Shite in Miniature II

[Datsuncog]

1 hour ago, 155V6 said:

I'm not sure that you do 🤔

Not sure now either - I had two of them, and I know I sold one on in 2018 or so (to you, I'll assume!) - think it was the one shown here left middle, with a dark green VW Beetle cabriolet on the back.

But I had another one, this time part of a bigger playset with the red RAV-4 load, and alongside a Mercedes Sprinter towing wagon, Mercedes Vito police van, barriers 'n' cones, ludicrously oversize figures etc - but I'm now not sure if I let that one go too!

Will have to get under the bed again and have an explore...

😬

[MiniMinorMk3]

31 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Interesting, I've seen both straight and angled pipes, maybe replacement rear boxes don't bother with the angle?

I'll have to look at my friend's 320 later this week although that's a really late cabrio

The 320i had a single outward projecting pipe

and the first 325i cars had bigger outward pointing pipes.

I think the straight out the back pipes came when they changed to the body coloured bumpers in 1987.

[eddyramrod]

4 hours ago, AndyW201 said:

Vanguards prices lately can often range from "ooh, bit salty that" to "How F****** Much M8?" but £18 posted for a NOS unopened boxed example isn't bad in this day and age.

I suppose it's all about perspective.  Where I stand £18 is very firmly HFM-land.

3 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

The Enforcer was 1976.  The Bel Airs used were 1974

Yes, I have to apologise for that, I only thought to look up the actual year this morning.  Doh.

[Justwatching]

1964 Plymouth Barracuda (Auto World). I think it's supposed to be a dealer display vehicle to demonstrate various colour options on the car. 

[bunglebus]

Progress on the ex-Baur BMW

This is what I'm trying to replicate

[AndyW201]

Well, the results are in,

The real car the model is based on does indeed have outward pointing pipes. It doesn't have the rear headrests the model has either. An absolute outrage!

[flat4alfa]

1 hour ago, eddyramrod said:

Yes, I have to apologise for that, I only thought to look up the actual year this morning.  Doh.

No apology required! After all, it gave me something to do, instead of moping about the place, eating crisps and cake

[flat4alfa]

1 hour ago, bunglebus said:

Progress on the ex-Baur BMW

This is what I'm trying to replicate

If you could make a few of those they would probably* sell well

The difference you have made to the basic Matchbox model 'look' is great

[bunglebus]

1 minute ago, flat4alfa said:

If you could make a few of those they would probably* sell well

Not if I charged an hourly rate! I drive myself mad trying to achieve perfection 

[andrew e]

You should post the hourly rate and I will see if I can hear @eddyramrod explode on the horizon 🤣

[andrew e]

Sorry Eddy, but things have not got expensive, but just followed inflation!

[flat4alfa]

1 hour ago, Justwatching said:

1964 Plymouth Barracuda (Auto World). I think it's supposed to be a dealer display vehicle to demonstrate various colour options on the car. 

Amazing 

It's to represent the 1965 Chrysler Canada campaign, to show there were more Barracuda colours available over Ford's Mustang

[flat4alfa]

The year before, NY ad agency Doyle Dane Bernbach emphasised parts availability/interchangeability for the VW, that we know so well

There must be a model of that somewhere

[Split_Pin]

6 hours ago, AndyW201 said:

Other festive diecast drop was this,

A long time ago, I got the Vanguards E30 325i M Tec 1, the spec I wanted it in, for what was a bargain price for one of those. 

I do try and avoid getting duplicates of the same castings nowadays (which I fail pretty miserably at), but the Plane tree green 323i is sufficiently different I think, to justify it!

Thanks to the way Corgi make Vanguards now, with separately made front and rear ends, and detachable sides for the moulds allowing for 2 or 4 door configurations, pre and facelift bumpers, bodykit and non bodykit options, it's possible to make both sporty and base versions of the same castings. I've been after this version for a while due to it's slightly batshit spec. 

The real car was specced up from new with the nippy 2.3 six pot motor with autobox, leccy windows, sliding sunroof,  Blaupunkt stereo and rear spoiler. But also with cloth trim and bare steel wheels with a gloriously OAP colour scheme of Planetree green with light green interior.

Just for @Split_Pin, some front and rear detail, nice pre 2001 number plate font.

Those sodding filled-in tailpipes though....

Just love it for the fact that they tooled up some base spec steel wheels just for this version.

A nice model, of pretty much an Autoshite spec E30. This came from an auto parts supplier on eBay I use from time to time, who sell quite a few diecasts on the side (it was this company I got all the cheap Opel dealer models from during lockdown). Vanguards prices lately can often range from "ooh, bit salty that" to "How F****** Much M8?" but £18 posted for a NOS unopened boxed example isn't bad in this day and age.

That looks ace, especially the front end. These close ups always give my bank balance a worry though!

That's how I remember E30s. I hope they do a 318i Touring in Alpine white one day, the same as my Dad's old one H913 NSF. He could have had that one with alloys, fogs and a radio or an absolute Bobby basic 518i.

[stuboy]

Missus got me a proton and a bond db5... no idea where she got the corgi from as don't look new...

[FakeConcern]

Dinky Beach Buggy is fuckin' MASSIVE Part2

I had a quick look around the summer house and picked a selection of buggies out to compare

L-R Corgi Juniors, Corgi, Corgi Bertone Shake Buggy, Tootsietoy, Matchbox Sand Cat, Tonka, Some random green one (my favourite) & Dinky

Mrs Concern has more examples of nearly all of them and a few others (Matchbox maybe?), but I couldn't be bothered hunting them out

The Dinky is clearly big

So my original analysis of fuckin' MASSIVE was correct!

[hennabm]

The 323i came with twin pipes and both angled and straight pipes were available. The angled pipes were more prevalent in Europe. Mine is a genuine BMW system and I have had the car since it was 4 years old. It has always straight pipes.

[quicksilver]

5 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

Not sure now either - I had two of them, and I know I sold one on in 2018 or so (to you, I'll assume!) - think it was the one shown here left middle, with a dark green VW Beetle cabriolet on the back.

But I had another one, this time part of a bigger playset with the red RAV-4 load, and alongside a Mercedes Sprinter towing wagon, Mercedes Vito police van, barriers 'n' cones, ludicrously oversize figures etc - but I'm now not sure if I let that one go too!

Will have to get under the bed again and have an explore...

😬

I can save you grovelling under the bed and say it's definitely not there. You sold that one too and I've got it here, still in the box with all the bits.

[bunglebus]

44 minutes ago, FakeConcern said:

 Tootsietoy

WANT

[Datsuncog]

16 hours ago, quicksilver said:

I can save you grovelling under the bed and say it's definitely not there. You sold that one too and I've got it here, still in the box with all the bits.

Daaah!

Looking back, it must have fallen victim to my emergency downsizing back in January 2022, when we put the house on the market and MrsDC was mildly* perturbed by the amount of diecast coming out of the attic, necessitating a sudden exodus of much of my collection... just found the pic of the stuff I offered out.

That's quite annoying. 

BUT there's a slim chance the market example might still be around when the market opens up again in the New Year... and you're quite right, at least now I don't have to go hoking around under the bed with increasing frustration because I can't locate said Cararama set...

[bunglebus]

Got a problem with the Matchbox BMW. The grille and headlights sit too far back inside the body. This is how it should be

All my other examples look like this - of course the one I've chosen has something wrong with it

You can see the front bumper is too far back and pokes into the wheel arch. Problem is the piece makes up the front bumper/grille, sills, interior sides and rear bumper. I've done a fair bit to it already removing the towbar, painting the inside and roof and detailing the grille - and I don't have another one anyway.

Hoping I can cut it somewhere and move the front forwards

[bunglebus]

In the mean time, how about this;

You can put auto-generated subtitles on. Check out the Skoda 110R and Estelle castings at 9:50!

[MiniMinorMk3]

2 hours ago, bunglebus said:

In the mean time, how about this;

You can put auto-generated subtitles on. Check out the Skoda 110R and Estelle castings at 9:50!

They are making these from the Tarmac Works range.

Tarmac Works Model Cars

[NorfolkNWeigh]

[bunglebus]

46 minutes ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

They are making these from the Tarmac Works range.

Tarmac Works Model Cars

I did have a look on there but couldn't see them, no search results for Skoda either. Hopefully they're so new as to not be on sale yet. 1:64 Skodas would be a great thing to find

[bunglebus]

Fixed

[danthecapriman]

23 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Fixed

Looks so much better like that.

[Split_Pin]

Grand job.

[MiniMinorMk3]

When tidying the dining table for the big dinner the other day I found some old catalogues at the bottom of the pile of forgotten paperwork.

Here's the first of a short series of scans that I will be posting over the next few days.

I know we have some fans of the old Danish manufacturer Tekno on here, so here's a full catalogue of their 1968-69 range.

Look at the concentration of those critical eyes checking out the trucks on the cover. 

Not only did Tekno show the features, they also showed what went into the models.

Teknos did not come with a tow hook, it came with the Sprite Musketeer to be attached to certain models in the range.

A nice selection of emergency vehicles.

And lots for fans of commercials.

They even did some aeroplanes.

The last few pages show some of the new and planned models that will be added to the range

And the rear cover shows two cars that will be joining the range.

[flat4alfa]

3 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Fixed

All it needs now is a side-exit exhaust, ahead of the rear wheels, to settle the argument