Shite in Miniature II

[eddyramrod]

Yes please.

Also @bunglebus I'd have lapped up those partwork cars, especially the 999 types.  If you see them again...

[bunglebus]

4 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

Also @bunglebus I'd have lapped up those partwork cars, especially the 999 types.  If you see them again...

We'll be back in Yarmouth at some point over the weekend. Anything in particular? 

How about a tin sign with really odd perspective? 

[eddyramrod]

Thank you, but I'll pass on that.  Anything with blue lights on the roof interests me though, I have a proven fetish for police cars.  Perhaps one of each type you can find?

[flat4alfa]

37 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

It annoyed the life out of me because it was too big to fit in when playing with my 'small' cars, and too small to fit in with my 'big' cars.

Surreal.  I had the very same problem with it and it still bothers me even today!

[Datsuncog]

This is why I have to pass it on.

It'll make my eyeballs itch otherwise...

[eddyramrod]

1 hour ago, Datsuncog said:

This is why I have to pass it on to Eddy.

EFA

[Remspoor]

20 hours ago, andrew e said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-65714184

I saw that

20 hours ago, eddyramrod said:

He should be on this thread!

 

I say no. Given the photos in that article there are hopefully the better examples of his skills I think we are lucky enough to have better photographers here.

[andy18s]

5 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

And I didn't leave B&M without doing a purchase.

Not sure if you're still after this one, @andy18s - but if you are, it's here!

If you don't... well, someone else is welcome to it. £1.69 paid.

And, after resisting for several months, I finally snapped and bought myself a Nissan Patrol.

I'm still watching too much Matt's Off Road Recovery on YouTube, I know.

But the flowerbeds are calling, and I must go...

Once again - Happy Friday, all!

I'm happy to take the Cub unless anyone else wants it.

Just found out Matchbox are doing a few bikes too...

[FakeConcern]

7 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

And there's more...

I figured that somebody might want this down-at-heel Solido Clio.

And it turns out that somebody is @FakeConcern.

It's definitely seen better days...

But as it's only screwed together, I think this could be a fairly straightforward resto job. Bit of paint, bit of plasticard for the rear lights - done.

Wasn't this one from the tail end of the Hachette Century of Cars collection partwork?

Either way - it's yours for 50p, dude!

Then there's this...

I find it hard to leave cheap Corgi Whizzwheels behind.

Although the windshield and hood have gone AWOL, it's not in too bad shape.

50p takes this, if anyone fancies it!

 

 

 

There used to be a Liquid Yellow 16v on ClioSport so that's an idea...

I was trying to remember how many Corgi GP buggies Mrs Concern has, I think it must be 5 so it's lucky Eddy wants that one haha!

[Dick Cheeseburger]

7 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

 

I'm still watching too much Matt's Off Road Recovery on YouTube, I know.

 

Someone needs to build a diecast replica of Matt's MorVair!

[Datsuncog]

20 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Someone needs to build a diecast replica of Matt's MorVair!

Johnny Lightning did - but it's pricey!

https://mattsoffroadrecovery.com/collections/accessories/products/morrvair

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Just now, Datsuncog said:

Johnny Lightning did - but it's pricey!

https://mattsoffroadrecovery.com/collections/accessories/products/morrvair

I reckon one of our tame restorers on here could do a better job 😉

[andrew e]

You want 1/10th scale?

https://jconcepts.net/1961-corvair-lakewood-body

[Dick Cheeseburger]

7 minutes ago, andrew e said:

You want 1/10th scale?

https://jconcepts.net/1961-corvair-lakewood-body

If I bought a crawler chassis, I'd be all over that. 

[sierraman]

Superkings Diablo was a bargain at £3.75 delivered. 

[Split_Pin]

47 minutes ago, sierraman said:

Superkings Diablo was a bargain at £3.75 delivered. 

That's s new one on me, very nice!

[sierraman]

19 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

That's s new one on me, very nice!

They didn’t make them for very long, Superking sales were on the slide from  1992 onwards. I think anything after about 1994 was old stock. 

[MiniMinorMk3]

19 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

I wasn't 100% sure if I still had my 1990 Solido Clio but it turns out I do.

 

 

 

Enjoy folks!

 

That must be an early one as it is on the Hi-Fi base.

I have a later on in a Today box

Along with a contemporary Espace

 

[MiniMinorMk3]

Just found another Clio. This is a Mog Models 5-Door. It has a resin body applied to a Solido base and uses many of the Solido parts.

 

[Peter C]

Purchased today at the Enfield Pageant for £2.50, a 1:18 scale model of a Mercedes Benz 220SE.

Completely playworn and filthy, looks like a barn find. 

The plan is to do nothing to it, leave it precisely how it is and enjoy the patina.

[RayMK]

5 minutes ago, Peter C said:

Purchased today at the Enfield Pageant for £2.50, a 1:18 scale model of a Mercedes Benz 220SE.

Completely playworn and filthy, looks like a barn find. 

The plan is to do nothing to it, leave it precisely how it is and enjoy the patina.

 

That's fabulous!  Does it even have the fabled low pivot swing axle at the rear?

[Peter C]

2 minutes ago, RayMK said:

That's fabulous!  Does it even have the fabled low pivot swing axle at the rear?

[danthecapriman]

10 minutes ago, Peter C said:

Purchased today at the Enfield Pageant for £2.50, a 1:18 scale model of a Mercedes Benz 220SE.

Completely playworn and filthy, looks like a barn find. 

The plan is to do nothing to it, leave it precisely how it is and enjoy the patina.

That thing is awesome! What a bargain too!

Who made it?

[Peter C]

4 minutes ago, danthecapriman said:

 

Who made it?

Revell

[Split_Pin]

5 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Just found another Clio. This is a Mog Models 5-Door. It has a resin body applied to a Solido base and uses many of the Solido parts.

 

I was after a facelift MK1 Megane made by them to match the real one I had at the time.

[FakeConcern]

Another toyfair today, but a bit of a disappointment as not many stalls and over half were train stuff and the cars seemed to be mainly Vanguard type things and I'm determined not to get into them. (at least not yet!)

Mrs Concern bought a couple of waterline Minic ships and a seated figure to use in her Prisoner scene.

I got these

Ok it is a Vanguard, but I didn't mean this kind! I really wanted the later one with faired in rear arches as I had a blue one when I was very young, but still like this and it's gone in the box for a makeover when I get round the the 50s cars I have.

The Opel is such a nice looking car so for a couple of quid I couldn't leave it even though it's a repaint with horrible painted brown interior and glazing that looks like it's been etched!

I don't have any other Dinkys with a plastic base

Not sure what colour I'll do it, I think it was blue with a black roof originally, like this

I have a catalogue showing it green with black roof and bonnet, so it may end up like this

[eddyramrod]

If it's any help, @FakeConcern, I would have bought both of those in a heartbeat, so don't kick yourself over them.  

[FakeConcern]

I decided the Bedford Tractor Unit with the transporter doesn't look good enough to display so I'm going to re paint it. I do have another with a slightly different casting, but with better paint so can decide which I'll use later. The transporter one has a Mini size tyre to hold the coupling

The other one has a number plate on the rear mudguard and a roof vent, bases are the same

The coupling areas are quite different to each other

I have no idea where I got it from or what model it originally was

It had the rear window cut out from new for some unknown reason

I've made a temp coupling for the wrong tractor unit while I restore the original and it looks pretty good

 

[AndyW201]

9 hours ago, Peter C said:

Purchased today at the Enfield Pageant for £2.50, a 1:18 scale model of a Mercedes Benz 220SE.

Completely playworn and filthy, looks like a barn find. 

The plan is to do nothing to it, leave it precisely how it is and enjoy the patina.

That is superb! Love that.

I've got the factory-patinated barn find version by Revell, but I think I prefer the patina on yours more!

(It got more patinated when one of the kids dropped it once, and the grille got lost, never to be found again...)

And continuing the Solido Clio love-in, here's mine. Bought at the duty-free shop in Alicante airport in 1998. Most guys my age were shopping for fags & booze, I was picking through a shelf full of Solido diecasts....

Not bad for what is a tarted up version of the standard valver release, although the Williams logos and Speedline alloys are pretty well done.

[AndyW201]

Finally got round to opening and examining the recently arrived CogBox. This actually arrived on Thursday when I was 430 miles away on my weekly Scotland run, the wife did inform me that "quite a large box" had arrived ...

Took some explaining, that's for sure!

So, big 'uns first, starting with the Vanguards Jaaag XJ12.

A lovely model this, pleasingly from the era of the re released yellow boxes. Over 27 years of collecting Vanguards models, I've never had one of these XJs but when I saw that Market Blokey had this on the stall, I wanted it!

Such a beautiful shape, captured well. I adore the Series 1 & 2 XJ. Also such an unusual colour scheme, and, for some reason I can't fathom, I love the whitewalls on this. With those and the colour, it gives off an air of a 1980s flat-roof pub landlord's transport or a 1980s style budget-conscious wedding car. And all the better for it.

Nice detail to the front and rear, particularly the twin tailpipes which sprout out from the rear valance but are actually also part of the bumper moulding, so they can survive more than 5 seconds without snapping off.

Was a pleasant surprise to see a simulated wooden dashboard in this, hardly any Vanguards of the period got detail like that. Love all the switchgear and the T-handle shifter, correct steering wheel, etc.

Very happy with this one!

Second Vanguards of the day, sorry.

Another subject I've never had before. I do like the little A40 Farina. Vanguards did a cracking job of capturing it, but the road versions tend to be surprisingly expensive, so this version of "Zoey", Pat Moss' Monte Carlo rally car will do nicely instead. I remember as a kid reading about this car being rescued and restored in the first issues of Practical Classics back in 1980.

Plenty going on at the front with the rally plate and a couple of auxiliary lights...

Rear wiper is a nice touch.

Liking the Sprite steelies as well. Got a few  Vanguards rally cars and love it when they put hubcap-less steelies on them.