed, pulling deliberately too-high prices out of my arse. They didn't buy anything, but...

Had I... inadvertently inherited a tat stall?

Is this how it all started for Market Blokey - one minute you're a customer, the next you're somehow running the show?

Was he currently barrelling up Cromac Street, arms outstretched, tears of joy streaming from his cheeks, shouting "I'm free! Free at last!!"

It was all getting a bit surreal.

Just as I was beginning to accept my new life as a tat stall proprietor, and wondering if I should extend the range of Country & Irish CDs as they appear unfeasibly popular, Market Blokey came back, from the direction of the bogs.

Oh well.

In a way, it was nice that he felt he could trust me not to scoop the entire diecast table into a box, and then have it away on my toes, never to return.

Which I definitely didn't consider doing at any point in the ten minutes or so I was standing around.

Instead, I agreed a tenner for the second round of diecast acquisitions, and shuffled off - late back to my desk for the second time today.

Oh well.

I think mebbe it was worth it today though, hey?

Quite a day's finds.

Sadly, I don't think there'll be any tat-marketeering next week: I've a wedding to attend, and I think sloping off to hoke through tat-boxes between the ceremony and reception will not go down all that well...

But all being well, I'll be back the week after, yeah?

In the meantime: keep on tat-hoking, kids!

[egg]

36 minutes ago, TheDoctor said:

I'll take the tailgateless Renault 16, would be an interesting challenge to restore. 

@Datsuncog, happy for  @TheDoctorto step in on this. I want to see him fashion a bootlid for it! (I was just gonna buy one)

However, I wouldn't mind the lonestar boat in my box, as it were, pls!

[flat4alfa]

Yes please.

I've got a much earlier and smaller Husky.  I didn't know there were two sizes.

[barrett]

Rather annoyed you didn't nab that Joal Giulietta SS... if anything exotic like that turns up again, bear me in mind please!

[Tinytim]

47 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

Okay, news is good from the lunchtime return match...

It's yours, at a mere £2 plus post - happy to either get it out to you now, or set it aside in case anything else of interest appears in future weeks?

Welcome to the wonderful world of the Tatbox!

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Datsuncog, thank you for the excellent  tat procurement service you offer. If you could let me know the details I will take the pair  off your hands now, despite how tempting it would be to hold out for more treasures from the aisles of dreams.

 

 

[Datsuncog]

2 hours ago, egg said:

@Datsuncog, happy for  @TheDoctorto step in on this. I want to see him fashion a bootlid for it! (I was just gonna buy one)

However, I wouldn't mind the lonestar boat in my box, as it were, pls!

Fair enough so - will add the R16 and the Mercedes in together!

I'd like to see this one brought back to life too; was very impressed with the job done on the bootless Majorettes!

 

2 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

Yes please.

I've got a much earlier and smaller Husky.  I didn't know there were two sizes.

Will do!

There's some mild scuffage, but this is still a lovely model.

I didn't know there were two sizes either - I'm seriously thinking of investing in one of the Bill Manzke collector books, or even (shudder) the Van Cleemput Corgi bible, which is apparently brilliant but tough to find for less than three figures...

 

2 hours ago, barrett said:

Rather annoyed you didn't nab that Joal Giulietta SS... if anything exotic like that turns up again, bear me in mind please!

Heh, I know - and I will!

Tenner on that one mind, and while I suspected it'd be of interest to someone or other, had I bought it then I wouldn't have had enough cash left for the Charity Stall Dinkys...

Clearly those with a more gung-ho attitude to finance were left to clean up this time.

Dammit!

[Datsuncog]

22 minutes ago, Tinytim said:

Datsuncog, thank you for the excellent  tat procurement service you offer. If you could let me know the details I will take the pair  off your hands now, despite how tempting it would be to hold out for more treasures from the aisles of dreams.

PM incoming later tonight!

[flat4alfa]

While you were in charge of the tat blokey stall, I looked it up and yes it is Tonka and is 4 ½ inches in length.  So...  looking up real Gremlin dimensions and doing some arithmetic, the comedy proportions do work out to approx. 1:35 so you are BANG-ON with your estimationables.

 

Perhaps the Hillman should get done out as an Aussie Hustler:

and the Gremlin become a slotter in Wally Booth colours:

[Amishtat]

Once again, my thanks DC! Nice to know I'm not the only jaded middle aged dilettante who's glued to this on a Friday morning.. The Triumph 2000 you scored is the colour I'd been fruitlessly looking for last year when I bought this just so I had one. Of course, literally the next week I found a mint metallic green one but couldn't justify the price. Normally I'm not arsed enough to bother with colour variations but there's no arguing with that at the price. 

[flat4alfa]

14 minutes ago, Amishtat said:

dilettante

I had to look that up.  Because peasant.

[flat4alfa]

1 hour ago, barrett said:

Rather annoyed you didn't nab that Joal Giulietta SS... if anything exotic like that turns up again, bear me in mind please!

Spotted that ...but THEN the lovely Ferrari 250 P5 jumped out with glee instead !

But I feared too dear and as I am trying to avoid 1:43 to concentrate on the size up decided to ignore. 

And also because I have a Polstil slot car example in 1:32 ish, albeit in silver

[RoadworkUK]

Once again I made the right decision, abstaining from browsing this thread until hometime.

What better on-commute entertainment than the tumult of emotions that are DC's Friday Tat adventures? It makes the 18:30 from Liverpool Street all the more bearable.

Meanwhile, my delivery from our esteemed Tatfinder General arrived safely last weekend:

Exemplary service, as ever. Cheers Tim.

[eddyramrod]

Sadly, nothing to excite us at Barrow this week.  Still... plenty more Fridays ahead!

[bunglebus]

I had to sit on my hands a bit today not to ask for most of what  DC found, I like a Husky but I have one - wasn't aware they came in different scales though

I now need a Corgi Rockets buggy as again I never new such a variant existed.

Maybe you'll have to come over for one of the toy fairs, there's one near me and it's very easy to come out lighter by £50 but with a bulging bag of tatty old toy cars. 

Hoping boot sale season will kick off soon as it seems to finally stopped raining.

[vulgalour]

I'm having a clearout now I've had chance to sit down and actually go through what I've got.

Anything that doesn't go by the end of the month will be punted on via eBay and anything that doesn't sell there will be punted on to local street urchins, charity shops, or the bin.

 

Bigger stuff (Matchbox Kingsize mostly, couple of Corgis at the front)

£1 each.  Postage is whatever it is depending on how many items you want.

 

Matchbox/Lesney/Models of Yesteryear

50p each.  Postage is whatever it is depending on how many items you want.

Corgi - Juniors, Whizzwheels, etc.

50p each.  Postage is whatever it is depending on how many items you want.

Hotwheels

50p each.  Postage is whatever it is depending on how many items you want.

Various, including Maisto, Morestone, Dinky, Lonestar, Summer, Lledo, Charbens, etc.

50p each.  Postage is whatever it is depending on how many items you want.

Vulgalour Resprays

£1 each.  Postage is whatever it is depending on how many items you want.

Shout up if you want any of these, happy to post internationally though postage can be quite high due to weight.

[DoctorRetro]

@vulgalour, I definitely want the superkings Volvo please 

[DoctorRetro]

Littlun brings diecast tat back from his mum's sometimes

Plus I picked up a couple of Hot wheels. 

[155V6]

@vulgalour Could I have the Hotwheels Beatnik Bandit,Firebird Convertible,& green truck top right please.Also the repainted yellow Corgi Ferrari.  Thanks.

[vulgalour]

Did some more work on the R14 kit today while I've been recovering from Death Plague 2 (Corona Boogaloo) and I've discovered both that fiddly modelling work is not something you should do while still attempting to cough up internal organs, and this is one of the worst kits I've ever had the misfortune to attempt assembling.  The plastic is far too flexible and soft, which means things don't want to line up. Superglue doesn't want to stick to the pieces to help tack things in place, and because of how mobile the plastic is, it's difficult to keep it in the right place while the plastic glue does its thing. Fit on all the panels is terrible.  The base is warped, the bumpers are too deep to fit the body, the dashboard doesn't line up with anything and the interior is one of the worst I've ever had to deal with.

That said, I still really like it as a thing.  I'll do my best to get what's here to fit somewhat close to correct and it can join my collection of oddball kits of various quality.  I've still got some detail work left to go that I can't do until everything is assembled and, given how unbelievably easy it is to knock the paint off because nothing seems to want to bond with the plastic properly, I suspect it's going to be pretty frustrating.

Went for a pale metallic green in the end with a sort-of-caramac interior and grey bumpers.

[vulgalour]

@TheDoctor No problem, Volvo is yours.  Please PM me your address and I'll work out postage for you, suspect it'll be about £3.

@155V6 Sure thing.  As above, please PM me your address and I'll work postage out for you.  Not sure on the postage cost on this one, I'll have to get them bundled up and weighed to find out for you.

[Datsuncog]

Having quite a pleasant evening cleaning up today's finds while MrsDC is out with her Yarn Harpies...

Can't be spreading disease by post, hey?

Some of them were genuinely grotty and besmirched, so I reckon it's only fair.

Looking waaay better now.

[DoctorRetro]

4 hours ago, egg said:

@Datsuncog, happy for  @TheDoctorto step in on this. I want to see him fashion a bootlid for it! (I was just gonna buy one)

However, I wouldn't mind the lonestar boat in my box, as it were, pls!

Funny you should say that... 

Been working on the Simca 1308 this evening. Its a bit wonky but should straighten up when I glue it and fill the gaps.