Shite in Miniature II

[eddyramrod]

I've got some teledials, which size do you want?

[barrett]

A little while ago I dusted all my cars, grouped them by maker, photographed them and made an ebay listingfor the whole lot. I put a very optimistic price on, thinking that there would be a very small chance anybody would buy them but, if they did, I'd be rewarded with a decent chunk of cash (which frankly would be much more helpful to me at the moment than a load of old toys). Still, I pressed 'save for later' and just haven't had the guts to go live with the listing. Why is that? I have the collector gene for sure, but I don't have any emotional attachment to these things and I don't feel they particularly enrich my life in the way some of my other collections (records and books) do. Perhaps it's because I feel I haven't 'completed' it yet - maybe if I got hold of one of every single Politoys M-series cars I could relax and flog the whole lot on, but as it stands it annoys me that I have such an imcomplete selection.

Anyway, I bought some more instead of selling them all.

Yes, it's the Politoys M no.587, Lamborghini Espada and Politoys Export no.562 Ferrari 330GTC!

The Lambo is lovely. Quite a late casting but with all the high-quality goodies you'd expect from an M-series car. These are particularly difficult to find in this condition, as the rear opening hatch is incredibly delicate and is almost always missing. Great colour for a 70s supercar, too.

The Ferrari is also not an easy one to find in any condition. This one is very nice apart from the missing eye - anyone have a donor which might fit? I suspect something from a Matchbox Dinky 1:43 might work? As with other Export range cars this has an unpainted metal base, which makes this silver version the best one to have I reckon as the unpainted valances aren't so jarring. Otherwise it's pretty nice, although definitely not as crisp as earlier Politoys with a few casting lines and flash, etc, but the shape is accurate and it retains things like the tiny cast-in badge on the boot. Very nice, but these have literally pushed me to breaking point on display space so they're just rolling round my desk at the moment. ho hum.

[bunglebus]

1 minute ago, barrett said:

anyone have a donor which might fit?

If it's just a jewel look for rhinestones on eBay - loads of sizes and colours available 

[barrett]

1 minute ago, bunglebus said:

If it's just a jewel look for rhinestones on eBay - loads of sizes and colours available 

No, it's a clear plastic lens

[bunglebus]

Got to be something with similar parts, model kit or one of the cheap but fairly detailed models.

Can you measure the diameter of it?

[barrett]

Looks to be about 5mm

[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, eddyramrod said:

I've got some teledials, which size do you want?

Think I'm confusing myself - it has teledials but should have the RoStyle type ones, which I have in stock. Are teledials still needed by anyone?

[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, barrett said:

Looks to be about 5mm

6mm - think it's from an ancient model kit

[bunglebus]

The plot thickens. It seems you could get a 373 with white base and teledials

[Split_Pin]

Many thanks to @FakeConcern for sending me a spares Fiat 124.

I dug my blue one out the loft, it hasn't seen light of day for about 30 years. It's a shame it's too far gone as it would have made a great shelf buddy for my Fiat 131 which is in the same 'OLIOFIAT'  livery this wore originally.

Crucially,  the roof on the white one is intact and the axles are straight. It also has an intact windscreen, the one on the blue one is made from some kind of food packaging. The white one also has its original grille, the blue one has a balsa wood replacement (LOL). So I decided to go with the white one.

The bonnet on the blue one has a small chip at the corner and was badly glued onto the hinge. The bonnet was missing completely on the white one.

So here it is now with the bonnet re glued to the new car, waiting for it to dry. I'll repair the corner and spray it black to match the boot lid.

I'm right pleased with this !

[RoadworkUK]

On 02/12/2023 at 10:45, FakeConcern said:

[mention=4819]RoadworkUK[/mention] would you mind telling me where in Brighton you bought the SD1? I'm interested in case it's somewhere I don't know about!

This place. Has all kinds of old rammle inside.

Sent from my SM-G986B using Tapatalk WHICH EXPLAINS WHY THE FORMATTING IS ALL TO SHIT
 

[FakeConcern]

14 minutes ago, RoadworkUK said:

This place. Has all kinds of old rammle inside.

Sent from my SM-G986B using Tapatalk
 

Thanks!

I have been in there and Mrs Concern has bought a few bits, I did see a Dinky Jensen FF that I didn't buy, but wished I had! Nice to see more tat is appearing in there all the time

[FakeConcern]

This thread really is making me feel like I'm about 13 again!

The sort of conversations I had with my mates then

Where did you get that?

Oh yeh I've been there...

I need some wheels

Oh yeh Eddy has some...

Can you pick up a (whateva model) when your go there again

No problem

I see Dan's been painting up that Cortina looks good

Yeh I want one now...

I love seeing all the projects and thanks @Split_Pin showing the FIAT progress.

When I was that age it was mostly plastic kits, 1/32 Airfix cars and 1/72 planes plus some 1/48 planes, can't recal the make.

Several of my mates would come around to my house and we'd make our kits together. My dad had got me a nice desk with an Anglepoise lamp, my mum would bring us tea and biscuits, we had it all laid on with liquid cement and Humbrol, rat tail files, emery boards, no expense spared haha!

Now I have been sitting in the same sort of setting with Mrs Concern, but while I'm working on the toy cars, she's doing a snow scene diorama and a Judy Garland trolly song model!

This is our workshop

My longest ongoing project the childhood Elan which had the body broken completely at the front wheelarches is finally done

For some reason the young me had fitted wire wheels on the front and the original cast wheels on the back so I put wires on the back too. The original roof had the screen and some of the rear pillars missing so I modified it into a hood

A bit clumsy but will do for now...

[danthecapriman]

That Elan looks brilliant @FakeConcern great you’ve had it so long too. 
Likewise, @Split_Pin, Fiat looks great. It’s nice that your old original one has survived and still donated good bits to make up a good car.

Heres another of my projects part way through. 
I’ve barely done much the last few days though as it’s been so bloody cold!

Bond partwork Plymouth Savoy. Was a black taxi. The roof and window frame bit is a completely separate plastic piece. It’s obviously not pushed down into place fully yet as the gold paint is still quite fresh. 
The top of the roof needs masking off and the sides/window frames need spraying in body colour.

[Spottedlaurel]

15 hours ago, barrett said:

No, it's a clear plastic lens

I'll keep an eye out for something in my parts box. I've done the odd 1:43 kit, or there could be a sidelight or similar from a larger scale kit.

You'll be wanting to glue it in with some sort of PVA/wood glue - poly cement or super glue will fog it.

[Nibbler]

Black Friday deal. Triple9 Audi 100 C3 2,3E. I’ve could have gone for some fancy paint and alloys but oh no . Instead I’ve gone for the plain white with poverty caps. Just the way my parts car would have looked like if it wasn’t for a set of Ford RS-wheels.

[RoadworkUK]

There is a Guisal Seat 131 in the Sussex Beacons charity shop in Brighton; quite good condition other than an unfortunate permanent marker paint job. I hesitantly passed on it when the clerk asked for £2.

Sent from my SM-G986B using Tapatalk

[quicksilver]

Inspired by the talk of Midland Bank mobile branches a couple of weeks ago, I dug out this Leyland National and turned it into a might-have-been JHV 611N. I think I got it from someone on here some years ago and aptly it was a United bus with a Whitby destination as that's where JHV was based. The real one disappeared without trace but its sister got converted into a bus so my story is that the same happened to JHV: it went through the local auction, was bought by Quicksilver and fitted out as a school bus.

[MiniMinorMk3]

7 hours ago, Spottedlaurel said:

I'll keep an eye out for something in my parts box. I've done the odd 1:43 kit, or there could be a sidelight or similar from a larger scale kit.

You'll be wanting to glue it in with some sort of PVA/wood glue - poly cement or super glue will fog it.

I use Humbrol Clear Fix for windows, lamp lenses and anything else that might be sensitive to super glue.

And I have just used Decal Fix to do this Solido Monte Carlo Alpine A110.

[quicksilver]

It's another 3D printed Metro, this time a 3-door Rover 100. I guess that's the beauty of 3D printing; it's easy to produce different variants by altering the drawing.

The three best Rover Group colours: Polynesian, Nightfire and Amaranth. Why can't modern cars come in fantastic shades like these?

[sierraman]

If you were to describe 1997 in a colour it would be purple. It was the ‘in’ colour. You could even get a purple Mondeo. 

[bunglebus]

2 hours ago, Nibbler said:

 Ford RS-wheels.

How did you put 4x108 wheels on a 4x100 (presumably) Audi?

[sierraman]

1 hour ago, quicksilver said:

Inspired by the talk of Midland Bank mobile branches a couple of weeks ago, I dug out this Leyland National and turned it into a might-have-been JHV 611N. I think I got it from someone on here some years ago and aptly it was a United bus with a Whitby destination as that's where JHV was based. The real one disappeared without trace but its sister got converted into a bus so my story is that the same happened to JHV: it went through the local auction, was bought by Quicksilver and fitted out as a school bus.

How do you get all the transfers? I’d love to do a replica Mainline bus but no idea how to do the decals 

[quicksilver]

35 minutes ago, sierraman said:

How do you get all the transfers? I’d love to do a replica Mainline bus but no idea how to do the decals 

I made them myself. You can buy waterslide transfer paper for inkjet and laser printers, then use the graphics program of your choice to design the decals.

[sierraman]

57 minutes ago, quicksilver said:

I made them myself. You can buy waterslide transfer paper for inkjet and laser printers, then use the graphics program of your choice to design the decals.

Sounds straightforward until I have a go 😂

[flat4alfa]

1 hour ago, sierraman said:

If you were to describe 1997 in a colour it would be purple. It was the ‘in’ colour. You could even get a purple Mondeo. 

Remember ‘Amaranth’ ?

Crikey. That is of its time

I can’t remember what I just went upstairs for, but I can remember the name and the shimmering effect from that Rover colour…

But I’m better now.

[sierraman]

New Labour! 

[flat4alfa]

Things, can only get purple

Can only get purple, if we see it through

That means me, and I mean you too

So teach me now that things can only get purple

They can only get, they only get, take it on from here

You know I know that things, can only get purple

[bunglebus]

It's a great colour

 

[MiniMinorMk3]

2 hours ago, bunglebus said:

How did you put 4x108 wheels on a 4x100 (presumably) Audi?

The Audi 100 had 4x108 PCD until 1991.

I had a 1989 B2 Coupe years ago and went to get a spare Ronal wheel for it from a local VW/Audi breakers...

...only to find that the wheel wouldn't fit as the PCD was different.

Audi b2 Resource - Ronal R8's