Shite in Miniature II

[Christine]

Got a Ford D  series door ??  Will that do ?  ?

[Amishtat]

3 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

From a box of bits

GUESS THE PART THURSDAY

Seat back may be from a Corgi Mustang 

[flat4alfa]

2 hours ago, bunglebus said:

anyone has a spare or a damaged car with a driver's door?

Mike Flowers has them for 95p - might be a better bet than being stuck with spares cars, looking at you, all BEGGING to be rebuilt.  Playing on your mind, making you twitch, giving sleepless nights, etc  (or maybe that's just me!)

Example:

I got this from Eddy earlier-on this year

Got around taking apart, dipping, tidying body flaws, painting into primer (back when we had a summer) and made ready to determine what was needed

But, instead of doing what I was supposed to do (getting the individual parts),  I fired-up the search engine and ended up getting another job lot arrive a week or so ago, because it had these in

So in the end I've given myself THREE jobs to do instead:

1) transfer the good bumper section over to the orange one, meaning repeating the dipping/prepping/priming;

2) transfer the glazing over to the yellow one and dwell on what to do about the paint and surviving decals;

3) wonder what to do with the incomplete remains arghhhhh

 

Anyhow.  I'm compiling a Flowers order now anyway, if you want to jump on it as well

[flat4alfa]

36 minutes ago, Amishtat said:

Seat back may be from a Corgi Mustang 

I doesn't seem to be that, either

[Datsuncog]

A jolly nice package rocked up yesterday, courtesy of @dickvandiesel...

Does anyone know if Porsches ever raced with Polo Mint sponsorship? Just curious.

One of these is available, if anyone wishes to add it to their current or future tat box for nowt.

Matchbox Renner isn't bad nick overall - sticker is decent, and despite an a-post crack it looks better than the one I ruined with a paint pen,  when old enough to know better...

Still a really, really weird choice of car to model.

Somewhat down-at-heel Hot Wheels MX5 may become a custom one day (one day). In the meantime, here it is with my childhood blackwalls version, which is still in surprisingly good nick.

Oddly, the lettering has been flipped on the base - the logo has swapped from the top to the bottom, even though the lettering's otherwise the same.

I feel more charitably disposed towards Corgi Cameos since learning that they were expressly designed as pocket-money toys to encourage kids to develop an eye for classic vehicles. They were never meant to be all that accurate.

That still doesn't excuse those shysters advertising them as bona fide solid gold investments in the Sunday supplements to daft old bats, mind...

But here's the star of the show...

Yup, a very minty C425 Austin FX4 Taxi, in a nicely preserved early '80s box...

Shape is pretty much bob-on.

Now, I believe I have one of these elsewhere - or at least my brother does, since I bought it for him while on a school trip to London. But it was a 90s casting with black base and black interior, and nowhere as nice as this one.

I remembered the fold-down jump seats once I saw them again here...

...but I don't ever remember the sliding partition on the all-black version. Maybe only the Mettoy era models had it?

As a tiny detail which delights through its faithfulness to the real thing, this just can't be beat. I spent much longer than I'd care to admit just sliding this back and forth.

Great stuff, and all thanks to DVD for great packaging and speedy delivery! A+++++++, wud bye tat from agen.

[flat4alfa]

16 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

One of these is available, if anyone wishes to add it to their current or future tat box for nowt

?

 

I have spare R17 somewhere, will check if the shell is crack-free, if it helps

[155V6]

13 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

A jolly nice package rocked up yesterday, courtesy of @dickvandiesel...

Does anyone know if Porsches ever raced with Polo Mint sponsorship? Just curious.

One of these is available, if anyone wishes to add it to their current or future tat box for nowt.

Matchbox Renner isn't bad nick overall - sticker is decent, and despite an a-list crack it looks better than the one I ruined with a paint pen when I was old enough to know better...

Still a really, really weird choice of model.

Somewhat down-at-heel Hot Wheels MX5 may become a custom one day (one day). In the meantime, here it is with my childhood blackwalls version, which is still in surprisingly good nick.

Oddly, the lettering has been flipped on the base - the logo has swapped from the top to the bottom, even though the lettering's otherwise the same.

I feel more charitably disposed towards Corgi Cameos since learning that they were expressly designed as pocket-money toys to encourage kids to develop an eye for classic vehicles. They were never meant to be all that accurate.

That still doesn't excuse those shysters advertising them as bona fide solid gold investments in the Sunday supplements to daft old bats, mind...

But here's the star of the show...

Yup, a very minty C425 Austin FX4 Taxi, in a nicely preserved early '80s box...

Shape is pretty much bob-on.

Now, I believe I have one of these elsewhere - or at least my brother does, since I bought it for him while on a school trip to London. But it was a 90s casting with black base and black interior, and nowhere as nice as this one.

I remembered the fold-down jump seats once I saw them again here...

...but I don't ever remember the sliding partition on the all-black version. Maybe only the Mettoy era models had it?

As a tiny detail which delights through its faithfulness to the real thing, this just can't be beat. I spent much longer than I'd care to admit just sliding this back and forth.

Great stuff, and all thanks to DVD for great packaging and speedy delivery! A+++++++, wud bye tat from agen.

Have you still got a couple of odd things reserved for me?

If so,I'll add one of those Polo Porsches please.

[Dick Longbridge]

13 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

A jolly nice package rocked up yesterday, courtesy of @dickvandiesel...

Does anyone know if Porsches ever raced with Polo Mint sponsorship? Just curious.

One of these is available, if anyone wishes to add it to their current or future tat box for nowt.

Matchbox Renner isn't bad nick overall - sticker is decent, and despite an a-post crack it looks better than the one I ruined with a paint pen,  when old enough to know better...

Still a really, really weird choice of car to model.

Somewhat down-at-heel Hot Wheels MX5 may become a custom one day (one day). In the meantime, here it is with my childhood blackwalls version, which is still in surprisingly good nick.

Oddly, the lettering has been flipped on the base - the logo has swapped from the top to the bottom, even though the lettering's otherwise the same.

I feel more charitably disposed towards Corgi Cameos since learning that they were expressly designed as pocket-money toys to encourage kids to develop an eye for classic vehicles. They were never meant to be all that accurate.

That still doesn't excuse those shysters advertising them as bona fide solid gold investments in the Sunday supplements to daft old bats, mind...

But here's the star of the show...

Yup, a very minty C425 Austin FX4 Taxi, in a nicely preserved early '80s box...

Shape is pretty much bob-on.

Now, I believe I have one of these elsewhere - or at least my brother does, since I bought it for him while on a school trip to London. But it was a 90s casting with black base and black interior, and nowhere as nice as this one.

I remembered the fold-down jump seats once I saw them again here...

...but I don't ever remember the sliding partition on the all-black version. Maybe only the Mettoy era models had it?

As a tiny detail which delights through its faithfulness to the real thing, this just can't be beat. I spent much longer than I'd care to admit just sliding this back and forth.

Great stuff, and all thanks to DVD for great packaging and speedy delivery! A+++++++, wud bye tat from agen.

Glad they've gone to a good home chap. I bought that FX4 brand new when I was about ten. As you can probably tell, it's barely been out of the box! 

[155V6]

14 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

?

 

I have spare R17 somewhere, will check if the shell is crack-free, if it helps

Looks like I was beaten to it ?

[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, andrew e said:

I think the MC toys Escort Cabrio dates from 1984 and Dempsey & Makepeace, have a look here:

 

I had a look at that - pretty sure it's the same casting but with a pull-back motor - and better wheels

[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, flat4alfa said:

Mike Flowers has them for 95p

 

 

I'm not sure about replacement metal parts - seen a video of a guy trying to fit some to a VW camper and them being little better than tin foil in terms of strength. Not necessarily from Steve Flowers though.

This one looks OK but more money

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dinky-250-Mini-Cooper-S-Police-Car-Reproduction-Repro-Right-Hand-Passenger-Door/254197619930?hash=item3b2f5bdcda:g:XTwAAOSw3ydV3apN

 

On the Corvette, are they the same casting but modified? I have the one with the external exhausts and I'm looking for the other.

 

20190425_144231 by RS, on Flickr

20190805_161456 by RS, on Flickr

[flat4alfa]

The Dinky Eldorado arrived today.  I knew it was a repaint, and bidding was nothing like the ballistic listings seen in recent weeks.  So for the tenner it got to, I'm relieved it is actually pretty good, painted well and having had some detailing added.  Perhaps beggars can be choosers after all.

It met up with the Corgi Rocket Eldorado

And also the Lone Star Impy Eldorado

It ignored the Hot Wheels and Marx Eldorados as they just do not have the same proper egg-crate grille to match

 

Then it went out for a spin with them.   FIRE-UP THE GARRARD !

 

[flat4alfa]

54 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

On the Corvette, are they the same casting but modified? I have the one with the external exhausts and I'm looking for the other.

Same bases, same glass; so I would say modified and swappable

The interiors look same apart from being different colours and the custom one not having the golf bag on the parcel shelf.  But - I do have the spare golf bag here

[155V6]

@flat4alfa I've got a wrecked MGB somewhere

@bunglebus I think there's a Dinky Mini,with a missing door but can't remember which side

I'll try & find them both in the next day or two.

[flat4alfa]

1 hour ago, 155V6 said:

@flat4alfa I've got a wrecked MGB somewhere

@bunglebus I think there's a Dinky Mini,with a missing door but can't remember which side

I'll try & find them both in the next day or two.

? Will do swapz for Polo Porsches and other incentives

[sheffcortinacentre]

Red seat is corgi MK3 Cortina police car,

[flat4alfa]

Was very pleased that Mrs Post Lady also delivered this long-awaited Kidco 1/28 Corvette Stingray, won for a bargainous £3.20 ! 

- Geek alert - retaining the separate rear bumper with the urethane nosecone face lift marks this as modelled on the 1973 MY Stingray.  However, the lady in the photo is none the wiser and is only wondering what she can get up to later.

Will go well with the Kidco Maserati Bora, when I find it, that is.

Any other love for Kidco big stuff?  Most of the small stuff is cheap and clunky with daft gimmicks, but this size is good.  Reading around Kidco and their links with Universal Toys Hong Kong, there is also a shared manufacturing link to Eidai Japan on the bigger stuff and I reckon this is what we really have here, despite it stating Hong Kong on the base.

  Liking a lot.

[flat4alfa]

Just did a search on Eidai.  Found this for €100.00 EUR on eBay.NL

Hunch confirmed.

This means it can sit next to the Eidai Lancia 'Storatus' (yes it really says that on the base) and live on happily, exchanging lineage stories until dusk

[flat4alfa]

1 hour ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

Red seat is corgi MK3 Cortina police car,

Did Corgi do two types of Cortina Mk3 ?

The rough bootsale one sports some seventies-tastic pleating

My old childhood Police one is long gone so can't compare

[bunglebus]

7 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

Liking that - I try not to buy large scale stuff as it takes up so much room, but that's a great model.

I do grab the big Zylmex when they come up at reasonable prices, and I have the massive 928 I bought without realising the scale

[Amishtat]

Is it Tat Friday? No boot sale this week because it rained. 

[sierraman]

32 minutes ago, Amishtat said:

Is it Tat Friday? No boot sale this week because it rained. 

Epic fail

[Dick Longbridge]

I've thinned out my diecast collection over the last couple of years and am trying to keep buying to a minimum, whilst still keeping hold of my fairly sizeable collection.

A few years ago my brother owned a rare import Mitsubishi Pajero J Top (a real one!) and I always really liked the thing. I randomly spotted this unbranded 15cm long J Top model on ebay a few days back. It's a bit Chinese in quality - door hinges are pretty weak and the axles flap around a bit. I'm guessing there would have been a floppytop cover on the arse end at some point. I've never seen another like it though and it's definitely a keeper. 

[Christine]

Ive got that one too ..and these ones 

[Dick Longbridge]

1 minute ago, Christine said:

Ive got that one too ..and these ones 

Any info on those and any photos of your J Top?

[bunglebus]

I've been itching to do a Beetle for a while, so far got the wheels sorted out, shell cleaned up and base coat on - trying something special for this one

 

[flat4alfa]

Matchbox Volks Dragon?

[Christine]

5 minutes ago, Dick Van Diesel said:

Any info on those and any photos of your J Top?

Nearest one was a narrow body 2.5 mk2 police vehicle i converted to a wide body to look like my Pajero . Middle one is a Minichamps 2.8 wide body .The 32 nd ish bigger one is Made in China .. The J top is in the attic !

[Bren]

Kidco do a nice Muira in red with marlboro livery.

[Dick Longbridge]

Just now, Christine said:

Nearest one was a narrow body 2.5 mk2 police vehicle i converted to a wide body to look like my Pajero . Middle one is a Minichamps 2.8 wide body .The 32 nd ish bigger one is Made in China .. The J top is in the attic !

I reckon I'm going to have to look out for some more Pajeros in that case ?

Does your J Top have a canvas on the back end?