Amishtat Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 Having said that, I took these pics last week and forgot to share them. Possibly of interest to someone here, he wanted seven quid. It's been on his stall for weeks and he made a point of showing it to me but I don't recall why now. AndyW201 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyW201 Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 So, had a delivery yesterday. I'm quite late here to the Schabak party. I've bought a few Vauxhall/Opel models from Gama over the years and I do like this era of nicely made German model from the late '80s/early '90s. Detail might be lacking a bit compared to today's models from Minichamps/Vanguards/Neo etc but they are still chock full of charm from an era when I was just about making the transition from collecting small 'toy' Matchbox and the like to proper 1/43 collectors stuff. So first up, This is another real 'holy grail' model for me. I have quite a lot of 'Fast Ford' models in the collection now, but a distinct lack of hot Fiesta action. Truth is, there isn't really a massive choice of sporty Fiestas in 1/43 form. Mk1 XR2s can be had from Minichamps and Vanguards, so are expensive. I have one silver Vanguards XR2 and that's it. (If you want a real laugh, see how much people are asking for Vanguards Mk1 Supersports...), Neo Mk2 XR2s do exist, but that'll be £80-£90 please sir. (Word is that the Mk2 XR2 is one of the favourites to be next modelled by Vanguards. If they're still around by then...). Mk3 wise, again you're struggling. Kess do a stunning resin RS Turbo, but again you're talking ££££££. So really, you're left with the Schabak XR2i, a model which is getting on for 30 years old now, luckily it doesn't look bad for its age. Saying that, due to the lack of choice, prices of these too have started to climb. Recent mint boxed examples have sold on eBay for £20-£30+ so I thought I'd missed the boat with these. Luckily this came up with a tempting BIN price, so at long last, the Fiesta MK3 shaped hole has been filled! Mint and boxed too. The box is also in pretty good condition with quite a wishlist on the rear! Shame though that the plastic box window has yellowed and split with age. I'll have to see if I can replace it somehow. Pleasingly, the mintiness includes the notoriously fragile headlights, indicators and auxiliary lights, which easily fall out and get lost with these. Taillights too, are still present, as is the rear screen, which are also often missing on these. Schabak's party trick of course was the amount of opening features. Sadly the realism on this car appears to extend to a non-existent boot floor... Doors open too, allowing a look at the interior detail. Obviously at early '90s levels, but its all recognisable as a MK3 dash, with a correct shape steering wheel, The bolsters on the sports seats are about right too. Another treat is the opening bonnet, something rarely seen even today with 1/43, and a very decent attempt at a 1.6 CVH (Coarse, Vibratory, Harsh) in there. Good underbody detail too, for the time. Shape is captured well too. Shame it doesn't have the blue pinstripes and bumper strips like the 1/25 version but the black front splitter and tailgate spoiler break up the sea of red and even the wheels aren't a bad stab at the early XR2i ones. Should display well I reckon. Remspoor, Datsuncog, Burnside and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyW201 Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 Right, don't know why Chrome had decided to insert every picture I've uploaded today into one post, but anyway... The Schabak Fiesta listing came with an Escort as well. The Mk5 is another casting that I've been meaning to get hold of for a while, so this one fills a gap. An Escort 'wagon' no less! And a posh looking wagon too, judging by the sunroof and the natty roof rails. Never seen a Schabak Escort in black either. Again, this one's in really good condition with only a couple of blemishes in the shiny black paint. The GLX spec wheel trims are well replicated. Again, the interior isn't dripping with detail, but it's a decent stab at a Mk5 interior. God, the amount of miles I drove in these bloody things back in the day when I worked on the taxis.... However the loadspace wasn't bad, I did quite a few airport runs with them. This one, being a GLX, even has a loadspace cover, which would probably make things nicer for the imaginary smol owner of this example... ... because (and this is actually one of the reasons I love these Schabak Escorts) under the bonnet we have the fantastic* normally aspirated 1.8 Endura-DE diesel. The ones I drove were lower L spec ones and had no loadspace cover, making that boxy space at the back act like a big boombox. I drove a few 1.8 d hatchbacks and I actually quite liked the farty, parpy exhaust note on those, a bit like the Morris Minor exhaust raspberry. But constant. However that noise, amplified by a large, uncovered loadspace got a bit tiring over a long shift... So, a Mk5 Escort, estate, diesel. How could this not be shite? All in all, with the postage, this and the Fiesta came in at about £7 each, which I was quite happy with. egg, Amishtat, Burnside and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 I have learned two things; Tonka glazing is hard as nails, had to start with 180 grit to get the deep scratches out, and also it's a brown/orange, not opaque black as I first thought Burnside and Tenmil Socket 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 3 hours ago, flat4alfa said: Went BIG CAR BOOT Another waste of time It also getting to me that I find myself increasingly alien in my birth country There’s one not all that far from us, it’s absolutely full of travellers selling stolen power tools, it runs all year round but it’s such as waste of time I wouldn’t even consider it. One of the reasons everything I’ve done with goes to the charity shop or on fleabay now is previous experience of doing car boots and having to put up with something being priced at a quid or whatever then constant ‘I only have 10p’ bollocks. On pretty much every occasion we’d get up at some god awful hour, spend several hours being insulted and come away with something like £15. Mind you the sellers can be wankers as well, a guy yesterday was selling Matchbox/hot wheels ‘two for a quid’ anyhow the only thing worth having was a Hot Wheels mk2 Golf, rest was rubbish, the guy refused to sell it to me unless I bought 2. His mindset was that he’d end up with loads of loose change it wasn’t worth his time accepting anything less than a quid. I expect his wealth is probably one of the reasons he was spending the hottest day of the year selling off a paste table on the outskirts of Mansfield. Either way I put it back out of principle. Amishtat and Burnside 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 One more little job I did while I was in glazing mode - the custom Matchbox Cortina's window unit was looking very yellowed so it's had a couple of days outside in a bag of Cara White. Worrying it actually ended up slightly milky, but a T-cut and a coat of self-shining floor polish have sorted that out. the last batch I used was thinned slightly with water, so I think I'll do the same in future Burnside, eddyramrod, AndyW201 and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junkyarddog Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 Smoll Eddy got a new lift(courtesy of big Eddy),so we decided to try it out and swap the wheels on the Bedford milkfloat dragster. "Not much room for the daily pinta M8" flat4alfa, eddyramrod, barrett and 11 others 13 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 That's flipping awesome! junkyarddog, bicycle repairman and andrew e 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datsuncog Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 Next item in the Corgi Model Club promotion has now arrived... It's the No. 330 Porsche Carrera 6. Engine detailing quite nice... This time they've chosen to model a rarer variant - most examples of this model were white with red spray-masked doors and front hatch, with a dark blue plastic engine cover. This one's blue instead of red, and has a yellow engine cover. Decal on the rear panel, like the one on the bonnet of The Saint's Volvo, has been fake-aged. I've already expressed my views on this practice... Base is pretty plain; I don't have an original to compare it to, but I'll guess it's broadly the same. There was quite a clean original on the stall on Friday past, but I hadn't looked at it all that closely. Also came with these little dudes. Six of 'em, and looking a little shinier and bendier than the couple of originals I've had, but still quite a nice repro set. Still trying to decide how much further I want to go with this mail-order collection... AndyW201, Burnside, Amishtat and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuboy Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 Went to a ford show and bought a porsche 1/16 scale Shite Ron, bunglebus, andrew e and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 Polistil? I have that one in powder blue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuboy Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 12 hours ago, sierraman said: Polistil? I have that one in powder blue. yeah and tonka on the base plate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted July 18, 2021 Author Share Posted July 18, 2021 I've got that in silver. I got it for £1 from ebay in 2015 as the description said the casting was cracked. It turns out it was just a casting line on the front wing. Nice big basic model, I wish Id had it as a kid. Burnside 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuboy Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 12 hours ago, Split_Pin said: I've got that in silver. I got it for £1 from ebay in 2015 as the description said the casting was cracked. It turns out it was just a casting line on the front wing. Nice big basic model, I wish Id had it as a kid. id like to find its age Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 17 minutes ago, stuboy said: id like to find its age Older than 1994, when Polistil / Tonka parted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddyramrod Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 A parcel arrived yesterday, containing this... 1950 Studebaker in 1/18 scale. So I put it in my 40s/50s/60s cabinet, to keep company with a 1950 Chevrolet Bel Air. Today I had a better idea. Herbert Lom drove one in the robbery scene, in The Ladykillers (1955). Not quite the right blue, but it does mean the car now inhabits my Film/TV cabinet instead of the 50s set. After that, some prep work took place. The two Corgis were a right pain to drill. As many of you will know, Corgi's rivets of the period tended to have lovely smooth heads. Which of course are not easy to drill into, even starting with a very small pilot bit and working up. Anyway I got there. The Matchbox D-series came apart easy enough. And then there was the Oxford Diecast Anglia van. Only two rivets, and they have dished heads so I could get in, but the second one put up a fight. As you can see, I got it apart, but it came rather suddenly and with violence. One of the axles flew off.... And I still haven't found it. FFS, my back yard is tiny, there isn't anywhere for it to hide! What this means is, they haven't made it to the caustic bath yet because I turned the fucking yard upside down looking for that escaped axle. Oh well, maybe tomorrow. Burnside, Remspoor, andrew e and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 10 hours ago, Datsuncog said: Next item in the Corgi Model Club promotion has now arrived... Bah, I've not had the Volvo yet, got an email saying it's out of stock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 8 hours ago, eddyramrod said: The two Corgis were a right pain to drill I use a round burr tool in my Dremel to make a depression in the rivet first to help centre the drill. Stole the idea from one of the restorers on YouTube. The axle will be somewhere impossible like on top of the bathroom cabinet. Got one of those magnet on a stick things to go "fishing" with? eddyramrod 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 12 hours ago, stuboy said: id like to find its age I got mine in about 92/93? It probably wasn’t new then to be fair. Got me thinking now, it’s in the loft somewhere still in the box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datsuncog Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 12 hours ago, stuboy said: id like to find its age I received the convertible version in June 1990, going by this flattering* pic... andrew e, Tenmil Socket, bicycle repairman and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoadworkUK Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 Another Tim I know got his circa 1990. The fact that it was 1/16 made me cross – it towered above my 1/18 Ferrari 288 GTO when we played with them on the parquet floor of the hall after school. andrew e, Datsuncog and Burnside 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarvinsMom Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 12 hours ago, eddyramrod said: A parcel arrived yesterday, containing this... 1950 Studebaker in 1/18 scale. So I put it in my 40s/50s/60s cabinet, to keep company with a 1950 Chevrolet Bel Air. Today I had a better idea. Herbert Lom drove one in the robbery scene, in The Ladykillers (1955). Not quite the right blue, but it does mean the car now inhabits my Film/TV cabinet instead of the 50s set. After that, some prep work took place. The two Corgis were a right pain to drill. As many of you will know, Corgi's rivets of the period tended to have lovely smooth heads. Which of course are not easy to drill into, even starting with a very small pilot bit and working up. Anyway I got there. The Matchbox D-series came apart easy enough. And then there was the Oxford Diecast Anglia van. Only two rivets, and they have dished heads so I could get in, but the second one put up a fight. As you can see, I got it apart, but it came rather suddenly and with violence. One of the axles flew off.... And I still haven't found it. FFS, my back yard is tiny, there isn't anywhere for it to hide! What this means is, they haven't made it to the caustic bath yet because I turned the fucking yard upside down looking for that escaped axle. Oh well, maybe tomorrow. didn't Fozzy Bear drive one of those Studebakers in "the great muppet movie" back in the olden dayz? flat4alfa and eddyramrod 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 Also very similar to "The Loaner" from The Mask Personally I think the name they gave it was genius - descriptive and ominous at once eddyramrod 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 41 minutes ago, MarvinsMom said: didn't Fozzy Bear drive one of those Studebakers in "the great muppet movie" back in the olden dayz? Two choices of colour scheme Before After Complete with Citroen Mehari attachment. Remspoor, eddyramrod, MarvinsMom and 1 other 1 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junkyarddog Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 Ah yes,a bear in it's natural habitat....A Studebaker 🤣 r.welfare, eddyramrod and MarvinsMom 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heidel_Kakao Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 Anyone want anything? junkyarddog, bicycle repairman, eddyramrod and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddyramrod Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 I've got my missing axle! I spotted the lady next door in her yard and told her what happened. She had a look round and found it in a drain, where I couldn't see from my side. Thank goodness! andrew e, Datsuncog, bunglebus and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddyramrod Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 37 minutes ago, Heidel_Kakao said: Anyone want anything? Very much, but what has he got and how much does he think they're worth? Heidel_Kakao 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 39 minutes ago, eddyramrod said: Very much, but what has he got and how much does he think they're worth? https://www.facebook.com/Weird-wonderful-brierley-hill-565925800145923/ eddyramrod 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heidel_Kakao Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 1 hour ago, eddyramrod said: Very much, but what has he got and how much does he think they're worth? I got all these for £20. Don't know if that's good or not. 50p per small loose car. bicycle repairman, andrew e, eddyramrod and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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