Shite in Miniature II

[Datsuncog]

Right - I'm afraid I gotta dash, and sadly I've got rather a busy morning and afternoon stacked up, so I may not be able to get back over at lunchtime.

I fear I may have overpaid somewhat, but...

Here's what I came away with, somewhat smarting at handing over £30.

All are available, if anyone fancies them!

**EDIT: ALL NOW TAKEN!!**

If not, I'll just pop 'em in my ever-increasing Box Of Regret and try not to think too hard about them...

More to come, later - hopefully!

[bunglebus]

Dinky El Camino please 

[flat4alfa]

Crikey a borked but £10 Dinky Fury

I will say yes though

Mainly because I spent £25 in pub last night and have nothing to show for it. The regret is comparible

 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

If the Cortinas still available please start me a new box with it !!

[bunglebus]

That Fury is cool, didn't know it existed

[bunglebus]

1 minute ago, flat4alfa said:

I spent £25 in pub last night and have nothing to show for it

3 pints? Pisshead!

[flat4alfa]

More than that but it was Darts Night and it was packed, with food on

[andrew e]

4 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

That Fury is cool, didn't know it existed

Same here!

[NorfolkNWeigh]

If the Thames Compressor gets nearer a fiver id like it , if only because I was brought home from hospital when born , in a similar Thames Pink Paraffin tanker. 

[bunglebus]

Who makes the other El Camino that's always missing the tailgate? Corgi? Lone Star?

[flat4alfa]

Yeah Lone Star, with typically missing tailgate and usually in orange

Been after one for a while 

Been outbid on on them continuously. For a while.

[Datsuncog]

10 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Who makes the other El Camino that's always missing the tailgate? Corgi? Lone Star?

I think that's Lone Star.

There's an orange one over in the Model Shop in Smithfield, still there the last time I looked... think it might be around the £10 mark too.

Tailgate missing, naturally.

[Datsuncog]

16 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Crikey a borked but £10 Dinky Fury

I will say yes though

Mainly because I spent £25 in pub last night and have nothing to show for it. The regret is comparible

 

 

17 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Dinky El Camino please 

 

15 minutes ago, NorfolkNWeigh said:

If the Cortinas still available please start me a new box with it !!

Duly noted, folks!

Cheers for saving me from my own terrible decisions, once again...

[flat4alfa]

3 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

I think that's Lone Star.

There's an orange one over in the Model Shop in Smithfield, still there the last time I looked... think it might be around the £10 mark too.

Could I pre-order that please. Just in case, like! 

[flat4alfa]

12 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

Cheers for saving me from my own terrible decisions, once again...

Not terrible, just stealthy. 

Your efforts have made us all hot right now. 

This is the home page

The shame of it all

[eddyramrod]

50 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Had no idea until now that Dinky caravans were different lengths. I just assumed the casting was adapted for the glazed roofing 

Neither did I, and I've restored both!

You can see them on the right of this photo, early type somewhat hidden behind the later.  Note the windows are smaller on the older one.  Steve Flowers has doors for them, ask me how I know!

23 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

More than that but it was Darts Night and it was packed, with food on

My idea of Hell, right there.

[Datsuncog]

15 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Could I pre-order that please. Just in case, like! 

I'll see what I can do, next time I'm in the vicinity!

Unlikely to be today, annoyingly.

[flat4alfa]

Oh course, I didn't eat any of it. Pub team is top of the board, landlord gifts a spread to all. Which is a good thing, as will rip community if it closes

[flat4alfa]

1 minute ago, Datsuncog said:

I'll see what I can do, next time I'm in the vicinity!

Unlikely to be today, annoyingly.

Yes please don't jetpack or unibike over there especially

You have a tree house to build first, after all

[eddyramrod]

And by the way: a tenner is way over the odds for those project cars.  

[flat4alfa]

Possibly, in this case though I have watched the Fury sell well, when they do turn up

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_nkw=dinky+plymouth+fury+-gran+-police&_sacat=0&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1&_salic=3&LH_LocatedIn=1

Check out the empty original box that went for £25 last week, now that is silly!

[flat4alfa]

 

Steven Flowers has stock of parts http://model-supplies.co.uk/dinky_parts_range.htm

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115 Plymouth Fury plastic male driver  painted  £3.10
115 Plymouth Fury plastic female passenger painted  £3.10
115/137 Plymouth Fury bonnet  £0.95
115/137 Plymouth Fury white plastic steering wheel  £0.80
115/137 Plymouth Fury convertible plastic screen  £3.60
137 Plymouth Fury convertible plastic hardtop (pink for dark blue model)  £4.60
137 Plymouth Fury convertible plastic hardtop (grey for met green model)  £4.60

Chuck* and Janis* figures were only in the [later] release white colour, so don't need those anyhow 

 

The roof reproduction is also available from MINICIRQUE over the water just outside Rouen.  I might give Marc Mesnil a ring instead as he does reproductions for Majorette / Minialuxe / Norev / Dinky France,  as well.  www.minicircus.com

 

Or just put it on the shelf and forget about it, like all the others

[bunglebus]

Did you know...

...all the Race Day cards line up to form a picture?

Yes I found the Capri.

There's also a Matchbox 5 pack I wasn't aware of

[MiniMinorMk3]

1 hour ago, flat4alfa said:

 

Steven Flowers has stock of parts http://model-supplies.co.uk/dinky_parts_range.htm

Chuck* and Janis* figures were only in the release colour so don't need those anyhow 

The roof reproduction is available from MINICIRQUE over the water just outside Rouen.  I might give Marc Mesnil a ring.  www.minicircus.com

I was just about to post that there was two version 137 that came with the roof on (mostly)

and the later 115 that was open top, with figures and twin aerials.

Nicky Toys version is the open one

[flat4alfa]

Yes I was looking at same and was surprised 137 came with or without roof

Much prefer the blue grey...

...over the green as well.  But what were Dinky up to with the die flaw at the front fenders?

The Calcutta production under Nicky brand had more colour choices, including figures of Mounish* and Sushmita*

For some reason the one with aerials also was their 137

[flat4alfa]

Dinky 137 produced 1963-66

Dinky 115 produced 1965-69

But look at the two ads - a price jump of 2 Shillings.  Must have been pricey getting Doreen to hand-paint the Chuck* and Janis* figures

[eddyramrod]

We have a lovely* new Smyths in Barrow now, it opened yesterday.  So I dropped in today after visiting the doc and found... want to guess how many Matchbox?

 

 

Two five-packs, neither being the one above.  No singles at all.

[bunglebus]

Smyths are quite crap for Matchbox and usually for mainline Hot Wheels too - ever since Covid my local one seems to be months behind Entertainer. 

However they are in my good books this afternoon 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Just went to my local ( Milton Keynes) B&M for some cheap Lino, they don’t sell it anymore , but they have a lot of Hotwheels for £1.69 each. Don’t know what happened to this Zakspeed? x-Pack ? Mk2 RS2 but I don’t care, it’s mine now. ( incidentally ended up spending £80 in B&Q for cheap Lino rather than B&Ms £48😕)

[MiniMinorMk3]

56 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Smyths are quite crap for Matchbox and usually for mainline Hot Wheels too - ever since Covid my local one seems to be months behind Entertainer. 

However they are in my good books this afternoon 

More HotWheels fiction. The Zakspeed Capri never raced with Ford Motorsport colours.