Shite in Miniature II

[sheffcortinacentre]

Don't suppose you've got the red ford F-150 lightning in those hot wheels? As never managed to get one.

[AnnoyingPentium]

Bought these in a toy shop in Penrith today. Haven't bought Siku stuff for a long time.

[bunglebus]

Got back from a weekend at Santa Pod to a few arrivals

First of all, the Corgi Club ambulance - compared to the original the casting is really crisp

And my light works

Got these two unusual Beetles as a lot, Spanish HO scale

And an unknown that looks like an overgrown Marx

Also found the Hot Wheels Volvo in BuM's on my way home yesterday 

[Datsuncog]

1 hour ago, bunglebus said:

And my light works

**MEGAJEALOUS**

 

Did you have to jiggle things around, or did yours just work straight out of the box?

Wonder if there's any point me writing to them?

[Datsuncog]

Today's companion on the keyboard:

It's my faintly down-at-heel childhood BMW E34 by Matchbox, #MB31

Like many of its real-life counterparts, this one's a ten-footer - it's had a lot of dings and touch-ups in its time.

I was probably about ten when I got this one, and I loved its ordinariness - it just looked like a car you'd see on the street, and so many 5-Series were indeed black.

Like a lot of Matchbox of this era, I found the paint pretty prone to coming away.

It developed some quite bad paint damage while on holiday - I'd packed it into my carry-case but put another car on top, to maximise storage, and over the course of a couple of hundred miles in the back locker of the caravan the paint on the roof and bonnet got badly worn away.

I later employed a black paint pen to tidy up the damage, rather inexpertly.

I also had a white touring car version of this casting too, but never liked it as much.

Some effort at underbody detailing, although oddly the lettering looks a bit squint.

The tan interior looks great, though. Really nice contrast, and the detailing's not bad.

This model felt a bit special, a bit premium, when I first got it - and y'know, it still does.

[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, Datsuncog said:

Did you have to jiggle things around, or did yours just work straight out of the box?

Wonder if there's any point me writing to them?

I did have to try two batteries but they were out of the kitchen junk drawer.

I'd definitely contact them if it was me

[Split_Pin]

I agree on the MB 5 series, the metal base helped the teutonic feel.

I had the touring car version as a kid and replaced it a few years ago again. Not quite up there with the Cavalier or Sterling for me but it's a damn solid 3rd.

[Datsuncog]

It could definitely benefit from the application of some warm water and an old toothbrush - seeing it on a screen, many times larger than life, makes me realise just how filthy it is!

Possibly a bit of light T-Cut or Autosol application might make the touch-ups slightly less visible too.

I may have a bit of a play-around later tonight...

[bunglebus]

I keep finding remnants of new cases in Asda, very annoying! 

Max Steel is a new casting, looking very much like a dry lakes/Bonneville 32 Ford Roadster

[sierraman]

3 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

It could definitely benefit from the application of some warm water and an old toothbrush - seeing it on a screen, many times larger than life, makes me realise just how filthy it is!

Possibly a bit of light T-Cut or Autosol application might make the touch-ups slightly less visible too.

I may have a bit of a play-around later tonight...

I have the back end of the touring 5 series you had @Datsuncog in my scrap pile. 

[Datsuncog]

That's right - my brother and his wee mates went through their own destructive phase, putting toy cars on the road outside the house and seeing if a passing car would go over it.

The Touring Beemer was indeed a victim of this barbaric practice.

I'd forgotten about that - and what happened to its arse end!

[Split_Pin]

I can confirm that a Matchbox Renault 11 can withstand traffic flow. 

I've been thinking about that 5 series. It's really tactile that's what it is. Like the benchmark Mira Citroen CX.

[Lord Sterling]

This has probably been posted before but, ya know...

There is a Polish guy on Youtube who restores toy model cars. Its a nice calming video, no stupid music or anything. The guy is very intricate in what he does gojng as far as making new tyres or wheels for cars that have them missing.

The level of skill and dedication is amazing, he even makes new repro boxes for them.

There are a load of salvage channels for real cars etc... but now there are some for toy cars!

[Lord Sterling]

8 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

I agree on the MB 5 series, the metal base helped the teutonic feel.

I had the touring car version as a kid and replaced it a few years ago again. Not quite up there with the Cavalier or Sterling for me but it's a damn solid 3rd.

Never seen a MB 5-series touring!

[Datsuncog]

1 hour ago, Split_Pin said:

I've been thinking about that 5 series. It's really tactile that's what it is. Like the benchmark Mira Citroen CX.

Yep, you're right - it is tactile. Just having it in my pocket for much of today, with its sheer heft, was very pleasing.

I'd probably better not go on...

[Datsuncog]

11 hours ago, Lord Sterling said:

Never seen a MB 5-series touring!

I'd have loved them to have made an actual E34 Touring!

Sadly, touring car-inspired racing livery was the best they could manage.

I acquired my one of these in a bit of a state from a jumble sale, which is why I wasn't too bothered when it got flattened.

I think I might have sacrificed it in a swap for a minty US-spec Summer Rover SD1, which was otherwise going to be squashed by one of my brother's wee mates.

And I think the Rover lives with @155V6 these days?

[bunglebus]

Toy cars in the road is amateur level destruction. I grew up near railway lines...

[Tenmil Socket]

11 hours ago, Lord Sterling said:

This has probably been posted before but, ya know...

There is a Polish guy on Youtube who restores toy model cars. Its a nice calming video, no stupid music or anything. The guy is very intricate in what he does gojng as far as making new tyres or wheels for cars that have them missing.

The level of skill and dedication is amazing, he even makes new repro boxes for them.

There are a load of salvage channels for real cars etc... but now there are some for toy cars!

That’s brilliant! I wonder where he got the box template from? What does he do to the corners at the top of the box towards the end?

[500tops]

Scooped a few Hot Wheels up just now in the local B&M. Particularly like the Miura and its P400 SV number plate

[AndyW201]

Been Hot Wheels hunting myself too!

Went shopping on Sunday, luckily we had to go to the retail park which has a Smyth's on it.

As usual, nothing doing with the mainlines, I've never seen any new case stuff there all the time I've been going there. But there were a few of the special edition sets and premiums. As I couldn't leave empty handed, I grabbed this Civic.

I picked this one as I really like this Civic EG casting although for once (for a Hot Wheels collection) I actually do like pretty much all the ones from the Civic collection.

A bit "trackday slag" for some on here, but it's pretty well done. A tad more expensive than a regular mainline, but at least these special editions get tampos all over. I love the factory original DOHC VTEC decals, and even the little mudflaps fitted. Great stuff.

 

[bunglebus]

Entertainer where I'm working hadn't a lot of mainline Hot Wheels and insisted they aren't getting any on delivery this week - but they have got a twin pack of Land Rover and Unimog which some might like 

[Datsuncog]

Getting in early today...

Siku VW T2 crew cab.

It's maybe a bit wide - possibly to compensate for the narrowness of the Matchbox and Majorette bay-window models - but there's something glorious about this one.

Even though the windows are the colour of Mountain Dew.

This was plucked from a box of loose diecast at an autojumble at the Ulster Transport Museum, around 1991. I think I paid a pound for it, which seemed wildly extravagant when a new boxed Matchbox only cost around 79p in Woolworths - but it was love at first sight.

The crisp detailing and functional lines made it a firm favourite of mine - I'd no previous ideas that crew cab VWs even existed, but this little model ultimately drew my pre-teen self down a wormhole of Volksworld magazine and doodling 'dokas' on my homework diary... I really, really wanted a real-life one of these.

The base seems to have been used on a few different iterations of the Kombi by Siku.

For much of its time with me, this model lived on my 'model railway layout' (which, puckishly, didn't feature any trains) - laden with OO scale ladders, wheelbarrows and sacks, alongside a gang of Hornby workmen, forever 'building' a deliberately half-finished Superquick villa. It just looked 'right'.

It still does.

[junkyarddog]

Some recent finds in no particular order. 

Cool hot rod inspired character hearse.

No idea who made this?

So bad it's good Guiloy Opel Kadett E

Very nice Siku Binz Ambulance. 

Unusual Joal Leyland cement mixer truck.

Playworn Corgi Ferrari 206 dino sport.

Playworn Corgi VW.

Playworn Lone Star Ford Transit wrecker. 

Matchbox twin pack Matra and boat trailer. 

Matchbox 1957 Chevy,cherry bomb.

Siku ADAC Breakdown service set.With the misshapen Opel Kadett D.

Probably my favourite find of late,

Hot Wheels Anglia 105E on the card.

Hard to find these loose,let alone still in the original packaging.

[Tenmil Socket]

11 minutes ago, junkyarddog said:

Some recent finds in no particular order. 

Cool hot rod inspired character hearse.

No idea who made this?

So bad it's good Guiloy Opel Kadett E

Very nice Siku Binz Ambulance. 

Unusual Joal Leyland cement mixer truck.

Playworn Corgi Ferrari 206 dino sport.

Playworn Corgi VW.

Playworn Lone Star Ford Transit wrecker. 

Matchbox twin pack Matra and boat trailer. 

Matchbox 1957 Chevy,cherry bomb.

Siku ADAC Breakdown service set.With the misshapen Opel Kadett D.

Probably my favourite find of late,

Hot Wheels Anglia 105E on the card.

Hard to find these loose,let alone still in the original packaging.

The hearse looks like a McDonalds toy?

I've got that Guiloy Opel Kadett E in red... it's terrible!

[junkyarddog]

31 minutes ago, Tenmil Socket said:

The hearse looks like a McDonalds toy?

Don't think a hearse would be Maccy D's style?

[Datsuncog]

43 minutes ago, junkyarddog said:

No idea who made this?

 

Seems to be the 'Zoom Zombie' from the Monster 500 range of Ed Roth-inspired models, made (exclusively?) for Toys R Us by toymakers Creata.

It came with a trading card and, apparently worked with an app for some sort of light 'n' sound guff.

More on them here:

And here.

 

[junkyarddog]

Those ones are a much larger scale,mine is more matchbox/hot wheels 1:64 size.

[Datsuncog]

The blister-packed one at the top looks to be roughly Hot Wheels scale - going by the hook hanger on the box, anyway.

They do seem to have produced them in two sizes - the ones reviewed in the videos are in an open-fronted cardboard box, and appear to be different in a few ways.

But Creata seems to be the manufacturer, any  road.

 

Great haul, anyway! You can never have too many Lone Star Transits... and those Siku are glorious too.

[Split_Pin]

@junkyarddog I had that Leyland Cement Mixer but it's the Dinky Version. The Joal one looks to be a direct copy? Can anyone confirm?

I've got that Siku Kadett and it is indeed very weirdly proportioned. It's still a great wee thing though, I especially like the black moulded  wheelarch extensions like the real SR had.

[155V6]

20 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

I'd have loved them to have made an actual E34 Touring!

Sadly, touring car-inspired racing livery was the best they could manage.

I acquired my one of these in a bit of a state from a jumble sale, which is why I wasn't too bothered when it got flattened.

I think I might have sacrificed it in a swap for a minty US-spec Summer Rover SD1, which was otherwise going to be squashed by one of my brother's wee mates.

And I think the Rover lives with @155V6 these days?

I think I have it,not sure where it is though.I do have some halves of cars too which I got from you,maybe your Brother's handiwork?