Shite in Miniature II

[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, 155V6 said:

I think they had hose wheels because they had pins on them to operate the mixer drum,like Matchbox Rolamatics.

So there is!

[Justwatching]

1992 and 1993 Ford Crown Victoria. Both in 1:64 scale by Greenlight. The '92 is on the left in LAPD livery and incorportates Ford's (at the time) new design language which debuted in the Taurus. Perhaps they copied the design a bit too closely as the Crown Vic was treated to facelift just one year after launch, apparently to better differentiate it from the Taurus. It's fairly subtle - nose and tail. 

I really like grey body red interior combination. Just don't see that anymore. Modern interiors are very dull. 

[Remspoor]

18 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Those with very keen eyes might have spotted the book top left in this pic, which contains the infamous image of the mystery car. Not worth £4 just to own a copy though

I have that book. Maybe time I revisited it.

[bunglebus]

Contain yourselves folks. Only £4 on the vInTaGe cOlleCtiblES 

[Datsuncog]

Today's laptop ornament: Tomica No.28 Nissan Cedric 2800SGL Taxi.

I sold off the vast majority of my Tomica a few years back - but there were a couple I held back. This is one of them.

Base is oddly dulled compared to the others I had, but still - a very nice model.

I believe the basic casting was introduced to the range in the early 1970s, and continued to be produced in this taxi livery until the early 1980s even though the standard sedan had by that time been replaced in Tomica's lineup.

Dunno why I like this one so much - I just do!

[Split_Pin]

Mitsubishi Carismas were recently mentioned elsewhere on AS and I recalled a nearby example Y266GFB just clinging onto what looks like it's last MOT.

I checked to see if a model of the real car had been made and Vitesse made one in the mid 1990s.

A tenner give or take from ebay and it arrived today. I love these classically 90s issues as they're clearly models but they still have opening features. Right from when the real car, in Phase 1 guise was current.

Vitesse also did a great job on the 90s seat patterns on their models:

Super 1990s in every way!

[Datsuncog]

Loving that Carisma - Vitesse did some cracking contemporary models in the '90s.

I didn't really warm to them at the time (I was still drooling over Corgi Classics) but nowadays they're well worth a look.

These three were waved off to pastures new in January.

I think only the Mégane Classic had opening bits (front doors) though - even if the shut lines are a bit prominent, they're still quite charming.

[Split_Pin]

I have 3 of those Meganes, the above Classic and 2 hatchbacks in the same burgundy as my old one. Very 'of their time'. 

The opening parts are a strange one if only a few models had this feature.

[Split_Pin]

44 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

Today's laptop ornament: Tomica No.28 Nissan Cedric 2800SGL Taxi.

I sold off the vast majority of my Tomica a few years back - but there were a couple I held back. This is one of them.

Base is oddly dulled compared to the others I had, but still - a very nice model.

I believe the basic casting was introduced to the range in the early 1970s, and continued to be produced in this taxi livery until the early 1980s even though the standard sedan had by that time been replaced in Tomica's lineup.

Dunno why I like this one so much - I just do!

Tomicas are almost always great to play with and study. They're just as tactile as the CX.

I have all but 2 of the ex @Datsuncog  collection. The exceptions are the Mitsubishi Canter Truck (I felt it didn't quite fit in with the rest) and the Toyota Corolla Levin (I did not like the plastic base) which both found new homes via eBay. The remainder are in my permanent collection alongside my 1/24 Bburagos and Polistils and will never be sold!

[AnnoyingPentium]

Was in Tesco in Ayr today spending money I don't really have... someone had clearly already raided the Hot Wheels and Matchbox supply but I liked this wee bastard.

[bunglebus]

I have one in the customising pile, cool little truck. Think it needs to look something like this

[bunglebus]

Talking of customising, Hot Wheels Dimachinni Veloce needed the treatment. Puts me in mind of the DeTomaso Pantera and other similar era sports cars

Detailed the interior, not that you can see it. You also can't really tell that I painted the rear lights with clear red on the inside

There's a purple pearl over the red but it doesn't show up on camera, especially as it's overcast today. Shows up better under the LEDs

[500tops]

Until this morning I am fairly sure I had never clicked this thread... But somehow I have lost 3 or 4 hours this afternoon enjoying the posts and taking a nice trip down memory lane. 

 

After work I shot straight to the local charity shops to see if there was anything worth liberating... 

I'll let you decide 😂

 

 

 

[Datsuncog]

2 minutes ago, 500tops said:

I'll let you decide 😂

Well worth it!

Hopefully you weren't stung too much - that Corgi Juniors SD1 is well worth having, and the pink-and-white Majorette 405 isn't common in that shade.

I've a guilty liking for crude no-names like the Lancia Stratos too.

Nice to have you on board for minishite; just be careful of the Slippery Slope...

[Remspoor]

How many variants can one manufacture make from one vehicle?

Corgi's Karrier Batam.

Circus Booking

Mobile shop.

Then with a box van we have.

Milk.

Lucozade.

I never had the snack bar or the open-sided truck.

[bunglebus]

2 hours ago, 500tops said:

I'm working on a Maisto bug at the moment- just not that one 

[155V6]

6 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

Tomicas are almost always great to play with and study. They're just as tactile as the CX.

I have all but 2 of the ex @Datsuncog  collection. The exceptions are the Mitsubishi Canter Truck (I felt it didn't quite fit in with the rest) and the Toyota Corolla Levin (I did not like the plastic base) which both found new homes via eBay. The remainder are in my permanent collection alongside my 1/24 Bburagos and Polistils and will never be sold!

Some of my Tomicas(and a pig!)Some of these are from the @Datsuncog collection too 😀

[155V6]

The Majorette Citroen I mentioned yesterday with the odd wheels.I think the boat in the background may have come from @Datsuncog many years ago 😎

[155V6]

Miss_155 rung me last week.She said she'd got me some cars from the charity shop she volunteers at sometimes,but that I might not like them all.I wasn't sure what to expect 🤔

First were these Yesteryears,not my sort of thing,although I do quite like the Packard

Next was this Corgi Mini,I do quite like these but this one has had a hard life

The best came last though,it was this Corgi Lotus Elan

It's in just the sort of condition I like them in,although the tyres had turned rock hard & were crumbling

I had this one I got last year,I'd bought it a new set of tyres,a driver,& a screen which I haven't fitted yet

Five minutes later,& I have this one.It's one of my favourite finds this year 😁

 

[w00dy]

Couple more additions since I clearly have some catching up to do. At the moment they all live on my desk. Must try harder.

 

 

 

 

[sheffcortinacentre]

7 hours ago, bunglebus said:

I have one in the customising pile, cool little truck. Think it needs to look something like this

Looks like an Essex V6 in that.

[Metal Guru]

I grew up with Corgi, Dinky , Matchbox and Hot Wheels, but my son had virtually all Burago. , mostly 1:43, and some 1:18.

No one seems to mention them here. Why? Are they shite or what?  I think the 1:18 models are pretty good.

[Split_Pin]

You've obviously not noticed 50% of my posts in here! I love Bburagos although I prefer the older 1/24 castings from the 70s, 80s, and 90s.

The 1/18s are nice but they don't quite have the nostalgia of other models as they were sold as static display pieces and tended to survive better than the smaller ones which had more play value and therefore fell to bits (and are rarer as a result).

[w00dy]

7 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

I grew up with Corgi, Dinky , Matchbox and Hot Wheels, but my son had virtually all Burago. , mostly 1:43, and some 1:18.

No one seems to mention them here. Why? Are they shite or what?  I think the 1:18 models are pretty good.

I used to have a decent number of 1:18s (mostly Bburago) as a lad, but nowadays I wouldn't spend that sort of money  or want anything that took up that much space.

Think my first was a red Viper RT10. I've loved 3 spoke wheels ever since.

 

 

[AnnoyingPentium]

4 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

You've obviously not noticed 50% of my posts in here! I love Bburagos although I prefer the older 1/24 castings from the 70s, 80s, and 90s.

The 1/18s are nice but they don't quite have the nostalgia of other models as they were sold as static display pieces and tended to survive better than the smaller ones which had more play value and therefore fell to bits (and are rarer as a result).

Love Bburago. Especially the wee Fiat ones. Had Tipos and Unos as a wee lad.

[sierraman]

52 minutes ago, w00dy said:

I used to have a decent number of 1:18s (mostly Bburago) as a lad, but nowadays I wouldn't spend that sort of money  or want anything that took up that much space.

Think my first was a red Viper RT10. I've loved 3 spoke wheels ever since.

 

 

I still have my 1/18 Viper somewhere, my uncle bought it me when the Viper came out so maybe 1992ish, really should get it out and clean it up. 

[Lord Sterling]

Speaking of Dodge Vipers, this is mine:

Bought for me by Fatha_Sterling in 1994/1995 as my his brother, my uncle, used to work for a Jeep/Chrysler dealership in Belgium somewhere and they had a real one in their showroom, never saw it (or at least I don't remember seeing one)

I used to also have the Blue and white striped 1/18 hard-top version but I don't know what happened to that.

As a Peugeot 407 owner, I wanted to buy a 407 in model form. I have all of the ones in 1/64 scale and then found this:

It had been listed and didn't attract any bids so I bashed in a bid upon second listing and won.

Its Ok and the closest I'm gonna get to a 1/18 scale of my own car.  I'm aware that there is a 407 Coupe 1/18. Might get myself one of those if I can find one on the same colour as mine. Not overly fussed as they aren't exactly works of art.

The 1/43 scale 407s are selling/being listed for stupid money which I really don't understand. The real ones aren't expensive and not overly desirable.

[Datsuncog]

I owned a few Bburago 1/18 models too - when I was eight or nine they were awesome, the best models ever, but as I got older I stopped being quite as interested in supercars and gold-star classics and the like, and so their appeal waned a little.

From memory, I had a Mercedes 300SL 'Gullwing' in black, a 1956 Chevrolet Corvette in two-tone turquoise/white, a Porsche 356A in white, and a Jaguar E-Type coupé in black. The Merc was the first 'proper' model I owned - I must have been around eight when I bought it. It seemed very special, with the 'opening everything' and the high level of detail on the engine and dashboard.

I accumulated a fair number of Polistil, Revell, ERTL, Maisto and Solido models in 1/18 also, over a period of about ten years. These tended to be contemporary 1980s supercars like the Ferrari F40, Lamborghini Countach LP400S and Porsche 959, 'American Classics' like a 1956 Ford Thunderbird, 1958 Cadillac Eldorado, 1970 Ford Mustang Boss and 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS, and less exotic fare like a Mini Cooper, VW Beetle and Citroen 2CV.

As a scale I felt that bigger was better, but when more detailed 1/43 scale collectors' models arrived onto the market with Vitesse, Vanguards and Trofeu in the mid-late '90s, I gravitated towards them instead.

I wound up working in a model shop, and although we shifted a lot of Bburago 1/18 -  models like the BMW Z3 and Ferrari 550 Maranello gave you a huge amount of detail and features for £14 - seeing them stacked up in their hundreds in the stockroom made them seem a little less special, somehow.

Eventually my 1/18 stuff went into storage as I entered a fairly nomadic phase of my life, and I sold most of them around 2010 to raise money for a house move. I kept the ERTL Chevelle, the Solido 2CV and a Revell Opel Manta 400 (which I picked up cheap at my old place of work in 2006 because the base was broken) for a while longer - but the last of them went earlier this year.

 

As Split_Pin says, they're not particularly scarce and most 1/18 Bburagos can be found fairly easily in good condition for less than they originally cost. Like Lledo Days Gone, they do tend to attract a bit of the clueless 'them's rare, them's valuable' giffer contingent - car boot sales where old duffers are trying to offload an unboxed 1928 Mercedes SSK full of dust and with a broken wheel for £50 doesn't really help perceptions of desirability.

I owned quite a few of the Bburago 1/24 scale models too, but they generally felt a bit more toy-like. The subject matter was good though, with Land Rover S3, Ford Escorts, Austin Metros, VW Golfs and so on. With pricing around the £5-8 mark in the mid-80s, these were the models I was most likely to receive as a gift for birthdays or Christmases. Some of them (Lancia Delta, Alfa 33) I had as kits to build up, which were fun although the waterslide decals were pretty poor and tended to flake off. Again, I sold the majority of them in 2010.

The 1/43 models were the ones I hung onto longest, as they were more easily stored and represented some top-end shite - Mk1 Fiat Panda, Saab 900, Fiat Bravo, Citroen Xantia, Renault Clio. Quite a lot of them I bought new and kept boxed, but ultimately the chunky generic wheels and so-so paint finish meant that they didn't give me as much pleasure to look at or handle, so I passed them on.

TL;DR - Bburago made some very good models, but they don't do much for me these days.

[Split_Pin]

1 hour ago, Lord Sterling said:

Speaking of Dodge Vipers, this is mine:

Bought for me by Fatha_Sterling in 1994/1995 as my his brother, my uncle, used to work for a Jeep/Chrysler dealership in Belgium somewhere and they had a real one in their showroom, never saw it (or at least I don't remember seeing one)

I used to also have the Blue and white striped 1/18 hard-top version but I don't know what happened to that.

As a Peugeot 407 owner, I wanted to buy a 407 in model form. I have all of the ones in 1/64 scale and then found this:

It had been listed and didn't attract any bids so I bashed in a bid upon second listing and won.

Its Ok and the closest I'm gonna get to a 1/18 scale of my own car.  I'm aware that there is a 407 Coupe 1/18. Might get myself one of those if I can find one on the same colour as mine. Not overly fussed as they aren't exactly works of art.

The 1/43 scale 407s are selling/being listed for stupid money which I really don't understand. The real ones aren't expensive and not overly desirable.

I've gotta big 1/14 scale 407. It was an RC car but it displays very nice indeed.

[Datsuncog]

Today's laptop lovely:

Vitesse Renault Safrane V6 Initiale Series 2.

It's meant to be a very dark metallic green (Abysse) but it's not easy to tell.

Reasonable effort at replicating the alloys, it has to be said. Aerial's a bit odd, mind.

Interior detailing is surprisingly good, though my potatocam doesn't really do it justice.

Verdict - decent stab at a terminally unloved luxo barge. Top chod.