Shite in Miniature II

[rml2345]

Got one of those in blue, better check it out!

[Split_Pin]

You sure it's zinc pest? The metal will have a crackle finish like the top of a late 70s MGB dashboard.

[Felly Magic]

Yup the metal is starting to blister up and there are fine hairline cracks appearing

[dugong]

 

Table tat, including a Junkman tuned Spot-On Bentley.

[dugong]

 

MOAR. The JRS H van (and the Polistil Alfa Canguro) was at the bottom of a massive pile of Corgis and Dinkys I bought as a job lot. The AEC and Scammell came from a tat shop in Leek and the Bristol was £2 from Wetley Rocks car show a couple of years ago.

[Split_Pin]

I've got that Scammell with a real canvas tilt on it. Refreshing change to the usual fare as you say. Glad you are still enjoying the 305 and the 104 too 😉

[Junkman]

Oof, a 1/18 CF would be such a thing as dreams are made of. And not just a poxy sealed resin one.

 

I'd settle for a 1/24 scale Airfix kit, but why nobody ever does what I say despite I'm always right is a phenomenon, that will never cease to amaze me.

 

Speaking of 1/24, the French are now also doing a partwork series in that scale, although contrary to the Italian ones, they won't have any opening features.

The first model in the line is the DS 23 below.

Of what I can gather, they will follow this up with a Renner 8 Gordini and a 2CV, which is weird considering the not unnice models of those released by Welly/Nex.

It does get interesting then, though, with a Simca Aronde, Panhard Dyna Z and Peugeot 404 saloon having been announced.

 

Anyway, here is the DS.

 

You get it on a two square feet cardboard:

 

There is a metric shitload of bureaucracy included:

 

The French wouldn't be French if they didn't somehow manage to piss me off:

 

Is there some bloody newfangled shit tool that evidently every French household has to undo these?

 

Consequently, you get pictures with it still being affixed to its plinth:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All in all I think they are well worth collecting if you are into 1/2" scale and have no consideration for rubbish avoidance,

especially seeing that we will never get these subjects as plastic kits.

I say they would also respond extremely well to some careful pimpage with BMF and such stuff.

[Junkman]

Anyway, back to the scale even I can see without using hearing aids.
 
I wouldn't be The Junkman© if I wouldn't be The Junkman©, hence just had to have this one.
 

 

Sadly, as you can see, it suffered quite some damage, courtesy of the Yodel yokel tossing it over my seven foot high gate into the back garden.

Unwilling to waste the precious little time I have left at my age, I ordered the same model in kit form and will put it into this box after I've built it.

This one will then be flogged sans box.

 

[dugong]

I've got that Scammell with a real canvas tilt on it. Refreshing change to the usual fare as you say. Glad you are still enjoying the 305 and the 104 too

I am reminded of their excellence on a daily basis.

 

Anyway, back to the scale even I can see without using hearing aids.

 

I wouldn't be The Junkman© if I wouldn't be The Junkman©, hence just had to have this one.

 

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[Junkman]

Resisting those Sunstars is futile.
 

[Junkman]

Then I finally got a model of the fastest car in the valley!
 

 

Which brings my 1/18 AG count to three:

 

 

 

Well, strictly speaking four:

 

 

[Felly Magic]

Nice stuff there Junkman. I bought a set of tri head screwdrivers ages ago from egay, as Altaya 1/43 seem to be plagued with those annoying screws

[RoadworkUK]

Lottery win, Junkman?

[Junkman]

Nice stuff there Junkman.

Cheers!

 

I bought a set of tri head screwdrivers ages ago from egay, as Altaya 1/43 seem to be plagued with those annoying screws

So something like this actually does exist?

 

O tempori, o mores...

 

 

 

Lottery win, Junkman?

I wish!

Nah, man, I had to work for all that dosh.

 

[Felly Magic]

Cheers!

 

So something like this actually does exist?

 

O tempori, o mores...

 

 

 

 

Here you go Junkman, bits for not much dosh

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/5-Pcs-Set-Magnetic-Triangle-Head-Screwdriver-Bits-S2-Steel-1-4-Hex-Shank-50mm-/381600196676?hash=item58d924e844:g:GCAAAOSwZ8ZXBRLl

[andrew e]

Junkman, why not Junkman the Mach1? Nicely rounded off and mid-jump proper (on a coat hanger) FTW.

 

Is it a too pale colour too? Or not?

[eddyramrod]

 

This one will then be flogged sans box to Eddyramrod, for buttons.

EFA

[Junkman]

Is it a too pale colour too? Or not?

 

Yes, the car used in the film, a 1971 Mach 1 with a 1973 front clip, was (actually is - it is still with us!)  what Ford simply called Yellow.

 

 

 

However, the model is incorrectly painted what Ford called Medium Bright Yellow.

 

 

The bent Eleanor would be a lot easier to make from a plastic kit.

Luckily Round 2 just announced that they will reissue the 1973 MPC Mustang, which is lightyears better than the bodged AMT rubbish

that was continuously fed to us via countless reissues over the past four decades.

Hence a modelling project in this direction is currently being considered.

 

http://round2corp.com/product/1973-ford-mustang/

[eddyramrod]

Actually... why not just bring it along tomorrow?

[sheffcortinacentre]

Yes Eleanor is a live and well, did all her own stunts too.

[eddyramrod]

By the way... our Poundland has a display of Bburago 1/43s just in.  Modern rubbish mostly but for a quid, any Junior Shiters won't care.  There is, however, an almost-gem: a red Renault4, wide-grille variety.  I'll keep an eye out, see if anything else interesting surfaces.

 

Oh and yes, of course I bought the R4.

[Negative Creep]

Found m y Granddad's collection of c.1980's Collector's Gazette magazines in the loft. Any interest?

[Felly Magic]

By the way... our Poundland has a display of Bburago 1/43s just in.  Modern rubbish mostly but for a quid, any Junior Shiters won't care.  There is, however, an almost-gem: a red Renault4, wide-grille variety.  I'll keep an eye out, see if anything else interesting surfaces.

 

Oh and yes, of course I bought the R4.

 A 1/43 that clearly is in your price range. Hope my Poundland get some in

[Junkman]

Oh and yes, of course I bought the R4.

 

No, you didn't. You would have posted a pic if you did.

[Felly Magic]

A mate has told me about one of his Vanguards baseplate breaking in to 4 pieces yesterday, was his red Marina model. He had noticed the base had started to bow, and it had popped it's suspension springs, so he was going to take it apart to see what's what, as he stripped the model down, it simply snapped into 4. He wasn't a happy chappy

[sheffcortinacentre]

Wow didn't realise the authenticity went that far.

[Split_Pin]

Vanguards are actually a bit prone to this, esp the pink mk2 Cortina.

[RoadworkUK]

I long had a desire to own a 1:18 Mk3 Capri to go with my 1:18 Minichamps one.

 

Finally they look like becoming vaguely affordable. Problem though (image from The Internet):

 

 

The usually estimable Norev are the only maker that produces them, likely the only one that ever will.

 

And it looks all wrong!

 

Sadface.

[Felly Magic]

Their 1/43 Capri is just as bleedin awful that they made for all the partwork mags, exhausts in the wrong place, too slab sided, oversized rear lights....

[Junkman]

I long had a desire to own a 1:18 Mk3 Capri to go with my 1:18 Minichamps one.

 

Finally they look like becoming vaguely affordable. Problem though (image from The Internet):

 

 

The usually estimable Norev are the only maker that produces them, likely the only one that ever will.

 

And it looks all wrong!

 

Sadface.

 

Westerwald reg is deffo wrong on many levels. Then again, for a Capri...