Shite in Miniature II

[flat4alfa]

14 hours ago, Dick Van Diesel said:

Looks good so far... just need to work out how I'm going to make them tiny enough to squeeze onto a 1/76 model?!

Open up into a paint program and resize to the scaled percentage 

Printing onto label or decal paper would help with applying to the model

For 1/76 though, you’re stretching the ability of the printer to handle a bitmap graphic and might* get better results from a vector program

[flat4alfa]

5 hours ago, Tim_E said:

This is a plastic model, no idea the make.

Yes as Bramz7 says, it’s a Stahlberg

Other models in their 1/20 scale include Volvos 343/360/142/164, Golf mk1 and a Merc W123 Estate (which I would love to have!) 

Later models include SAAB 9000 which must be the shite grail.  That is under brand Emek-Muovi, who bought-out Stahlberg

[bunglebus]

5 hours ago, eddyramrod said:

That blue Corgi Mini is clearly the "Mini Magnifique" casting. 

Definitely one I'd never seen before, very nice - looking forward to the finished pictures

[flat4alfa]

I had no idea, had that blue Mini since a child.  Always irked me that the boot lid never fitted flush properly, as if it was cast flatter than the curve it was meant to fit.  Arghhhh

[Split_Pin]

I have the later Saab 900 Kombi by Stahlberg

[Amishtat]

I have the Volvo 164, had to ask on here a couple of years ago as to what it actually was. 

[flat4alfa]

On 6/3/2018 at 11:28 AM, Amishtat said:

This may be a silly question, but who made this? It was in the boot of my 164 when I bought it. Nicely proportioned but there's no maker's name or anything on the underside

All plastic apart from the axles and hubcaps, and it's around 1/18 or so in scale at a rough guess

 

[Amishtat]

My first post on this thread no less.. 

[flat4alfa]

On 6/3/2018 at 11:33 AM, simcajet said:

Look at www.fintoys.com for a comprehensive listing.

 

[Cord Fourteener]

4 hours ago, Amishtat said:

I have the Volvo 164, had to ask on here a couple of years ago as to what it actually was. 

I want this!

[Volksy]

Monogram Ford Bronco build has begun! 

[andrew e]

Fantastic stuff! One of the most over dubbed (V6 Little Mule sounds like a NASCAR) car chases in cinema history ?

https://youtu.be/ZMj1vlNDr7k

[quicksilver]

20 hours ago, Dick Van Diesel said:

Damn good idea. ?

Looks good so far... just need to work out how I'm going to make them tiny enough to squeeze onto a 1/76 model?!

 

Resize them to 0.68cm wide and that will give you the correct scale size for 1/76. Print, cut out and stick on. Job jobbed.

[flat4alfa]

22 hours ago, Dick Van Diesel said:

Looks good so far... just need to work out how I'm going to make them tiny enough to squeeze onto a 1/76 model?!

I gave it a go earlier on    ..if only to see how bad the limitations are on a £50 inkjet printer

 

Step 1:  Create plates, choosing a pre-2001 font, then screen grab each separately (because the 'download' function on the website adds a watermark)

Step 2:  Measure a full size number plate - the one I had to hand was 52cm x 11cm.  Using a paint program (this one is freely available) resize each plate to the 'print size' of 51cm wide 11cm tall, so they are each now 'full-size'

Step 3: Place each plate onto one single image together

Step 4:  Determine the percentage to shrink them by and resize to that percentage

Step 5:  Print the image onto label paper, so they can stick straight on after cutting out

Step 6:  Pour a beer and sing about the printing ability of a cheap domestic inkjet printer

[bunglebus]

A couple of interesting deliveries today, Siku Audi wearing rat look paint, ripe for restoration 

Matchbox AMC  - didn't expect to win with my cheeky bid, boxed but minus most of its decals

[flat4alfa]

The Merc is an Audi 100

[bunglebus]

Just now, flat4alfa said:

The Merc is an Audi

Yep ninja edit wasn't quite fast enough - been a long day!

[flat4alfa]

I quite like the ratty paint job.  Someone put a bit of time into it, so would be a shame to throw it in the vat straight away.  But I am becoming a sentimental old fool.

[Split_Pin]

1 hour ago, flat4alfa said:

I gave it a go earlier on    ..if only to see how bad the limitations are on a £50 inkjet printer

 

Step 1:  Create plates, choosing a pre-2001 font, then screen grab each separately (because the 'download' function on the website adds a watermark)

Step 2:  Measure a full size number plate - the one I had to hand was 52cm x 11cm.  Using a paint program (this one is freely available) resize each plate to the 'print size' of 51cm wide 11cm tall, so they are each now 'full-size'

Step 3: Place each plate onto one single image together

Step 4:  Determine the percentage to shrink them by and resize to that percentage

Step 5:  Print the image onto label paper, so they can stick straight on after cutting out

Step 6:  Pour a beer and sing about the printing ability of a cheap domestic inkjet printer

If you don't have label paper these are small enough to 'laminate' with sellotape on both sides, cut them out and then you can stick them on with a dot of superglue.

It also gives them a realistic appearance.

Everyone working from home means you can't craftily tag the plates print at the end of your stuff on your work super- super laser printer, just remember to remove it from the deck before sharing.....

[flat4alfa]

Tell me about it...  I've a stock now of posters to print for my daughter's room 'refurb', but not seen the office for three months so oh I am missing the super-super A1 printer that sits 10 feet from my desk...  I bet it's forgotten all about me!

[Amishtat]

2 hours ago, Tim_E said:

I want this

Me too! 

[Amishtat]

The weather looks promising so I might* pop down to the boot sale on Wednesday morning before work. There was a lot of Corgi tackle I didn't mention last week (RAC Transit recovery, at least six XJS in various hues and a couple of nice X1/9s to pick a few random examples) so I'll try and get some better shots this time just in case any of you feels like doing some virtual tat-hoking.

[DoctorRetro]

25 minutes ago, Amishtat said:

The weather looks promising so I might* pop down to the boot sale on Wednesday morning before work. There was a lot of Corgi tackle I didn't mention last week (RAC Transit recovery, at least six XJS in various hues and a couple of nice X1/9s to pick a few random examples) so I'll try and get some better shots this time just in case any of you feels like doing some virtual tat-hoking.

What time is it on? Might join you if early. 

[Datsuncog]

52 minutes ago, Amishtat said:

There was a lot of Corgi tackle I didn't mention last week (RAC Transit recovery, at least six XJS in various hues and a couple of nice X1/9s to pick a few random examples)

If you manage to encounter a black XJS with a red coachline, then colour me interested... had one as a kid, played with it until it was really bashed, and never seen another since... would go up to a fiver for a reasonable example.

I think someone on here was looking for a green X1/9 too - possibly @NorfolkNWeigh

[flat4alfa]

Any X1/9 with good glass and bumpers over here too

For a repaint, to honour the one I owned (twice!)

[Amishtat]

54 minutes ago, TheDoctor said:

What time is it on? Might join you if early. 

You should! Aiming to get there between 8.30 and 9,need to leave about quarter to eleven for work. It's the one next to the A12 London bound at Marks Tey. 

[Amishtat]

16 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

If you manage to encounter a black XJS with a red coachline, then colour me interested... had one as a kid, played with it until it was really bashed, and never seen another since... would go up to a fiver for a reasonable example.

I think someone on here was looking for a green X1/9 too - possibly @NorfolkNWeigh

We'll see what turns up! The two I saw last week were white with a greeny grey two tone effect and metallic blue with groovy stripy stickers. Both nice albeit unboxed. 

[Amishtat]

8 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Any X1/9 with good glass and bumpers over here too

For a repaint, to honour the one I owned (twice!)

I had two of those! Got them ridiculously cheap off a guy at work about three years ago. 

[flat4alfa]

10 minutes ago, Amishtat said:

We'll see what turns up! The two I saw last week were white with a greeny grey two tone effect and metallic blue with groovy stripy stickers. Both nice albeit unboxed. 

Already have a rough Greeny Grey, hence the request for better glass and bumpers

A nice Groovy Stripey is of interest !

Need to get paid first though...

[sierraman]

I don’t know whether I’m out of touch with the price of things these days but some of the job lots on eBay of battered Matchboxes are insane, what I’d guess would be about £3 worth at a car boot going for £15-20. Of course like in the 90’s everyone gets on the band wagon, you get at car boots a box of similar cars, you’ll ask how much and it’ll be ‘depends which one’ cue then a four hour reminisce about how rare they are, some bullshit facts then a price like a Chicago telephone number for about 50 pence worth. ‘Collectors items those!’

By complete paradox years ago as a kid, everybody and their dog was selling those god forsaken Days Gone By tat. They’d go ‘Love keep the kids away from those they’re collectors items, they only made 25,000 of them’ instead guiding you towards the hallowed box of tat where all the old ‘worthless’ Corgis and Matchboxes were.

Sometime ago I picked up a job lot and it had several ‘Days Gone By’ no doubt cherished by a former miner fully expecting them to be worth enough to pay off his endowment shortfall. The lot quickly met their untimely death in the Record 24 vice as I laughed manically a bit like the KLF foundation did as they burnt a million pounds that time.