Shite in Miniature II

[Dick Cheeseburger]

38 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Détail, s'il vous plait !

This. De-green the derrière at the very least.

[MiniMinorMk3]

1 hour ago, eddyramrod said:

The Rolls Royce Corniche exists in both 1/43 and 1/36 by Corgi, except that when it was 1/43 it was called a Silver Shadow by HJ Mulliner Park Ward, which probably took up too much space on the box.  I'm not aware of it offered as a Bentley in the smaller size, only in the 1/36.  I have a 1/43 with Golden Jacks, and a 1/36 which of course doesn't have them.  I've restored both.

Dinky, meanwhile, went the 4-door route with their Silver Shadow, in approximately 1/43; now that I have a Shadow II from the Bond partwork series I'd quite like to have a Dinky to compare against it!

The Rolls Mulliner was the Golden Jack car (No. 273),

and then went on to be a WhizzWheels car (No. 280).

that came in silver with gold trim and blue.

Also the pink Bentley T used the same smaller casting (No, 274)

The larger version, R-R Corniche came in various colours and was renumbered as time went on. (No. 279)

[MiniMinorMk3]

And talking of products from Crewe, here are some European produced examples in 1/43rd.

Norev plastic Shadow Saloon

Politoys Corniche Convertible

Polistil version of the same casting

And a bonus Polistil R-R Silver Cloud 3 Continental

 

[Datsuncog]

Some good news on the HW Flying Customs front...

Swung past the Newtownabbey branch of B&M today while picking up some plumbing stuff from Screwfix - they now had three pegs crammed with the buggers, plus more shoved up on top.

There was a Firebird right at the front, giving me the final one needed to complete the eight models of this release series.

So that's a full house now for @bunglebus...

Seems to be some weird distribution thing going on, as this store has tons of this range but I haven't seen them in any other branches at all... it's quite a big store, but not one of the huge ones.

[bunglebus]

Awesome! 

I've added detail to the lights and handles on the Simca,  it should have chrome around all the windows but I've yet to see anyone paint trim like that and it not look cack.

[bunglebus]

Still no Flying Customs in my BuM.

Checked out TK Maxx for Majorettes, they had a small selection so I picked up a 500

[danthecapriman]

2 hours ago, eddyramrod said:

The Rolls Royce Corniche exists in both 1/43 and 1/36 by Corgi, except that when it was 1/43 it was called a Silver Shadow by HJ Mulliner Park Ward, which probably took up too much space on the box.  I'm not aware of it offered as a Bentley in the smaller size, only in the 1/36.  I have a 1/43 with Golden Jacks, and a 1/36 which of course doesn't have them.  I've restored both.

Dinky, meanwhile, went the 4-door route with their Silver Shadow, in approximately 1/43; now that I have a Shadow II from the Bond partwork series I'd quite like to have a Dinky to compare against it!

I like the Dinky Shadow, looks good and feels a good quality lump. I’ve got the blue version. Nice springy suspension too!

[bunglebus]

[Noel Tidybeard]

3 hours ago, eddyramrod said:

The Rolls Royce Corniche exists in both 1/43 and 1/36 by Corgi, except that when it was 1/43 it was called a Silver Shadow by HJ Mulliner Park Ward, which probably took up too much space on the box.  I'm not aware of it offered as a Bentley in the smaller size, only in the 1/36.  I have a 1/43 with Golden Jacks, and a 1/36 which of course doesn't have them.  I've restored both.

 

other way round 1/43 in pink but not 1/36

[andrew e]

Cor! The Junkman would have loved that Norev Shadow. 

[AndyW201]

4 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Still no Flying Customs in my BuM.

Checked out TK Maxx for Majorettes, they had a small selection so I picked up a 500

Quite like that open roof one. Only place I've seen Majorette lately is our local Asda, but they only ever have buses,  trucks,  those twin sets with Land Rovers & trailers and 5 packs of cars. They have a 5 pack with that Fiat, the new shape Audi A1 and the Hyundai i30 N in that I've had my eye on. They reduced the packs to £8 last week but so far I've resisted...

Weekend sweep of B&M revealed nothing new really. Fresh stocks of that bloody Hot Wheels case with the Volvo gasser and the blue Toyota van, clipstrips of late 2022 Matchbox  and no fresh Flying Customs so I'm still 25% short of the set!

A few more of the F&F Hot Wheels but mostly the two silly Dodge Charger variants and the Jeep Renegade. Obviously the scalping twats have been at the Eclipse, Supra and Silvias. (TBH how the hell I found an Escort I have no idea). Already the Hot Wheels pages on FB are full of them asking £7 or £8 a pop.

I did find the modern Charger Hellcat, I quite like that one, so I nabbed it.

[Datsuncog]

2 minutes ago, AndyW201 said:

no fresh Flying Customs so I'm still 25% short of the set!

If you let me know which two you're missing, I can check next time I'm in and (if successful) add them to your box - there must have been about 40 of the Flying Customs on the pegs in my nearest branch this afternoon...

[bunglebus]

45 minutes ago, AndyW201 said:

Quite like that open roof one

I may have bought more than one

[AndyW201]

1 hour ago, Datsuncog said:

If you let me know which two you're missing, I can check next time I'm in and (if successful) add them to your box - there must have been about 40 of the Flying Customs on the pegs in my nearest branch this afternoon...

Cheers Tim, I'm missing the blue Nova wagon and the white Shelby GT500

[Datsuncog]

Cool. Will see what I can do!

[bunglebus]

Lights, handles and lacquer. It's only paint...

[flat4alfa]

15 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

Some good news on the HW Flying Customs front...

Swung past the Newtownabbey branch of B&M today while picking up some plumbing stuff from Screwfix - they now had three pegs crammed with the buggers, plus more shoved up on top.

There was a Firebird right at the front, giving me the final one needed to complete the eight models of this release series.

So that's a full house now for @bunglebus...

Seems to be some weird distribution thing going on, as this store has tons of this range but I haven't seen them in any other branches at all... it's quite a big store, but not one of the huge ones.

Cuda has been acquired and is on its way

...but if there is a chance of also making up a second set, for the craik,  there is a welcome home here pretty please with a cherry onatop 

[bunglebus]

On 28/02/2023 at 17:28, Christine said:

SWAP 4  HOTWHEELS HONDA CIVIC TYPE R EK9  THEN !!!

 WD  PREFER A BUNGLEBUS  REPAINT IN SIMILAR COLOR  TO NIGHTFIRE RED !

So...yellow type R

Bare metalled

Possibly hard to see what's going on here, but I cut the axles deeper into the base to raise the suspension

Interior painted in primer and some detail added

Being a Ryu Asada design, there are details you can't normally see, such as the rear view mirror and sunvisors

And done, wheels were the closest I could find to the wheels trims on the supplied image I worked from. I also shrunk the massive rear spoiler a bit so it was closer to the stock version

Might have gone a bit nuts detailing this one!

[Datsuncog]

Blimey, those are terrific! Both the Alpine and the Civic!

[Datsuncog]

1 hour ago, flat4alfa said:

if there is a chance of also making up a second set, for the craik,  there is a welcome home here pretty please with a cherry onatop 

Sure thing! Will check later on... I'm hopeful there'll be a full set scattered across the pegs, but is it a case of 'all or none' - would you still be interested in six or seven of them if not quite all are available?

[Tenmil Socket]

Christmas morning, mid 80's, still half asleep. Ignoring the Atari 2600 behind me and gluing a model kit instead (Revell Renault?).

[sierraman]

I had one of those Halifax house piggy banks. My dad probably got it free with a crappy endowment he took out at the time 🤣

[Datsuncog]

23 minutes ago, Tenmil Socket said:

gluing a model kit instead (Revell Renault?).

Looks like it might be the Heller R30 kit...

(I had that one too - the bodyshell was bright yellow, which fits what you're holding)

Great pic!

[Tenmil Socket]

12 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

Looks like it might be the Heller R30 kit...

(I had that one too - the bodyshell was bright yellow, which fits what you're holding)

Great pic!

You’re probably correct, thanks!

[bunglebus]

Some WOB just arrived

[Datsuncog]

Some good news for aficionados of certain Hot Wheels releases... though not quite the magnificent news I'd hoped to bring.

Called past B&M at lunchtime, while on a mission for yet more plumbing stuff.

Initial impressions were good, but...

It turned out that three pegs+ of Flying Customs was, in fact, mostly pegs of off-roaders and other stuff that had been faced over with a few Flying Customs.

Well, bother.

So after some much-needed tidying (once a shopkeeper, etc etc), we ended up with just over a single peg's worth of FCs.

Lots of these Disney Pixar Lightyear items, though, plus a few Fast & Furious cars left (just the jacked-up Charger and the silver Jeep).

So the elusive item today was the white Shelby Mustang - while the others in the range were available in varying quantities (about eight orange Mustangs and gold Custom Ottos kicking about, yet only one solitary red Plymouth GTX), tragically there were no Shelbys at all to be found.

I hoked around the adjacent shelves and even got down on my knees in case one had fallen to the ground and been kicked under the racking, but nada.

So that gives us 7/8 of the complete range for @flat4alfa, plus only one of @AndyW201's missing pair - the Chevy Nova wagon.

But fret not, I'll keep looking for a brace of Shelbys... there are a few other B&M stores on the far side of Belfast I've yet to have a nosey in.

I did snaffle these two for myself, while I was in there.

I previously had two examples of that Dodge van - in blue-green and in yellow - but passed them on without ever opening them, which was silly as I really liked them.

So this is an attempt to atone for that - though I'm not so struck on the krazy orange glazing on this blue Hot Wheels racing version.

The Matchbox snow plough reminded me strongly of the similar MB45 release back in the early 1990s - and what do you know, apparently it's a revised version, now re-tooled and re-released (though with less metal and more plastic bits than before).

I kinda liked the blue-grey National Parks version in last year's mainline range, and kept picking it up and putting it back repeatedly while in Tesco over a period of months.

But then they were all gone.

This yellow Road Maintenance one looks pretty nice, though.

The chase continues...

[Isopon]

Just a quick note- my local Sainsbury's has Matchbox 5 packs reduced to clear at only £2.10!! I don't know if this is a one-off, but there are some bargains to he had.

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[Datsuncog]

Sainsburys toy aisle, later tonight:

[Datsuncog]

1 hour ago, Isopon said:

Just a quick note- my local Sainsbury's has Matchbox 5 packs reduced to clear at only £2.10!! I don't know if this is a one-off, but there are some bargains to he had.

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You did well! Those are all recent multipacks too - Tesco still want £9 each on those!

Annoyingly I haven't seen any Matchbox in Sainsburys over here; just Hot Wheels.

[flat4alfa]

8 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

Sure thing! Will check later on... I'm hopeful there'll be a full set scattered across the pegs, but is it a case of 'all or none' - would you still be interested in six or seven of them if not quite all are available?

Whatever is available thanks

Still not seen at all in any store over this way