Shite in Miniature II

[Amelia]

Anyone want this? 8 quid posted. 

Not worth doing a for sale advert for one model. 

 

[flat4alfa]

2 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

but for me, I like to put them to work on the rockery

EFA

[bunglebus]

9 hours ago, FakeConcern said:

shall I just rip the fuckin' thing off?

Another option is to cut the blister next to and parallel with the card on three sides so it hinges up. 

[bunglebus]

Anyway. I've been to froggy land for 48 hours. No time for car hunting but these were in the services. Choice of 2CV, Beetle or R4

Dusty Hot Wheels and Majorettes can stay there a few more years at those prices

Back on the Ferry, Matchbox time again

[sierraman]

Those R4 look glorious, I wonder if they’re a straight rip off of the Bburago R4, the one I have looks identical.

[andy18s]

Someone last week..

[Datsuncog]

Not guilty!

 

 

 

(This time)

[MiniMinorMk3]

Here's one I shot/built earlier

Aston Martin DB5 Radford Shooting Break by Provence Moulage. 1/43rd kit with a resin body and photoetch details. Painted with Duplicolor aerosols (or what ever Halfrauds sold back in the late 1980s. Took three days to paint and build.

 

[danthecapriman]

On 6/4/2023 at 6:33 PM, bunglebus said:

Now I'm confused cos when I picked it up I thought it was this

And it isn't

Edit

AHA!

Just found the trailer. It’s the wrong one though!

Worth a look though.

[Split_Pin]

3 hours ago, sierraman said:

Those R4 look glorious, I wonder if they’re a straight rip off of the Bburago R4, the one I have looks identical.

It would be interesting to compare them, even from a picture of the one above. The Bburago examples have the last incarnation of the front fascia though and the opening doors would have needed modification to accept glazing.

I'll Google them and get a good close up and check against mine. If I were there, one would have been coming home with me for sure.

[sierraman]

23 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

It would be interesting to compare them, even from a picture of the one above. The Bburago examples have the last incarnation of the front fascia though and the opening doors would have needed modification to accept glazing.

I'll Google them and get a good close up and check against mine. If I were there, one would have been coming home with me for sure.

The Bburago one is not quite the last one, it’s a pre 1983 one with no side mouldings. Sad I know but I was reading a road test of one last night...

[bunglebus]

Came home to these, partner found them in Smyths

They had this too but it's not my cup of tea

[RoadworkUK]

Not going to write war and peace about this one (you're welcome), but after the Metro I posted last, I inevitably succumbed and spent money that I haven't got on something I don't need.

Except I so do.

My excuse for buying it is that, having owned an Acclaim as my first car, when I was 17 back in 1998, it was inevitable that I'd own the model at some point. Of course, mine was finished in Champagne (BL for beige) and didn't have hilariously over-sized door mirrors to operate the steering with, but still, it's the closest I'll ever have to a model of ELR 90Y (Elroy to its fans)

And it isn't a bad model; attention to detail is good, down to the accurately picked out side rubbing strips, and the (unique to this model?) wheels have a stab at representing the pattern of holes found on the Acclaim's standard 13in steelies.

I had to have this version, too, and in this packaging, which closely resembles the Acclaim dealer literature that would have been in circulation at the time, circa 1981 – when both the Acclaim and yours truly were brand new. The packaging has obviously had its window replaced prior to sale, so it isn't 100% original, but I doubt there are many survivors anyway. 

I didn't fancy the driving school version, with its enormous roof-mounted steering wheel, half as much.

Sadly, it's destined to have rather a dull life with me. It'll remain in its box, undisturbed for the most part, until it eventually forms part of a legacy that some poor fucker will inherit. Which, incidentally, is exactly how I came to own ELR 90Y in the first place.

 

 

[HMC]

Found my old grifo. These hold special memories for me as growing up with 80s matchbox, i remember visiting my friend’s house (i was about 7/ 1987) and playing with one that her elder brothers had new the previous decade. I loved the styling and the hubs; it was the first time id seen and held an older diecast. It seemed very special even though it had a door missing.

[sierraman]

@HMC this is how you get hooked. Next thing you know you’ve spent a ridiculous amount on obtaining the full 1968 range of regular wheels. 

[bunglebus]

I remember having similar thoughts when I found my first regular wheel car, the Mercury wagon with the steering. I know it was somehow special, just that bit older than my Dragon Wheels and Sun Burner DeTomaso 

[Volksy]

16 hours ago, danthecapriman said:

 

 

Worth a look though.

I still have a scar/hole in my knee from keeling on the dropleg of that trailer when I was about 10

[sierraman]

8 hours ago, bunglebus said:

I remember having similar thoughts when I found my first regular wheel car, the Mercury wagon with the steering. I know it was somehow special, just that bit older than my Dragon Wheels and Sun Burner DeTomaso 

I liked the really late regular wheels with the separate rubber tyres. Wonder how it would look converting early superfast to one would look. 

[MiniMinorMk3]

I had the last of the regular wheels when I was about 6 years old, my favourite was the Mustang...

followed closely by the ISO Griffo

But then Hot Wheels came along with their orange track and the regular wheels ended up at the bottom of the toy box rather quickly, only coming out for a bit of TWOC and Arson.

The final nail in the coffin for most of my Regulars was Corgi and their red Rockets track.

[egg]

14 hours ago, RoadworkUK said:

Except I so do.

my little brother had that exact model when they were new.

[bunglebus]

For those that don't have room for a full size garage setup

[bunglebus]

Asbo seem to have the cheapest Hot Wheels at the moment - not that there were any 

[danthecapriman]

😬

[sierraman]

Just now, danthecapriman said:

😬

Here we go again 🤣🤣

[sierraman]

1 hour ago, bunglebus said:

For those that don't have room for a full size garage setup

Think I’ll pick one of those up, the youngest will like that with the man that appears to jump under the bus when it goes past. 

[Datsuncog]

2 hours ago, bunglebus said:

For those that don't have room for a full size garage setup

**Sets urgent reminder to call into Home Bargains sometime very soon**

Was that the only set they had on the shelves? A branch near-ish to me still has some of the service centres available, but I've yet to see more from the Matchbox range in there.

[MiniMinorMk3]

Following on from yesterdays TRAX Holden EJ set, here's a TRAX Holden HR set. The HR looked like a 1964 Opel Kapitän/Admiral/Diplomat with round headlamps.

Again great detail but this time with three different specifications.

Standard Sedan

The Special Sedan with extra chrome a two-tone paint

and finally the Premier Sedan with all the bells and whistles.

 

[bunglebus]

44 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

**Sets urgent reminder to call into Home Bargains sometime very soon**

Was that the only set they had on the shelves? A branch near-ish to me still has some of the service centres available, but I've yet to see more from the Matchbox range in there.

Yep it's a newly opened larger store but they're already looking a bit low on stock. That one seemed to be the only option available though

[Datsuncog]

Mail call today courtesy of @Spottedlaurel:

Oh yes! A very nice Lesney King Size Mercury Commuter.

I've had a few of the later Speed Kings race support versions of the Commuter with nylon wheels pass through my sweaty mitts, but never an early police one with the steerable wheels.

It's great - in broadly similar condition to the rest of my King Size cars, so just lightly worn.

It would have been nice if Lesney had continued developing this line with further Corgi/ Dinky sized offerings - I can think of others from the 1-75 range which would have looked pretty neat scaled up, like the VW 1500 and Mk2 Cortina.

But it seems that the Hot Wheels flap of the late '60s panicked Lesney into thinking that the future lay in huge-engined fantasy castings painted brightly - so these lovely little models were bastardised into (what some might consider) lairy speed-wheel parodies of themselves.

I must dig out the others as - thanks to the efforts of the top folks on here - I now have a full set of the King Size cars, and their smaller counterparts from the miniatures range!

Oof.

Back of the net.

[sierraman]

I have a few of those Mercury, Especially the later yellow race support team. I cannot remember where I saw it but there was a prototype in the seventies for a tow truck that for whatever reason got canned along with Matchboxes interpretation of the Chubb Fire Tender.