Shite in Miniature II

[Amelia]

I'm loving this thread, it's going to take me a while to get through it though! 

My son has loads of model cars, but so many are just boxed up in storage now. We should really start moving some on.

Once I'm a full member I might do a for sale thread on them.

 

Lately we have been playing with this beauty, a Pinecone RC car from China - it's dangerously fast and wasn't too expensive, plus you can buy spares for when you inevitably break it!

1/16 scale though, so nothing fits from other RC cars.

 

 

[MiniMinorMk3]

Back on the subject of the gaps that Vanguards have left, the Silas range of models as mentioned earlier in the thread are very good, if a little pricey. Built in very small numbers, but in various colours, they are difficult to find once sold out.

1964 HA Viva

1961 Sunbeam Rapier

1969 Austin Maxi

[bunglebus]

Only one arrival today, a better example of the Mini Mira Stretcha Fetcha

My other one was missing a wheel and much tattier

[bunglebus]

And yet again a supermarket has had a delivery and I've missed it - just this left in Morrison's today

[flat4alfa]

5 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

1964 HA Viva

1961 Sunbeam Rapier

1969 Austin Maxi

Viva HA - Rapier -  Maxi.

I'll have to dig out the my Airfix equivalents and compare!

In the meantime, a catalogue scan

[MiniMinorMk3]

8 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Viva HA - Rapier -  Maxi.

I'll have to dig out the my Airfix equivalents and compare!

In the meantime, a catalogue scan

Airfix were 1/32nd, handy for converting into Scalextric runners.

[flat4alfa]

Does anyone have the Corgi Juniors Mobile Shop going spare?

With this card inside

[flat4alfa]

1 hour ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Airfix were 1/32nd, handy for converting into Scalextric runners.

Eddy built a static Airfix Vauxhall Viva from a kit, 50 years ago. Today it lives on - but now with a motor inside it.

@eddyramrod

Quick and clumsy film effort from three years ago...

[155V6]

1 hour ago, flat4alfa said:

Does anyone have the Corgi Juniors Mobile Shop going spare?

With this card inside

Mine seems to have stained glass windows,& a shopkeeper with a long, forked tongue 😮

[flat4alfa]

42 minutes ago, 155V6 said:

Mine seems to have stained glass windows,& a shopkeeper with a long, forked tongue 😮

Yes that's not the one I am after 😆

There is another type, when he lost the tongue but gained a few pounds

Not after that either

[bunglebus]

I think I have evil shopkeeper

And Arkwright's mobile shop

 

[flat4alfa]

9 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Arkwright card looks good order both sides?

Is it purchaseable?

[sutty2006]

I was in a different part of town today, dropped my dad off at the royal Stoke hospital and went to halfrauds to get a rear wiper blade for the Audi. I decided to call in BnM next door, who have not been good in the past. Walking down the huge row of toys I found some hotwheels on the shelf, just placed there. Nothing worth having. Then about 5 metres down the aisle was more hotwheels, but a whole box full placed on the shelf very neatly. My luck was in! Escort on the FRONT, untouched! Mine. I hunted through the neat and tidy rows but alas, no red Sierra. The hunt continues. Got the civic too, and the Camero for my son. He loves his hotwheels! 

[bunglebus]

4 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Arkwright card looks good order both sides?

Is it purchaseable?

I honestly don't even know if I still have it - that's the only pic I could find, from 2020

[eddyramrod]

4 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

Eddy built a static Airfix Vauxhall Viva from a kit, 50 years ago. Today it lives on - but now with a motor inside it.

@eddyramrod

Quick and clumsy film effort from three years ago...

I also built a Triumph Herald using a Mighty Metro chassis.  I still have that!

[MiniMinorMk3]

Here's some Verem models, which are just Solidos under a different name.

Alfa 2600 GT

Bentley S1, note wooden plinth.

403 Cabriolet, again on wooden plinth

205 Monte

David Piper Porker 917

[sierraman]

14 hours ago, bunglebus said:

I think I have evil shopkeeper

And Arkwright's mobile shop

 

I had the Pizza Van one.

[stuboy]

Won this off face ache book, squint and its an vauxhall astra gte.

[danthecapriman]

Been up in the loft again today hunting for treasure! 
 

Found this in a box. 

Well played with but still here!

[sutty2006]

2 minutes ago, danthecapriman said:

Been up in the loft again today hunting for treasure! 
 

Found this in a box. 

Well played with but still here!

That’s cool as fuck! Saab 9000? 

[danthecapriman]

4 minutes ago, sutty2006 said:

That’s cool as fuck! Saab 9000? 

Yep. No idea on the manufacturer, just says made in china. I think the caravan used to have sticker stripes on the sides.

[sutty2006]

Just now, danthecapriman said:

Yep. No idea on the manufacturer, just says made in china. I think the caravan used to have sticker stripes on the sides.

I really must head into the loft and get my big box of cars out….. 

[Split_Pin]

3 minutes ago, danthecapriman said:

Yep. No idea on the manufacturer, just says made in china. I think the caravan used to have sticker stripes on the sides.

It's by Kees. I have one without the caravan.

I think its an upscale copy of the Corgi 1/43 item and the castings are very similar side by side.

You could also get a Mercedes instead. 

[danthecapriman]

Just found one on the Bay, it’s made by Kees apparently. This is what a non worn to fuck one should look like!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/203793293054?hash=item2f7306defe:g:s04AAOSwmcBh5DmJ&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAoNOy3sAOj2sw7rlJOQwZGbAjj5Pj7h1YuVDtWURkJxUHaSv7JbrA73teBZ7prH2Pnh11R6SqcY6xoiY8B32IUAh7L1G%2FSswHASib0chAE7PvPUWEWgV%2FiA4G566RAXwJwAH9%2BZrziAadRcDotE2DzeFKusoSHkCfsoG90Nldj980bTDhkLdqoDLbr5q7dMfjBwrjYe3RncXl0xHLW1X1Eh8%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR_jM4tWzYQ

[danthecapriman]

Found these too. 
Miasto Freightliner log truck.

And this, Scania tanker. You could get them from Esso garages. Every time you filled up with petrol you got tokens which you could redeem on various things… I got this! 

I even kept one of the tokens with it.

 

 

[sierraman]

See my old man always used BP so we had the Corgis you got with the BP stamps. Didn’t they later do the Shell Maisto models, our neighbour used to get loads as he had a scaffolding firm so used to brim the wagon every week so quickly got the set. 

[Roverageous]

This is the latest addition to my collection - Vanguards Rover P6 from their Hidden Treasures selection. I think it might be my most favourite model yet!

[sierraman]

Why’s the number plate four foot long and the massive scoop under the grill looks like it’s been done too big. 

[Roverageous]

Ask Corgi?

I like it!

[andy18s]

14 hours ago, sierraman said:

See my old man always used BP so we had the Corgis you got with the BP stamps. Didn’t they later do the Shell Maisto models, our neighbour used to get loads as he had a scaffolding firm so used to brim the wagon every week so quickly got the set. 

My 2nd ever job was working nights at the newly opened Gledrid Shell station on the Oswestry bypass. Anyone who didn't want their stickers we kept on our own cards so naturally I got the whole 1st set including the big Xj220.

Unfortunately my scumbag brother sold most of it behind my back for booze money..