Shite in Miniature II

[sierraman]

The new Matchbox Ford Cargo has restored my faith in modern stuff. It's even compatible with the 80's Convoy stuff! The trailer it's got is late 80's convoy missile launcher.

[Felly Magic]

I was hoping that Mattel would have reverse engineered that Cargo to work with Convoy trailers. Good on em, and sierraman, those Majorettes are pure, unadulterated filth! My fave Majo though was my blue mk2 Capri Ghia with trailer and canoe, I think that Capri was better than Corgi's mk3, as it had way more detail, even though it didn't have an opening bonnet

[Split_Pin]

Y0 SM does that 18 have one of those wind deflectors on the roof that you used to see on cars towing a caravan? If so that is NIRVANA in Diecast!

 

I love Majorette cars, have a fair few myself still. Used to get them on holiday in Crail with my spending money there. Even the stuff they make today still cuts it. Opening features and based on everyday cars rather than American Muscle.

 

FM I bought that South American Cargo yesterday in a Pound Shop. What an odd subject, I love it!

[sierraman]

Yes, it was a funny one that, got it on Barnsley market, it was in a box full of battered shit, so I was surprised it had retained its roof air deflector.

 

I think the Cargo is one of my favourites from the 2016 range, hoping they do it in more colours. Sierraman jr is more into the stuff that does stuff at the moment like the Fork lift they did last year or the obscure stuff like boats. It's a ritual I've passed down as I remember doing a similar thing with my parents 30 years ago. Conveniently for a 3 year old it's also an incentive for her to behave if I've got to go to the shops.

[Split_Pin]

I have the 18 although it was poorly repainted by me some years ago. Perhaps I could make a deflector out of plasticard!

[sierraman]

The Taxi 18 was a find as well. I like how a lot had the amber tint in the headlight lens as per time.

[junkyarddog]

Hot Wheels take on some British classics.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Felly Magic]

Oh dear Mattel, how can they get some things so right, but when it comes to Hot Wheels, everything so bloody wrong? Even many American HW collectors are getting a bit fed up with the lack of detail/idiotic subjects that look utterly wrong

[sierraman]

I like the TR6 though. Matchbox are much better though, more varied stuff as well.

[quicksilver]

Oh dear Mattel, how can they get some things so right, but when it comes to Hot Wheels, everything so bloody wrong? Even many American HW collectors are getting a bit fed up with the lack of detail/idiotic subjects that look utterly wrong

That's what happens when you actively discourage your customers from making suggestions. Hot Wheels have never really appealed to me and Mattel-era Matchbox are a funny bunch with some really good stuff but also some total crap fictional things that look like nothing that exists in reality. Majorette were my favourite as a child and I had a lot of those pictured on the previous page until they found new homes at Shitefest last year.

[sierraman]

Matchbox have done that though for years, most of their 70's range was fictional. I mean I've yet to see a Soopa Coopa...

[Junkman]

Those 70s Matchbox fantasy cars were superb exercises in contemporary British styling.

I think they are grossly underrated.

[Spottedlaurel]

Those 70s Matchbox fantasy cars were superb exercises in contemporary British styling.

I think they are grossly underrated.

 

Surely some love on AS for Woosh-n-Push with its Maxi grille?

 

Majorette also did a bigger range, perhaps similar scale to the larger Siku models? I have a couple of nice Scanias:

 

Majorette Scania boat transporter by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

 

Had this one since I was 10, bought on a French holiday.

 

Majorette Scania ‘Supertrans’ Container Lorry by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

 

Found this one secondhand a few years ago.

 

I also have a Land-Cruiser, but have never seen many others.

[sierraman]

Yes I had the 1/18 scale stuff that was based on the Solido stuff. They did an excellent Peugeot 605.

[mercrocker]

Those 70s Matchbox fantasy cars were superb exercises in contemporary British styling.

I think they are grossly underrated.

 

Totally agree.   Some of them were of course based on real-scale prototypes too, such as the Freeman Inter-City Commuter and Vauxhall Guildsman. 

 

@Spottedlaurel - I hadn't ever noticed the Maxi grille on the Woosh-n-Push!    Wonder if a MB Maxi was ever on the cards?

[sierraman]

I think they say a lot about the time, when you look how garish they were.

[sierraman]

Stuff like this!

[Split_Pin]

Have to say I'm not a fan of the Superkings fictional 'commercial' vehicles they did in the 1970s. I had a few but sacked them off years ago. My favourite from that range was the Bedford TM Courier Car Transporter which I still have.

[junkyarddog]

I quite like those hot Wheels,

The Anglia and Morris are my favourite.

 

More Matchbox,

Oriental offering this time.

 

 

 

[quicksilver]

Some more 1/76 from Oxford Diecast. The Cavalier has the wheels off the Astra GTE that really weren't right for that and suit the Cavalier better.

 

 

 

[junkyarddog]

Some fantasy Matchbox,

 

 

 

Glad I'm not the only one that thought that looks like a Maxi grill.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Felly Magic]

That yellow Datsun was actually based on a real concept car, so not a work of someone bonkers at Lesney

 

[Ghosty]

Stretcha Fetcha I have a boxed one of those, was my mum's.

[Noel Tidybeard]

the sooper cooper could be min clubfoot or maxxxi

[sheffcortinacentre]

Hated those as a kid, I wanted the stuff I saw out on the streets.

[Split_Pin]

Me too but those are nice examples and I do appreciate them a lot more now for what they are. A good point was made a few posts back about them being an example of contemporary styling.

[mercrocker]

The Vauxhall Guildsman and Siva were real enough, too - the latter actually being a production car (of sorts).....

 

[quicksilver]

Here's something that needs no introduction.

 

The holy grey grille by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

 

It's all about that base by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

 

Stars of Shitefest by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

 

The challenge was to make Hornby's horrible plastic lump into something that actually looks like a Sierra. It took a lot of effort and this could only be justified for such a special Sierra 

[Felly Magic]

With a bit of work, I think a Majorette Sierra could make a reasonable representation of the Holy Grey Grille/Buttery Biscuit Base

[sierraman]

I have a couple of tatty majorette Sierra and I can confirm they'd do a good base for a Sierra Base.