Shite in Miniature II

[junkyarddog]

If that Taiyo VW was the king size with the sunroof I'd be sending DC  a wedge by PayPal.......Just as Well for my finances it's not🤣

Wrong colour too,I want a white one.

[MiniMinorMk3]

19 hours ago, 155V6 said:

Do you know which series they're from Dan,wondering if they might do a Puma?

 

17 hours ago, danthecapriman said:

 

Edit; there’s a Minichamps/Maxichamps one.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255724466944?hash=item3b8a5db300:g:bicAAOSwG69jIFtU&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAAwICETQ76Vum2eNljd2W99vO2nQQKdojY%2FCG3eo33A%2B7tZsB6EDJQ7L0ooJ4zvWkfYkwdJKJPZfZZfvSI4Bh3e8HY2XmLSXAy7YJQ%2BZuLWUtssC73hd%2Fc04jF3O7cRYotiaymlGjtvqk36LAdhbNbjIofn%2BqUEZJkBQ5He3qvjpUtKkO4vPHpKThi0MKnzCCs%2FuhkBGbl9AvxaXt1vx%2B8myAwwi5R8IsA6dJUfrxfJULwLRgpLJaM4EE1L7ULCOfmHA%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR9KO4t-aYw

 

 

I've had a few of the MiniChamps versions including the Dealer Issues.

Silver Dealer

Grey Metallic Dealer. 

Regular MiniChamps with chavtastic black rims.

As the model number ends in a 6 there must be at least 7 different colour variations by MiniChamps.

 

[eddyramrod]

Good morning's work there Tim!  Thank you for grabbing me the Crossley.

[Noel Tidybeard]

On 02/01/2024 at 12:22, Split_Pin said:

2nd Christmas Playmobil set to build, Magnum PI Ferrari 308 GTS.

Parked outside my wife's dolls house under construction.

I have dug out my Corgi Juniors version and it would be good to find a 1:36 scale example this year. Did Corgi ever package it as Magnum PI as its exactly the same car?

 

yes that was the 1st release

there were a few tv related around that time- dan tanner t-bird, magnum pie 308, ci5 carpi aff the top o me heed

[flat4alfa]

Found the Tinplate Beetle was later branded with Bandai logo

This one belonged to Trevor

[Noel Tidybeard]

mod tractor and trailer?

 

[danthecapriman]

I got a little bit done on the Sierra over crimble. 
Last time I think I’d stripped it down and got all the yellow paint off.

Since then it’s had the rear window wiper deleted. Rear bumper had the centre section filled. There were also some strange cast lumps either side of the number plate, which I assume were number plate lights, but certainly on European cars they aren’t like that so they’ve been filed off. Front bumper has also had the centre top face filled flat to resemble a European car without the extra wide opening hot counties had. 
Fillers been rubbed down and it’s since had a coat of grey primer. Once I get some time I’ll flat the primer down, give it another warm soapy wash off then put the first colour coats on.

 

It’s hard to see in the pic but by filling the recess in the front bumper top it also completely fills in the lower grill opening, so after a rub down I’ve had to carefully scribe the lower opening back in without removing the filler on the bumper. 
It’s much more visible with the primer on.

 

It’s a nice little casting though, especially given how cheaply you can get them.

[danthecapriman]

20 minutes ago, danthecapriman said:

I got a little bit done on the Sierra over crimble. 
Last time I think I’d stripped it down and got all the yellow paint off.

Since then it’s had the rear window wiper deleted. Rear bumper had the centre section filled. There were also some strange cast lumps either side of the number plate, which I assume were number plate lights, but certainly on European cars they aren’t like that so they’ve been filed off. Front bumper has also had the centre top face filled flat to resemble a European car without the extra wide opening hot counties had. 
Fillers been rubbed down and it’s since had a coat of grey primer. Once I get some time I’ll flat the primer down, give it another warm soapy wash off then put the first colour coats on.

 

It’s hard to see in the pic but by filling the recess in the front bumper top it also completely fills in the lower grill opening, so after a rub down I’ve had to carefully scribe the lower opening back in without removing the filler on the bumper. 
It’s much more visible with the primer on.

 

It’s a nice little casting though, especially given how cheaply you can get them.

Btw, it’s going to be painted in authentic red paint! 
This one won’t be a base car though. It’ll be a standard red front L car. 
When I was at school a friend’s mum had an A reg one of these in red. This was back in the good old days before anyone gave a shit and we used to both sit in the front passenger seat while she drove! It ended up being a very long lived car, she had it years. Eventually replaced by a… Mondeo mk1 LX in blue, which itself was quite old when it replaced the Sierra!

Ive got a couple more of these Sierra’s so I might do another one as a base model, but I’ll have to sand off the raised side trims for that.

[MiniMinorMk3]

Next in the transfer projects is a Solido R5 Turbo.

It is the Garage Galtier Renault 5 Turbo as driven to 4th place by Bruno Saby and Christian "Tilber" Gilbert on the 1980 Tour de Corse - Rallye de France.

What's in the box, just a car and some decals. No instructions on where the 39 little decals should go.

It took me a while to work out what the decal at top centre was and I was going to leave it off. Then it suddenly came to light when I took another look at the actual car.

So off to the interwebs for some pictures.

The little blue decal is the fuel cap that is above the right side rear arch vent.

No rear shots to find but a couple of models to use as a guide. I prefer pictures of teh actual car, but comparing two, or more, models does give some confidence that the decals will be in the right place.

Lets start at the front with the first three.

On with the front lights. Two problems here, as can be seen I am have problems with fragile decals again. It does not help that the raised parts on the bumper, where the lamp and number plate decals go, are smaller than the decals. Thus any heavy brush pressure trying to get the decals to lay down just leads to carnage.  Also the bumper is plastic and the decals are needing a good drop of decal fix to get them to stay put.

Now for a bit of rear guard action. I like the Turbo window decal, but again more problems with the number plate the plastic part that it sits on.

The decals below the rear window looked straight until I took a picture, well at least they don't look so bad when not magnified

Well with the light fading it's time to leave it for now. 

Just side decals for the next session and some trimming of the rear light lens decals. If you look carefully you can see there is a problem with the rear lamp lenses. They maybe parallelograms, but they are not sided. They are a bit bigger than required, so I will be giving them a bit of a snip to try and address the problem.

[bunglebus]

Saw this Polistil Polo in eBay with no bids and a fair BIN - box wasn't shown until the last pic so I don't think anyone else paid attention to it

[bunglebus]

I got the Matchbox E30 cab finished too. There's a bit of a back story, my best mate for the last 30+ years had a bad motorbike crash in 2018 when a woman turned right across his path, he was pretty smashed up and had to be airlifted to hospital. He's been through multiple surgeries and although he's kept his left leg, he won't be driving manuals again. 

Having eventually got a payout, he bought himself this

He's had a handful of E30s and E21s but never a cabrio.

Started with this tired Matchbox Baur

I'm not ashamed to say I really pushed myself on this one, converted it to a normal cabrio including cutting the door shut lines into the body where the pillars used to be and sourcing a set of BBS wheels (Creative 164 - highly recommended).

I even did the BMW roundel on the bonnet for additional eye strain.

Only things I'm not happy with are the yellow windscreen, which I'll change when I find a clear replacement, and the tonneau cover being the wrong colour - which is his fault for only sending me a pic after I'd painted it and forgotten which colour I'd used for the interior!

 

[bunglebus]

Anyone recognise this Mini?

[danthecapriman]

57 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

I got the Matchbox E30 cab finished too. There's a bit of a back story, my best mate for the last 30+ years had a bad motorbike crash in 2018 when a woman turned right across his path, he was pretty smashed up and had to be airlifted to hospital. He's been through multiple surgeries and although he's kept his left leg, he won't be driving manuals again. 

Having eventually got a payout, he bought himself this

He's had a handful of E30s and E21s but never a cabrio.

Started with this tired Matchbox Baur

I'm not ashamed to say I really pushed myself on this one, converted it to a normal cabrio including cutting the door shut lines into the body where the pillars used to be and sourcing a set of BBS wheels (Creative 164 - highly recommended).

I even did the BMW roundel on the bonnet for additional eye strain.

Only things I'm not happy with are the yellow windscreen, which I'll change when I find a clear replacement, and the tonneau cover being the wrong colour - which is his fault for only sending me a pic after I'd painted it and forgotten which colour I'd used for the interior!

 

That is absolutely stunning. Cap doffed!

Is the paint the actual BMW paint or something else similar?

[Datsuncog]

Well folks,  I'd tapped out a jolly valedictory post with lots of pics just to round off the first Tat Friday of the New Year, only I then had the temerity to flick onto another tab for a second, whereupon the forum swallowed my post in one gulp and then denied it had ever existed.

Marvellous*.

So, have a slightly shorter and imperceptibly more terse version, tapped out again...

This morning's finds then, brought together for a happy group snap - first up, this Corgi Superhauler Volvo F12 for @Split_Pin, in what I understand to be a Code 2 livery, available exclusively through the eponymous Kays Catalogue.

Can't guarantee the plain white tractor unit is definitely the one originally supplied with the box trailer, but it seemed the most likely candidate out of all the trucks in the box - based on matching wheels and similar colours.

I'm hoping the matching Mk3 Transit will turn up again before long - it was included in a general Tat Box the other week, but didn't show up this week.

Then there's the Lledo Vanguards (as it's still styled on the box, though with Corgi logos creeping in) Astra from 2004, procured for @AndyW201:

This one's in good shape, with the fragile aerial and door mirrors still in place.

It kinda melts my head that this is what a 20 year old car now looks like.

Whenever Corgi Classics started producing their model of the Mk1 Cortina in the late 80s, they were modelling a car that wasn't all that much older, relatively speaking...

Slightly less intact, but with a simply wonderful presence, is the big plastic Rolls Royce Silver Cloud:

Ultimately, it was @andrew e who cracked first on this one - thereby saving me (and possibly others) from myself.

I doubt I'll ever see another of these. Even tired and slightly gluey, there's just something about this.

Now, a MoY Crossley lorry in RAF colours was spotted amidst the cheapo boxed stuff - though bizarrely, it then vanished between the photo being snapped and its presence being pointed out to me.

But nonetheless, I'd already found another one in a rummage box beneath the stall, and had nabbed it preemptively on behalf of @eddyramrod:

No original box for this one, but at a pleasingly wallet-friendly £2, hopefully that won't matter too much.

One plucked for myself was this Matchbox Dinky MGB V8; the box is pretty hammered, but the model inside's ok bar some slight yellowing to the headlights.

I always fancied this one, ever since its launch in 1991, but never managed to bagsy myself one - until now.

A keeper, for the time being.

And, most unexpectedly (since vintage stuff isn't really my thing), this Oxford Diecast...

Which lifelong car nuts of a certain age will no doubt find it hard to look at without hearing a blast of the words 'Austin Clifton Heavy Twelve-Four, vintage 1926'.

Yep, it's Gumdrop - the star of nearly forty children's books written by Val Biro between 1966 and 2004, the fictional adventures of which were based on his own real-life Austin 12.

I loved these books when I was a kid, and luckily our local library had quite a few of the titles for me to borrow again and again. 

Correct down to the number plate, I'd no idea Oxford had produced a model of this splendid car.

So I couldn't very well leave it. Also a keeper, for now.

And lastly from the stalls, a few cheap but still presentable enough recent Matchbox releases, which will be going into the box earmarked for my nieces at some point.

Probably. Maybe.

I make it a point of personal policy not to leave behind clean Matchbox offered out for only 50p.

And then...

I could retype my lengthy moan about Poundland and their scamtastic Poundland Perks app, but it's late and I'm tired and all you need to know is that it didn't give me the promised 50p off Hot Wheels, and I should probably write to Head Office to find out whether it's down to their shitty app or incompetent staff/ management/ training.

Probably a heady blend of all of the above.

Still, I got them good and proper with the mispriced Matchbox early on last year, so... I guess these things balance out.

If anyone wants a SII Land Rover SWB, I now have a spare one available for the £1.50 paid...

So! Is that it?

I guess so. Probably worth hauling my lazy arse out of bed into the January darkness, anyway.

Will update The Spreadsheet at some point, but until next time... Happy Friday, kids.

[Datsuncog]

27 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Anyone recognise this Mini?

Siku, innit?

Possibly still in the current range.

[bunglebus]

29 minutes ago, danthecapriman said:

That is absolutely stunning. Cap doffed!

Is the paint the actual BMW paint or something else similar?

Correct Kashmirbeige touch up paint airbrushed on

[MiniMinorMk3]

48 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Anyone recognise this Mini?

 

21 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

Siku, innit?

Possibly still in the current range.

I have a couple of those in fresh bubbles

[Datsuncog]

4 hours ago, Noel Tidybeard said:

mod tractor and trailer?

This one?

Looks tidy enough, but based on this particular stallholder's previous pricing strategies, I'd expect an asking price of about £30.

Not even joking...

[bunglebus]

30 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

I loved these books when I was a kid, and luckily our local library had quite a few of the titles for me to borrow again and again

Cor. My favourite (to read in the child section of Shenfield library) was Gumdrop Finds a Ghost

In which Gumdrop locates a long lost Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost.

I'm sure that's probably part of the reason I find old, unloved cars so fascinating 

[danthecapriman]

Nice little start to the year there @Datsuncog. Bloody well done dragging yourself out into the grimness of dark cold and wet January morning’s too. I’d definitely be staying in bed!

Im glad @andrew e snapped up that big Rolls too, I was getting very tempted to make enquiries about it myself!

[MiniMinorMk3]

30 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

 

One plucked for myself was this Matchbox Dinky MGB V8; the box is pretty hammered, but the model inside's ok bar some slight yellowing to the headlights.

I always fancied this one, ever since its launch in 1991, but never managed to bagsy myself one - until now.

A keeper, for the time being.

 

My bright orange DY-3B GT had yellow lamps

and my DY-19 V8 had a very slight tint as well

 

[Split_Pin]

Thanks again Tim!

I'd completely forgotten about Gumdrop as for some reason I thought it was an Austin 7 but that is of course the equally charming Brumm! Well played and a nice bit of nostalgia as I recall loving these books as a kid. My school library had at least one copy!

[Datsuncog]

53 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Cor. My favourite (to read in the child section of Shenfield library) was Gumdrop Finds a Ghost

In which Gumdrop locates a long lost Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost.

I'm sure that's probably part of the reason I find old, unloved cars so fascinating 

Heh, that was my favourite story in the series too!

I also remember one about a traction engine, called 'Gumdrop and the Farmer's Friend', and I seem to recall one where Gumdrop got scrapped by accident, but was ultimately rescued...

22 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

I'd completely forgotten about Gumdrop as for some reason I thought it was an Austin 7 but that is of course the equally charming Brumm! Well played and a nice bit of nostalgia as I recall loving these books as a kid. My school library had at least one copy!

I'd completely forgotten too - but the rush of memory upon seeing the Oxford Diecast model was unreal!

Just goes to show how strong some buried memories can be...

48 minutes ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

My bright orange DY-3B GT had yellow lamps

and my DY-19 V8 had a very slight tint as well

 

Ah, interesting!

I must have a closer look at my long-owned orange version later - I didn't think it had yellow lights, but who knows...

54 minutes ago, danthecapriman said:

Nice little start to the year there @Datsuncog. Bloody well done dragging yourself out into the grimness of dark cold and wet January morning’s too. I’d definitely be staying in bed!

Im glad @andrew e snapped up that big Rolls too, I was getting very tempted to make enquiries about it myself!

Cheers! Was dithering about whether it'd be worth my while going in, but I'm glad I did!

[junkyarddog]

My Taiyo Tinplate beetle with fashionable patina,here gracefully modeled by Smoll Eddy.

"Electric cars will never catch on M8"

[quicksilver]

11 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

Heh, that was my favourite story in the series too!

I also remember one about a traction engine, called 'Gumdrop and the Farmer's Friend', and I seem to recall one where Gumdrop got scrapped by accident, but was ultimately rescued...

I'd completely forgotten too - but the rush of memory upon seeing the Oxford Diecast model was unreal!

Just goes to show how strong some buried memories can be...

Ah, interesting!

I must have a closer look at my long-owned orange version later - I didn't think it had yellow lights, but who knows...

Cheers! Was dithering about whether it'd be worth my while going in, but I'm glad I did!

I remember Gumdrop books too and have somehow dredged up the name of Gumdrop's owner from a dusty corner of my memory: Mr Josiah Oldcastle. Why can I remember that from 30 odd years ago but not what I had for breakfast this morning?

Wikipedia says there were 37 books and the one I have the clearest memory of involved Mr Oldcastle trying to enter Gumdrop in the London to Brighton run but being rejected for being too modern and creating his own run with a convoy of weird and wacky vehicles. Val Biro owned the real Gumdrop right up to his death in 2014 but where is it now?

[RoadworkUK]

I'd love to find my old Gumdrop story cassette, narrated by Richard Briers (because of course it was). 

I have a Gumdrop omnibus three-books-in-one volume in my office. Gets a wistful thumbing surprisingly frequently.

Tim, if you ever decide that Gumdrop needs a home, please bear me in mind.

[andrew e]

How long is the Roller @Datsuncog intrigued what scale it is! Many thanks for picking it up 👍👍👍

[eddyramrod]

@Datsuncog Land Rover SWB, you say?  Yes please, tuck it in with my Crossley.  Speaking of which, you did right.  The box is just something else to store, so thank you, the one you've bought is ideal.

[bunglebus]

From gumdrop.org

Val died in 2014, but at the age of 92 was still working for the sheer pleasure of it on his next publishing project, and his latest Treasury of Fairy Tales was published last Christmas.  As Trustees of his Estate, his daughter Melissa and stepson Phil are committed to keeping his books in print, and Phil's son Chris, is the proud keeper of Gumdrop today, so expect to see them at future motoring events.

And a 2022 pic from Retro Rides at an event celebrating 100 years of the Austin 12

[FakeConcern]

3 hours ago, bunglebus said:

I got the Matchbox E30 cab finished too. There's a bit of a back story, my best mate for the last 30+ years had a bad motorbike crash in 2018 when a woman turned right across his path, he was pretty smashed up and had to be airlifted to hospital. He's been through multiple surgeries and although he's kept his left leg, he won't be driving manuals again. 

Having eventually got a payout, he bought himself this

He's had a handful of E30s and E21s but never a cabrio.

Started with this tired Matchbox Baur

I'm not ashamed to say I really pushed myself on this one, converted it to a normal cabrio including cutting the door shut lines into the body where the pillars used to be and sourcing a set of BBS wheels (Creative 164 - highly recommended).

I even did the BMW roundel on the bonnet for additional eye strain.

Only things I'm not happy with are the yellow windscreen, which I'll change when I find a clear replacement, and the tonneau cover being the wrong colour - which is his fault for only sending me a pic after I'd painted it and forgotten which colour I'd used for the interior!

 

I have no idea how you manage that amount of detail at Matchbox scale, it's super impressive!

I can't do it as well with Corgi scale toys.

Please do keep sharing your work, I love it.