Shite in Miniature II

[155V6]

14 minutes ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Any more pics of the XR3i?

It's not an i after all,just an XR3

Shame about the bent axle 😕

These came in black too,I think I've got one but no idea where it is🤔.I'm not sure if these came with normal wheels,rather than the Carlos Fandango ones?

[155V6]

2 minutes ago, sierraman said:

I think this means I must go and get my Majorettes out. 

I think you should 👍

[sierraman]

[sierraman]

Particular favourite is the Renault 18 with the ‘windjammer’ you used to see used by caravan enthusiasts. 

[mitsisigma01]

Saab Gifferin 900 complete with unisex bedpan 😃

[Justwatching]

1939 Chevrolet panel van in 1:64 scale by Greenlight. They also made a 1:64 petrol station in the same Shell livery. Love the little details like the number plate. 

[bunglebus]

A couple more Majorettes with funk in the trunk

A couple of dudes and some rope(?) in the back of the Explorateur

And yet another patient in the VW ambulance

 

[bunglebus]

Which leads me neatly onto another VW diecast, this Kool Kombi

As you may recall my partner pinched my previous one and customised it, so I tracked this one down to do the same

It did cause me some grief with paint coming off after masking

I did my best to touch it in but I can still see it. Happy with the colour choice, it's my favourite sparkly silver with the clear blue stained glass window paint over the top.

Wheels are Real Riders borrowed from a Hot Wheels F1 car

 

[Split_Pin]

5 hours ago, 155V6 said:

A few more

Mustang SVO has a bag & shoes

Escort XR3i has an umbrella & bag

More tennis stuff in the Saab 900

Umbrella in the Renault Clio

Not sure what this is in the Fiat Tipo,a sword?

The winner for the amount of stuff must be this Amphibie 😀

Feck I looked into the Clio and the Tipo that I have and didn't see those! I also didn't know the 900 had luggage, I'll need to check mine when I get home.

[Split_Pin]

4 hours ago, sierraman said:

I think this means I must go and get my Majorettes out. 

In my head this has the tone of 'Jonny Nice Painter' from The Fast Show 😅

[bunglebus]

A couple of new 9 packs

[sierraman]

It’s annoying that many of the contents of the 9 packs are reissued mainline ones. Any sign of new stock in the singles? 

 

[bunglebus]

Nope still piles of airport tug things 

[bunglebus]

Just been in a Waitrose, not somewhere I normally shop but they do have Hot Wheels at a not-extortionate £1.79 each. They were pretty recent long cards but nothing I hadn't seen before

[bunglebus]

I'm on a work jolly to Peterborough this week, and the Hot Wheels hunting is pretty good. Found a Smyths with lots of stock, a Poundland that's finally got cars back on the pegs

Also checked out The Range, B&M and two Tescos that had some stock but not a lot. Then I went in Entertainer 

Think I may be taking a long lunch break today...

[juular]

I'm not massively into miniature shite, but my better half really has made my day with these.

I do like having models of cars I own/ have owned.

[tom13]

On 9/19/2022 at 9:17 AM, bunglebus said:

Another unfortunate in the Cherokee based Ambulance 

GUD BOI in the normal Cherokee with his bed etc

Majorette chose to chop him off at the feet later

Firefighters in the Range Rover

And the Lite Ace has the fishing rods and waders

The Golf has similar sports stuff to  the Ritmo

I have that yellow Cherokee and always wondered what the hell was going on in the back. Now I know thanks.

[Datsuncog]

Anyone for some Midweek Matchbox?

My long-term MB39 Toyota Supra, in its final 1985 release version.

I do kinda like this one, even if by this stage the corporate cost-cutting was starting to show - with plastic rather than metal bases, and slightly less crisp castings than might have been found on 1970s releases.

The opening boot with twin spoilers and the Supra badge is a nice touch, though.

And, although plastic, there's some good detail picked out on the base.

This is a model that was probably in development at the point of Lesney's bankruptcy, hence the UK number plate on the front (RWF161Y), but was only issued under Universal's ownership as a Macau-made toy, and only then for three catalogue years (1983/ 84/ 85).

Mine was bought as NOS from a fairly scummy newsagent in 1991 - it was loose in a beaten-up Matchbox display spinner in the shop window. I'd only noticed it because we had to walk between the school and the leisure centre for games lessons, and I saw it on the way past. It's now long closed, but Google Streetview still shows it operating in 2008:

The spinner was badly yellowed from UV exposure and only about a third full - and of the two dozen or so Matchbox toys therein, most were stuff that didn't interest me much, like tractors, boats, locomotives, and aircraft. It was one of these ones, with a cracked lid on top:

But there were three road cars in there... and, after a few weeks of ogling them through the dusty window, I plucked up enough courage to go in and buy them.

The guy in the shop was singularly uninterested, and initially seemed very reluctant to even come out from behind the cluttered counter to fetch them from the window display (such as it was).

When he eventually did so, with fairly bad grace, he snorted and laughed when I asked him if he also had the boxes for them (I was pretty sure they were stored in the middle of the spinner).

And then he charged me a pound each for them, which was rather more than I'd have paid for a new boxed Matchbox from Woolworths. But I paid up anyway; nearly a month's pocket money.

I think what surprises me most, in hindsight, was that I knew these were old, not the normal Matchbox toys I knew from my dog-eared catalogues and scouring toyshop shelves, and that I really wanted them.

But the Supra could only have been six years old, maximum; the R5 eight (last issued in this livery in 1983) and the Golf nine (1982 issue).

Would I be able to even identify a 2016 issue Matchbox these days?

I dunno. But maybe not surprisingly, my classmates were thoroughly unimpressed as buying toy cars at the age of 11 was seen as about the uncoolest thing anyone could do, when I could have been buying something worth bragging about like an Ugly Kid Joe cassette, a copy of Speedball 2 for the Commodore 64, or a stonewashed denim jacket.

Oh well. I still reckon I got the best of the deal, even if a few mishaps have occurred in the intervening thirty-odd years, leading to some paint damage.

I dunno why the axles are so rusty on this one, either. I'm pretty sure I'd long since stopped bringing my good models to the beach by this point.

Ah well. Memories, hey?

[Split_Pin]

Fantastic memories. I still maintain that the pound or so I spent on models was done so wisely as I still have many from my younger years. Most of my pal's purchases of sweets, clothes or latterly, booze, will be just dust in the wind now. 

...and the only expenditure in my teenage years on, god forbid, women, were posters for my bedroom wall (they are all long gone now, my wife wouldn't like them!)

[sierraman]

I’ve several Supras but they are hard to come by in good condition, the bootlid always ends up like it’s been chewed...

[RoadworkUK]

Huh. There's a Matchbox that I'm pretty sure I was previously unaware of. And very nice it is, too.

Also has me thinking that the next, A70 generation of Supra was rather unfairly overlooked as a diecast subject in pretty much any scale.  All I know of is a Hobby Japan 1:64 and a Hatchette 1:24, both of which are very spendy indeed.

 

[bunglebus]

Today was a good day, even with the bloke in Entertainer telling me someone had already been in to rummage through that morning's delivery (as if I couldn't tell). Still, lots of goodies were found. I'll apologise now for the pics, I've never yet found a hotel room with decent lighting for pictures

Black cars especially are a bitch to photograph in the blister - hopefully you can see the matt stripes. This thing looks really cool in person. 

Highlights for me are the 32 in Gulf colours (this is also the Super in this case), the recoloured Nissan Van and Beetle as well as that evil Nova.

I wouldn't normally buy the Cockney Cab but I was feeling patriotic after recent events

[sheffcortinacentre]

I'm sure I live in a different universe to you lot as no matter when or where I go hot wheels & matchbox are vertually unfindable.

Local Poundland this teatime still only seem to stock some kind of wooden myfist hot wheels type of thing.

While rest seem to have only a handful of unwanted orphans Tesco seems to have a few five packs.

Dunno why I bother checking.

[sierraman]

18 minutes ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

I'm sure I live in a different universe to you lot as no matter when or where I go hot wheels & matchbox are vertually unfindable.

Local Poundland this teatime still only seem to stock some kind of wooden myfist hot wheels type of thing.

While rest seem to have only a handful of unwanted orphans Tesco seems to have a few five packs.

Dunno why I bother checking.

Get thee sen to Tesco at Chesterfield usually a good selection or the Tesco on Wicker. Usually a half decent selection. 

[sheffcortinacentre]

That was one in wicker, I must go at wrong time.

[Datsuncog]

1 hour ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

Local Poundland this teatime still only seem to stock some kind of wooden myfist hot wheels type of thing.

That's all that the Poundlands round here have had for yonks - nothing in the way of Hot Wheels mainlines or specials, either new or older. They used to be really good for that.

Home Bargains can be decent, if there's any of those near you - it's where I found the drift 240 a few weeks ago (which is still available, if anyone fancies it).

Poundstretcher recently had a load of Matchbox releases from 2019 or thereabouts in cardboard boxes, but I haven't been back there for a while to see if there's any more...

[Bren]

9 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

Anyone for some Midweek Matchbox?

My long-term MB39 Toyota Supra, in its final 1985 release version.

I do kinda like this one, even if by this stage the corporate cost-cutting was starting to show - with plastic rather than metal bases, and slightly less crisp castings than might have been found on 1970s releases.

The opening boot with twin spoilers and the Supra badge is a nice touch, though.

And, although plastic, there's some good detail picked out on the base.

This is a model that was probably in development at the point of Lesney's bankruptcy, hence the UK number plate on the front (RWF161Y), but was only issued under Universal's ownership as a Macau-made toy, and only then for three catalogue years (1983/ 84/ 85).

Mine was bought as NOS from a fairly scummy newsagent in 1991 - it was loose in a beaten-up Matchbox display spinner in the shop window. I'd only noticed it because we had to walk between the school and the leisure centre for games lessons, and I saw it on the way past. It's now long closed, but Google Streetview still shows it operating in 2008:

The spinner was badly yellowed from UV exposure and only about a third full - and of the two dozen or so Matchbox toys therein, most were stuff that didn't interest me much, like tractors, boats, locomotives, and aircraft. It was one of these ones, with a cracked lid on top:

But there were three road cars in there... and, after a few weeks of ogling them through the dusty window, I plucked up enough courage to go in and buy them.

The guy in the shop was singularly uninterested, and initially seemed very reluctant to even come out from behind the cluttered counter to fetch them from the window display (such as it was).

When he eventually did so, with fairly bad grace, he snorted and laughed when I asked him if he also had the boxes for them (I was pretty sure they were stored in the middle of the spinner).

And then he charged me a pound each for them, which was rather more than I'd have paid for a new boxed Matchbox from Woolworths. But I paid up anyway; nearly a month's pocket money.

I think what surprises me most, in hindsight, was that I knew these were old, not the normal Matchbox toys I knew from my dog-eared catalogues and scouring toyshop shelves, and that I really wanted them.

But the Supra could only have been six years old, maximum; the R5 eight (last issued in this livery in 1983) and the Golf nine (1982 issue).

Would I be able to even identify a 2016 issue Matchbox these days?

I dunno. But maybe not surprisingly, my classmates were thoroughly unimpressed as buying toy cars at the age of 11 was seen as about the uncoolest thing anyone could do, when I could have been buying something worth bragging about like an Ugly Kid Joe cassette, a copy of Speedball 2 for the Commodore 64, or a stonewashed denim jacket.

Oh well. I still reckon I got the best of the deal, even if a few mishaps have occurred in the intervening thirty-odd years, leading to some paint damage.

I dunno why the axles are so rusty on this one, either. I'm pretty sure I'd long since stopped bringing my good models to the beach by this point.

Ah well. Memories, hey?

I remember Farnworth post office in Widnes - they had a superfast display in the window like the one I have - it was hammered by the sun and yellower than a spicehead's teeth. It was filled with obsolete 1-75. I used to pass by on the bus from school wishing I could have MB55 - the cortina.

[Split_Pin]

Asda in Cumbernauld usually seem to have a good selection. The nearby Tesco only seems to have a supply dropped every 3 or 4 months though. Irritatingly there are 2 Kadetts there, which I could not find when they came out. The Entertainer used to be good however they've reduced their display and haven't had anything new for many months now. I usually leave with at least a fistful of cars each time.

 

[bunglebus]

4 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

Asda

Thanks for the reminder - found an Asda. Good news - both singles and 5 packs are on offer

I spent a while looking through both cars but couldn't find any I wanted

[Datsuncog]

Mail call.

Any guesses?