Shite in Miniature II

[Jon]

12 hours ago, FakeConcern said:

I saw a lamp post in a junk shop in Brighton the other day, didn't ask how much it was though. If it's there next time do you want me to pick it up for you?

If it was a Corgi one (not sure how you'd tell?!) and a couple of quid, then yes please! But no rush/journeying out your way, as my yearning for a 60 year old piece of plastic should not be on anyone's priority list!

That said, I've just remembered that I've got a bunch of Majo-kit street furniture, which I'm sure should have a lamp post in - and likely an acceptable size, as 1/64 accessories are often over scaled. Must find it and assess.

[Jon]

11 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

I also managed to pick up that 1/24 Majorette Peugeot 405 T16 that you'd mentioned back in May - also at £5...

Just a word of warning to @andy18s - I had the Camel liveried version of this back in the day and was careful in looking after my cars, especially these display model sized ones. But I still managed to knock the passenger door off the fragile arm.

Still, I blu-tacked it back on and it displayed well in its box, with the driver's side facing outwards. I somehow forgot* this when I sold it for a small profit at a toy fair in the great emigration purge of 2010!

Anyone else done this diecast equivalent of hoiking a car with bananas in the gearbox/eggs in the radiator through an auction? 

*(it was 13 years ago, so memory is hazy - I may have declared)

[bunglebus]

7 hours ago, Richard_FM said:

I think the Camaro is a Key car, which used a plastic key inserted into the hole at the rear to depress a spring inside, when the key was squeezed the spring was released & the car would be propelled forwards.

I knew it looked familiar 

[Spottedlaurel]

Matchbox Commuters, large and small, compare and contrast:

Had the opportunity to get these together, before the older one heads off to pastures new.

At least they didn't have to butcher the arches when they fitted the bigger wheels.

A fair bit of change here, losing the steering on the later one and adding 'chassis rails'.

It's difficult to tell if the light holes are still there on the later one, I suspect they are as attachment for the roofrack. Slightly odd that they have the notch for the little siren upstand, but it's been removed from the casting.

No dogs.

Which brings us onto:

Later Superfast versions got the arch-hacking treatment. The unboxed red #73 wagon was picked up as a tat box gap filler until I can find a MIB example. My Schiffer book lists it as a distinct successor to the green #73, irrespective of whether the latter has narrow or wide wheels.

As a child I enjoyed the similarity of the front end styling to the Mk3 Cortina.

[w00dy]

15 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

Aaaaagh Ultra Hots.

I just had to bloody stop off at B&M, didn't I?

I've already a request in for the SP3 from @w00dy - but is anyone else interested in the other five of these here, at £1.99 a throw? 

[EDIT: it's a VW SP2, not SP3 - hey, it's been an intense kinda day...]

Is @bunglebus still seeking the Mercury Cougar and the Firebird?

[EDIT: yup]

I've already got a Brazilian Charger and an El Camino going spare, so I'm not buying any more of them - but there's two each of those remaining in this store, plus another Civic and another Shelby Mustang left on the strips.

No Gazella Rs, annoyingly.

Still a few of the more desirable Matchbox remaining, at £1.69.

I couldn't just take myself straight home, could I?

🤡

Awesome. You're a legend. My local stores get none of the cool stuff. It's very much appreciated.

[bunglebus]

On 01/06/2023 at 14:58, Mine's a Leganza! said:

Is the VW sign very large...How much is it?

This one at the boot sale was £20

[MiniMinorMk3]

17 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

Plus an Oxford Diecast Bentley S1 Continental, which I'd hemmed and hawed about for weeks when it was out for £10 while rattling round inside its cracked display box.

 

I've always thought the Oxford 1:43 were good value compared with some other manufacturers. Also their range concentrated on the posher end of the '50s and '60s.

Blue Bentley

Their Daimler SP250 Dart is a nice one

The Friary Cresta is also a good gap filler in a Vauxhall collection

They also did the Royal version

And the Daimler DS 420 limos are great.

But one of the best for me is the Interceptor

 

 

[Richard_FM]

4 hours ago, bunglebus said:

I knew it looked familiar 

I might have one of the keys around somewhere!

My brother had a blue one of these.

[sheffcortinacentre]

Firebird not camaro

[Mine's a Leganza!]

2 hours ago, bunglebus said:

This one at the boot sale was £20

Thank you. I will do some research.

[Split_Pin]

1 hour ago, Richard_FM said:

I might have one of the keys around somewhere!

My brother had a blue one of these.

Yes it is a Kidco Key car, I absolutely loved these as a kid. I started off with a yellow Datsun 260Z, when that fell to bits I got the chrome Firebird and when that fell to bits I got a Corvette whichbI still have in good condition with the key. I must dig it out to see if it still works.

[bunglebus]

Today's bootsale bobs

[danthecapriman]

Got myself a MotorMax 1/64 AMC Gremlin this morning.

Really nice little model. There’s a few others in the range I fancy too, but you don’t see them very often.

[155V6]

1 hour ago, bunglebus said:

Today's bootsale bobs

Corgi Reliant Ant is a nice find.I saw a real one outside a van hire place somewhere in Dorset earlier in the week

[Spottedlaurel]

Photographic record to come later, but just had a bit of a result at our local Poundland. They're closing down, so 50% off everything. HW/MBX were only £1.50 each anyway, so I got a nice little selection for 75p a go including one I was very pleased to find.

[quicksilver]

3 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Their Daimler SP250 Dart is a nice one

 

I saw that very car on the road a couple of weekends ago.

Looks like an excellent replica and one of Oxford's few 1/43 cars they haven't also done in 1/76.

[bunglebus]

CMC Marcos finally arrived

[bunglebus]

Starting with Matchbox, turned up a handful of nice finds today. Boxed Jag for £2.00

And another of the light blue ones

Tidy Dakota Street again

Decent Lambo out of a box of junk

Got this mainly for the driver. This and loads of other early Matchbox were with it but all had been repainted and had the bases filled with gunk, lots were buses cut down into open tops or single deckers

These are missing the doors of course

[bunglebus]

Onto Corgi. Not really into commercial stuff but this was too nice to resist. Just needs some tyres

Jeep is quite a late one - into Hot Wheels era I believe 

Ant is a unicycle at the moment but has the very easy lost plastic front bumper - apparently this is fitted to allow it to be used on track sets

Saw several SD1s today, one had an orange interior but had lost its tailgate

[Jon]

It's a long weekend here, so I've stayed up much later than I usually do, since it doesn't feel such a waste having a late lie in on a 3 day weekend.

During the evening's merriment, I've had a bit of angst from my previous post earlier, revealing my Arthur Daley-esque actions in selling a damaged Majorette 405, 13 years ago! Trying to work out the context of the sale to absolve me of my sins. I know I had a fire sale at the end and sold all remaining stock to a trader at a very knock-down price, so I'm latching on to the notion that it was given away to him in a bargain bundle, so as to get some sleep tonight.

Therefore, to somewhat redress the diecast balance, I rendered my services to needless photography of a single subject, thus:

Bagged a Mercury Villager in green, since the one I won in @danthecapriman's sale was donated to my brother. This one is far scruffier but a nice stand-in until the blue one arrives (also ex-Dan), which looks much tidier.

 

Side profile initially looks a little contrived in the scaling but I think the doors/wings length ratio is likely pretty accurate!

 

Overhead, the emulated sharp lines hold up well and the shade of green really is a tasty one, although the plastic shade of the tailgate makes a somewhat odd bedfellow. 

 

The plastic does allow for some nice detailing, though. I still feel like the bluff yellow tab looks like Matcbox intended it to have a tow bar but saw that it would foul the tailgate. Or maybe they felt the downsized scaling of this casting would look unusual with their range of trailers?

Despite the no-bar detaling that's made me question its existence for the best part of 40 years, it's still a nice find for 50p.

[bunglebus]

Hot wheels Corvette in a colour scheme I'd not seen before

And the fairly uncommon Range Rover 

Another Bernard

Always pleased to find an MC Toys Granny

Spottes this Tomica in a £1 bag of jollop

This is my most unusual find though. Minics Motorway Rolls Royce. If only we knew someone that liked slot cars

Zee Toys

Why this Tonka has BYE-BYE BIRDIE and TWEET-TWEET on it may forever remain a mystery

Copy of the Hot Wheels Good Humor* truck

Looks like a Tomica casting but just says DE IN CHINA on the base

No name 911

This Jeep looks like the Corgi copy I found in a twin pack a while ago

No name Audi

And Fox

[bunglebus]

Lots of tinplate stuff available today but none was cheap

[Spottedlaurel]

My aforementioned HW/MBX haul:

I know there wil be one or two duplicates, but I couldn't resist at the price. Might be wheel donors or repainting projects, one day?

The big one for me was finding the white Maxima wagon, it had evaded me first time around. Probably would have bought one at a toy fair one day, but great to track one down myself.

At 75p each I was surprised to find so much still available, many of the other shelves were empty. The premises were formerly the home of Woolworth's, and some of my garage shelves came from there when they shut in 2008/09.

[bunglebus]

Mustang funny car is a regular Treasure Hunt 

[Spottedlaurel]

26 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Mustang funny car is a regular Treasure Hunt 

Cool, so a decent buy at that price? Wasn't one I remembered seeing in the boxes previously.

On the subject of which the supermarkets around here still don't seem to be getting anything different, even if they have had new stock.

[bunglebus]

Oh I missed one, early Corvette in 1:18 (or was it 1:24?)

[bunglebus]

2 hours ago, Spottedlaurel said:

Cool, so a decent buy at that price? Wasn't one I remembered seeing in the boxes previously.

They are slightly unusual, one example of each TH per case so they're harder to find than some. 

It depends a bit on whether the casting is sought-after, I was forever falling over lilac Skull Shakers last year, but have still never found the red 93 MX-5. 

Another (not a TH) where they've all vanished at the moment is the white Skyline with Godzilla on the side

[Richard_FM]

10 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

Yes it is a Kidco Key car, I absolutely loved these as a kid. I started off with a yellow Datsun 260Z, when that fell to bits I got the chrome Firebird and when that fell to bits I got a Corvette whichbI still have in good condition with the key. I must dig it out to see if it still works.

The other car me & by brother had was a black & gold Datsun 260Z.

[flat4alfa]

17 hours ago, 155V6 said:

Corgi Reliant Ant is a nice find.I saw a real one outside a van hire place somewhere in Dorset earlier in the week

Not my photo though

[flat4alfa]

13 hours ago, Spottedlaurel said:

Cool, so a decent buy at that price? Wasn't one I remembered seeing in the boxes previously.

Was going to say same thing as it jumped out your photo at me, tormenting. I have never seen one

it will probably* pay you back for the whole haul including your parking 

 

Look on the backing card between the wheels and you will see  which is also on the front fenders. Not that funny cars have fenders