Shite in Miniature II

10,278 · June 6, 2022

25 minutes ago, tom13 said:

Would you sell the Holden with the MX bikes in the back?

Sorry,keeping that one.

5,984 · June 6, 2022

This is the laserwheels I bought last year but didn’t pay the ticket price for it, I paid a fiver.

23,464 · June 6, 2022

35 minutes ago, Tenmil Socket said:

This is the laserwheels I bought last year but didn’t pay the ticket price for it, I paid a fiver.

I make it that you paid £4.11 to much then.😏

13,390 · June 6, 2022

22 hours ago, Lord Sterling said:

Prior to the purchase whilst browsing on eBay, I spotted these '00' gauge garages (1.76 scale iirc)

I sent the sellers an email asking if they are able to up the scale a bit as I'd love to have a set of these garages too for my 1.64s. They sell the 00 gauge garages as a build kit.

@AnnoyingPentium

I got a reply from the seller of the above garages, he has just bought some 1.64 cars and is going to rescale the garages and offer them at some point:

"Hi

I've just ordered a bunch of Hot Wheels 1:64 scale vehicles. They should be here this week so I can use them to help me rescale it. I'll push it up the to do list and see what I can do.

It'll probably be done from MDF rather than card so it's more sturdy.

Thanks"

I am definitely going to be purchasing the garages if he can do them.

9,879 · June 6, 2022

10 minutes ago, Lord Sterling said:

@AnnoyingPentium

I got a reply from the seller of the above garages, he has just bought some 1.64 cars and is going to rescale the garages and offer them at some point:

"Hi

I've just ordered a bunch of Hot Wheels 1:64 scale vehicles. They should be here this week so I can use them to help me rescale it. I'll push it up the to do list and see what I can do.

It'll probably be done from MDF rather than card so it's more sturdy.

Thanks"

I am definitely going to be purchasing the garages if he can do them.

Cheers.

40,658 · June 6, 2022

1 hour ago, Remspoor said:

I make it that you paid £4.11 to much then.😏

Inflation and all that...

42,536 · June 6, 2022

89p in 1986 = £2.15 in today's prices.

We've never had it so good!

33,776 · June 7, 2022

For some reason I recall Majorette cars being 72p in 1988.

60,044 · June 7, 2022

Charidy shop

60,044 · June 7, 2022

Matchbox Cougar Dragster is done, dipped it in lilac and threw lots of purple pearl over the top. Engine is from the Corgi four engine dragster and exhausts are I think Hot Wheels but I don't know which casting. Rolls nicely on Real Riders and the original suspension

5,984 · June 7, 2022

27 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Matchbox Cougar Dragster is done, dipped it in lilac and threw lots of purple pearl over the top. Engine is from the Corgi four engine dragster and exhausts are I think Hot Wheels but I don't know which casting. Rolls nicely on Real Riders and the original suspension

Great job 👍🏻

60,044 · June 7, 2022

Just looking on the Corgi Club FB page

"Next up is the Herald, followed by the Cadillac ambulance, the East African Safari Beetle then the Impala taxi

I pinched these off there too

15,149 · June 7, 2022

Littlun is loving his 1:24 stuff at the moment. This Volvo is nice

42,536 · June 7, 2022

Crumbs, that Volvo is nice.

You've brought him up well!!

42,536 · June 7, 2022

Bit late for lunchtime, but here's today's laptop companion:

It's the Matchbox King Size No.15 Merryweather Fire Engine.

Glorious big hunk of metal, and in really nice condition - a cracking car boot find from @Amishtat, if memory serves?

The 'King Size' rather than 'Majors' labelling suggests this is probably a late 1960s version - it was a large-selling model, and the amount of flashing around the front indicates that the tooling was well-used.

This casting made it into the Superkings era with the chunky speedwheels fitted - which looked a bit like putting trainers on your nan. I think the separate hub and tyre wheels look best here.

It kinda blocks my laptop screen a bit, so I don't think it'll be invited back...

Still really like it, though.

33,776 · June 7, 2022

My cousins had one of those in their toy box but I couldn't work out to whom it originally belonged. Too new for my late Uncle who would have been in his 20s by 1965 but too old with the separate tyres to be my elder cousin's who was born in 1971. Anyway, I loved playing with it, although it was very rough with no ladders.

I'd like to think its still there as my youngest cousin has told me she's helping my auntie have a bit of a clear out and if she finds the box it will be passed on to me. So, we may meet again.

23,464 · June 7, 2022

On 6/6/2022 at 8:05 PM, sierraman said:

Inflation and all that...

Well at least it is not related to the war in The Ukraine.

23,464 · June 7, 2022

Just some odds and ends from my tat in the loft.

Matchbox Fowler traction engine. No chimney extension.

Matchbox Foden Cement mixer.

Matchbox Leyland without a site hut.

Matchbox Scammell snow plough. Very damaged.

60,044 · June 8, 2022

Still mostly avoiding eBay, but I had to bid on these Marx as they all still had the card base/interior. Beetle one is especially amusing with propshaft/differential etc and is the one I'm most pleased to find

42,536 · June 8, 2022

More teatime than lunchtime, but have a lightly playworn Matchbox No.31 Lincoln Continental, in that nice blue that seems more like tinted lacquer than paint...

Although maybe a bit underwheeled, it looks better like this than wearing Superfasts with the arches reprofiled, I reckon...

Base is still remarkably shiny, after 50+ years.

One from the Permanent Collection!

42,536 · June 8, 2022

2 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Still mostly avoiding eBay, but I had to bid on these Marx as they all still had the card base/interior. Beetle one is especially amusing with propshaft/differential etc and is the one I'm most pleased to find

They're all meant to be rear engined, aren't they?

I wonder how many kids noticed...

33,776 · June 8, 2022

Parcel received from @bunglebus today, cheers! What an unusual trio I picked. The Kees Saab is definitely an upscale copy of the Corgi casting. As above it incorrectly has a propshaft and diff!

60,044 · June 8, 2022

51 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

They're all meant to be rear engined, aren't they?

I wonder how many kids noticed...

This is true, mid-engine at least for the sporty ones.

60,044 · June 8, 2022

19 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

The Kees Saab is definitely an upscale copy of the Corgi casting. As above it incorrectly has a propshaft and diff!

I hadn't really noticed but this is true

But then so does the smaller 1:64 Escort that was originally a Kees casting too

10,278 · June 8, 2022

37 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

I hadn't really noticed but this is true

But then so does the smaller 1:64 Escort that was originally a Kees casting too

So does the Golf too!

60,044 · June 8, 2022

I've had this Majorette Beetle for a few years but only just removed it from its blister ahead of some mods/paint. It's nicely done, don't think the wheels or colour suit it though

They've had a good go at an oval-window era dashboard too, plus it's nice to find the old wire suspension still being used, even if the base is plastic

42,536 · June 8, 2022

4 hours ago, bunglebus said:

So does the smaller 1:64 Escort that was originally a Kees casting too

4 hours ago, 155V6 said:

So does the Golf too!

I'm pretty sure the Kees Ritmo made the same error - will look mine out tomorrow!

5,492 · June 8, 2022

Been trying to wean myself off Hot Wheels lately. Cost of living crisis and all that, not helped by having to fork out for two new Vanguards coming soon, that have been on back order since last year. Plus two very special purchases have been ordered, that have been released for the 45th anniversary of a certain Ford-heavy British action drama series. So, the diecast budget is bare.

But while nipping in Morrisons on the way home, I saw fresh clipstrips! No new case stuff of course. Just doesn't happen around this way any more, even Smyth's and The Entertainer are a waste of time.

But it doesn't matter anyway, because I'm weaning myself off Hot Wheels.