Shite in Miniature II

[flat4alfa]

Found it.  The (what I now know is) Norev Jet Car Peugeot 504 Rallye body shell.   So, not the Solido after all.  Forgot this was tucked away until posts earlier

The Norev Peugeot 404 popped over for a chat

"Le Tigre dans son tank"

Just noticed 404 plate is from this part of France, Département 69, Rhône

Also noticed I have no other 1:43-ish Peugeots to offer.

[155V6]

1 hour ago, flat4alfa said:

Thing is, got them all, in ok enough shape to 'have to do' without having to rejoin. 

 

Can get zoo figures that will do out of the charity shop kids box

At least, that's the excuse I'm going tell myself.  For now...

I couldn't find a kangaroo,so had to make do with a duck-billed platypus.It was either that.or a wombat the size of a bear 😂

[flat4alfa]

[bunglebus]

Matalan with Hot Wheels M or N case I think

Majorette in Sainsbury's 

[MiniMinorMk3]

15 hours ago, FakeConcern said:

 

 

No, no there’s something else in here...

So which of you fellow addicts encouraged me to buy a Gama Opel GT?

 

 

I think that was me

[MiniMinorMk3]

15 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Ooh, T-Hunted just posted a pre-production Hot Wheels due at some point;

 

 

 

[eddyramrod]

8 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Matalan with Hot Wheels M or N case I think

Majorette in Sainsbury's 

Is that the Adelaide branch of Matalan?

[MiniMinorMk3]

13 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

Also noticed I have no other 1:43-ish Peugeots to offer.

I've a few Eligors

[flat4alfa]

15 minutes ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

I think that was me

It was.  Also my fault too

If I had a GAMA

I'd GAMA in the morning...

 

[MiniMinorMk3]

I'd hammer in the evening...

[bunglebus]

14 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

Is that the Adelaide branch of Matalan?

Whanganui 

[tom13]

14 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Having a nose around their Instagram, some good looking premiums in the pipeline for 2024. Roll hoop on the MX5 spoils it though 

Plus a Fiat 600 in the mainline, normal and Super Treasure Hunt 

It always annoys me how the NA's are LHD.

[tom13]

I finally got one. Soooooo much money for a model but I had to have one. They were on a stand at Historic rally festival at Weston park on the weekend. First ones I had ever seen in the flesh. 

[flat4alfa]

20 hours ago, FakeConcern said:

How come it’s as big as a Corgi Stingray?

WHO SCALED IT WORSE?

Fire up the spreadsheets

The Opel does say 1:41 underneath, so they weren't going for 1:43 in the first place, to be fair

THEREFORE CORGI WINS!  It is approximately 5% too small.  So in this company looks even weedier.

Buzz Aldrin agrees.

[bunglebus]

BuM have some newish Matchbox 

Weirdness in Poundstretcher 

Poundland also have quite up to date Matchbox and Hot Wheels 

Asda

[eddyramrod]

I've got to go out and do stuff this afternoon.  Now I'm going to have to trawl, aren't I?

[bunglebus]

Don't go in Home Bargains if you're offended by the C word

[flat4alfa]

Especially the spelling

[MiniMinorMk3]

FOR SALE

If anyone wants one of those Gama Opel GT models I have three dealer versions going spare. These were made in Bulgaria  and sold through Opel dealerships. I got mine (a batch of 5) at a Vectis auction about 5 or 6 years ago.

Only one has been out of it's box (to take snaps). These are as new. If you don't like the colour they can be dismantled easily as the base is held with one phillips screw.

I am after £10 including RM Tracked 48 postage to a UK address. If you want one just send me a pm so I can send you Paypal email.

[flat4alfa]

You have a PM

 

[bunglebus]

Those are decent for an Ayrton. 

[bunglebus]

My local newsagent very occasionally has Hot Wheels - today they had loads of clip strip P case cars. Picked up the regular Treasure Hunt, new F-150 casting and a couple of doubles

[bunglebus]

21 hours ago, bunglebus said:

I'm still waiting for my Studebaker Golden Hawk

But not any longer

According to the blurb most were in the Marmite chrome gold or silver finish, and the plain gold is a bit of a rarity. All the more pleasing then, that my original is in just that finish

[bunglebus]

While rummaging in the loft, I also found my original Thames Airborne, so that got compared to the young upstart too

I know there were grumbles over the colour on this one,  my only note on both this and the Hawk is different styles of rivet - but having read the piece on the challenges of recreating these cars to look as original as possible, while adhering to modern standards etc, I'm happy to accept this small difference 

[flat4alfa]

Not sure what the grumbles were about, but these are the ones back here.

Both are originals not repaints.  Reckon they released two greens and the reproduction is one of those greens.

I took these shots to note the alternated colour interiors

Fill-in flash emphasises the metallic look to finish on the green one

CORGI 420 FORD THAMES AIRBORNE CARAVAN

[flat4alfa]

On 10/4/2023 at 7:32 AM, bunglebus said:

My Dinky Phantom needs some help

There is one of those back here, suffering from an identical weight-reduction technique.  Or should that be atmospheric-engine-cooling technique.

Admiral Ackbar stopped breakdancing for a moment to explain that the one to left of it was restored some time ago using sparkly paint from Wilko.  Back when we had a Wilco.

He also wanted to emphasise the scale difference between the later 'opening things' Dinky Phantom V and the earlier 'fully-sealed' Dinky Phantom V, which is more in line with the scaling of the Silver Wraith next to it.

The Spreadsheet was fired-up again.  Due to the variable wheelbases for the Wraith, leaving Crewe as running chassis only, I determined the Dinky was modelled on the Park Ward Limousine body and used those dimensions

So we can see Dinky preferred 1:48 then moved on to 1:43 by late sixties

Dinky 150 Rolls Royce Silver Wraith, produced 1960-64.  Earliest production did not have glazing.
Dinky 198 Rolls Royce Phantom, produced 1962-68
Dinky 152 Rolls Royce Phantom, produced 1968-77

[FakeConcern]

8 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

WHO SCALED IT WORSE?

Fire up the spreadsheets

The Opel does say 1:41 underneath, so they weren't going for 1:43 in the first place, to be fair

THEREFORE CORGI WINS!  It is approximately 5% too small.  So in this company looks even weedier.

Buzz Aldrin agrees.

Marcel says they made the C3 1/46 so even closer!

Strange that the Rolls should be 1/43 as I thought he said the idea was to make smaller cars bigger and bigger cars smaller if you see what I mean! Also not on the same page he claims both the Rolls and the Sting Ray to be the last Golden Jacks model!

3 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

FOR SALE

If anyone wants one of those Gama Opel GT models I have three dealer versions going spare. These were made in Bulgaria  and sold through Opel dealerships. I got mine (a batch of 5) at a Vectis auction about 5 or 6 years ago.

Only one has been out of it's box (to take snaps). These are as new. If you don't like the colour they can be dismantled easily as the base is held with one phillips screw.

I am after £10 including RM Tracked 48 postage to a UK address. If you want one just send me a pm so I can send you Paypal email.

Too late now, but shame you didn't say earlier as I'd have bought one from you rather than on ebay! However I would say that anyone not sure about it that they are really nice and well worth getting at this excellent price...

[flat4alfa]

12 minutes ago, FakeConcern said:

Too late now, but shame you didn't say earlier as I'd have bought one from you rather than on ebay! However I would say that anyone not sure about it that they are really nice and well worth getting at this excellent price...

Buy the remaining two?  Ready for your forthcoming Solido Renault car transporter?

I could then let you have the red one back here, restore that and you could then complete the whole top deck.  It just might work!

[FakeConcern]

6 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Buy the remaining two?  Ready for your forthcoming Solido Renault car transporter?

I could then let you have the red one back here, restore that and you could then complete the whole top deck.  It just might work!

STOP SHOWING ME STUFF LIKE THIS...

 

 

[flat4alfa]

On 10/4/2023 at 7:48 AM, bunglebus said:

I've yet to find a Hot Wheels redline Roller

Was surprised to read that bit!  Shirley not.

Found out the rough but complete one back here and ran it up for the RR Club Lunch at Horse Guards

They got in the way and were told quite harshly to shuffle about and park elsewhere, so:

Front row L>R: MB Silver Shadow, MB Silver Shadow Coupe, HW Silver Shadow, Lone Star Silver Cloud III.
Back row: MB Silver Spirit, MB Phantom V, Tri-ang Minic Bentley Continental (invited RAF guest), MB FAB1 (invited celebrity guest speaker)

It was a FAB lunch.