Shite in Miniature II

[MiniMinorMk3]

10 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

Didn't Peter Sellers have a wicker Mini in one of the early Pink Panther films?  Hmm, LHD conversion shouldn't be difficult on those...

Peter Sellers wicker Mini at Goodwood 2009. This left hand drive version was used in the Shot in the Dark film.

From film A Shot in the Dark

Sellers had another which was RHD

Maximum Mini: Pictures of Peter Sellers Hooper Mini emerge - but where is it?

[sierraman]

I had the 1/18 Majorette model in that scheme. Looked fantastic, really underrated model, long gone now though in the great purge of 2014. 

[bunglebus]

I've been trying to go through all the Datsuncog/Danthecapriman arrivals but some may have to wait for another day. While photographing them, an order from Modelmatic arrived

There is a "chase" car too which is the Willys in Grey

[bunglebus]

These arrived via eBay

I'd not got the DeTomaso at all, and both are unusual in having a Specific Krazee Wheels base and the name on a sticker - my other ones use the regular base and text, just with larger wheels

[Split_Pin]

I was in Smyths today and they had the Premium Hotwheels Rover P6. I really wanted it but its £9. NINE POUNDS.

I ruminated for several minutes but in the end I left it. That's just too much for a Hotwheels.

Do they normally release these as a mainline with a plastic base and wheels? 

[bunglebus]

18 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

I was in Smyths today and they had the Premium Hotwheels Rover P6. I really wanted it but its £9. NINE POUNDS.

I ruminated for several minutes but in the end I left it. That's just too much for a Hotwheels.

Do they normally release these as a mainline with a plastic base and wheels? 

Sometimes, further down the line. Not guaranteed though. Have a look on eBay then run back to Smyths...

[Split_Pin]

I won't be paying £9 for a 1/64 diecast nor anything above that on ebay. That just isn't value for money in my opinion.

[sierraman]

It is excessive I reckon. Anyone seen if Matchbox have picked a new retailer? 

[eddyramrod]

39 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

I won't be paying £9 for a 1/64 diecast nor anything above that on ebay. That just isn't value for money in my opinion.

Totally my thinking too.  It's just RONG.  As for the ebay scalpers, they can just FRO.

[sierraman]

These selling them on eBay must actually be losing money in real terms. Most seem to be £16, so £9 off for purchase, £3.50 off for postage, £1.60 off for fees. Profit is not even two quid. Deduct your time and diesel off that and it doesn’t take Theo Paphitis to realise you aren’t going to be making the FTSE 100 anytime soon. 😂

[Split_Pin]

Yes I think they're taking the piss.  It was lovely but no. I have my Corgi example, that will do. I'd actually prefer a Golden Jacks one with a spare tyre on the boot lid.

[sierraman]

2 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

Yes I think they're taking the piss.  It was lovely but no. I have my Corgi example, that will do. I'd actually prefer a Golden Jacks one with a spare tyre on the boot lid.

I agree, I’d much sooner spend the £9 on a ratty original one at a swapmeet or whatever. That’s another situation I cannot see where the margin is, I get that some will do it as a hobby but the margin must be hardly anything if you were doing it for a living. I don’t think I’ll give up the day job!

[eddyramrod]

They absolutely ARE taking the piss.  BUT enough idiots will always buy from them to encourage them to keep doing it.  And for those of us with more sense than money, none of the above is any consolation.  The prices will stay high and we will have to scour the boot sales ever harder to pick up the usual crumbs.

[Split_Pin]

I only buy from here now. Technically a good percentage is actually from St George's Market but the £5 buses are really tip-top for the money.

[eddyramrod]

There's a rather good seller on the south coast too here, not to mention one up north somewhere...

 

[MiniMinorMk3]

3 hours ago, bunglebus said:

I've been trying to go through all the Datsuncog/Danthecapriman arrivals but some may have to wait for another day. While photographing them, an order from Modelmatic arrived

 

Had a quick scan of the interwebs to find the original cars. Could only find this one

[andrew e]

What you could have had for £9 today! OK I had to pay to get in a model railway show, and put my tightest fitting bobble hat on to get in 😉

From the £1 files, DBS Rocket, Husky split and well loved Barracuda:

From the £3 files a Corgi Firebird (which is obviously missing a door card) but a widescreen and Molotov chrome pen later should look dandy:

 

Lasty coming in at 200 kilos is the Dinky Zodiac which is getting a scrub and a new tyre - it even has all 4 door cards!

 

[bunglebus]

10 minutes ago, andrew e said:

 Corgi Firebird (which is obviously missing a door card)

Dinky Zodiac - it even has all 4 door cards!

I have a spares car for the Firebird -

I need one of those Zody door cards! Mind you the last time I found a police car donor, the interior was orange, not red. The time before that, this was the donor...

[Split_Pin]

15 minutes ago, andrew e said:

What you could have had for £9 today! OK I had to pay to get in a model railway show, and put my tightest fitting bobble hat on to get in 😉

From the £1 files, DBS Rocket, Husky split and well loved Barracuda:

From the £3 files a Corgi Firebird (which is obviously missing a door card) but a widescreen and Molotov chrome pen later should look dandy:

 

Lasty coming in at 200 kilos is the Dinky Zodiac which is getting a scrub and a new tyre - it even has all 4 door cards!

 

See now that's value!

[155V6]

25 minutes ago, andrew e said:

What you could have had for £9 today! OK I had to pay to get in a model railway show, and put my tightest fitting bobble hat on to get in 😉

From the £1 files, DBS Rocket, Husky split and well loved Barracuda:

From the £3 files a Corgi Firebird (which is obviously missing a door card) but a widescreen and Molotov chrome pen later should look dandy:

 

Lasty coming in at 200 kilos is the Dinky Zodiac which is getting a scrub and a new tyre - it even has all 4 door cards!

 

Rockets Aston with blue bonnet was a nice find.You can get the parts for the Firebird from Steve Flowers,you don't even have to drill it apart 😀

[quicksilver]

19 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

Heh, that one really appealed to me as well, for some reason - not the usual subject matter I'd go for, but yeah - just wow.

I reckon it's worth another pic to show it in its full glory:

Very much 'of its era'.

👌

Not quite the same but it reminds me of this one in a similarly 80s-tastic colour scheme that infamously got stuck blocking the entrance road at Showbus in 2015.

 

[bunglebus]

Going through the large box of cars sent by DTCM, a couple stand out. This oddity

Is another of the H.W. copies of 70s British diecasts - in this case the Corgi Hot Rodder

These are larger, make unknown cars. The pickup is a pretty well made piece with opening bits. Cartoonesque BMW looks as though it should drive on two wheels like the ???? cars that were discussed on here ages ago - but doesn't. Absolutely no idea why the 911 has a combination lock arrangement on the side

 

[bunglebus]

Absolutely loads of what I believe to be Welly, and a couple of Summer

[danthecapriman]

I’m still mystified as to wtf that yellow Porsche is all about! I did wonder if the sticker on the base was the code for the combination lock but it didn’t seem to do anything when I tried? But even if it did… what would it do!?

That pickup has scrubbed up pretty well!

[danthecapriman]

I’m 99% sure the STP decal on the bonnet of the last one is not original. That car, and the black wagon and two T birds were mine from childhood, and I’m sure I got a sticker set with number plates etc etc from somewhere or other.

[andrew e]

1 hour ago, 155V6 said:

Rockets Aston with blue bonnet was a nice find.You can get the parts for the Firebird from Steve Flowers,you don't even have to drill it apart 😀

Tell me more - does it pop open?

[bunglebus]

These Marx lorries also came along for the ride, the first one I found was repainted and it took me a good while to work out who made it! 

Superkings Porker

Majorette Saaab

Another Tonka Fun Buggy for my collection 

Talking of Tonkas, these two have survived amazingly well

Corgi Beetle is going in the resto pile - I have another in the spares box which will help

Tomte Lardal T1 pickup is not a Galanite, so that's OK.

This thing is really cool. Joal Chaparral features a height and pitch adjustable aerofoil and opening fuel caps. Shame that door is missing 

Purple Dinky Bimmer

Also Dinky but from a completely different era. Dash is especially appealing for some reason 

Corgi Whizzwheels Citroen is a bit mad. Not seen one before, impressed it still has the door window frames etc, loving the parcel shelf too

This one leaves me with mixed feelings. Lots of separate chrome bits, opening parts - but the plastic base means it feels oddly light, missing that pleasing heft of the older cars. Still like it though

A few Matchbox from various eras

This one's a great find - Road Blasters version of the Ruff Trek. Hard to find with the plastic bits intact

And lastly a tidy but engineless Cougar Dragster...

[bunglebus]

...which leads me nicely onto an engineless Dodge Dragster from Datsuncog 

And those wonderful Majorettes 

[bunglebus]

25 minutes ago, danthecapriman said:

I’m 99% sure the STP decal on the bonnet of the last one is not original... I’m sure I got a sticker set with number plates etc etc from somewhere or other.

Yep should look like this

[bunglebus]

21 minutes ago, andrew e said:

Tell me more - does it pop open?

The windscreen is held in place by the dash - just pushes on. Door cards are the same