Shite in Miniature II

[sutty2006]

4 hours ago, w00dy said:

Looked a nice model in the packaging.

 

Oh dear.

Has the automated painting machine fucked the roof? 

[junkyarddog]

1 hour ago, bunglebus said:

I'd have had a good rummage through that lot

You and me both 🤣

[bunglebus]

Right I've got to get back to some proper projects, it's getting addictive doing wheels and details! Couldn't resist making the Ain't No Saint gasser a bit nicer though

I love that Mattel put things like the footrest and pedals in although you'll never see them.

Spent an age painting the interior black except the roll cage, fire extinguisher and belts are red - again almost impossible to see! Black wash on the engine makes it pop, and a mix of Hot Wheels and Matchbox wheels are a close match to the real thing. Here's the before:

[w00dy]

1 hour ago, sutty2006 said:

Has the automated painting machine fucked the roof? 

Yep, might try to fix it when I can be arsed.

[bunglebus]

6 hours ago, w00dy said:

Looked a nice model in the packaging.

 

Oh dear.

Error car. Cool

[MiniMinorMk3]

A few pages back I mentioned that I had collected 1/43rd Ferrari F1, and built a few kits.

Here's a model of a John Surtees 1964 Monaco car. Made by Scale Racing Cars from white metal. It took a week of evenings to complete.

 

[MiniMinorMk3]

My last piece of model making was this 1976 Ferrari. I never finished it as I just was not happy with how the body fitted to the chassis. I spent about a month on it. The engine and rear suspension alone contains over 200 parts.

And yes this is also 1/43rd scale.

[500tops]

Good grief! Amazing detail

[bunglebus]

I'm blaming @Split_Pinfor this one,, got into a conversion about all the different versions of the Hot Wheels Escort RS1600 and mentioned I didn't have the ID chase car. Well now I do, just don't tell the Mrs how much it was! 

Only the Super to find now but that's very unlikely given how much they sell for

[NorfolkNWeigh]

20 hours ago, Conan said:

My Minichamps CX 1/43 was a bit lonely so I got it a companion. BMW M535i by Autoart. The box's not in great shape but the model itself is in excellent nick.

You really should get a Rover Vitesse to re-enact one of my favourite  Giant Test’s from 1985.

[Conan]

Seems like a good challenge. I wonder if I can hunt down a reasonably priced one locally (Either Minichamps or Corgi would do) considering there's probably 3 people in this country who even got a clue what an SD1 is. 🤔 

You never know though. Might get lucky.

[sutty2006]

The hotwheels short wheel base Audi is lovely. It even handles well down Arthur’s helter skelter…. The front is well detailed ..

 

but the back missed the detailing crew. 
 

[Datsuncog]

On 11/25/2022 at 1:38 PM, Datsuncog said:

Well... I can't say that I didn't...

So, maybe not all that exciting a haul compared to previous Friday finds - but still kinda interesting.

The Volvo C30 and Audi RS8 are dated 2007 on the packaging, so are probably 2008 releases.

There were red and (I think) black versions of the RS8 in the trunk too, but I grabbed one of the blue ones - whenever these came out, this was the colour I tended to notice on these lairy Audis.

And oh, how they made themselves noticed.

Still, I'm a sucker for a longroof in miniature. The grille on this is great.

I did have an identical C30 acquired around 2008 - probably picked up from Tesco - but I think I passed it on a couple of years ago.

Unless I'm wrong, in which case I now have two of 'em.

There were a few gold versions in the big ol' case on the market stall, and also some black ones - but the black seemed to mask a lot of the details, so I went for gold again.

I liked the C30, but MrsDC has an irrational hatred of them so this is likely the closet I'll ever get to one.

The Prius says 2008 on the packaging, so it's probably an '09 release. 

Same chunky wheels as the other two, which are maybe a wee bit hefty - but the shell detailing's really very nice.

I think there were a few different colour versions of this one in the case, but I went for this pale green as it's the same as the first one I saw - a family two doors down bought one new in 2009. Now they seem fairly unremarkable, but it was quite the statement back then.

But I was really taken with this bad boy - the Mitsubishi L200 KA crew cab. Another with the base marked 2008, so presumably the same catalogue year as the Prius.

I don't remember seeing these models on the pegs at the time, so I can only assume they were out around the time that I'd sworn off diecast and was keeping myself away from the toy aisles.

The proportions and detailing are truly excellent all over - this really is a little gem.

And being Matchbox, there's plenty of junk in the trunk.

This one has a certain resonance for me - as my time as the qualified childseat fitter at Halfords coincided with the point when certain tax breaks meant that these crew cab pickups were really popular with company car users, at least locally.

A fair chunk of my working day was spent informing men (always men), who showed up in their brand new blinged-out L200s with Animal and Warrior graphics, that it wasn't possible to fit a child seat in the back. There were no Isofix mountings, and the thin rear bench was simply the wrong profile to allow child seats to fit in - it was only designed to be used as an occasional perch.

Watching these guys realise that they were going to have to go home and sheepishly explain that their great tax wheeze was not actually going to be any use as a family car gave my black misanthropic heart something of a glow. 

I'm horrible like that.

But yeah - four really quite nice Matchbox models of then-contemporary cars which are now hovering on the edge of shitedom...

(Well, not really in the case of the RS8 - but imagine it's a boggo A4 wagon with sporty bits glued on)

And then there's this!

It's interesting to compare an early-90s Matchbox to its late 2000s equivalents. Because it's startling to realise just how low Matchbox had fallen at the time the brand was owned by Tyco.

Rear detailing is... cursory.

Other than the side-swept rear windows, I think you'd be hard pushed to immediately recognise this car as a Ford Probe.

1993 on the base indicates a 1994 release.

But - urgh! - those wheels! Those graphics! A bright-blue interior!

This model kinda encapsulates why I drifted away from finding Matchbox cars appealing by the time I was in my early teens.

They weren't even trying.

This one's also really dusty, like it's been on a shelf for many a long year.

But that's okay. I'll probably clean it up a bit, and then...

Aw damn, I dunno.

Ah well.

[bunglebus]

The Tyco era stuff is pretty awful, it surely can't cost any more to make a wheel that looks realistic? Mind you the 90s was a time of some terrible styling choices both by car manufacturers and the aftermarket. 

I suppose Tyco's wheel and colour choices weren't a million miles from reality

Mind you those wheels would work on one 90s car...

[bunglebus]

Ebay seller had quite a few of these, got outbid on most but scored these two. Another I don't remember seeing but by this point in my life it was BMXs, pirate radio and teenage girls over toy cars

Shame about that chip as they're otherwise mint

[MiniMinorMk3]

Some random stuff from me today.

Corgi Minor Fuzz

A pair of identacle Minis, but one is Revell and the other is Universal Hobbies.

 

AHC Micra

Trofeu Galant VR4 Portuguese Taxi

Matchbox Dinky KG Cabrio

Vitesse Herbie

RIO Daytona

RIO ID 19 Safari Fire Chief

Eligor Fire Vehicles

Eligor 911 Targa

 

[Split_Pin]

After months of being unable to find a HW MK2 Escort I went into the Entertainer and there were THREE. There was also a red Sierra. After having to resort to getting one posted out I feel that HW are taunting me!

I missed the white Nissan Maxima earlier in the year and they had 2 burgundy examples so I bagged one of those.

Typical!

[bunglebus]

It's all that dastardly @Datsuncog's fault. There I was minding my own business in the charity shop...

Poor detailing on the outside, but it looks like they had a good stab at the interior. Hard to see in black though 

[500tops]

Local charity shop find...

[bunglebus]

Mint! Base says Welly even though the box is unbranded 

[quicksilver]

Here's some proper shite in miniature, 3D printed in 1/76 scale by CMAC/m0rris 122 on eBay. Excuse the background as the layout is mothballed due to home renovations. They look better in person as the photos are much larger than actual size.

Who wouldn't want to make their final journey in a wedge hearse?

Jag is based on the one in the Jaguar Heritage collection driven by HubNut. It's actually the colour of my sister's old Hyundai Getz.

Maroon Volvo reminds me of a big plastic Stahlberg one I had as a kid

Tuscan Beige is an authentic colour for a Mk5 Cortina

But did Mk2 Granadas ever come in Aztec Bronze?

And the ultimate shite - a beige Morris Ital with a brown vinyl roof and brown interior.

[bunglebus]

Oh I forgot - these were in the same charity shop as the 50p Probe I found today 

£10 each tho

[eddyramrod]

On 11/5/2022 at 3:58 PM, eddyramrod said:

I smashed it up the backside of a Fiat (Tempra, IIRC) on my way home one day.  

This has been nagging at me, as I had a feeling the Tempra was too new to be part of this story (October 1986).  I finally got round to a spot of googling, and now I'm sure that what I hit was actually a Regata.  All in the name of completion, you understand.

[bunglebus]

I could do with some sunshine to show this one off properly, but we seem to only have the liquid kind today. Corgi US van started life as the Charlie's Angels version

It's now got a red, into light blue, into dark blue fade, followed by pink pearl on the front fading into purple pearl at the back and a coat of clear. 

Wheels are of course Hot Wheels slots, interior is full-on 70s love palace with shag pile carpet, waterbed,  drinks cabinet, TV, mood lighting and sound system. You can't see it so you'll just have to use your imagination...

Interesting to see Corgi only put a short moulding for the rear edge of the front door, they obviously intended it to always have a sticker on the side. They're all proud of the casting rather than indented too

[MiniMinorMk3]

A blast from the past that I got to see for real after almost 40 years.

This was one of my favourite Corgi Juniors from the 1970s, although the example here is one I picked up around 10 years ago.

The packet was already opened when purchased, but also has no door number on the drivers side.

2013 at Shelsley Walsh I got to see the real thing. The car no lives in France and was brought over for the event.

 

A bit of video I shot on the day.

 

 

[MiniMinorMk3]

Some AutoArt 1/43rds

Jaguar XK-SS

Jaguar E-Type Series 3 V12

Esprit 

Esprit Turbo

Range Rover p38 HSE

 

 

 

[barrett]

A diversion to Germany for my new arrival. My main interest is low-volume production cars, coachbuilt variations and one-off specials and the whole reason I buy these toy cars is because I love the idea that these mostly quite obscure things were modelled. Beyond the obvious Politoys one of the ranges of toys I've been fascinated by for a long time, just because they seem so atypical, is the very small number of Marklin 1:43 coupés from the late 1960s/ early '70s. Of course they're difficult to find in the UK and can be quite expensive - in fact, most of them I've never seen for sale whatsoever in this country, so I instantly jumped on this one when it popped up on ebay recently.

It's the OSI 20M TS, aka a Ford Taunus in an Italian frock. OSI wasn't exactly the sexiest household name back in the '60s coachbuilding world, but weirdly quite a few of its cars were made in small scale. The 20M TS was also done by Siku in Matchbox-size, weirdly.

This Marklin does a good job of the real thing's slightly weird proportions, although its comically underhweeled

There's an engine in there, but pretty basic, and there's no dash detail

Basic underneath, too. Note one screw and one rivet. Fans of melted wheels will note a mild reaction to the rubber tyres here. I'm not sure how this fits into the chronology and there doesn't appear to me much info about this range online, but there were various wheels fitted over the years.

The only other Marklin I have is the BMW-Glas GT

A shame they're both quite dull colours. I also have one other OSI car, the Politoys Fiat 1200S

So, there you go. I'll keep looking for the Glas V8 and that's probably it for me and this maker...

[MiniMinorMk3]

Years ago I had a silver Marklin OSI. They did a series of gift sets where the cars were in silver. Others in the series included the Mk1 Capri, Porsche 914 and Corvette Stingray. Other colours that I have seen the OSI in are red and mustard.

The only other Marklin I have had recently is a VW 411.

[sierraman]

Could be wrong but I think we missed this one on this years mix? It’s a Chevy Nova. 

[bunglebus]

3 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

The only other Marklin I have had recently is a VW 411.

Have you still got it, or has it gone to pastures new?