Shite in Miniature II

[Bren]

Father christmas brought me these - 

[sierraman]

Father Xmas brought me the Bill Manzke Corgi Book. Really good read, probably not up to the standard of the Great Book of Corgi but not a hundred quid neither. 

[MiniMinorMk3]

James Bond is usually on around now

[bunglebus]

Snuck out to the outhouse and had a play with the Gulf 32 Ford. Just wheels and a bit of detailing

[Split_Pin]

Another nice set, 1960 VW Beetle.

 

[Spottedlaurel]

19 hours ago, Bren said:

Father christmas brought me these - 

I particularly like this one, It feels like one of the boxed Superfast that's evading me, at reasonable cost at least. For now I'm making do with a tidy unboxed example.

My Christmas goodies:

All from Miss SL and her BF, they individually wrapped them and I had to leave the RS2000 until last. One or two duplicates there, but that'll give me an excuse to open them up and maybe do a bit of custom/detailing work.

Also found time on Christmas Eve to go through the various boxes and piles of carded HW/MBX purchases. I had a horrible feeling that I might have bought a few duplicates, but there weren't many at all. A few where I do have various colours, it appears the Mk1 RX7 and Datsun Fairlady Roadster are castings I particularly like....

Have managed to find a few minutes between Christmas events to get on with the little Heller kit:

Hoping to get some colour onto it today, probably a suitably '70s colour like this bronze I saw a few years ago:

Metallic blue looks good on them, but seems to be the default choice.

[MiniMinorMk3]

3 hours ago, Spottedlaurel said:

 

Hoping to get some colour onto it today, probably a suitably '70s colour like this bronze I saw a few years ago:

Metallic blue looks good on them, but seems to be the default choice.

The blue is obviously the traditional Alpine works colour, hence why so many are finished that way. I can't say I have seen that bronze before, but my favourite is silver.

[MiniMinorMk3]

ADO 16s for fans of BMC rust buckets.

Russian made Innocenti IM3

White metal 1300 GT

Crossways Morris 1100 driven by Pat Moss-Carlson and Pauline Mayman in the 1962 Liege-Sofia-Liege Rally

 

[FakeConcern]

As usual I used the excuse of presents for Mrs Concern to put in her summer house (For those who wonder what I'm talking about, it's about 1/4 down this page https://autoshite.com/topic/20735-doesnt-fit-anywhere-else-shite-thread/page/4/ but it has changed a fair bit now as so much has been added to it) to buy some interesting toys models.

She already has a tatty orange Corgi Beach Buggy with a broken screen and a tidy purple one with a sailing boat, so I got her this one with surfboards...

It has a slight crack on the bar holding one of the boards, but when choosing (on ebay) I couldn't find one that didn't even really expensive ones and this was cheap...

While searching for the Kees Saab 9000 (a few pages back) I came across this...

Which fits with the seaside theme. The mark on the screen is where a sticker has been, I've yet to try cleaning it off...

I particularly like this job lot of Matchbox XR3i with boat on trailer and Corgi Juniors XR3i (also had a pink Cadillac Allante not shown).

The white XR3i is pretty much perfect while the red one is pretty tatty with soggy suspension...

It does have a tow hook as well so will be able to hook a boat or caravan to it as well...

Similar, but not the same graphics...

 

[155V6]

3 hours ago, FakeConcern said:

As usual I used the excuse of presents for Mrs Concern to put in her summer house (For those who wonder what I'm talking about, it's about 1/4 down this page https://autoshite.com/topic/20735-doesnt-fit-anywhere-else-shite-thread/page/4/ but it has changed a fair bit now as so much has been added to it) to buy some interesting toys models.

She already has a tatty orange Corgi Beach Buggy with a broken screen and a tidy purple one with a sailing boat, so I got her this one with surfboards...

It has a slight crack on the bar holding one of the boards, but when choosing (on ebay) I couldn't find one that didn't even really expensive ones and this was cheap...

While searching for the Kees Saab 9000 (a few pages back) I came across this...

Which fits with the seaside theme. The mark on the screen is where a sticker has been, I've yet to try cleaning it off...

I particularly like this job lot of Matchbox XR3i with boat on trailer and Corgi Juniors XR3i (also had a pink Cadillac Allante not shown).

The white XR3i is pretty much perfect while the red one is pretty tatty with soggy suspension...

It does have a tow hook as well so will be able to hook a boat or caravan to it as well...

Similar, but not the same graphics...

 

What you really want to go with the seaside theme is this version of the XR3i

[sierraman]

I have the Escort Cabrio it was a twin pack from maybe early 90’s? 

[FakeConcern]

Mrs Concern has now put them in the summer house...

Kees Merc with speedboat...

Beach Buggy...

Hooked another Matchbox boat on the Corgi XR3i...

@155V6 I'll have to look out for that XR3 now!

[bunglebus]

3 hours ago, 155V6 said:

What you really want to go with the seaside theme is this version of the XR3i

Never seen that one. Another to look for!

[Spottedlaurel]

Alpine A310 is moving on nicely:

Limited parts count! There are some clear pieces too.

I suspect it will sit hight than this once the glass and interior components are in place, but it nicely captures the look of the real thing. I still need to repair the pillar damage....

[AnnoyingPentium]

My Dad bought me this about 16 or 17 years ago, it's survived house moves and Christ knows what else, but it shows. Was meaning to show this one off a while back, but had never dug it out of the drawer of doom (TM).

It's a nice wee casting IMO. This one is looking quite rough now (as would be expected), but I'm glad to still have it. There's a few others from this time I'm sure, I'll have to go a look around the house I reckon.

[Spottedlaurel]

Inspired by seeing this 1:1 example on my French holiday:

A few weeks ago I took a few photos of the Majorette version I have in a cabinet at work. Very similar being an early example in the gold colour, even down to the broken front bumper....

 

As I think @Split_Pin mentioned recently, it has the usual Paris '75' plate.

What did Majorette put in the boot?

Just a case this time.

I thought I might have picked it up on a previous French holiday, but it turns out to have come from a toy fair here back in 2020 amongst a batch of other Majorettes:

On the subject of toy fairs, what are people's plans for 2023? Relatively local to me it looks like there's Brentwood on Jan 14th, then Ipswich, Norwich and St Ives, Cambs in February. Never yet done Brentwood, is that one of the big ones?

[sierraman]

I’m jumping the gun already, I’m off to one on Friday. 

[Split_Pin]

The local Falkirk Swapmeet, which has been held in various locations near me since the late 1940s stopped during Covid. I had attended every month since 1989 although after the mid 2000s I stopped going quite so regularly due to having ebay, a mortgage and an expanding 1:1 fleet.

It was organised by a well known Falkirk model shop, McLaren Models. However I checked recently to see if it had started again and I was saddened to find that it had been cancelled for good. Mclaren Models had closed their shop around 2017 and were online only but when I checked recently, it hadn't been updated for a long time. The family who ran it were ageing and I think they just wanted to retire. 

There is a big toy fair in Errol near Perth in May so I'm definitely going to that. Other than this, there's nothing else in my area.

[Spottedlaurel]

Good luck! Hopefully a bountiful tat Friday.

[Spottedlaurel]

3 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

The local Falkirk Swapmeet, which has been held in various locations near me since the late 1940s stopped during Covid. I had attended every month since 1989 although after the mid 2000s I stopped foing quite so regularly due to having ebay a mortgage and an expanding 1:1 fleet.

It was organised by a well known Falkirk model shop, McLaren Models. However I checked recently to see if it had started again and I was saddened to see that it had been cancelled for good. Mclaren Models had closed their shop around 2017 and were online only but when I checked recently, it hadn't been updated for a long time. The family who ran it were ageing and I think they just wanted to retire. 

There is a big toy fair in Errol near Perth in May so I'm definitely going to that. Other than this, there's nothing else in my area.

Must admit the list I use doesn't show much up your way at all: https://www.ukmodelshops.co.uk/eventSMT/y2023/m1

[Split_Pin]

This time last year I was planning to sell a lot of my diecast and although I did a couple of job lots on Marketplace, I think I have bought just as many, which always happens!

So in 2023 I'm going to continue collecting Majorette, Mira, Pilen, Guisval and other small European cars. I also fancy getting a few more French Atlas cars as the 3 I already have hit the spot!

[sierraman]

4 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

This time last year I was planning to sell a lot of my diecast and although I did a couple of job lots on Marketplace, I think I have bought just as many, which always happens!

So in 2023 I'm going to continue collecting Majorette, Mira, Pilen, Guisval and other small European cars. I also fancy getting a few more French Atlas cars as the 3 I already have hit the spot!

This is the thing. I end up ‘saving’ things that are remotely interesting then get them home and end up unsure what to do with them. Take this Escort with the grill missing, I cannot fathom what to do with it apart from hope for finding a dead one to take the grill off. But it was 50p...

[MiniMinorMk3]

51 minutes ago, Spottedlaurel said:

On the subject of toy fairs, what are people's plans for 2023? Relatively local to me it looks like there's Brentwood on Jan 14th, then Ipswich, Norwich and St Ives, Cambs in February. Never yet done Brentwood, is that one of the big ones?

I go to the Northern Toys Fairs. At the moment they only seem to be putting on teh Gateshead one that is at the stadium.

Upcoming Events – Northern Toy Fair (northerntoyfairs.com)

If I'm travelling about I'll have a look here to see if there's anything near by 

Events - Collectors Club of Great Britain (collectors-club-of-great-britain.co.uk)

[MiniMinorMk3]

Sticking with the ADO16s, here's some from Vitesse, including Austin 1100, Austin 1300 GT, MG, Vanden Plas and Wolseley.

 

[barrett]

14 hours ago, Spottedlaurel said:

I suspect it will sit hight than this once the glass and interior components are in place, but it nicely captures the look of the real thing. I still need to repair the pillar damage....

They do sit very high irl. I won't namedrop but a friend of mine designed those Alpine wheels, which are probably my favourite standard factory wheels ever fitted to a car (which I tell him at every opportunity). Even if you'd done nothing else in your career, what an amazing calling card. they look great in small scale and I'm surprised more people aren't canibalising these Heller kits to modify old Solido Renault 5s or whatever

[bunglebus]

12 hours ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

My Dad bought me this about 16 or 17 years ago, it's survived house moves and Christ knows what else, but it shows. Was meaning to show this one off a while back, but had never dug it out of the drawer of doom (TM).

I did a custom one for a friend who owns one. The casting still appears now and again

[bunglebus]

3 hours ago, Spottedlaurel said:

On the subject of toy fairs, what are people's plans for 2023? Relatively local to me it looks like there's Brentwood on Jan 14th, then Ipswich, Norwich and St Ives, Cambs in February. Never yet done Brentwood, is that one of the big ones?

Brentwood is fairly big and busy (not as big as somewhere like Sandown Park though).

I'll be going to Brentwood and Rayleigh - in fact I've just been there today, bit of an odd day to hold it but it was as full as ever.

Didn't take many pics, but this caught my eye as I wasn't familiar with it - typically 5 mins later i saw a loose one too. Not buying single seaters anymore as they don't especially interest me

This seemed a bit funky for the usually staid Britains

One of the regulars had bought a collection of busses off a collector. All different, all seemingly mint. Very nice

[sierraman]

Those Duple Corgi buses are great, the one with the smoke damage from the gift set is good as well. 

[Spottedlaurel]

12 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Brentwood is fairly big and busy (not as big as somewhere like Sandown Park though).

I'll be going to Brentwood and Rayleigh - in fact I've just been there today, bit of an odd day to hold it but it was as full as ever.............

Please give me a shout nearer the time, will try and make it along.

[Spottedlaurel]

39 minutes ago, barrett said:

They do sit very high irl. I won't namedrop but a friend of mine designed those Alpine wheels, which are probably my favourite standard factory wheels ever fitted to a car (which I tell him at every opportunity). Even if you'd done nothing else in your career, what an amazing calling card. they look great in small scale and I'm surprised more people aren't canibalising these Heller kits to modify old Solido Renault 5s or whatever

That's ace! They're up there with the likes of the smooth Granada/Cortina Ghia alloys.

I'm working on the detail of this kit at this very moment, Heller did a really nice job on it. It would be interesting to see whether the modern reissue is as a sharp a moulding.

They've got some nice stuff coming out in 2023, including a couple of interesting 1:24 trailers and R4 van: https://www.heller.fr/en/category/vehicle-only_coming_soon

Looking at the current 1:43 range I'd like to get the VW K70, R5 Turbo and maybe the Peugeot 403. Must try and get to a decent toy/model shop on this year's French holiday....