Shite in Miniature II

[155V6]

I'm after Mercedes SLK models,the 1st version.If anyone has anything they don't want,please let me know.

I know there's a few Hotwheels versions,I'd be especially keen to get the black one.Also,any 1/43 would be good.Larger ones may still be good,although I don't really have the space for them 🤔

Thanks

[FakeConcern]

5 minutes ago, 155V6 said:

I'm after Mercedes SLK models,the 1st version.If anyone has anything they don't want,please let me know.

I know there's a few Hotwheels versions,I'd be especially keen to get the black one.Also,any 1/43 would be good.Larger ones may still be good,although I don't really have the space for them 🤔

Thanks

I have a NewRay about 1/32

I think I have a yellow one too

[flat4alfa]

Doris has this Banana Benz SLK

Made by Speedy Power in 1:32 scale

She takes it out to balmy evening BBQs 

[bunglebus]

I've been rummaging in the loft, with the intention of following through with my idea of unboxing various Hot Wheels premiums and putting them on display.

There are some

I didn't include any VW ones. It's actually quite terrifying how many I found, I think there are a few I'm not really that bothered about so I'll chuck those up for sale, and I'll check the value of the more unusual ones before I go ripping into the packaging. 

Just trying to locate my brave pills...

 

[Zie]

Sums up my hunting for the last couple of weeks. 

[Nibbler]

On 18/01/2024 at 11:34, Tenmil Socket said:

Just spotted this Majorette Toyota on eBay... I'd forgotten all about this casting.

I love them! Here is mine. 

[bunglebus]

I found an Easter Egg

The manhole cover is an early Hot Wheels wheel...

[MiniMinorMk3]

6 hours ago, 155V6 said:

I'm after Mercedes SLK models,the 1st version.If anyone has anything they don't want,please let me know.

I know there's a few Hotwheels versions,I'd be especially keen to get the black one.Also,any 1/43 would be good.Larger ones may still be good,although I don't really have the space for them 🤔

Thanks

The Herpa one in 1/43rd is quite good. You might find some cheap on Ebay as I have never found them easy to move on for more than a fiver.

Also found in dealer boxes.

They all come with hard tops.

[MiniMinorMk3]

I've made a start on the Record/Solido R5 Turbo.

The car is the Garage Galtier Renault 5 Turbo as driven by Bruno Saby and Jean-Marc Andrié on the 1981 Lombard RAC Rally. Yes the same entrant and driver of the blue R5 I did the other week. The car did not finish the rally due to a crash on Special Stage 11.

I found a good selection of pictures on the web. I even found a bit of old 8mm film on the YouTube.

So what's in the box.

A car with sellotape on the bottom?

Some decals with only one that looks like it will be a problem. It's the one that goes up the windscreen pillars, along the roof sides and over the rear spoiler. All the others are just small little ones that kind of go on flat surfaces. No decals for the front and rear lighting, so I'll have to dig out some orange Humbrol for those.

Very basic instructions.

Why the sellotape? We have some little resin cast spot lights and mirrors.

No holes in the model for these parts, but they can be fitted approximately using the ridges in the bumper and the corners of the window openings. Just a pit there are no little Cibie decals to go on the fronts of the spots, looks like it's going to be black backs with silver painted lenses.

So lets get started. I thought I'd jump in the deep end and tackle that roof decal. It broke into four parts as soon as it hit the water.  It also reacted quite a lot with the MicroSol. I did get some reaction when doing the Lancia with the MicroSol, but it does level out after drying.

It just looks bad at the moment. Well I'll leave it for now and start again tommorrow when it has had a good 18 hours to dry out. Obviously the white Humbrol will be out again to touch up the bad areas and the screen pillar edges.

[bunglebus]

DONE

[bunglebus]

Also, I acquired Sikus

Ferrari Berlinetta

There's a second one that has plastic headlights rather than cast in

Merc SL is the first car I've seen on this scale with tilting seats

Police Porker

I've got a Toronado already - did the normally staid Germans get caught up in Hot Wheels fever? Can't see why else they started putting coloured windows in

Talking of which, one of the red VW crew cabs without the yellow glazing

And a different version

There were a couple of big boys too

[MiniMinorMk3]

9 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Also, I acquired Sikus

Ferrari Berlinetta

There's a second one that has plastic headlights rather than cast in

 

Those Ferraris look a bit flat.

[bunglebus]

Bloody kids have probably stood on them

[blakey79]

5 hours ago, Nibbler said:

I love them! Here is mine. 

What other colours did they come in ?

[flat4alfa]

[FakeConcern]

In Brighton today

Junk shop find for Mrs Concern, says Buddy on the base, no idea what it is

but it's cute

Market stall £5 Corgi Jag Mk1

I got a repainted one last week and was thinking I should repaint it in the same lemon colour as I like it, but now I can do it any colour and keep this

Last time I was in Brighton a chap in a tpy shop told me of charity shop that has tat cheap, I asked him again today as I couldn't remember where, he told me but said he went there yesterday and it was "slim pickins" so I didn't expect much. I got a couple of small ones for 50p each to rob parts off and gthen found this in the plastic toys box for £1

All intact including glazing!

Also got this as I know @bunglebus likes any Beetle stuff, you probably already have several haha

Don't worry if you don't want it!

Edit; I forgot to say I saw this in Snoopers, I've never seen it before

also this Panhard  anyone know what model it is?

Edit again; I think the Panhard is a Norev like this

I wish I'd bought it now...

[bunglebus]

Saint Jaguar is cool.

"Buddy" is a Buddy L, similar to Tonka

[junkyarddog]

20 minutes ago, FakeConcern said:

also this Panhard  anyone know what model it is?

Plastic Norev,same as the red Renault Van behind it.

[outlaw118]

35 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Saint Jaguar is cool.

Bro' definitely had one as a kid. Might be in one of the many boxes I've still got to go through, although he took a load of stuff from mother's and flogged them before he went to lanzarote.

[MiniMinorMk3]

Well I dug the old paint tin out of the cupboard, time to revive some old enamels.

On the R5 I first cleaned up the decal removing bits that had gone where they shouldn't

This also caused a bit of loss on the correct bits.

Looks OK from the top. I even managed to get the screen pillars done without getting the edge of the screen.

Looks good from the front. I have also done a bit of orange and silver superdetail on the lamps.

Left side looked OK when I had done it, but photographs show up all the iffy bits, including an big orange finger print. My impatient 7 year old is back again doing things without realising they have a bit of orange paint on their finger after reviving the old orange for the indicators. It has since been removed with a bit of thinners along with the bit of white on the door frame.

Right side is OK but again a little cleaning on door frames is required. 

Rear with detailing. The rear spoiler is OK when not magnified by photography. Those rear reflectors look pants, but a quick wipe has seen to them, luckily they are recessed so the red stays in the gap. Once the paint has dried it will be on with the decals.

[bunglebus]

Slim pickings at the slightly damp boot sale, not helped by some bloke nabbing a load of 60s Corgis right in front of me

Hot Wheels Fiero

Unusual pink Road Dragster

And this, which I've seen on the same stall a couple of times, and I think is the same one I regretted not picking up several years ago from the young lad who's often there. Quite an unusual version of the K-7 Refuse Truck, which I guess must have come with a tool to insert into the nose, turning that lifts the tipping mechanism and pushes the jack under the front down

[bunglebus]

K-7 is from the "Big MX" range from the early 70s, a series of six King Size vehicles that came with a "power activator" which looks like a drill

Designed by Marvin Glass, the company that brought us Mouse Trap, Operation, Rock'em Sock'em Robots, the Evel Knievel ripcord bikes and even the chattering false teeth practical jokes

https://mikepigottsdiecasttoysandmodels.wordpress.com/2018/09/28/matchbox-big-m-x/

[Dick Longbridge]

19 minutes ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Well I dug the old paint tin out of the cupboard, time to revive some old enamels.

On the R5 I first cleaned up the decal removing bits that had gone where they shouldn't

This also caused a bit of loss on the correct bits.

Looks OK from the top. I even managed to get the screen pillars done without getting the edge of the screen.

Looks good from the front. I have also done a bit of orange and silver superdetail on the lamps.

Left side looked OK when I had done it, but photographs show up all the iffy bits, including an big orange finger print. My impatient 7 year old is back again doing things without realising they have a bit of orange paint on their finger after reviving the old orange for the indicators. It has since been removed with a bit of thinners along with the bit of white on the door frame.

Right side is OK but again a little cleaning on door frames is required. 

Rear with detailing. The rear spoiler is OK when not magnified by photography. Those rear reflectors look pants, but a quick wipe has seen to them, luckily they are recessed so the red stays in the gap. Once the paint has dried it will be on with the decals.

Which manufacturer produced that R5? 

[bunglebus]

It seems I already have one of the Big MX  range, the K-15 Merryweather Fire Engine

It doesn't look much different to the normal version but there's the drive for the ladder sticking out of the back.

And it came with a twin

Think I sold these in my recent purge though

[MiniMinorMk3]

7 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Which manufacturer produced that R5? 

It's a Solido that was reboxed with decals by Record.

[Datsuncog]

On 20/01/2024 at 15:57, MiniMinorMk3 said:

I've made a start on the Record/Solido R5 Turbo.

The car is the Garage Galtier Renault 5 Turbo as driven by Bruno Saby and Jean-Marc Andrié on the 1981 Lombard RAC Rally. Yes the same entrant and driver of the blue R5 I did the other week. The car did not finish the rally due to a crash on Special Stage 11.

I found a good selection of pictures on the web. I even found a bit of old 8mm film on the YouTube.

So what's in the box.

A car with sellotape on the bottom?

Some decals with only one that looks like it will be a problem. It's the one that goes up the windscreen pillars, along the roof sides and over the rear spoiler. All the others are just small little ones that kind of go on flat surfaces. No decals for the front and rear lighting, so I'll have to dig out some orange Humbrol for those.

Very basic instructions.

Why the sellotape? We have some little resin cast spot lights and mirrors.

No holes in the model for these parts, but they can be fitted approximately using the ridges in the bumper and the corners of the window openings. Just a pit there are no little Cibie decals to go on the fronts of the spots, looks like it's going to be black backs with silver painted lenses.

So lets get started. I thought I'd jump in the deep end and tackle that roof decal. It broke into four parts as soon as it hit the water.  It also reacted quite a lot with the MicroSol. I did get some reaction when doing the Lancia with the MicroSol, but it does level out after drying.

It just looks bad at the moment. Well I'll leave it for now and start again tommorrow when it has had a good 18 hours to dry out. Obviously the white Humbrol will be out again to touch up the bad areas and the screen pillar edges.

I had a fair few Solido releases as a kid, which came with waterslide transfers - it was a huge source of frustration to me, as they just wouldn't go on cleanly, and always ended up lifting and cracking. The Triumph Spitfire with the large yellow transfer on the bonnet is the one the springs to mind most readily:

I just assumed I was really shit at putting on transfers, and became quite disheartened. I'd similar issues with Bburago 1/24 kits (Lancia Delta and Alfa 75), though not really with Scalextric models.

Looking at it again, I really had no hope trying to get a flat decal to adhere to the compound curves of a bonnet, with only a saucer of lukewarm water. I'd no idea at the time that specialist softeners existed, or products like DecalFix.

In a way, it's something of a vindication to learn that I wasn't the only one finding this challenging!

[flat4alfa]

18 hours ago, FakeConcern said:

Junk shop find for Mrs Concern, says Buddy on the base, no idea what it is

but it's cute

Definitely Buddy-L.  You should see the 'L' on the underneath next to 'Buddy', with 'Made in Japan' below that.

It's missing the tail and has borked steering wheel which also held the ears in place

They made a few animal types

Some had horns to get your eye out

There were also other non-animal series including flags and other designs 

[barrett]

18 hours ago, FakeConcern said:

Edit again; I think the Panhard is a Norev like this

 

I wish I'd bought it now...

That's been there forever. It'll definitely still be there next time! If you want to haggle on the price, that stall is run by the young-ish French guy who looks straight outta Mai '68.

What's the 'good' chazza shop then? I don't really look at toys when I visit, but would be nice to know where it's worth checking in future...

[FakeConcern]

44 minutes ago, barrett said:

That's been there forever. It'll definitely still be there next time! If you want to haggle on the price, that stall is run by the young-ish French guy who looks straight outta Mai '68.

What's the 'good' chazza shop then? I don't really look at toys when I visit, but would be nice to know where it's worth checking in future...

I've seen it before in Snoopers, but I've only just recently got a couple of plastic Norevs and found I really like them! Having looked on ebay the price doesn't seem bad and I know from experience that Snoopers won't usually do discount on anything under £10 no matter what you say.

The toy shop that has old tat is in Trafalgar St (North Laine) and called The Play House.

The charity shop is Chesnut Tree House in London Road.

[Split_Pin]

20 hours ago, FakeConcern said:

In Brighton today

Junk shop find for Mrs Concern, says Buddy on the base, no idea what it is

but it's cute

Market stall £5 Corgi Jag Mk1

I got a repainted one last week and was thinking I should repaint it in the same lemon colour as I like it, but now I can do it any colour and keep this

Last time I was in Brighton a chap in a tpy shop told me of charity shop that has tat cheap, I asked him again today as I couldn't remember where, he told me but said he went there yesterday and it was "slim pickins" so I didn't expect much. I got a couple of small ones for 50p each to rob parts off and gthen found this in the plastic toys box for £1

All intact including glazing!

Also got this as I know @bunglebus likes any Beetle stuff, you probably already have several haha

Don't worry if you don't want it!

Edit; I forgot to say I saw this in Snoopers, I've never seen it before

also this Panhard  anyone know what model it is?

Edit again; I think the Panhard is a Norev like this

I wish I'd bought it now...

Yes it's a Norev, I was given one by the proprietor of an antique shop I visit as he didn't know what to do with it. Neither do I!