Shite in Miniature II

[bunglebus]

2 hours ago, sierraman said:

Where and when might this feast be occurring?

7pm I'm aiming for

[bunglebus]

Boom

Mine's missing a headlight and the gunsight though 

[bunglebus]

I know some of you are reluctant to be dragged onto the 21st century, but Facebook does come in handy for seeing weird and wonderful diecasts from all over the world.

This one was slightly odd, a lady posted a picture on a Matchbox group saying she'd found a few cars in her relative's loft

She'd never posted in the group before and didn't seem to be offering them for sale, but nothing ventured nothing gained - and she didn't live far away

Boom

Never had a red one - twin pack? Has the doors moulded shut 

[bunglebus]

It's not the only red oddity to make its way home today though, oh no

[sierraman]

12 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

I know some of you are reluctant to be dragged onto the 21st century, but Facebook does come in handy for seeing weird and wonderful diecasts from all over the world.

This one was slightly odd, a lady posted a picture on a Matchbox group saying she'd found a few cars in her relative's loft

She'd never posted in the group before and didn't seem to be offering them for sale, but nothing ventured nothing gained - and she didn't live far away

Boom

Never had a red one - twin pack? Has the doors moulded shut 

Twin pack. Worth quite a bit those. 

[bunglebus]

Some joker on Etsy wants £50 odd for a tatty one

[flat4alfa]

On 27/09/2023 at 09:52, flat4alfa said:

No 1152 Mack Truck with Gloster Saro Articulated Petrol Tanker. This was new tooling in all aspects – both tractor and trailer. The Mack tractor unit was produced in 1/48 scale

Calling Tanker experts.

Is the Dinky a Gloster Saro variation too?

[FakeConcern]

 

Here’s an update on the £2.50 Corgis I got the other day, this is they when brought home...

The Bedford Carrimore has been stripped off and awaiting paint...

The Chipperfields crane I have now finished restoring as much as I’m going to and I’m super pleased with it!

Most of the over painting came off with a cloth dipped in cellulose thinners, I could probably get every last bit off, but I’m happy with the effect. When I was a kid I would occasionally see the big heavy Scammell 6x4 (I think) trucks crawling along making that low gear whining noise. They were always really weathered and worn with patina that this toy really reminds me of so I’m keeping it like this and yes I know it’s not a Scammell. I could fairly easily replace the broken windows as they’re flat, but again I don’t mind them so it’s staying like that. The jib is staying a bit bent and rusty too.

Other broken bits I’ve fixed on the cheap. The spring to stop the hook rolling in and out was bent out of shape so I straightened that and re located it, also found the string was still wound on the spindle so I threaded it along the jib. The crank handle was bent so it got a tweek with the pliers. The ratchet thing that holds the jib in position is available from Steve Flowers but as a budget build I made one using some aluminium sheet glued to a bit of bent wire. It needs fine tuning as the lower cut outs (where the jib is high) are just a bit too wide. The hook was made from a screw hook with a small washer glued to it and a card box around it with the whole painted silver. I think the overall effect is ok.

Now I’m keen to renovate or at least clean the waterlogged Chipperfields Land Rover I got from 155V6

Next the Elan seen here with the one I got from 155V6 most of the Humbrol cleaned off with cloth dipped in cellulose thinners.

I have a spare repro screen ready to go on, but I would like a white Elan and the other blue one is much nicer so I’m going to paint this white when I get time.

Both still have the Esso tiger slogan stickers

*the Matchbox VW just got a wash and then was installed in the summer house as is.

[155V6]

Chipperfields crane looks great 🙂.Just as well I'm really not collecting Circus models,as it would go really well with the Scammell I got from the lot I picked up for @barrett.

This was filthy when I got it,but looks a bit cleaner now

To my surprise,most of the animals were still with it

Tiger looked a bit lonely,so I had a look in the spare tiger box,& found this German shepherd in a tiger suit,it'll do for now

The sliding sides for the cages are bowed or cracked,so I'll order some replacements from Steve Flowers when I get round to it.

I'm definitely not collecting Corgi circus models though.

 

This is the Berliet human cannonball truck I got from @danthecaprimana couple of days ago

It's in nice original condition,the firing mechanism works,so I might add a figure to the Steve Flowers list 😀

[FakeConcern]

And vice versa...

[flat4alfa]

Oh no

I’ve got to collect Corgi Circus now ?!

Still not recovered from Car Transporters!  There’s loads all over the place here

[flat4alfa]

4 hours ago, bunglebus said:

 

 

 

Pretty sure I’ve got some of those there. Defo black one NIB, yellow one played. Am going to be getting rid soon

[sierraman]

Picked up a Corgitronics Leyland Artic the other day, a few minor repairs and it was running again. 

[bunglebus]

12 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Pretty sure I’ve got some of those there. Defo black one NIB, yellow one played. Am going to be getting rid soon

I've got a few others as you know - one even has the funky rear interior card in

Two different front ends to find!

[flat4alfa]

Excellent - Had one of those Leyland Yorkietronics

In the box was this

Waited until the wife went to bed and took advantage of the kitchen floor

Corgitronics was brill, I thought

Because as a child, all we had was coal.  As an adult, this was a revelation! A bit.

Then the wife walked in looking for Paracetamol, saw what was going on and hit the ceiling.

[andrew e]

Just brilluant 😎

[flat4alfa]

26 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

I've got a few others as you know - one even has the funky rear interior card in

Two different front ends to find!

Ok will find out out minty black one (and the box) and allocate it your way, so don’t go on eBay and do a ‘Sabra Plymouth’.  Would swap for borked Sizzler!

[Spottedlaurel]

Managed to fit in a quick visit to the local good charity shop yesterday, this is what they had on offer in the cabinet:

 

There's a shelf elsewhere with stuff at £1 each, 3 for £2. This is what I came away with:

I'm no expert on older HWs, apparently this screen-less version of the Dune Daddy is a promo from 1980 - does that sound right? Seemed like decent value at 66.666666666667p.

[bunglebus]

Datsuncog sorted me out that same Dune Daddy a while back, and I picked up another in near identical condition more recently - yours looks like it's survived a lot better?

As you say, apparently a promotional item but why they chose to remove the screen I don't know - I thought they'd just gone missing

[RoadworkUK]

I have three geographical centres for charity shop mooching; Manningtree, Twickenham and (occasionally) Colchester, and all three are piss poor compared with the regular diecast bonanzas everybody on here seems to regularly encounter.

It's disappointing, but I suppose it helps my abstention.

[Reluctant Adult]

9 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

Excellent - Had one of those Leyland Yorkietronics

In the box was this

Waited until the wife went to bed and took advantage of the kitchen floor

Corgitronics was brill, I thought

 

Because as a child, all we had was coal.  As an adult, this was a revelation! A bit.

Then the wife walked in looking for Paracetamol, saw what was going on and hit the ceiling.

On the MG Maestro prototype in the pics Corgi had  got the bumpers right… anyone know why they grew to comedy proportions for the production version?

[eddyramrod]

1 hour ago, RoadworkUK said:

 the regular diecast bonanzas everybody on here seems to regularly encounter.

Everybody?  Are you sure about that?  Barrow and the surrounding (land-based) communities are a diecast desert.  Hell, we're a boot sale desert!  I'm at the mercy of ebay and the kindly chaps on here.

 

Mind, the wife says I have more than enough already.  Can someone explain this concept to me?

[danthecapriman]

It’s hit or miss here. Sometimes you can find great stuff, other times it’s either rubbish or nothing at all. The last time I went in for a mooch all they had was loads of those god awful Chinese cheapo generic cars with the black window’s and quite a nice Singer sewing machine - which looked nice but I’ve no idea how to use it! 
There’s certainly less boot sale’s around here than pre Covid. Some of them are some distance away and definitely not local. 
There was a really good boot sale at a local place where I managed to pick up loads of good stuff over the years but as far as I know that’s long stopped happening now.

[bunglebus]

I don't find die casts in charity shops often, just now and again someone obviously clears out a load of 70s Matchbox for reasons I don't want to think about. 

There are usually some at the boot sales but we normally do four each weekend to find them. Heavy rain last night and a serious case of CBA meant I haven't gone today but I will tomorrow 

[bunglebus]

Aiming for another batch of cars for sale at 7pm today. Can't promise Matchbox just yet but Siku Tomica and Hot Wheels blackwalls are facing the chop...

[FakeConcern]

4 hours ago, RoadworkUK said:

I have three geographical centres for charity shop mooching; Manningtree, Twickenham and (occasionally) Colchester, and all three are piss poor compared with the regular diecast bonanzas everybody on here seems to regularly encounter.

It's disappointing, but I suppose it helps my abstention.

We have lots of charity shops nearby and almost never see any die cast in any of them.

3 hours ago, eddyramrod said:

Everybody?  Are you sure about that?  Barrow and the surrounding (land-based) communities are a diecast desert.  Hell, we're a boot sale desert!  I'm at the mercy of ebay and the kindly chaps on here.

 

Mind, the wife says I have more than enough already.  Can someone explain this concept to me?

We have a good boot sale nearby on Sundays in the summer which does sometimes have stuff worth getting, but this year it's been cancelled a lot due to wet conditions (tomorrow included). I have started to go to Toy & Model fairs this year having been alerted to some within reach of home by @barrett.

 

Surely your wife can understand the concept of the number of toy cars needed as being n+1?

[AndyW201]

A trip around the local haunts brought some limited success this week. It seems on Teesside we're only about 6 months behind now...

Again, I think every household in the UK has one of these now, but as an inveterate Merc-licker, I'm pleased to finally find one. At Entertainer as well, normally all the desirable stuff gets hoovered up before I get there.

So I hunted for anothe couple to make up the 3 for 2.

I do like a purple car so grabbed this. The paint is really nice on this, and the tampos look good.

Yet another Then & Now release, but under no circumstances am I going to be trawling the shops looking for the older generation counterpart.

#cured #kiddingmyself

A trip to the small local Asda revealed a handful of recent HW on a clipstrip,

A solitary long card Scooby

 

And amazingly, Tesco had some new Matchbox for the first time in several months.. In addition to the ones I got from B&M recently, there were these,

Surprised Matchbox didn't do this as a standard model, as the MK1 Civic was, as Hot Wheels have already done a modified N600, but it's a cute wee thing.

I do like an Ice Cream van. I was surprised when Matchbox released this, as I don't think there will have been many Morrison or Cummins bodied Bedford CAs on the streets of the US, but I'm happy they did it all the same.

I have one from a few years ago, in a lighter shade of pink, the earlier casting with the metal front end, which I removed the shit US style graphics from and scraped and scuffed up a bit, to resemble the knackered old ex-Tonibell one that used to operate around our estate when I was a little 'un in the late '70s.

For a cheap small toy, it's pretty well detailed with a Carpi type machine, cornet racks, fridges and a sink,

I was chuffed to find this, despite having almost never heard of an Autozam before Matchbox modelled it. It's a nicely modelled little thing.

[AndyW201]

A quick scoot around Morrisons was disappointing. They're changing everything around and what was the toy department, including an empty Hot Wheels rummage box occupies half a shelf unit dumped near the tills. To think most of my Hot Wheels new case finds used to come from there...

Wasn't all tears though, on the end of an aisle was a stack of Majorette 5 pack gift sets at a tempting 50% off...

Yes, like a twat, I spent a tenner on a 5 pack just to get one particular car. You might be able to guess which...

Yup.

I didn't even know Majorette had done a 190, but this one is a little beauty, almost as good as the Hot Wheels Evo 2 premium, which I also have. Pleasing details include the glazed headlights, plus the fact they have gone to the trouble of modelling the different sized door mirrors, as on the real thing.

Nice badging and tail light detail, plus the Evo 2 rear wing and rear screen visor.

Opening doors are a bonus, and the interior is a decent stab at the real thing. Particularly the dash, including the three auxiliary gauges in the console.

The Clio is another winner.

Glazed headlights again, and nice detail on the bumper.

Opening doors are the party trick on this one too, again nice interior detail for the size,

Nissan Cefiro is an unusual addition. I'm sure this was the forerunner of the Maxima/QX that we got over here?

Opening bonnet on this one, giving a decent bit of engine detail.

Weird having TWO Corvette ZR1s in here but at least they're slightly different versions, hardtop on and off.

Opening bonnet is a nice feature, but as can be seen in the above pic, the fit isn't brilliant when it's closed...

Same with the open version,

[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, AndyW201 said:

I'm pleased to finally find one

I've got one reserved here for you, with a red Alfa! Now you can open one too...

[Spottedlaurel]

2 hours ago, AndyW201 said:

A quick scoot around Morrisons was disappointing. They're changing everything around and what was the toy department, including an empty Hot Wheels rummage box occupies half a shelf unit dumped near the tills. To think most of my Hot Wheels new case finds used to come from there...

Wasn't all tears though, on the end of an aisle was a stack of Majorette 5 pack gift sets at a tempting 50% off...

Yes, like a twat, I spent a tenner on a 5 pack just to get one particular car...................

I nearly did this morning, there were just two of this particular set left in my local branch. I'd have only been after the Cefiro, and I already have a couple of different ones in individual packs.