Shite in Miniature II

[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, Burnside said:

 

Darda and Commer please, plus the Z-car from the first pic! I think that one's a Road Blaster

[eddyramrod]

33 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Darda and Commer please, plus the Z-car from the first pic! I think that one's a Road Blaster

Bugger, not quick enough on the Commer.  Never mind.

[bunglebus]

17 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

Bugger, not quick enough on the Commer.  Never mind.

If you really want it no problem - I'd prefer to find the milk float back in good condition really

[eddyramrod]

7 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

If you really want it no problem - I'd prefer to find the milk float back in good condition really

Very kind of you sir!

In which case, could I also claim the Sable wagon and the SD1 from the first pic please?

[flat4alfa]

Hang on….  I’m sure that Commer wasn’t on there earlier

[Dick Longbridge]

3 hours ago, Burnside said:

Apologies on the tat sale delay everyone!

Below is what I've gone through so far, although I do plan on adding some more odds and ends at some point. Once I get chance to venture back in the loft. 

 All above 50p each.

Escort is missing tow bar and Renault Clio is missing headlights, plus broken window. 

Next batch above are a £1 each. Renault 18 is missing taxi sign and R5 is missing tab above tow bar.

Darda Renault 5 Turbo, playworn paint but otherwise excellent. Motor is working well and even spins the back tyres on smooth surfaces! 

Paid a £5 so would like that back? 

Really heavily playworn Siku Audi 80 convertible, with stance yo included. 

Yours 50p? 

Corgi Commer, badly repainted but complete.  Comes with two rear bodies. Chassis has minor damage see last pic. 

£2.50? 

El cheapo Mini pullback, motor doesn't work and paintwork ruinned by a 8yr me! Held together by screws, so could easily be repainted etc. 

50p

1:25 ish El Cheapo BMW E36 RC.

Stickers are slightly faded but otherwise body ok. Complete but unfortunately motor appears dead, might be of use to someone.

£1? Sold!

 

That Darda R5 is lovely. I'm glad someone else has bought it as I'm working hard to not buy any more diecast. 

[flat4alfa]

I have a reasonable Commer milk float frame but am after a van or pickup body instead

The red one on the right was in the toy box at my Nan’s when I was small.  Painted it last year, can’t part with it so wanted to do something with it.  Is a Transolighter too

The plastic body ‘Hong Kommer’ isn’t going to fit without cutting it about

Anyone have a box of Commer spares ?

[eddyramrod]

Yes.

Specifically, I have an ambulance body that's been painted but is otherwise intact.  Any help to you?

[flat4alfa]

Also had a school day moment

Struck me that the Ford Thames ‘Airborne Caravan’ was a slightly smaller cab casting  compared to the Ford Thames ‘Atlas Copco’.  Thought that a bit odd… then looked underneath

I am muppet!  One is Dinky and one is Corgi.

 

Doh.

[flat4alfa]

11 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

Yes.

Specifically, I have an ambulance body that's been painted but is otherwise intact.  Any help to you?

Small roof light one? Yes very!

[eddyramrod]

That's the one.  Stand by for PM.

[flat4alfa]

What, Boris Johnson has a Commer too?  Who knew?

[Burnside]

2 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Darda and Commer please, plus the Z-car from the first pic! I think that one's a Road Blaster

No problem, I'll mark these both as sold to you@bunglebus

1 hour ago, eddyramrod said:

Very kind of you sir!

In which case, could I also claim the Sable wagon and the SD1 from the first pic please?

@eddyramrod

Likewise, I'll put these to one side for you too. Thanks. 

1 hour ago, flat4alfa said:

Hang on….  I’m sure that Commer wasn’t on there earlier

Guilty! I'd realized after I made the original post, that I'd forgotten to include it. So quickly edited it afterwards. 

I'll leave the pm's about payment, until either over the weekend or Mon if that's ok with everyone?

Just in case anyone else wants to buy anything before I put them all away again.

Although I will try and go back in the loft for another look 1st. As I'm sure there a few others hidden somewhere. 

1 hour ago, Dick Longbridge said:

That Darda R5 is lovely. I'm glad someone else has bought it as I'm working hard to not buy any more diecast. 

It's the reason I'm partly selling it, as I keep being tempted to start looking for more Darda whenever I look at it.

 Which is last thing I should be doing right now! You watch though, in another 12 months. I'll be out buying some more.

[flat4alfa]

6 hours ago, Burnside said:

No problem, you have any plans for it?

If the circuit board is zonked, get the motor running and hotwire to the battery compartment, then leave it running around circles on the kitchen Lino driving the cat mad enough to walk out and live next door forever instead

[flat4alfa]

7 hours ago, Burnside said:

 

El cheapo Mirni pullback, motor doesn't work and paintwork ruinned by a 8yr me! Held together by screws, so could easily be repainted etc. 

50p ?

That's the older Mini by Welly

Got one here, likely looked like this before it was attacked

It measures to 1/26 so for the 50p and popped into the same box, yes please

[Dick Longbridge]

Anyone looking for a Bburago 1:24 S1 Rally Range Rover? 

Super condition apart from front bumper missing and roof rack loose. Both easy fixes if you're that way inclined.

£9 if anyone fancies it. 

 

[MiniMort]

Sprayed my first diecast last night. By no means a perfect job (the bootlid looks as if its going rusty) but I'm not displeased with it... 

Before: a pretty worn out XJ12 with a muddy interior (thanks, whoever played with this outside in the rain) 

After: I think soft-focus complements my paint job. I might add some black plastic tape as a sort of vinyl roof. Not sure yet. 

[eddyramrod]

I've just painted one of those silver too, to go into my Film/TV collection as Arfur Daley's famous Jag.  I already have the MB Capri11 in white with black roof, as driven by Terry.

[MiniMort]

1 minute ago, eddyramrod said:

I've just painted one of those silver too, to go into my Film/TV collection as Arfur Daley's famous Jag.  I already have the MB Capri11 in white with black roof, as driven by Terry.

That's awesome. I really want to get into diecast collecting but the prices online for new ones are absolutely eye-watering. Maybe restoring worn out ones is the way forward for me. 

Mind you, when I was at Silverstone the other weekend, I did manage to pick up an 80s Norev of a Renault 18TL in brown (of course) for £1. I'll get a photo of it later on. 

[eddyramrod]

That's what I've been doing for decades, and mostly for the same reason!  Isn't it satisfying!

[Spottedlaurel]

48 minutes ago, MiniMort said:

That's awesome. I really want to get into diecast collecting but the prices online for new ones are absolutely eye-watering. Maybe restoring worn out ones is the way forward for me.

I don't have much interest in collecting new diecasts, certainly not those cynically produced just to be collectible. Much more fun to be had rooting around for old/overlooked stuff!

I had a really nice set of Tomica Skylines in a smart display case, but I sold them for the purchase price a few years later as they didn't do much for me.

[MiniMort]

2 hours ago, Spottedlaurel said:

I don't have much interest in collecting new diecasts, certainly not those cynically produced just to be collectible. Much more fun to be had rooting around for old/overlooked stuff!

I had a really nice set of Tomica Skylines in a smart display case, but I sold them for the purchase price a few years later as they didn't do much for me.

My diecast dream as it were would be to have a collection of little replicas of all the cars my family's owned over the years (same colour, trim level, quirks ect). Mind you, I'm not sure if anyone's ever bothered to make a Chevette Estate diecast. 

[bunglebus]

3 hours ago, MiniMort said:

Sprayed my first diecast last night.

 

3 hours ago, MiniMort said:

Maybe restoring worn out ones is the way forward for me. 

Welcome to the slippery slope. Every time I think I'll do a nice simple repaint it always spirals into testing myself doing more detail. Feels good getting them finished though 

[eddyramrod]

1 hour ago, MiniMort said:

My diecast dream as it were would be to have a collection of little replicas of all the cars my family's owned over the years (same colour, trim level, quirks ect). Mind you, I'm not sure if anyone's ever bothered to make a Chevette Estate diecast. 

I've been doing that for a very long time!  And there are still gaps.  Also, some stuff really is just imaginary, like the Chevette estate (I had one too!) so I have to find something roughly equivalent and modify it.  Filler and files are your friends here.  At the moment I'm making a Mercury Sable sedan out of the MB station wagon, because even if a Sable model exists, there won't be many this side of the Atlantic, and if there are, they'll be priced like Escorts.  But the Sable I owned a few years ago was a sedan, so what do I do?

[bunglebus]

The Mrs. kept suggesting fitting Ronal Teddy Bear wheels to the Lupo. I'd rather eat my own head but I got a 1:64 set made, so my Welly Lupo is going yellow...

 

[MiniMort]

2 hours ago, eddyramrod said:

I've been doing that for a very long time!  And there are still gaps.  Also, some stuff really is just imaginary, like the Chevette estate (I had one too!) so I have to find something roughly equivalent and modify it.  Filler and files are your friends here.  At the moment I'm making a Mercury Sable sedan out of the MB station wagon, because even if a Sable model exists, there won't be many this side of the Atlantic, and if there are, they'll be priced like Escorts.  But the Sable I owned a few years ago was a sedan, so what do I do?

You and your bloody thread going through your car history with diecasts is the reason I want to do it. It was a terrific read! 

[eddyramrod]

I'm very glad I've inspired you!  Job done.  And thank you.

[bunglebus]

There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening. The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence.

Rightly chuffed with this one, I didn't set out to build a Clockwork Orange Durango 95 replica, but in most of the pics I found of the Adams Probe 16 it was orange. I've tried to emulate the partly orange interior I saw in one, but the black louvre comes from another. 

Dinky wheels took a fair bit of work to squeeze them underneath. 

By strange coincidence, the Clockwork car seems to wear wheels similar to the fronts I've chosen

I really didn't fancy trying to paint the orange areas on the glass but I'd have a go if I found another donor.

You can't tell here but it was another 3 wheeled wonder 

[flat4alfa]

D2D Corgi Club Porsche Carrera 6 compared to an original Corgi Porsche Carrera 6

Am pleased they chose to replicate the scarcer blue/white export issue and not just clone the typical red/white scheme.  It also was a model not produced for that long, 1967-69, at 848,000 units + the 1969 unknown figure (due to the records lost by the factory fire).

Spotted the red/white Corgi original last week in a Devon antique shop cabinet, it had the dreaded paper tag, but the nice old ladies accepted £7 for it in a bundle of other items from the cabinet.

Never given this one much time in the past, was content with the various built/unbuilt Airfix 1:32 kits and the Airfix slot car (still have two of), also the Strombecker slot car example (since sold).  But compared to this Corgi they were after-all, just toys.

As mentioned previously, these replicas are very good, you very likely wouldn't know they were without measuring and finding the 1mm difference in length and the country of origin on base.  They really are that good and in hindsight probably not expensive at £20, when:

- Market Blokey wants (and gets) half that for a play-worn dropped-about in a box original example

- Toymart realises that the minty boxed originals just aren't going to happen:  https://www.toymart.com/Corgi-330-Porsche-Carrera-6/603

- The 1969 Corgi catalogue price list page has it at 7 shillings and 11 pence.  That's all of £7.03 today.  But they were mass-produced by Welsh ladies, not a limited collector subscription production run, by Chinese ladies.

[flat4alfa]

2 hours ago, bunglebus said:

That's really good

The end result has made it look like nearer a 1:24 size