Shite in Miniature II

[Junkman]

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[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I too picked up a few bits from Scale Model World at the weekend. 

 

 

Fujimi Mini for parts, £3. The floor's missing, and the shell has a crack in the roof but it's got all the important bits like the late dash and grille. Even better, it came with the correct wheels for the last one I built. Got to build something really mundane out of this, like a grey bumper City E. 

 

Ertl 59 El Camino, £15. Still shrink-wrapped and despite the box being flawless, the roof had been crushed and the pillars broken. It's repaired okay. 

 

Revell Mercedes 300 SL24, £5. Complete but shell painted in shite primer. It's sanded well though.

 

 

Revell London Bus, £20. New and sealed. Mini for scale, since this box is enormous. I've never seen so much plastic.

[Split_Pin]

The Transit is selling fast, I hope there are some left before I get paid!

[Junkman]

Every vendor at Telford had several stacks of them. They didn't get lower during the course of the day.

It looked to me as if people weren't too impressed by someone whacking a tool that had paid for itself 30 years ago

into a moulding machine, adding a mediocre decal sheet and charging 24 quid for his effort*.

 

I expect them to be marked down very soon.

[Split_Pin]

You are doing me a concern.

 

I don't want to miss out but at the same time I don't want to pay a not inconsiderable sum for something substandard.

[Spottedlaurel]

You are doing me a concern.

 

I don't want to miss out but at the same time I don't want to pay a not inconsiderable sum for something substandard.

 

I wouldn’t say it’s sub-standard, just not new – I was more than happy with it, having never seen the original version. If the reissue of stuff like this helps the manufacturer pay for the tooling on new releases then all well and good.

 

Mine was £22.99 off eBay, including postage. I can’t see them ever dropping much below £15-20.

[Split_Pin]

Ok cheers SL. I have some quite old kits in my collection and they do me fine so I'll get this Transit kit. I love the old school models so this should fit in!

[Junkman]

It's not substandard. For its day it was state of the art and it held up reasonably well.

Look at what some people built from the kit.

[Felly Magic]

I've outshited myself here, finally got my mitts on a DeAgostini Lada Samara natasha cabriolet, complete with Russian partwork mag. Cor!

 

 

 

 

 

[sierraman]

Matchbox Superkings Artic purchased today for a quid!

[Felly Magic]

What a bargainous purchase

[Split_Pin]

That Lada and mag is just glorious, I love Russian cars and whatnot.

 

You're living your life 1/43rd at a time!

[Felly Magic]

Picked up a Gaz Volga 24 off a fb group as well, arrived this morning, sadly no mag with it, but it's nice. Also from the same seller, I got a Vanguards Sierra Sapphire GLS in red. Photos later. Gonna be fun packing all my models up next week, as I move down to the coast into a giffer flat, not quite 'home by the sea', more like home by the docks LOL

[danthecapriman]

Just ordered a Matrix models 1/43 resin Cadillac hearse. They look really good in the pics I've seen, though they are not cheap! Should be here in the next few days.

 

I then decided it was a good idea to get some other similar models, some of which had to be ordered in so I'll have to wait a little while for them, but I can't wait to get them.

There's a Granada mk2 estate, had to have one since I own a 1/1 scale version

Austin A135 Princess, because I love the real ones!

AMC Pacer

Mercury Marquis, again I had to have one as I own a 1/1 version.

Dodge Monaco

Oldsmobile 98 hearse

Chevy Caprice Classic

Lincoln Continental mk4 coupe

And lastly a Cadillac DeVille

 

Pics to follow once they actually arrive, but I can't wait to see them! They look really good quality well detailed models.

[steveo3002]

hahah be carefull searching matrix models 

[danthecapriman]

hahah be carefull searching matrix models

 

Yes! Yes indeed!

I did it yesterday and people cold see my ipad screen! Took a bit of explaining but I think I'm good.

[Felly Magic]

My final purchases before I flit next week, A Vanguards Sierra Sapphire GLS and a DeAgostini Volga 24, plus my Samara fleet. I never thought I would ever have a collection of Commietat 5 years ago, now I'm over run with em

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Split_Pin]

Liking the trimz on the Волга

[RoadworkUK]

That Volga looks terrific. Volgalour should buy one.

[Bren]

Matchbox Superkings Artic purchased today for a quid!

It should have a peterbilt tractor unit, not a crusader.

 

But for a quid...

[Felly Magic]

Langanese is a Unilever brand on the continent, the same as Walls Ice cream. The white 3 door Samara has Altaya Opel Corsa wheels, and the Volga does look utterly misery spec with the wheeltrims. Feck knows why Corgi fitted a beige interior in the Sierra GLS, it should be grey. 

[Noel Tidybeard]

that sierror has got the rong seats- they recaros they are

[Felly Magic]

I noticed that as well, Corgi saving money on tooling as most releases have been Cossehs

[danthecapriman]

My 1:43 Cadillac hearse arrived today! Limited edition of 408 models, made in resin from Matrix.

 

 

 

 

 

It's a really nice model, very fine details and well made. They aren't cheap but I'll certainly be looking forward to getting my other Matrix and Neo resin cars soon. Well worth it IMHO.

[danthecapriman]

A couple more 1/43's arrived today.

 

A pair of gold Neo Imperials!

 

 

 

 

 

I've got a few more still to arrive yet too...

Thanks a bunch you lot for starting me off collecting model shite!

[oldcars]

Got this in home bargains. Not the standard of the other stuff posted but happy for £2. A Renault 4 gtl.

[sierraman]

I like that. I'll make that a port of call tomorrow.

[oldcars]

They come in red or white. 

[Split_Pin]

Yo DAN_CAPRI those Imperials are superb. You are setting the bar high by starting off your collection with Neos, best o gear there!

[danthecapriman]

Yo DAN_CAPRI those Imperials are superb. You are setting the bar high by starting off your collection with Neos, best o gear there!

They are fantastic looking things. For a 1/43 model the finish and detail really is superb on them, I guess that's the advantage to using resin though.

They aren't cheap averaging out at between £50 and £70 each but you can get the prices down by getting second hand ones or the poorer sellers. One of those Imperials was a second hand model, it was still mint in it's box but it was a lot cheaper than new.

They do seem to be made in very small numbers though, there's a few I want but they seem very hard to get hold of.

 

I've got a few others still to come and a 1/43 minichamps Ford Capri mk2 on the way. I wouldn't mind making up a small 1/43 scale US street scene to display these on either! Maybe a 2' peice of ply sort of size with a few buildings as a background or something. I think it'd look good with all these yanks on it.