Shite in Miniature II

[MiniMinorMk3]

34 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

You could avoid shortening altogether, by cutting short lengths of spacer from some plastic tubing and go for the Carlos Fandago look

 

For those young'uns at he back who don't know who Carlos Fandango is (amazing that an ad from almost 50 years ago is still a point of amusement)

 

[Christine]

That oval window porsche had a bent  front axle , it snapped like a carrot when i tried to straighten it ..  it has a hypodermic needle axle now ! 

[flat4alfa]

20 minutes ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

For those young'uns at he back who don't know who Carlos Fandango is (amazing that an ad from almost 50 years ago is still a point of amusement)

 

Brings thing round to this Anglia slot car homage I knocked together a while back 

Body is die cast and by Saico, approx 1:30

Just for the hell of it.

[FakeConcern]

1 hour ago, flat4alfa said:

You could avoid shortening altogether, by cutting short lengths of spacer from some plastic tubing and go for the Carlos Fandago look

It'll be brill.

What a coincidence!

 

Might be just a bit too much enough though!

[sierraman]

I reckon if you could drill in some metal a hole the diameter of the axle, then countersink it a bit so that when you clobber it it flares out a bit if you get what I mean? Maybe heat it with a blow torch to soften the metal a bit. 

[bunglebus]

I mentioned a couple of differences between Binz ambulances earlier, but there are actually quite a few, considering it was only made from 67-72, with a brief comeback in the amazing year of 1977

Regular wheels - correct wheelarches, Merc star on grille top

Early Superfast - enlarged rear arches, no Merc star

Late Superfast, even bigger wheelarches

Late Superfast, tailgate cast shut - and headlights now part of the body, not the base

1977 twin pack release

 

[Reluctant Adult]

Visited Cloverlands Model Car Museum on Sunday & saw these (among many others) 😀More photos to follow!

[Reluctant Adult]

[Reluctant Adult]

[junkyarddog]

52 minutes ago, Reluctant Adult said:

Visited Cloverlands Model Car Museum on Sunday & saw these (among many others) 😀More photos to follow!

 

 

 

 

I saw the first pic and thought Smoll Eddy would look right at home there,He's omnipresent,bit too neat for him though🤣

[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, Reluctant Adult said:

Is that a white Corgi NSU RO80 on the transporter?! 

WANT

[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, Reluctant Adult said:

I need a little rest after looking at those two pics

[andrew e]

Those Siku’s and Majorettes 😎 I really ought to arrange mine in the display cases I’ve put up in my garage…. last month… 😂

[MiniMinorMk3]

11 hours ago, Reluctant Adult said:

Visited Cloverlands Model Car Museum on Sunday & saw these (among many others) 😀More photos to follow!

 

Next time I'm in Wales I will drop in, looks a great place to spend a day.

Welcome to Cloverlands Model Car Museum | The Largest Public Collection of Model Cars in Wales (cloverlandscarmuseum.com)

 

[w00dy]

Picked this up from a fairly depleted Morrisons stock. Choice of two so clearly not a popular model. 

[MiniMinorMk3]

On 4/11/2023 at 11:08 AM, Christine said:

I have a Schabak Jetta , but i swapped over the headlight panel  with the  Golf one...and now i've lost the Golf..   I've got the T4 tipper  and  T4 caravelle too

I have a Mk2 Jetta

and a Polo Bread Van has been through here.

[flat4alfa]

10 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Is that a white Corgi NSU RO80 on the transporter?! 

WANT

For £85 though, I'd rather just paint one to match...

[flat4alfa]

12 hours ago, Reluctant Adult said:

I  think I may need to seek help.  Because my own shelves are significantly fuller than some of those...

[barrett]

54 minutes ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Next time I'm in Wales I will drop in, looks a great place to spend a day.

You could kill an hour there, but it's quite a crappy place really (I've only been to the old site, not the new one, but I'm sure the exhibits are the same). There are some interesting things in there but there's no real curation, so Day's Gone gets equal billing with some super-rare stuff. It's worth visiting more for the heavy League of Gentlemen vibes than the exhibits, although I think the mad old woman who started it has died. Local toys for local people.

[bunglebus]

On 09/04/2023 at 22:22, flat4alfa said:

Hmm... yeah, those.

The missing cars to (almost) complete the saddo OCD collection back here...   are the top one Ford Torino Talledega and the bottom one Gazella R (which doesn't look like it should be in the collection anyhow)

The only other to complete it would be Twin Mill

https://hotwheels.fandom.com/wiki/Orange_and_Blue_Series_(2021)

B+M

[sierraman]

3 hours ago, andrew e said:

Those Siku’s and Majorettes 😎 I really ought to arrange mine in the display cases I’ve put up in my garage…. last month… 😂

I’d love to display all my stuff but for the sanctity of my marriage I condone it to one shelf in the bedroom. 

[flat4alfa]

41 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

B+M

Talledega please!

Is there a Twin Mill??

[flat4alfa]

17 hours ago, FakeConcern said:

Mint-flavour toothpicks?

[bunglebus]

2 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Talledega please!

Is there a Twin Mill??

No - shame I didn't know earlier you were looking as QDs have had stacks of them for months, mostly gone now. 

Got the Talledega tho

[bunglebus]

Entertainer had more Audis if anyone needs one still?

[flat4alfa]

2 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Entertainer had more Audis if anyone needs one still?

Yes I am still Audi-less

Assuming you mean the IMSA 1990 Audi...

When Joachim Stuck did this

And again

 

[AndyW201]

Absolutely nada still around my area for any of the latest Hot Wheels, all of the usual outlets being content instead with regular restocks of case C. To think I reckoned I'd never be able to get hold of the Volvo gasser or blue Toyota van. I must have seen hundreds of the bastards...

Not all was lost though. Local Tesco had their first new case of Matchbox for yonks,

The Ami is kind of a folk hero on here, so I had to get one. Obviously it's tiny but very well rendered.

Front view... No, back... Er, hang on...

Yep, that's deffo the front, now the rear,

I'm finding myself liking more electric cars as they come onto the market. Our local Ford dealer has a couple of Mustang Mach-Es as demos in funky colours and, I hate to say, I quite like them, despite the slightly dodgy use of the Mustang name...

The Matchbox one is a little belter, miles better than the Hot Wheels racing version,

Not dissimilar to the Mach-E, another fairly interesting looking one is the new Mégane. I've always preferred miniature versions of normal family cars, and Matchbox again have put in quite a bit of effort with the detail on this one.

Bit different to the Mk1 Mégane my dad bought new in 1996 though...

It's been said before many times on here, but the cars  coming out of Mattel nowadays are often like proper tiny collectors models rather than £2 toys nowadays.

And after the revelation about this trailer being made to partner up with the Nissan Cycle Runner hardbody, I had to grab one to pair up with the truck I got a few weeks ago. Love the number plate...

 

[FakeConcern]

This is a strange one, a while ago I won a Corgi Monte Mini (a pretty shit one) on ebay for £2.95 +p&p.

After a few weeks it hadn't turned up & the seller told me Evri had lost it and I was refunded.

This was it...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Corgi-Toys-Mini-Cooper-Rally-1960s-/165960437369?nma=true&si=IMjdDwdKAQG9DHwb6mKAN8YcdTo%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

So today I was looking at ebay again (!) and saw this with £4.95 starting bid...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/166026040421?hash=item26a7ec5465:g:uicAAOSw72FkNFCB&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA0AQKNtPCo4IwpAzYHfEbvOA760LTTvgJzSA%2FLaP4kCa%2BXtdEdXZ1VvuPAU9RNWX%2Fn01%2BuxoXMVR6ncMBhRdfvh7ODyDrajMegYoM6vPaFaK49iwYtw8Z6Jrhq%2B9Fl%2Bw%2BpWVQ60kbUC12OMZQljqrcygILhOjcKg8IYy8TmLrOPopKBdZ%2BxoCoLWuys2BfXJJPBRhc4LXqP39ZSQ8XwTqfx0mehB3VXIorWDCABNGOhUWjZcsg89xcNSkUjsaOPA5H1w%2BTY3g%2F53LQ%2B4GqAkPUfA%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR9qss77vYQ

So what ya all reckon?

[Dick Cheeseburger]

42 minutes ago, FakeConcern said:

This is a strange one, a while ago I won a Corgi Monte Mini (a pretty shit one) on ebay for £2.95 +p&p.

After a few weeks it hadn't turned up & the seller told me Evri had lost it and I was refunded.

This was it...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Corgi-Toys-Mini-Cooper-Rally-1960s-/165960437369?nma=true&si=IMjdDwdKAQG9DHwb6mKAN8YcdTo%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

So today I was looking at ebay again (!) and saw this with £4.95 starting bid...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/166026040421?hash=item26a7ec5465:g:uicAAOSw72FkNFCB&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA0AQKNtPCo4IwpAzYHfEbvOA760LTTvgJzSA%2FLaP4kCa%2BXtdEdXZ1VvuPAU9RNWX%2Fn01%2BuxoXMVR6ncMBhRdfvh7ODyDrajMegYoM6vPaFaK49iwYtw8Z6Jrhq%2B9Fl%2Bw%2BpWVQ60kbUC12OMZQljqrcygILhOjcKg8IYy8TmLrOPopKBdZ%2BxoCoLWuys2BfXJJPBRhc4LXqP39ZSQ8XwTqfx0mehB3VXIorWDCABNGOhUWjZcsg89xcNSkUjsaOPA5H1w%2BTY3g%2F53LQ%2B4GqAkPUfA%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR9qss77vYQ

So what ya all reckon?

It has a 'Make Offer' option so offer £2.96 to show your generosity. If the seller declines, ask if your original sale price of £2.95 still stands. If not, I'd be asking for his advice on how to do magic as he's clearly very good at recovering items which have vanished* into thin air. 

[sierraman]

Some people fundamentally don’t understand the concept of an auction do they. It sells for whatever it sells for!