Shite in Miniature II

[Dick Longbridge]

Thinking back to childhood toys... 

My brother and I each had a plastic bike (BMX iirc) with something which vaguely resembled a zip tie from what I remember. The idea was you inserted said zip tie contraption into a mechanism on the bike, pull it out sharpish and watch as the bike flies off into the distance. 

Can anyone visualise what I'm talking about? 

[flat4alfa]

34 minutes ago, Dick Van Diesel said:

Can anyone visualise what I'm talking about? 

Yes, rip cord turning a flywheel, much like the Dinky Pink Panther car

Talking of which, where did I put mine.  I took it to bits a year ago to put a slot car motor in, but it got parked

[flat4alfa]

38 minutes ago, Dick Van Diesel said:

Have you been previously? I spent a few days there with a mate and his lad a couple of years ago and it was brilliant from start to finish. I loved the way most drivers hammered their cars around regardless of the eye-watering value of 99% of them. And the smell... and the sound...

I had been going every year without fail since mid-nineties.  But in recent years, not happened.  This year was meant to be the year I went and camped there, but as we know, cancelled by covid

The Festival 'hill climb' is very different to the Revival 'track' weekend - which I might be going to - if it does go ahead as planned over September 11th-13th.  Revival very recommended too, if not been

[flat4alfa]

Damn

Quote

Sadly, we have had to take the decision not to hold the Festival of Speed and Revival this year. All ticket holders have the option to rollover their tickets or request a refund.

https://www.goodwood.com/motorsport/goodwood-revival/

[flat4alfa]

3 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Early Majorette E-type

Anyone breaking one of these?

I painted mine up, then promptly melted the glazing in paint stripper.  The previous owner had painted over the windows you see.

[Christine]

3 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Then the old;

Found another colour of the Caddy Hot Rodder

Early Majorette E-type

At last, the Matchbox pick up, complete with grille and load cover

Siku Olds Toranado 

A much better Impy Cadillac than I had

Zylmex Lotus Europa minus its glass

Nice big Corgi Caprice

The Bertone Runabouts from the other day led me to this, have to say Wonder Woman looks more like a bloke in drag though

Zylmex dump truck looks very much like a 70s Matchbox

Bought this for a mate - unfortunately I think we both assumed it was a larger casting rather than a Trackside

One of the "benefits" of buying job lots is you end up with things you  don't really want - anyone fancy a Volvo V70 in 1:36 or a Tins Toys 960 with pull back motor? How about a Norev Alfa 159 in similar scale for €1 each?

Lastly, this enormous Sindy Range Rover is up for £20 in the local charity shop 

Silver v 70 ! Much want please!!!!

Edit..sadly..

Bollox  doctor got in first ,gutted...? Edit again ..Doc, i must have something to exchange for that V70 ??

[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, Amishtat said:

I'd be interested if you're not keeping it - mine has a rather important bit missing

 

20191212_170257 by RS, on Flickr

[flat4alfa]

9 minutes ago, Christine said:

Bollox  doctor

I thought he was the Back Door Doctor?  Nobody told me he had changed jobs.

[Christine]

Ah i think its a v70 phase 3 ...i want the phase 2 .....carry on doc ...?

[RoadworkUK]

2 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

The Porsche 917 Langheck (long-tail) was a real thing, not a prototype

[subeditor] Amishtat was using the word "prototype" in the sense of "basis for the model", in the same way that a photo of a rake of railway carriages might be a prototype for a OO diorama. [/subeditor]

[junkyarddog]

1 hour ago, flat4alfa said:

Anyone breaking one of these?

I painted mine up, then promptly melted the glazing in paint stripper.  The previous owner had painted over the windows you see.

I'll have a rummage,

Not promising anything though.

Got to try and sneak it past Smoll Eddy!

[flat4alfa]

47 minutes ago, RoadworkUK said:

[subeditor] Amishtat was using the word "prototype" in the sense of "basis for the model", in the same way that a photo of a rake of railway carriages might be a prototype for a OO diorama. [/subeditor]

Ok, The Porsche 917 Langheck (long-tail) was the prototype for the model

[DoctorRetro]

2 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

I thought he was the Back Door Doctor?  Nobody told me he had changed jobs.

I was chuckling away to myself about this and my girlfriend said to me 'what's tickled your balls?'

Needless to say, I didn't manage to stop laughing for a little while... ?

[junkyarddog]

"Wotcha reckon M8?"

[Amishtat]

The last of Tat Wednesday while my dinner cooks. Not quite my usual fare but they're nice weighty things and the vendor was willing to come to a deal, although I wouldn't exactly say they were a bargain. Perhaps I've just been spoiled with a run of less-than-a-tenner tat recently. Missing tyres on the Bedford, which is a little annoying. Don't think I've come across the Corgi Karrier before. 

[flat4alfa]

1 hour ago, junkyarddog said:

"Wotcha reckon M8?"

GR8 Mr Eddy, sir.

Perfick save!

[flat4alfa]

28 minutes ago, Amishtat said:

Don't think I've come across the Corgi Karrier before. 

Me either.  Lucozade livery is great

Must be a rarity?

[antony denman]

here another one arrived weds zodiac with working lights the joy,wont take much stripping and needs tyres,aston asent any  wheels but got knackered one to rob,queens roller got out put light in zodiac,going to order one with the tyres,go in quee in the  rest off my tat to be retored

[bunglebus]

17 minutes ago, antony denman said:

 

So that Zodiac is a Spot-On? Didn't know they made any with working lights, nice find. 

They seem to command too much money on eBay so I only have one that I found years ago

[sierraman]

 I’m mid resto on a later Spot On Zodiac, waiting for Steve Flowers to reopen need the doors and the glazing.

[eddyramrod]

If you need doors, surely it's a Zephyr not a Zodiac?

[Split_Pin]

I finished the model of my own car today.

It started out as a smoke grey GSi that I had already lowered about 20 years ago and fitted it with BMW E46 wheels. The latter aren't anywhere near the same as the Speedlines on my Corsa but the colour is right at least.

[bunglebus]

Coming along nicely, other than getting carried away and painting it before trying to make the floor etc. 

Rollcage is I think from a Hot Wheels Mini and fits perfectly, driver is out of the 4 engine dragster and seat from the spares box.

Got a steering column/wheel to fit then I'll paint the chassis and floor and assemble it all

[Datsuncog]

Mail call today...

Whoohoo, it's the Superkings K-14 Scammell Freight Liner from a few Wednesdays back, courtesy of Bunglebus Bootsale Enterprises Inc.

Bonus cat-themed packaging for extra points.

But stay, there's another bubble-wrapped nugget within...

Oh! It's a rubber-wheeled Husky version of the Ford D-Series, same as the one I was recently bemoaning selling on.

A super-early example too, with the spun alloy hubs rather than the later cast items.

Cheers dude, very pleased with this! Goes well with the tat-box trailer and its later Whizzwheels counterpart.

And that's not all today brought...

After a dental appointment in Belfast this morning, I stopped off to get my much-loved Tuffa yard boots soled and heeled (all that lockdown walking took its toll). Because the heel bar was quiet, the owner told me they'd be ready in an hour, rather than the next-week pick-up I was expecting. So I had an hour to mooch around.

I half-considered going over to Smithfield to have another poke in the model shop there, only the last time I was there I emeged feeling quite pissed off from the patronising tone and general arseiness of the proprietor... so much so that I threw the head up and didn't buy the Vanguards Subaru Legacy Turbo I'd specifically gone in there to get.

The pull was strong, and the thought of the Subaru appealing... but I stomped off in the opposite direction, and instead went to marvel at how HMV reckons £40 for an LP is now somehow acceptable.

BUT on the way back from HMV, for no particular reason, I sauntered into Cash Converters... and oh look...

...it's exactly the same model I wanted, but for 2/3 of the price. The box is a tiny bit worn, but that's not a bother. The car is minty fresh.

I believe the real-life Legacy used the same 2.0 turbocharged EJ boxer engine as does my Forester XT, so that's kinda nice.

It was also the sole Vanguards model in there; all their other diecast amounted to no more than a load of unwanted Days Gone promotionals (Model T Fordzzzzzz) plus some dusty Franklin Mint yank stuff 'reduced' at £40 a pop.

Serendipidous, hey?

[flat4alfa]

49 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

...it's exactly the same model I wanted, but for 2/3 of the price.

It was also the sole Vanguards model in there

Serendipidous, hey?

[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, Datsuncog said:

Oh! It's a rubber-wheeled Husky version of the Ford D-Series, same as the one I was recently bemoaning selling on.

A super-early example too, with the spun alloy hubs rather than the later cast items.

Cheers dude, very pleased with this! Goes well with the tat-box trailer and its later Whizzwheels counterpart.

No worries.  I wasn't really thinking about getting rid of it but I'm not hugely into commercials and I figured you do a lot for the rest of us tat hoarders. Now you can stop complaining...

...talking of complaints, I'm getting swamped with job lot orphans and cars I'm never going to customise - so, does anyone want this lot for £10 posted? The bigger of the two groups are all either broken or have missing parts, all the new looking ones and several of the others in that same group have been taken apart and their wheels removed. 

The other group are generally complete but just don't interest me.

There's also this Matchbox/Dinky MGB and Oxford Jensen interceptor - £1 each + postage 

In happier news, a few tired but sound Matchbox got to me today;

Plus this boxed Zylmex - box was already squished and it was bubble wrapped and boxed to the extreme, makes a change from jiffy bags!

I decided I'd like to mess about with the large Corgi Corniche - this one has lost its V8 but I do have a few engine donors about...

[flat4alfa]

On 8/6/2020 at 8:32 PM, Dick Van Diesel said:

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. 

I could find a home for one of those

[junkyarddog]

"Wots this un m8?"

It's a messed with Dodge dragster Smoll Eddy. 

And after,

"Not another one M8!"

Yes......That makes 10 pink ones and one white Orange peel version.

"You need yer bumps feelin' M8"

 

[flat4alfa]

28 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

.talking of complaints, I'm getting swamped with job lot orphans and cars I'm never going to customise - so, does anyone want this lot for £10 posted? The bigger of the two groups are all either broken or have missing parts, all the new looking ones and several of the others in that same group have been taken apart and their wheels removed. 

Is the glass and base ok on the Diplomat?

I have this

[flat4alfa]

55 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

I decided I'd like to mess about with the large Corgi Corniche - this one has lost its V8 but I do have a few engine donors about...

Looking forward to 'Cornichebuster' !