Shite in Miniature II

[Remspoor]

German day for me.

Matchbox  Mercedes 230

Matchbox  Mercedes 300

Matchbox Mercedes 220

Matchbox Unimog

 

[bunglebus]

Corgi club just dropped a list of all past and known future releases

 

[sierraman]

2 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

Today's surprise grab-bag from beneath the bed - Corgi Volvo 700 Series Turbo.

I've had this one for well over thirty years now - I'm amazed it still looks as good as it does.

Boxy car is boxy.

But is it a 740 or 760? Corgi keep us guessin'...

I really should see about finding a replacement box for it. I wish I hadn't chucked the original - but I was, like, eight at the time.

I bought the same Volvo but it came with a caravan when I was a kid from the legendary Corgi shop in Blackpool. 

[richardmorris]

3 hours ago, junkyarddog said:

Picked up this Corgi Whizzwheels VW last weekend.

It suffered from broken suspension and the roof beacon was rattling around inside so it had to be drilled open.

The best bit is,the stickers are luminous!

How cool is that!!

 

Very cool. How old is the model and do you have a Geiger counter available?

[junkyarddog]

45 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Very cool. How old is the model and do you have a Geiger counter available?

Mid 70's I guess,and No I don't.

[richardmorris]

1 hour ago, junkyarddog said:

Mid 70's I guess,and No I don't.

It’s probably* not tritium but luminous phone and watch dials and logos etc are interesting in the general way they continued to be used long after the radiation dangers were known.

[155V6]

5 hours ago, junkyarddog said:

Picked up this Corgi Whizzwheels VW last weekend.

It suffered from broken suspension and the roof beacon was rattling around inside so it had to be drilled open.

The best bit is,the stickers are luminous!

How cool is that!!

 

I've got a tidy one of those with no stickers

I always thought it would have Polizei stickers,now I know I can try & get the correct ones.I bet they won't glow in the dark though 🙁

[junkyarddog]

50 minutes ago, 155V6 said:

I've got a tidy one of those with no stickers

I always thought it would have Polizei stickers,now I know I can try & get the correct ones.I bet they won't glow in the dark though 🙁

They all didn't have the luminous stickers.

[AnnoyingPentium]

This came to the door c/o @bunglebus with my Mum saying "aw whit the fuck have ye ordered now" 😂

What arrived, was this little Corgi Volvo 760 (?).

I used to have a few of these; one in lighter silver, one like that, and one red. But I think the red one was my own doing with that can of Chilli Red paint I have somewhere. 😁

[Split_Pin]

16 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

Today's surprise grab-bag from beneath the bed - Corgi Volvo 700 Series Turbo.

I've had this one for well over thirty years now - I'm amazed it still looks as good as it does.

Boxy car is boxy.

But is it a 740 or 760? Corgi keep us guessin'...

I really should see about finding a replacement box for it. I wish I hadn't chucked the original - but I was, like, eight at the time.

That's one of the best Corgi 1/36 models of the late 1980s. I loved 7 series models at the time as they were a popular car around the family area I lived in. I got an identical one from Woolworths in 1988 and have loved it ever since. Even although I got the 1/25 Polistil estate version for my birthday the following year, it didn't quite capture the essence of the real car like the Corgi. I especially like the separate indicator lenses as it would have been easy for Corgi to simply make them part of the headlight assembly.

[bunglebus]

Lamley just dropped a video with the production-ready RS2000

And one I didn't know we were getting, ovloV drift wagon!

[Split_Pin]

@cms206 and I will have a meltdown  when these come out. The 245 is ACE.

[RayMK]

I dug out an old photo of my die casts for a particular car with a rear seated driver position, as discussed recently in the Black and Whites thread.  The photo was taken in the late 1980s and turned out a bit fuzzy after scanning - the original was not great either.  Anyway, I've still got all of the items pictured. They are all safely wrapped and stored in boxes around the house. They rarely see the light of day.  I really should try to display them properly but my main display cabinet is occupied by aircraft.

 

 

[bunglebus]

I've had a half-formed plan for this Hot Wheels Beetle for a while, mainly sorting out the horrible wheel/stance situation 

Well here it is. I couldn't live with the headlight either, they're just metal posts that stick up off the base so I chopped them off and fitted rhinestones. There is one detail really bugging me but I did my best...

[Split_Pin]

Sorry, 2 hour later and I'm still losing my shit over that HW 240.

[RayMK]

Ref. my earlier post of today: I actually got off my backside and found the toy of a veteran car which had its driver behind the passenger cab (seat behind the cab and steering wheel on the roof).  It is a Charbens 'Old Crocks' series (No.12), 1905 Vauxhall Hansom Cab. It is missing its tinplate mudguards. The range existed from 1955 until the late 1960s.

I also photographed one or two other items which were wrapped up with it.  The racing cars were free gifts with 3d Jamboree bags which contained sweets and a toy. The Bentley, also plastic, was bought new ages ago (1960s probably). The two Humber Hawk saloons, one turquoise and one painted red, were free with Weetabix in the 1960s.  The Metropolitan was also free with a breakfast cereal around the same period.

[AndyW201]

5 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Lamley just dropped a video with the production-ready RS2000

And one I didn't know we were getting, ovloV drift wagon!

Yikes! Those are ACE! Can't wait to spend the rest of the year trying to find them and failing🤣 Plenty to look forward to also with the upcoming Nissan Maxima drift wagon, Toyota Space Cruiser and Honda 90.

[AndyW201]

Holy Shit, I've just clicked the tampo printed RS2000 logos on the Escort.

I'm done....

[Datsuncog]

3 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Oh, very nice!

I'd usually overlook HWs with those awful white wheels as being beyond redemption, but that's a great transformation. The lick of yellow around the rims just makes it pop all the more.

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There is one detail really bugging me but I did my best...

Is it the windscreen - or the dashboard?

[Datsuncog]

50 minutes ago, RayMK said:

Ref. my earlier post of today: I actually got off my backside and found the toy of a veteran car which had its driver behind the passenger cab (seat behind the cab and steering wheel on the roof).  It is a Charbens 'Old Crocks' series (No.12), 1905 Vauxhall Hansom Cab. It is missing its tinplate mudguards. The range existed from 1955 until the late 1960s.

I also photographed one or two other items which were wrapped up with it.  The racing cars were free gifts with 3d Jamboree bags which contained sweets and a toy. The Bentley, also plastic, was bought new ages ago (1960s probably). The two Humber Hawk saloons, one turquoise and one painted red, were free with Weetabix in the 1960s.  The Metropolitan was also free with a breakfast cereal around the same period.

Cheers for digging those out, Ray - much as I love to see Lesney and Corgi toys, I'm fascinated by the also-rans and budget/ freebie toys that hardly ever seem to survive. Although the Hawks and the Metropolitan are pretty basic, I've never seen them before and they have a huge amount of charm to them.

I remember reading about the Charben's Old Crocks range years ago, but have seen very few of them in real life - your Vauxhall's in decent nick bar the mudguards, and it's a very unusual model. And those no-name plastic GP racers look nicely proportioned representations of their real-life counterparts, even if they were the equivalent of Happy Meal toys back in their day!

Great that you've kept them all, and thanks for sharing them!

[junkyarddog]

One of my favourite recent finds is this near mint Matchbox No11 Flying bug.

Quite probably one of the most bonkers castings from matchbox, quite difficult to find in good condition. 

Chuffed to find this,wasn't cheap at €5.00,but wasn't expensive either. 

 

[Datsuncog]

Friday afternoon laptop shite, then...

...is of the smol variety.

Yup, Atlas reproduction of the Dinky France #1408 Honda S800 coupe.

One of my very first Market Tat purchases from quite a few years ago now, and one that I just couldn't part with during the disposal sale over the winter.

The detailing's ace, and like its real-life equivalent it's a wee gem of a thing.

How could you not love this?

These were a fearsome price a while ago, so I felt pretty chuffed to have picked it up for a fiver. Looking online now, you can have one delivered to your door for under £15 - so that's good news for me as I'd sooner not feel like I ought to sell this one!

Happy Friday, kids!

[bunglebus]

Popped in B&M to get some BBQ supplies for tomorrow - and the J case Hot Wheels had arrived! Some are recolours but there are some excellent new castings in here too

 

Check these two out

Waiting on the mat when I got home was this Siku buggy - looked in Entertainer for it but they didn't have one

[Datsuncog]

4 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Crumbs, I wasn't even aware of that one.

Ohhhh...

[andrew e]

The Litace is ace!

[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, Datsuncog said:

Oh, very nice!

I'd usually overlook HWs with those awful white wheels as being beyond redemption, but that's a great transformation. The lick of yellow around the rims just makes it pop all the more.

Is it the windscreen - or the dashboard?

No it's my crap freehand painting of the running boards. I did the "door cards" inside and got a perfectly straight line too

Glad you noticed the big n little Matchbox wheels though

[bunglebus]

23 minutes ago, andrew e said:

The Litace is ace!

Yes it is. Had to get a spare for customising purposes so might as well crack it open

Rear seat passenger's view could be better

[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, junkyarddog said:

One of my favourite recent finds is this near mint Matchbox No11 Flying bug.

Very nice, just a tiny bit of the dreaded bendy wing.

I'd like to find a good condition Flying Beetle one day, think I have half a dozen Flying Bugs in my spares box in various stages of disrepair

[sierraman]

6 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Yes it is. Had to get a spare for customising purposes so might as well crack it open

Rear seat passenger's view could be better

Would be better without the preposterous front bumper. 

[junkyarddog]

21 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Very nice, just a tiny bit of the dreaded bendy wing.

I'd like to find a good condition Flying Beetle one day, think I have half a dozen Flying Bugs in my spares box in various stages of disrepair

The other one I have was made from the best parts of three others,so was happy to find a nice original one.