Shite in Miniature II

[eddyramrod]

2 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Yeah about that.

Majorette Motor Range Rover 

Actually rather nicely detailed Mini

Not the worst Mini Bus ever

Fox is better than the other yellow one I have

Minty no-name Omega if anyone wants it?

And a tatty but seemingly complete Hongwell B5 wagon that I don't need either

Omega 1/43?  Count me in  Also the B5, and the Fox please (whichever you want to get rid of).  I have someone who will enjoy it...

[flat4alfa]

FFS!! WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN BUYING NOW?!

I TOLD YOU TO GET THAT KITCHEN TILING FINISHED!

BUT OH NO, YOU DON'T LISTEN TO ME...

OH NO, THAT'S TOO MUCH TROUBLE...

WELL I'VE HAD ENOUGH AND GOING TO MUMS!

 

 

* door slams *

[bunglebus]

Dan box arrival! What have we here?

Transit looks like it's had a bit of a hard life picking up broken down Models of Yesteryear 

Pug with bicycle bits

I do have a police SD1 but this one's pretty decent

Rover P6 has Trans-O-Lite...

...so testing is required 

Mebetoys/Mattel Maserati BiSexual

I should give one of these Speed Kings Miuras the paint and detail treatment one day

A couple of nice blackwalls, BMW M1

But why did they call this one Zed Whizz?

Silver bullet is colour changer, out of a Color FX set which pairs it with the Baja Bug

Another M1 in the form of a Majorette Motor

And a white 911

There's another white 911 in here too but it's a Matchbox 

Joining it are yet another M1 - and the often missing rear lights are firmly in place

A Mr. Two 

This very odd Burnin' Key Car

And the Rolamatics buggy. Guy looks like he has piles

Actually he looks like my old CDT teacher in his brown shop coat

It's joined by a Tonka Fun Buggy with lots of corrosion veins under the paint. I like it

Joustra Fwago is an odd size

 

[danthecapriman]

@bunglebus what do you do with the Majorette Motor’s? I was looking at them when I got them and couldn’t see what the little lever on the backs did! I gave up in the end as I didn’t want to break them!

[bunglebus]

I think it just releases the pull-back motor once it's wound. I don't tend to try these things out in case I break them, I should really. Never tried out any of the Trickshifters either

[barrett]

I've been meaning to show these on here for ages, and a conversation about Monicas just now made me get the book of the shelf, so here it is. Norev was planning a plastic 1:43 Monica toy but it was canned when the real thing went under. Such a shame!

[Remspoor]

For the mini lovers have you got this one in your collection?

1/43 scale Austin Mini 850 Ebro service van by IXO

https://www.ebay.com/itm/332754663745

 

That is a security lock.

[Bren]

On 5/15/2023 at 11:10 AM, MiniMinorMk3 said:

 They are from Corgi Junior backing cards

I want this one, NOW!

 

I have this! Quite possibly my favourite toy car ever. Mine is on the later card.

I saw the dinky stingray in an earlier post - it really gives me the heebeegeebees. The men at Dinky got it spectacularly wrong.

[egg]

just missed out on this not feeling flush enough, but a fair price.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rare-Vintage-1960-s-Norev-Plastic-1-43-No83-Morris-1100-In-Sky-Blue-Unboxed-/

[RoadworkUK]

3 hours ago, barrett said:

I've been meaning to show these on here for ages, and a conversation about Monicas just now made me get the book of the shelf, so here it is. Norev was planning a plastic 1:43 Monica toy but it was canned when the real thing went under. Such a shame!

If Norev made a 1:18 Monica I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

[eddyramrod]

I'm sure it's Monicas that I saw at the Isle of Man Motor Museum; two or three on display in different stages of restoration/decrepitude.  I'd never seen one in the metal before.

[sierraman]

13 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

I'm sure it's Monicas that I saw at the Isle of Man Motor Museum; two or three on display in different stages of restoration/decrepitude.  I'd never seen one in the metal before.

A pre production one was featured in practical Classics about 20 years ago as a bare shell. No idea if it ever got restored.

[Jon]

Message received from my Dad that the latest DanBox has arrived safely:

For someone who doesn't collect 'smalls', I seem to have amassed one or two here! That said, there are a few for my brother and the ones remaing for me are a more air friendly weight, I suppose...

Thanks again to @danthecapriman.

 

 

[flat4alfa]

[Datsuncog]

The maple's suddenly gone to full leaf.

Amazing the difference a week or two can make.

I took a turn into the market this morning. Just for a wee look.

The Tat Stall was still vacant, as expected.

Hopefully Market Blokey's enjoying himself on a beach somewhere - preferably the sort of place where he might be able to pick up a joblot of NOS Guisval and Pilen diecast for cheap, and ship them back...

I contented myself with an apple danish and a wanky latte, and reminisced on old times...

[flat4alfa]

1 minute ago, Datsuncog said:

wanky latte

Are you at Scout camp?

[flat4alfa]

I wonder if the charity stall still has that roofless Dinky 145 Singer Vogue...

[Datsuncog]

But there was tat.

Of course there was tat.

There's always tat.

It just depends how much you want to pay for your tat.

Yes, that's £50, £60 and £75 respectively for some playworn and incomplete Corgis - the farm trailer, Bentley FHC and Chevrolet Impala taxi. In torn boxes.

Paddy, of recent screaming outburst infamy, has had these on his stall for a while.

Quite a while, now.

I daresay he'll have them for a while yet.

Also, these broken and dusty 1/18 Hot Wheels models.

£25 a throw to you, sir.

The '50p each' box contains matchboxes.

The ignitable variety, not the Lesney sort - more's the pity.

Truth be told, I was primarily interested in seeing if the Charity Stall still had any of the 50p diecast from the other week.

But the whole set-up is pure chaos.

Larry, who runs the stall, seems to arrive each Friday with a large number of plastic speedflow boxes containing his stock - but even he doesn't seem to know what's in them.

I asked him if he had any toy cars in and he just shrugged.

I dunno, maybe he genuinely just picks up a vanload of random crap every week and it's just as much a surprise to him as it is to us what appears.

My understanding is that he's selling this stuff on behalf of a charity, I think it's St Vincent de Paul - there used to be a large donation bottle on the stall, anyway - though he also seems to have his own 'collectables' sales on the side.

I know he's bought stuff off Market Blokey before, only for it to appear on his stall with a sizeable mark-up.

But he'll generally just open a couple of boxes, then wander off for ten minutes, then come back and open another couple, then vanish again.

Today, it was mostly unbranded pet food.

And past-date tortilla wraps, and contraband ROI Tayto crisps.

Some assorted 50p stuff was dumped out on a table, but there wasn't a lot to get thrilled about.

After a while, he set out his own stuff:

But there wasn't a lot to get my juices flowing.

After about half an hour of hanging around, with several boxes still maddeningly unpacked - and Larry nowhere to be seen - I wandered off, Vogueless.

[Datsuncog]

Mulligan's Irish Gifts, home to all your diddly-dee Irish tourist tat needs, was up and running.

Colin, who runs the stall, was telling me that he's due a load of new Oxford Diecast items in - annoyingly, they only post stuff out on a Wednesday, so it only ever shows up later on a Friday; too late for the Friday Market stall.

He's some Land Rover Discoveries in both 1/43 and 1/72 due in, though.

Sounds like they could be interesting.

Mostly, the stall's diecast stock moves slowly though.

But there's often something new. The Monte Mini was quite nicely done.

Not cheap, and a slightly odd scale, but nicely done.

Hongwell Cararama 1/43 appear to be distributed via Oxford these days.

They're quite keenly priced, and give similar vibes to the early Enfield-made Vanguards - both in appearance, price and subject matter.

And I've always time for Matchbox and Hot Wheels.

These seem to be more of the older case stuff, sourced through our old friend Hundred Hot Wheels Harry.

Current release Convoys definitely have one eye on the 1980s originals.

Although all-plastic, the trailer here has plainly been recreated from the diecast base/ plastic deck CY-1 Car Carrier Trailer.

While the rocket here seems identical to that supplied on the back of the CY-2 Kenworth Rocket Transporter...

...though now with the choking-hazard removable nose capsule firmly moulded to the rest of the rocket body.

These aren't really what Colin wants to be selling - he tells me he much prefers 'models in boxes' - but hey, the 'tacky toys' (his phrase) still sell. And the crossword, sudoku and wordsearch puzzle books are what really sells, and makes the stall viable overall. He was telling me he can lift £500 a day on them alone.

Interesting stuff... maybe I need to get myself onto Puzzleshite.com and start a market thread there...

[sierraman]

With such a random approach to business you wonder how these people get by. 

[Datsuncog]

I'd also been keeping an eye on Alan's Emporium, which had been slowly opening up since 7.30.

I hadn't forgotten about the cars he said he'd picked up in Manchester.

Eventually, my patience was rewarded...

...with some Matchbox Models of Yesteryear from the 1980s.

For £10 a throw.

Ah.

I mean, they were very clean and all, but... I thanked him for his time.

There were no 50p vehicles on the tray this morning; instead we had this...

Yes, that's £20 (ono) for some random hex keys, pipe offcuts, drawer handles and chewed-up far-eastern made screwdrivers.

Bargain.

But then - he's had this sort of thing on the stall before and it's apparently sold, so what do I know?

As the old saying goes - nowt stranger than folk...

[flat4alfa]

28 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

Puzzleshite.com

FRIDAY PUZZLESHITE

[andy18s]

Shouldn't there be 5 Twin Mills,all in a row......

[flat4alfa]

John agrees

[andy18s]

Todays collecting involved another Scooby for the err, collection..from Portugal again.

And a cheap trailer from a Majorette box set that I'll probably get some different stickers for.

[MiniMinorMk3]

17 hours ago, Remspoor said:

For the mini lovers have you got this one in your collection?

1/43 scale Austin Mini 850 Ebro service van by IXO

https://www.ebay.com/itm/332754663745

 

That is a security lock.

I do not have that one, but then they are plenty of those IXO/Altya issues that were only sold on Mainland Europe. I've seen a full size van with that kind of lock on, but I can not remember were and weather it was a Royal Mail or Post Office Telephones van.

57 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

But there's often something new. The Monte Mini was quite nicely done.

 

The 177 Mini must be one of the most modelled competition cars ever. I have various versions from the original Corgi up to the IXO and Vitesse releases.

Morris version

Austin version

Whizzwheels

Polistil

Minichamps BMW Dealer version

Vitesse Square Box

Vitesse diorama

An assorted collection of works Minis including IXO 177

 

[flat4alfa]

Hot Wheeling homage

But they ran out of number ones

[flat4alfa]

I wish I hadn't fallen down the rabbit hole of TINY CITY Hong Kong Minis,  There are loads of interesting ones including the tat stall one

[Datsuncog]

But... I didn't leave empty handed, you'll no doubt be relieved to learn.

These two were kinda on my 'historical regret' list, so I felt it would be imprudent to let them slip through my pastry-sticky digits once again.

The Moving Parts Nissan Xterra is, as expected, a parallel import via China.

Google Lens knows all.

It's not a colour which photographs all that well, truth be told.

I've skipped over rather nicer pale blue (2019 release) and yellow (2020) variants of this one before, and not bought them - so I guess this 2021 release is my third-place runner-up prize.

It's maybe not the most exciting car ever modelled, but hey - I love a gimmick.

Hot opening tailgate action - once something found on mainlines, but not for a long long time.

(Now there's a conundrum for you - what was the last Matchbox mainline offered with opening features? Was it the original version of the Express Delivery, which I believe came with an opening rear loading door?)

Ah well. As I said before, I'm on something of an uncharacteristic AWD fixation right now - so I guess this pleases me well enough.

And I also nabbed this...

The 1996 Chevrolet Impala SS.

Now I've picked this one up before - 2020 maybe? '21? - and never opened it.

It went, with so many others, in the 2022 Purge.

And then I saw it again recently in a post on here, and felt that pang of regret.

So - opportunity does knock twice, sometimes.

It's here, and it's opened now.

It's minimally detailed, and quite lightweight - in a way it reminds me of early 1990s Hot Wheels like the Holden Commodore.

But it's quite handsome, in an understated way.

And it pleased Colin, as it was his first sale of the day - he did me both of them for £5, knocking a quid off the sticker price.

Perhaps unusually, he spat on the fiver before popping it into his cashbox.

Apparently, it brings luck to do that with the day's first takings - even more so if there's no change to give back.

I was unaware of this tradition, despite spending much of my working life in retail.

It also reminded me to try to have exact change in future, for multiple reasons.

So yeah - in some ways, it's a strange little place, St George's Market. But where else would I want to be on a Friday morning?

"Forget it, Jake - it's Georgietown."

Happy Friday, kids. Have a good 'un.

[flat4alfa]

14 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

 

It's maybe not the most exciting car ever modelled, but hey - I love a gimmick.

Hot opening tailgate action - once something found on mainlines, but not for a long long time.

(Now there's a conundrum for you - what was the last Matchbox mainline offered with opening features? Was it the original version of the Express Delivery, which I believe came with an opening rear loading door?)

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2006 was the official last year for basic range issues with opening features, as the MB528 Police Car with opening rear was last seen in the basic range at that point, alongside the MB504 Jeep Liberty which had opening doors but had debuted in 2001 [lamleygroup.com]