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2 hours ago, Amishtat said:

I'd call it a Thames, but according to Dinky it's an Atlas Copco.. It's been trodden on it seems, there's quite a pronounced bow to the baseplate, the side glass is cracked and it runs second to the Doctor's Caddy ambulance in the filth stakes. Nonetheless, at a quid I wasn't leaving it behind. Three Corgi tyres too, now I've looked at it properly. 

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2 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

Atlas too please

I knew it wasn’t a Corgi Commer - been wondering since the furtive bag photo!

The baseplate model name is possibly down to an agreement with Atlas to allow a model reproduction.  Perhaps they supplied the compressor vehicles as completed units.  I suppose not unlike Tandberg who used Unimog platforms- but badged as their own

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@Amishtat

Oh bugger, not quick enough!  Never mind.

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20 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

Would be most interested in this one, if not already claimed...

Is it just the Dinky Land Rover and boxed Matchbox Dinky Porsche 356 I have on layaway with you - or are there more that've slipped my mind already?

By all means, it'll keep the Dinky one company!  No, I think that's all I have in your stash here. 

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26 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

I think most folks know I round up on tat boxes and throw a drink in ?

I’m out of stock of this sweetener at the moment though

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No need for that (thanks all the same though) but I do need to sort out your stash at some point and get it together. Should be a fairly good haul! 

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I think I'm going to save the earlier Mini, the castings are the same other than the badging and rear lights, although oddly the bonnets have different letters cast inside. 

I like the red interior but don't think it'll work with a blue car. Do I leave it as an old Mini with an odd door or give it a lick of paint though?

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4 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

I think I'm going to save the earlier Mini, the castings are the same other than the badging and rear lights, although oddly the bonnets have different letters cast inside. 

I like the red interior but don't think it'll work with a blue car. Do I leave it as an old Mini with an odd door or give it a lick of paint though?

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Paint and red interior.

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14 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Lastly I grouped all my Mazda pickups together, think there's at least one I don't have but I didn't really set out to collect them all in the first place

Think there's also a blue off-road version with jacked suspension and chunkier wheels (same as on the Range Rover 5dr)... but hey, it's not like you're collecting them... ?

I had the plain red version (missing its camper back) and stupidly let it go a few years back. Nicely done model, and an unusual subject too. It's back on my list...

 

Also in Corgi news: another new arrival, this time courtesy of @andrew e

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Yup, it's the Corgi 'Cars of the 50s' Bentley R Series drophead coupé... in AS racing colours of beige and brown, and with appropriately centre-hinged bonnet revealing a nicely detailed lump:

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Plus an opening boot, with an intriguing feature-

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Rather unexpectedly, the rear seat flips down, allowing a longer rear load area.

It's kinda hard to photograph on the hood-up version...

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...but accurately reflects the full-size R Series, which no doubt Bentley were anxious to appeal to their core customer base of plumbers, carpenters and anyone else carrying long loads...

It's nicely chunky, and heavy too, with a metal base (the Jaguar's is plastic, though better detailed).

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Just lovely.

Plus there was another surprise inside the package -

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Yup, a Matchbox King Size K-6 Allis Chalmers Motor Scraper - another treasure for the box of these 1960s 'big Lesneys', and one I've never had before.

These toys are fascinating from a social history point of view - reflecting the massive road building and other civil engineering programmes of the time across the nation, it seemed only sensible that kids would want replicas of the massive earthmoving equipment to be seen chewing across fields near to them, bringing bypasses and motorways and other promises of a future built for speed and connectivity... part of the appeal of the old diecast catalogues is the artwork that accompanies them. Different world.

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Amazingly, this model has the tightest wheel hubs I've ever seen on a King Size of this vintage. The early versions of this model (1961 on) came with bright metal hubs, with later versions like this one using the shrinkage-prone red plastic ones until it was discontinued in 1967.

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It also means I'll be able to get the driveway levelled and resurfaced all by myself now.

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Cheers, Andrew!!

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18 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

I think I'm going to save the earlier Mini, 

I like the red interior but don't think it'll work with a blue car. Do I leave it as an old Mini with an odd door or give it a lick of paint though?

Save them both!

Maybe ask Eddy if he wants swaps on the Whoop! Whoop!  first, as he likes the odd Austin-Morris, as well as Police cars?

Keep their matching interiors!

(Well, you did ask)

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37 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Save them both!

Maybe ask Eddy if he wants swaps on the Whoop! Whoop!  first, as he likes the odd Austin-Morris, as well as Police cars?

Keep their matching interiors!

(Well, you did ask)

Nice thought, thank you, but I already have two of the Clubman version dressed as pandas, which I haven't quite finished yet.

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5 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Well for now it's got an odd door, white interior and a new headlight - 3.5mm rhinestone seems to be the right size for this one. I even found a steering wheel in the spares box

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Love it as it sits. Don't do any more to it! Have you got much in the way of spares for this model? I've got the same one which I unsympathetically stripped down around thirty years ago and could do with a few bits...

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1 hour ago, Dick Van Diesel said:

Have you got much in the way of spares for this model? I've got the same one which I unsympathetically stripped down around thirty years ago and could do with a few bits...

Well the rest of the police one. I'm not sure whether I should re-do it using the red interior in maybe an off-white?

The bonnet doesn't seem to stay in place on the white one, but nothing's broken

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6 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Well the rest of the police one. I'm not sure whether I should re-do it using the red interior in maybe an off-white?

The bonnet doesn't seem to stay in place on the white one, but nothing's broken

Fairy schnuff. I need a door for mine iirc - thought I'd ask in case the other one was for pillaging.

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You can buy the doors off eBay/Steve Flowers but I don't know how robust they are

Here's a few I'd not come across and couldn't resist;

Lucky Toys Cougar looks just like the Matchbox ones

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This is I'm sure also modeled on a Superfast - anyone care to name the model?

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Lastly a Universal 240Z with some sort of non functioning motor

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Didn't have a Superfast GT40 - odd looking base on this one

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I've got a few commercials but not seen this Bedford with tipping cab before

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See, I had a plan all along with the doorless Caravelle. But do I buy an aftermarket one and fix this one too? It's not as tidy as yesterday's one

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Last of the Lesney ones has long been on my hit list, I have a battered one I literally unearthed years ago, now I have a good one to accompany it

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Husky RO80 joins my Corgi versions - still need the large one

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This Siku Tempo Matador is missing a dor door

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Last but far from least, having accidentally sold my Marx Eldorado 4 pennies to another member, I had to replace it at far greater cost

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On 8/3/2020 at 8:26 PM, flat4alfa said:

Which leads me to thinking the larger Matchbox CF2 would be better

But the only one I have is a bit too nice to mess with 

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Anyone go a spare rough one?

 

I might still have one that's in pieces, as I brought it from a car boot as a kid. Then had the idea to take it apart and make it into a civilian van. Hopefully it survived our family house move from 2000. I'll check next time I'm in the loft and report back. 

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20 minutes ago, Bren said:

The model the yellow car is based on is the gruesome twosome.

Yep, somewhere between this

 

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And this

 

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That Cougar definitely looks like these, especially the Speed Kings

 

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@Datsuncog Happy to oblige ? 

I also had an incoming package today - which somehow unfathomably was not destroyed in the post despite being wrapped in *just* a plastic bag ?

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Its a lovely thing, the same colour as one I had 40 odd years ago - best bit was £7.99 posted! 

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Its also one of the few corgis I think those (corgi cub?) wheels actually work on. I don’t remember the fixed parcel shelf either.

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Well that escalated quickly. You complete bastards. All of these were purchased within the last two weeks. I don't need them. I don't have room for them. Mrs Dick hasn't visited the garage recently either... ? It's all this bloody thread's fault!

Bugger! 

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Some of them are a bit lovely to be fair.

 

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54 minutes ago, Dick Van Diesel said:

I didn't have a problem. Not until I spent too much time on this thread!

How can you tell the Model A is Us market?

I don't think we got jazzy paint jobs like that, there are loads of funky looking ones in the Matchbox books I have that were only intended for the USA. I guess we don't "get" hot rods over here

This is it, 1995 USA 5 pack

 

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In current project shenanigans, I picked up one of these for my lockdown kits. From 'The Range' it'll match the three smaller ones in the living room....

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They're nicely built and fit a 1/24 model perfectly, obviously it will be going on the wall. (please excuse the horrific crumbling walls, its  a rental house and the upstairs will be refurbed next year)

 

I battered this BMW for my other half for his Birthday. It was a prebuilt 1/24 that I attacked with a dremel and some paints. Turned out pretty well I think:

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He liked it anyway!

 

And finally, I was looking at building a diorama for the Renault 4, and a mate whom is a gardener inspired/persuaded me to go down the 'live route' and build a Terrarium instead....

So a £4 fishtank from gumtree was sourced, a £4.99 chopping board as a lid and some shower seals from screwfix....

and I ended up with this...

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Going to locally scavenge plants, mosses, live soils etc from woodland, and see how it develops...

All for this:

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Hopefully it'll grow into something interesting!

 

 

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11 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Excellent. I have a battered Matchbox Caravelle that I deliberately rusted up and made it look abandoned. It used to live in a plant pot but is currently homeless, I'll have to find something like that on a smaller scale

There are plenty of tutorials on the 'oohtube as to how to do these for free or minimum expense.. 

 

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