Shite in Miniature II

[MiniMinorMk3]

3 hours ago, danthecapriman said:

Blimey!! Salty much!

I had no idea it was a rip off Tomica! Still looks good though. I find some Zylmex models just look cheap and nasty but others are actually pretty good, like this Datsun. 
That’s why I want to find a list (preferably with pics) so I can see which ones to hunt down. Some of their American cars are pretty good too. There’s a Lincoln Continental that looks great.

With pictures

Zee Toys/Zylmex | hobbyDB

Without

Zyll/Zee/Zylmex Diecast Casting Lists (WIP) | Hobbyist Forums (hobbytalk.com)

 

By the way, hobbyDB is getting bigger all the time. I first became aware of it about 7 or more years ago when they started to get Brooklin stuff posted on there. It is becoming the go to place for collectables stuff.

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[bunglebus]

Popped into BuM while Mrs is in the MRI scanner, they have two of these huge Hot Wheels displays - bring your own stick to poke the high ones off the pegs

Series two Fat and Furious cars on one

This is the full range - only the GNX, El Camino and Challenger Drift found today - ill be looking for the 911 and Charger Daytona

[flat4alfa]

Here's a new livery for Corgi to sort out, rather than do all those Fords...

The Butterflies BBC TV show from the 70s-80s.  I remember more the Morris Mini Minor paintjob

Should be at Gaydon!  But no, YRX 652 is now on a 2018 Golf 5-door 1.4 hybrid

Forget Mini Mostest, this is the one to do next.  Probably.

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The original YRX 652 (used from 1978 to 1980) was built in 1961, and had a Single dial Speedo, Red / Grey-fleck interior and "small-dish" style hub-caps.
The replacement YRX 652 (used in 1983) was built some time between Oct 1962 and May 1963. It had the later, 3 dials-type Speedo, a monotone Red interior and larger "half-moon" style hub-caps.

https://www.drivearchive.co.uk/vehicledetails.php?CarID=11276

Well, somebody thought it worth doing a render effort:

[Noel Tidybeard]

 

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re: the zymlex X1/9 - that's got me thinking, who modelled the X1/9 best folks? 

[MiniMinorMk3]

Solido did a good 1300 X1/9 in 1/43rd scale

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Another thought, two French based diecast groups I'm in to put more temptation in your way:

vintage norev specific - https://www.facebook.com/groups/951682941654504/

joustra dinky norev solido majorettes - https://www.facebook.com/groups/371761883395863

[MiniMinorMk3]

51 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Here's a new livery for Corgi to sort out, rather than do all those Fords...

The Butterflies BBC TV show from the 70s-80s.  I remember more the Morris Mini Minor paintjob

That Butterflies Mini is the reason so many sad twats have flags on their roofs. I think it should be forgotten.

In 2016 I purchased a Rover Mini Cooper with a stupid painted roof. This picture was taken after I had driven it back from the seller.

The next day it was in the paint shop getting the roof painted black. I also removed all the stupid strips as well. A week later it looked like this.

 

 

[andrew e]

X/19’s you say? Crazy paint you say? Don’t worry I can help with a dormant metal flake X/19 😳

Sorry for the drift!

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^ a bit bonkers, I think an early small bumpered 1300 would be in my lottery win garage.

[bunglebus]

3 hours ago, egg said:

re: the zymlex X1/9 - that's got me thinking, who modelled the X1/9 best folks? 

Not a lot of choice in 1:64. Corgi/Zylmex 

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The Schuco 1/43 looks a nice version of the Bertone era car, but not for the likes of us!

https://www.carmodel.com/schuco/450924800/1-43/fiat/x1-9-bertone-1983/155465

[Datsuncog]

Kinda... dark this morning.

Enough to make the security light come on when I passed.

Ah well... onward!

[Split_Pin]

2 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

Kinda... dark this morning.

Enough to make the security light come on when I passed.

Ah well... onward!

Heavy rain is forecast for Scotland later this evening and its pretty dark here too...so hopefully it's just that.

It was warm enough to sit out yesterday and it's pleasantly warm this morning.

A few trees are starting to turn already though, earliest I have ever seen.

[bunglebus]

Tatspeed

[flat4alfa]

[bunglebus]

I'll have that rear loading pink Beach Bomb if it's 50p please

[Mine's a Leganza!]

On 8/14/2023 at 2:40 PM, sierraman said:

 When I was a kid you could amass a decent collection for not a lot from Jumble Sales, car boots etc but now it is much more difficult as everyone is an antiques expert - in reality they know very little. I’m talking about the ones in Charity Shops which are crazy money, the wife chastises me when I bring up the crazy prices offered in these places as it’s a charity, but it doesn’t give them carte blanche to rip people off. 

 

Sorry to disappoint you Sierraman, but the fact is that these are not charities but professional trading arms of a charity. The manager of the shop is a well paid employee of the company which runs the shop and is expected to produce a high profit in the shop. It is only after staff costs, expenses, rates and any other costs are deducted, that any "profit" is passed to the charity.

The charity may benefit in the long run, but the shop's sole purpose is to make money like any other high street store.

[Split_Pin]

20 minutes ago, Mine's a Leganza! said:

Sorry to disappoint you Sierraman, but the fact is that these are not charities but professional trading arms of a charity. The manager of the shop is a well paid employee of the company which runs the shop and is expected to produce a high profit in the shop. It is only after staff costs, expenses, rates and any other costs are deducted, that any "profit" is passed to the charity.

The charity may benefit in the long run, but the shop's sole purpose is to make money like any other high street store.

Well the diecast will just sit there forever then. Not exactly beneficial in the long run.

[Datsuncog]

Well then... you'll probably be as relieved as I was that - upon storming through the market doors a little later than I'd have liked - normal service appears to have been resumed.

Phew.

The Nemesis was there, busy Nemesising, but... it wasn't really our kind of thing today, so much.

I mean, sure I've picked up the odd 1/18 from the stall - but it's not quite my bag, in general.

Though I daresay F1 and supercars are better than no tat at all, I did feel a smidge deflated.

Bburago 1/24 '90s F1 has a certain nostalgia pull, I guess, but at £10 a go I wasn't really feeling it.

Equally, the big Tonka Polistil Porsche 911 brought back memories - but this one was in pretty bad shape.

Coupe was in less of a state than the floppytop, but still...

1/24 Chevrolet Delivery Van by Liberty was alright, though.

Hot Wheels NASCAR Ford (Thunderbird?) and McLaren F1 were missing a few inconsequential bits, but my boat remained stubbornly unfloated.

M'learned Friend had snagged a few for his own collection... Maxi Mégane was probably the most interesting of the lot.

Though there were a few more that hadn't yet made it out of the box and onto the stall...

Some kit and scratch-built military models were also in the mix today...

Plus this rather odd Brumm horse and coaches set:

Which originated from my old stomping ground.

A loooooong time ago, I'd say.

A solitary tiny (and very basic) Crescent racer was the only other diecast item to be seen:

Although I could have had this Rev. W. Awdry-baiting 'Timmy The Tank Engine feat. Edward the Blue Engine' Hornby set, if I'd really wanted to.

But, just as I was about to wander off and see what was what elsewhere, The Nemesis beckoned me over to a box that Market Blokey had just unearthed.

Oh, hello...

[sierraman]

7 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

Well the diecast will just sit there forever then. Not exactly beneficial in the long run.

Basically out of the £15 for those old Days Gone By, about 14p will go to charity. It’s more of a charity to keep the store manager in a job 😂

[Split_Pin]

5 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

Well then... you'll probably be as relieved as I was that - upon storming through the market doors a little later than I'd have liked - normal service appears to have been resumed.

Phew.

The Nemesis was there, busy Nemesising, but... it wasn't really our kind of thing today, so much.

I mean, sure I've picked up the odd 1/18 from the stall - but it's not quite my bag, in general.

Though I daresay F1 and supercars are better than no tat at all, I did feel a smidge deflated.

Bburago 1/24 '90s F1 has a certain nostalgia pull, I guess, but at £10 a go I wasn't really feeling it.

Equally, the big Tonka Polistil Porsche 911 brought back memories - but this one was in pretty bad shape.

Coupe was in less of a state than the floppytop, but still...

1/24 Chevrolet Delivery Van by Liberty was alright, though.

Hot Wheels NASCAR Ford (Thunderbird?) and McLaren F1 were missing a few inconsequential bits, but my boat remained stubbornly unfloated.

M'learned Friend had snagged a few for his own collection... Maxi Mégane was probably the most interesting of the lot.

Though there were a few more that hadn't yet made it out of the box and onto the stall...

Some kit and scratch-built military models were also in the mix today...

Plus this rather odd Brumm horse and coaches set:

Which originated from my old stomping ground.

A loooooong time ago, I'd say.

A solitary tiny (and very basic) Crescent racer was the only other diecast item to be seen:

Although I could have had this Rev. W. Awdry-baiting 'Timmy The Tank Engine feat. Edward the Blue Engine' Hornby set, if I'd really wanted to.

But, just as I was about to wander off and see what was what elsewhere, The Nemesis beckoned me over to a box that Market Blokey had just unearthed.

Oh, hello...

Hey Tim if that Maisto X type isn't mullered and a tenner or less I would like it.

[Mine's a Leganza!]

14 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

Well then... you'll probably be as relieved as I was that - upon storming through the market doors a little later than I'd have liked - normal service appears to have been resumed.

 

 

Apologies that it is not car related, but what is that yellow poster advertising UB40? I am not too concerned about Elvis Costello. 

Are you and the Nemesis going to produce a cover version of Red Red Wine?

[andy18s]

What sort of price was the Jaguar F1 ?

[flat4alfa]

22 minutes ago, Mine's a Leganza! said:

what is that yellow poster advertising UB40? I am not too concerned about Elvis Costello. 

From 1980

[Datsuncog]

Now this was more like it.

And, of course, the added frisson of a head-to-head with my former diecast foe - who would find the gold?

Well, kind of him, as it turned out:

The Dinky Supertoys Vega Major coach was another that - like the Mercedes LP 1920 truck profiled the other week - suffered from Project Drive style cheeseparing under Meccano's new owners, Lines Bros. This later example had lost its working headlights, but it's still a lovely big model.

But that's not to say there wasn't still treasure to be found...

A pair of early Corgi DB4s...

The brighter yellow example had definitely been drilled and repainted - yet was in worse condition than the original paler yellow one.

Two later examples, in green and white racing trim.

And more repainting fun, with this Corgi Renault Floride and Volvo P1800S also taking on the racing mantle.

Dinky Ford Sedan (sloppily overpainted) and Corgi 'Golden Guinea' Studebaker Golden Hawk bringing a bit of transatlantic glitz to an otherwise grey Belfast morning.

I've been looking for a decent Corgi MkX Jaguar for a while.

I'm still looking.

XK120 coop also suffering slightly from Dinky's 1950s jollity drive, when they began applying the most ludicrous two-tone shades to their models in an effort to create more appeal for kids.

Corgi Jeep Forward Control actually quite clean; Land Rover missing its bumper ends, as ever.

Dinky Bedford dropside and US gas hauler were fundamentally intact.

Corgi ERF refuse wagon and Commer flatbed a bit worse for wear, though.

And dropping... ERF tipper missing a fair bit of superstructure, while the Dinky bus had been on the receiving end of some Humbrol love.

Dinky Jeep and Karrier(?) flatbed suffering from assorted axle-involved maladies.

Loadless Supertoys Foden 8-wheeler had suffered a considerable knock at some point in its history...

The whole cab's been shunted back on the chassis

But still - it survives.

They made 'em tough.

Because I'm fundamentally lazy, I didn't bother hoking out the duplicates or military stuff... cos I'm not really that interested in military stuff.

Which is a pity, as then this appeared...

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4 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

Two later examples, in green and white racing trim.

If anyone decides to go for them, I believe you can get the jewel headlights as replacement parts.

[Datsuncog]

53 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

Hey Tim if that Maisto X type isn't mullered and a tenner or less I would like it.

Secured for £10!

Some minor scuffing to the sunroof and surround, and missing the mirrored bit off one of the door mirrors - but ultimately should display ok, I reckon!

45 minutes ago, Mine's a Leganza! said:

Apologies that it is not car related, but what is that yellow poster advertising UB40? I am not too concerned about Elvis Costello. 

Are you and the Nemesis going to produce a cover version of Red Red Wine?

 

34 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

From 1980

Yep, that's the very one.

Didn't hang around too long - the proprietor of one of the record stalls snaffled that while I was rootling through the box of Corgi.

The least said of my musical endeavours the better - though I can't speak for The Nemesis...

36 minutes ago, andy18s said:

What sort of price was the Jaguar F1 ?

£10 on that one too - mostly intact without too much paint damage...

...though mirrors, screen and a few bits of plastic spoiler seem to be broken off.

[flat4alfa]

10 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

Karrier(?) flatbed

Dodge Kew 'Parrot Nose'

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suffering from assorted axle-involved maladies

How much does he want for it in that condition?   @Datsuncog

[flat4alfa]

@Datsuncog How much is the coach?