Spottedlaurel Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 9 hours ago, Justwatching said: And here's a round up of my year in miniature shite! All this year? I like your little diorama. I should try and knock-up something similar up for my 1:24/1:25 kits - now I don't have the flat roof and expansive views for a photo location, I need to try something different. eddyramrod 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 I'm trying to get all my copies and originals in one place for a group picture - a harder task than I first thought! I did lead me to realise that what I thought was another Gruesome Twosome copy by Lucky is actually different. Did they change it due to copyright infringements or just because they could? Then you get into what constitutes a copy? Is this a big-ass version of this? Anyway - looks like I have my work cut out AndyW201 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justwatching Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 2 hours ago, Spottedlaurel said: All this year? Excluding the trains, all this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
155V6 Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 A surprise delivery yesterday was this Corgi Junior Ironside van I saw it on FB Marketplace on Thursday,it was fairly local,but I'd just tested positive for Covid so couldn't go to collect.I paid him to post it,& thought I'd get it next week. I got a knock on the door yesterday morning,old chap had bought it round for me 😁 Looking back,I think I saw this at a car boot back in the autumn,but didn't have enough left to buy it. Really please with this one,it's not mint,but still very nice,and complete bunglebus, andrew e, eddyramrod and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 I bid on a lot including one of those ^ but lost out. Same happened with one containing an Aerocar too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 Anyway - thought I'd look back at how many cars got tinkered with in 2021 - about half what I achieved in 2020 but considering six months were spent dealing with an extremely difficult family situation that occupied most of our waking hours, I think I did OK eddyramrod, Spottedlaurel, AndyW201 and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bezzabsa Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 Looking to start a Collection of HGV's this year I think... May hack a few Stobarts about to create some code 3's... But really looking for a 94d rigid Daf 1900 Rigid Roadrunner / Daf 45 a Nice Renault Magnum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnoyingPentium Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 29 minutes ago, bunglebus said: Anyway - thought I'd look back at how many cars got tinkered with in 2021 - about half what I achieved in 2020 but considering six months were spent dealing with an extremely difficult family situation that occupied most of our waking hours, I think I did OK Where did you get the dinky Lupo from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 8 minutes ago, AnnoyingPentium said: Where did you get the dinky Lupo from? It's a Welly. Lupos in miniature seem to command a premium so I grab them whenever I see them. There's a larger version with opening doors I'd like to find AnnoyingPentium 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnoyingPentium Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 3 minutes ago, bunglebus said: It's a Welly. Lupos in miniature seem to command a premium so I grab them whenever I see them. There's a larger version with opening doors I'd like to find Yep just looked on eBay there. Can confirm they're well out of my price bracket. I'll stick to trying to find dinky Fabias in the meantime. Haha. bunglebus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 One of the eBay ones is mine - bought for 50p and currently at £22. Got to pay for my habit somehow... Shite Ron and AnnoyingPentium 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnoyingPentium Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 20 minutes ago, bunglebus said: One of the eBay ones is mine - bought for 50p and currently at £22. Got to pay for my habit somehow... Yep that's the one! As consolation, I bought a £20ish red Fabia wagon in 1/43. I'll post photographs once it's here. bunglebus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenmil Socket Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 3 hours ago, bunglebus said: Anyway - thought I'd look back at how many cars got tinkered with in 2021 - about half what I achieved in 2020 but considering six months were spent dealing with an extremely difficult family situation that occupied most of our waking hours, I think I did OK Any more pics of the Escort and Golf please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 Found this whilst wondering the web. A shop in Czech https://shop.modeldepo.cz/ Prices are not so bad (postage and importation duties aside) At the time of writing 1.00 Czech Koruna = 0.034GBP. https://www.xe.com/currencyconverter/convert/?Amount=1&From=CZK&To=GBP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenmil Socket Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 2 hours ago, bunglebus said: One of the eBay ones is mine - bought for 50p and currently at £22. Got to pay for my habit somehow... Have you seen how many listings the other seller has! Amongst them is this which I don't recall seeing before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 17 minutes ago, Tenmil Socket said: Any more pics of the Escort and Golf please? The Golf is the new Matchbox casting with a coat of paint plus old Superfast wheels The Escort is a Dinky police car that I'd tried several times to repaint but the casting is just awful and full of casting flaws - so I thought this treatment would work better Sudsprint, Remspoor, sierraman and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 15 minutes ago, Tenmil Socket said: Have you seen how many listings the other seller has! Amongst them is this which I don't recall seeing before. It's the Juniors version of this one Think it should also have a top Here's mine! Tenmil Socket 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenmil Socket Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 4 minutes ago, bunglebus said: The Golf is the new Matchbox casting with a coat of paint plus old Superfast wheels The Escort is a Dinky police car that I'd tried several times to repaint but the casting is just awful and full of casting flaws - so I thought this treatment would work better They're great! That Dinky Escort is a terrible casting. bunglebus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenmil Socket Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 1 minute ago, bunglebus said: It's the Juniors version of this one Think it should also have a top Ahhh, now it looks familiar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quicksilver Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 10 hours ago, bezzabsa said: Looking to start a Collection of HGV's this year I think... May hack a few Stobarts about to create some code 3's... But really looking for a 94d rigid Daf 1900 Rigid Roadrunner / Daf 45 a Nice Renault Magnum Not sure what scale you're interested in, but in 1/76: Scania 94D - done by Oxford Diecast but not very well as it's a bodge to fit the Volvo FH chassis DAF 1900 - sadly not Roadrunner - resin cab by Road Transport Images Magnum - done nicely by Corgi, long out of production but still pops up on ebay etc. fairly often Kudos on proposing to hack Stobart tat as there's too much of it about. I'm single-handedly responsible for the desecration/improvement of many, half a dozen in the last month alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyW201 Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 This not buying diecast until well after New Year is going well. So today's arrival was this, After years (and probably a sizeable amount of £, I haven't dared to add it up) of collecting Vanguards, I've never gone for an MGB. However just before Christmas, I saw this example on a well-known auction site stalled on its £6 starting bid... Which I got it for. Missing it's cardboard outer cover, but complete with display case, collectors card and soft top still taped to the plinth. This one dates from that weird short lived 'Drive Time' phase of Vanguards which was divided into many sub-sections like classic, modern, racing and emergency. Weird really how ubiquitous the MGB is and there still really aren't that many proper collector-quality models of it in this scale. This one, in chrome-bumper soft top with chrome wires spec is a bit 'MGB by numbers'. I would have preferred one of the more '70s style variants like the aconite purple or saffron one with Rostyles, or one of the rubber bumper variants, (better still a BGT!), but they tend to go for strong money still. Anyway, they seem to have done a good job on the MGB, the shape is well captured. I did have a scary moment when I thought the screen was cracked but it turned out to be the support that goes up the screen for the rear view mirror...🤭 Not a bad attempt at wires. At least there are actual spokes , albeit with a solid black wheel behind them. The interior, such as it is, isn't too bad. Decent detail on the steering wheel at least. The convertible roof is a pretty good representation. With the roof up, I realised that with very little work at all, I will have another pretty good character car from the '70s BBC haulage company drama 'The Brothers'. To go with the Daytona yellow base Consul with sports wheels owned in the show by elder brother Ted, I now have the MGB owned by younger brother Dave, Change of number plate and we're good, I think. The base model Arrow series Minx owned by middle brother Brian may be more tricky without much modification of the Corgi rally Hunter... A quick trip to Tesco netted me these. No Sierra though, natch. I can see me having to get that bastard online.... Datsuncog, eddyramrod, RoadworkUK and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddyramrod Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 I'm so glad I'm not the only one who remembers The Brothers! Incidentally: Leyland Roadrunner? Done by Matchbox in their Superkings range, as a rigid with either four or six wheels; also IIRC as an artic unit. I have half a dozen or so, so it can't be exactly rare or expensive! AndyW201 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bicycle repairman Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 who rember the brother mcgregor 2 brothers running a car sales forcourt thought it was brill,2 scouser one white and one black love to watch it again rember ford anglia on forcourt i had one at time 80s show Shite Ron and AndyW201 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vantman Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 7 hours ago, eddyramrod said: I'm so glad I'm not the only one who remembers The Brothers! @eddyramrod I remember The Brothers as well! Some of it was shot locally to me in Hammonds Transport yard at Sittingbourne,they were a clearing house as well as transport operators and i done a few local jobs for them. They ran mainly AEC lorries from memory. eddyramrod and AndyW201 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddyramrod Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 11 minutes ago, bicycle repairman said: who rember the brother mcgregor 2 brothers running a car sales forcourt thought it was brill,2 scouser one white and one black love to watch it again rember ford anglia on forcourt i had one at time 80s show Yep, I remember that, Paul Barber and Philip Whitchurch. The brothers were dodgy as hell, but PW later turned up as a senior officer in The Bill! Shite Ron and bicycle repairman 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnoyingPentium Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 An Autobianchi A112 by Majorette that was yellow when I bought it. I did a shite respray with some "Chilli Red" spray paint without sanding the yellow off. So now it's bubbled up like shite rust. I didn't pay much for it either, so not all is lost. Haha. Sudsprint, Datsuncog, andrew e and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnoyingPentium Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 I also used to have a lot of then-contemporary Fiats (2005-2011) 1/43 models from when my Mum worked with Arnold Clark Fiat. They're all a bit abused but will look out the survivors. eddyramrod 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bezzabsa Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 this is the main one I want to recreate.. very few single axle no roof fairing models about!!! Vantman, AnnoyingPentium and eddyramrod 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datsuncog Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 Closest I can think of in 1/72 scale is a Hongwell Cararama... Shorter wheelbase and a smaller day cab than the Payne's one, sadly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew e Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 You should go the other way and go LARGE! https://www.modelsport.co.uk/product/0-427749 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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