Shite in Miniature II

[egg]

That was quick! Looks alright.

 

I 'forced' JM to buy a Norev today too

 

If it is any consolation, I've just blown my Christmas money on a couple of models that should be on the way from France soon.

[Frogchod]

If you spot any other Dyanes feel free to egg me on

I can feel another transporter coming .

There's a few goodies on eBay.fr at the mo, I'm bidding on a few One's not a Citroen shocker...

[Junkman]

Egg est un grand filou!

 

I was hardly finished to unpack this new arrival, bought without his - errr - assistance, when he contacted me and coaxed me into buying some more broken Norev chod at this insane exchange rate courtesy of some stupid twats at Whitehall.

 

 

 

[egg]

Right wheels, stickers, functioning doors. Manifique!

[Junkman]

In my selfless quest to save© the fucking Oceans, thus making this shitty Planet® better for its dumbfuck inhabitants so they can pollute my air with their stupid horseshit, I helped to balance the Trumpistanian trade deficit.




Basically this is a box full of 1/25 drag racing equipment from the golden era of the sport.




The idea is that you can build two complete cars.




The plethora of parts allows you to combine them manifold.




I needed the kit mainly for the Topolino body and the early Hemi it contains, since I want to build a replica of the
Bradford Brothers's Fuel Altered, my second favourite drag racing car of all time.

 

[Junkman]

Right wheels, stickers, functioning doors, broken rear suspension. Merde!

 

FTFY

[Felly Magic]

Shite van man. Ex McCulla. Lost count of how many times people azked me fir a plain white Trandit, Corgi wouldhave shifted loads.

 

This is the 1980s toy casting with mirrors, etched wipets, and rear doors sealed shut with no windows

 

[Junkman]

Cheers Egg, I'll bear it in mind.....

 

Eddy - there used to be a toy fair at Buxton sometime in the spring, don't know if they still happen.....

 

 

I think so, I’ve been a few times. Seemed a mix of rare stuff at reasonable price and old tat priced at silly money.

 

 

http://barrypotterfairs.com/events.php

 

http://barrystocktonfairs.co.uk/

[junkyarddog]

Hot wheels did a decent Fiat dragster!

 

[Junkman]

Nice!

Not a Top Fueler though, see eggsorsts.

[Mr A Lawrence]

Today's charidee shop £1 purchase....

 

This was the diamond in the rough!!

 

 

Worth a quid!

[59Impala]

Wrong eBay UK seller then obvs

 

In other miniature news, (and also Death On The High St news) today was the final day of trading for St Martins Models in that there London after 50 something years.

Good. I say that as the shop that you refer to is a pale imitation of the real St Martins Models that was in St Martins Lane where I was a regular customer and then glamourous sales assistant on Saturday for about three years. When my friends closed that shop due mainly to stupid rent and business rates increases the imitation opened up around the corner. I say imitation as the owner copied the name, colour scheme and logo so people thought it was the same business. It was pointed out to him that in fact the older business was still trading as mail order only to which he responded with some vehemence and threats. Hopefully he's lost a packet as he's a complete bellend. 

[quicksilver]

Today's charidee shop £1 purchase....

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This was the diamond in the rough!!

 

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Worth a quid!

You found a near-mint EFE in a bag of random crap for a quid? Jammy sod, the cheapest one of those on ebay is £12.50.

[mercrocker]

You gotta keep lookin'! 

 

 

So far, charity shop clear bags of crap Chinese toys have yielded me a perfect uncracked Corgi Land Rover breakdown canopy, still with spotlamp, the original figures from the Corgi Ghia Fiat Jolly and the Matchbox Honda bike that goes on the trailer.

[sierraman]

Any interest in this Micro Machines house? Missing the chimney on the end but still has the bloke sat on the sunbed and the bbq. £6 posted?

[155V6]

Could I have that please?

[Burnside]

As I'm suppose to be reducing my model vehicles due to a lack of space. I did what any sensible person would do and went to my local Toy Fair Sunday. Was hoping to get some 1:43 models but nothing took my fancy so I went rummaging through the boxes of cheap mixed models / toys instead.

 

 

 

 

This one is my favourite, think it's a Mazda pickup made by possibly Playart? Though it's been inflicted with some vandalism to the paintwork and also has a identity crises with the Ford logo into the mix. I'll give them AS points for lashing on a Matchbox Towbar with glue mind.

 

 

 

 

[Split_Pin]

That's a Mazda B1800. I have the Corgi 1/36 scale version.

[Burnside]

Thank's Split_Pin I thought it might be the same model as the Corgi version. Instead of going to bed like I should have last night. I spent some time undoing some of the vandalism inflicted as it was bothering me.

 

 

 

 

Pretty pleased with that as the paintwork has hardly any chips. Result!

[155V6]

Today's charity shop finds.Not really my thing,but couldn't leave them for 50p each   .Combine needs a tyre,might have to go back & see if it's in the box.

 

[Split_Pin]

I have that LR/Rice Combo, it was my dad's.

[Junkman]

I'd pay 50p each for the Landy and Rice box.

[junkyarddog]

Absolute bargain there!

Great find.

[mercrocker]

Very very nice find....that M-F is peach but the Landy outfit is the correct original gift set pairing.....Well bought!

[Christine]

A friend wants ... NEO model 45380 Vatanen   Fiesta .. anyone ?

 

[Datsuncog]

Took a quick turn through St George's Market in Belfast this morning, to procure some scones for a team coffee morning...

Of course, on the way back out I walked past THIS lot

HNNNNGGG...

Mostly smashed-up Superfasts and Corgi Juniors, to be fair, and a lot of the regular-wheel Lesneys were either badly painted with Humbrols or lacking glazing, roofs etc but still - HNNNNGGGG

To make matters worse, I only had £1.35 in my pocket after buying the scones, and no ATM for miles...

So regretfully, I had to leave these four - Husky Bedford TK, Majorette Citroen DS Ambulance, Zylmex Datsun Pickup and Majorette Saab 900

BUT I did find this pair irresistable:

Mira Citroen CX 2400 Pallas

Not bad overall nick, although the glazing is annoyingly cracked - but it's mostly just dirty. Looks a pretty detailed casting, and I may remove the tatty Centro Medico decals as I think they detract rather than add to it.

And a Lone Star 'Impy' Range Rover, which is a new one on me:

The broken rear axle mount can be bodged (I've previously used cut-up strips of old bank cards with some success) and it looks a much more accurate casting of the Mk1 Rangie than either of the Matchbox and Corgi versions.

I know I promised to curb my opportunistic diecast hoovering, but I'm proper pleased with these. Though it goes without saying, if anyone on here wants them then I'll be delighted to rehome them for cost of postage only...

[eddyramrod]

If you really want a DS ambulance, look no further   I unpacked one the other day.  Anything else you fancy?

[Datsuncog]

On 1/11/2019 at 11:31 AM, eddyramrod said:

If you really want a DS ambulance, look no further   I unpacked one the other day.  Anything else you fancy?

Heh, cheers but to be honest I'd only have picked up the DS Ambulance to offer out on here anyway!

I had a massive bucket of Matchbox sized stuff which I sold through here last year; I only kept those toys I felt really attached to from my childhood (so a good couple of hundred). All the more recent acquisitions have been admired for a short time then disposed of - what I really collect is more recent 1/43 stuff, but somedays (today) I just can't help myself...

 

The fella at the same stall did have a 1/43 Opel Calibra, though... so I might have to slip back at lunchtime...

[junkyarddog]

If you really want a DS ambulance, look no further   I unpacked one the other day.  Anything else you fancy?

What sort of condition is it in Eddy?

 

I've been looking for a decent one for ages.

Or indeed any other nice(ish)condition majorette,thanks.

[Datsuncog]

Well, I went back to the market at lunchtime.

Obviously.

Because I am an imbecile, I was actually surprised that my plum finds, that ones that I'd photographed and then left right on top of the heap, were now gone. Gone!

I just don't think strategically at all. I should have buried them right at the bottom if I thought there was any chance I might come back for them, but no. This is why I am very, very easy to beat at chess.

A bit of hoking did however uncover the aforementioned Datsun 620 Pickup by Zylmex, in pretty clean condition and complete with rear canopy - even if the wheels are a bit rubbish and it's not quite as good a rendering of the 620 as Hot Wheels' more recent offering.

There was quite a lot of plasticky no-name Far Eastern crap in the boxes, the kind I used to wheedle my parents into buying me from 50p shops back in the day, so it's probably not surprising it was overlooked as it's NOT Matchbox/Corgi/Majorette/HotWheels/Siku M8. The fact this was still priced at 50p nearly forty years on probably says a lot.

This oddity had also came under my notice earlier: a 1982 Dodge Aries K-series sedan, that looks like some sort of Greenlight/Johnny Lightning 'adult collectible' model.

There's no maker indicated underneath, beyond '© DCC 2007', so if that means anything to anyone, do let me know. Daimler Chrysler Company mebbe? Something about DC Comics, even? Is this Batman's WBOD?

I bought this principally because it's screwed together rather than riveted, and may make a reasonably straightforward resto project whenever I get a workbench set up in the new shed, since it's worth bog-all but might look presentable enough with a fresh coat of paint.

 

I'd seen the bare shell of an MB57 Trailer Caravan in one of the boxes earlier, and discarded it as just another broken/ incomplete Matchbox, but only when I looked more closely at the pictures after uploading did I realise that the interior was also kicking around loose:

So I found the shell again, and located the interior and then - what's this? - well well, the roof was also in there, way down the bottom among the loose wheels and trailers or indeterminate manufacture.

Voilá! A complete caravan. There seems to be superglue or something on the roof, but hey.

There were two later 70's Superfast caravans and a Corgi Jrs caravan also in there, and I nearly bought the lot - possibly with the vague intention of making my fortune through setting up a holiday park for bluebottles - but managed to restrain myself.

 

What I didn't resist was this messy-looking Corgi Juniors Volvo 245DL.

No, it's not an especially good model, and yes, I already have one in my nostalgia box (in red), but there's a curious tale here.

When I was about four, I had a dream that I was at the swings in the local park, when some men came along and started digging a hole right in front of the swings area. Then I realised that they were filling the hole with toy cars, intending to cover it back over again.

I became enraged and upset, and tried to get them to stop doing this, but they kept chasing me away. Eventually I managed to dodge them and grabbed two of the cars out of the hole, before running away.

I suddenly awoke, confused, and for some reason thought that I still had the cars in my hand - I could feel them - and then couldn't understand why I didn't. Which caused more upset, and frantic searching under the bedclothes, before I made the connection that no matter how much I wanted it, I couldn't take things out of dreams with me.

One of the cars was a cream Corgi Volvo estate. The other was a yellow Matchbox Datsun 126X. Finally, I have my cream Volvo estate, 35 years on.

Who says dreams don't come true?