Shite in Miniature II

[Datsuncog]

I also checked out Cash Converters earlier when I was passing, just in case someone had chopped in another load of boxed early 70s Lesney for £not much.

I was similarly disappointed.

I can't wait to see if anyone stumps up £4 a go for literally the same Hot Wheels case selection that the B&M store right are across the road are knocking out for £1.69.

Plenty o' bargains* to be had, with their 1/24 Dangleberry Mint Chevelle, still unsold after all this time.

Didn't that price sticker used to have an extra digit?

I'm also just noticing that the (replacement) price sticker says 'remote control car' on it...

De Gaulle DS partwork model seemed comparatively good value at a tenner, but I felt I could live without it.

A jackpot of sorts was struck, though...

I breezed into The Entertainer to find this solitary Team Transport set just sittin' all on its lonesome on a shelf. No price or anything; it seems the Hot Wheels bay was being reprofiled from its Christmas planogram, and seemingly there was no place for this racing P6 and its irksomely generic hauler.

Well, I can help with that.

I was kinda hoping that maybe it was extra reduced to clear, or maybe they'd pay me to take it away, but no - it was back up to full whack. £19.

Still, Carpe Diem and all that.

I really do like this set, even though I don't know why.

I'll pop it out of its packaging later on...

[bunglebus]

11 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

I'll pop it out of its packaging later on...

Funny enough I've been thinking about removing the majority of my premium stuff from their plastic prisons and displaying them, with a few exceptions they're pretty common and probably aren't going to increase in value as so many will be squirrelled away untouched.

It would also help me with my current storage crisis, I really don't have room for any more storage boxes and a few things have ended up sat in a pile in front of them as they're all full. Obviously I won't be freeing any chase cars or sought-after versions, but I might as well enjoy looking at them, having bought the damn things!

[Datsuncog]

 

I fluctuate between keeping things packaged for way longer than I should, and tearing them open like a giddy idiot.

Guess which impulse won out this evening?

Ah well. Better not stay up too late, because...

[Datsuncog]

...is that some evidence of dawn's first flush on the distant horizon?

[sierraman]

All mine will probably end up down the municipal tip when I cark it so I take them out the box, might as well enjoy them I think! 

[bunglebus]

7 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

Better not stay up too late watching Robbie Layton on YouTube, because...

It's Tat Friday?

[Datsuncog]

It is Tat Friday, indeed!

I didn't see the Nemesismobile parked outside this morning, but he was in bright and early also.

And there were more new tubs.

That's right.

1/24 Bburago Quattro had sadly lost its snout, more's the pity.

Super Kings Ford tanker similarly lacking a vital axle.

DAF Transporters had a bit of shonk going on too.

Transit: SHONK.

Budgie Leyland horse transporter was probably ok before someone went at it with the Hunbrols.

King Size Hoveringham Foden just suffering some paint wear and axle shrinkage, but otherwise not bad.

Speed Kings AMX wasn't too bad.

Superfast Holden Ute and Glo Racers Porsche were so-so.

I mean, I can't say it's not varied!

[Spottedlaurel]

I'd be interested in the Majorette Mercedes fire appliance if the squirter thing on the roof is still there, which it looks to be, and it's fairly cheap. I think mine might have gone AWOL.

Any other intact 1970s/80s Majorettes would be good please....

[flat4alfa]

THREE Matchbox Super Kings Jaguars.  Unusual.

[Datsuncog]

More boxes behind the stall too, though definitely containing some previously-seen items.

Hongwells seem to be struggling to find new homes; these have cropped up a few times now.

E36 Touring is unusual, though not quite a stunning casting.

Plenty of hokey-hokey action, but once again it's a surfeit of MoYs and Lledos in here.

Incomplete Maserati we've seen before.

Largish 'National Motor Museum Mint' 1933 Ford coupe, with quite neatly done double-fold bonnet.

Lledo Noddy Vans not bad value at a quid a pop.

Big Majorette Saviem quite jolly for a fiver - complete, too (though one mirror's hanging on by a thread)

Also these King Size Lesney DAFs with the regular wheels...

Well, most of their wheels.

Corgi Bimmers a bit knocked, but still presentable enough.

Large-ish (1/30?) Chevrolet Caprice missing part of its grille plus lightbar, annoyingly.

Manufacturer on the base just given as 'S'.

Curious.

Other waifs and strays remained:

Hold on a minute...

That looks like the same cut-down Corgi Land Rover included in the Hachette Century of Cars collection...

Dates track - wonder if this was something Corgi did after buying Lledo, to lend another casting to a range they were already thinking of canning?

Sad in a way that someone's gone to the trouble of marking out the OMG Limited Edition status on the box.

Similarly...

Someone once went to the trouble of labelling all these rubbishy 1980s 'classic cars' given away with Reader's Digest.

No doubt in the expectation of achieving great value* for their children/ grandchildren one day...

Ah now.

Rip 'em open and enjoy 'em now, kids.

[flat4alfa]

@Datsuncog

SAVIEM please

[flat4alfa]

On 28/12/2023 at 20:10, bunglebus said:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/rare-toy-car-bought-50p-31758388

https://www.vectis.co.uk/d010-lot-975204-dinky-113-pre-production-the-new-avengers-john-steeds-jaguar-xj5-3c

Hammer Price: £1,700

[Datsuncog]

More tinplate up top, today.

Not so much my bag, but some jolly-looking items nonetheless.

Dealer-box Octavia (Schuco?) was actually alright, though the case is fairly scratched up.

Border around the base is a nice touch.

Odd not-Majorettes also to be found:

Hmm. Marked 'Made in China', these do not appear to be actual Majorette models.

And there were two identical boxes here, so it's not like someone swopped them out of the box. I know Majorette did do another fairly charmless set of Cadburys vans which seemed to hang around pharmacies for years (involving a Ford Cargo Tanker, Model A Van, and Ford Econoline amongst others) but this particular set hasn't come under my notice before.

Cheapo Lledos and the like on offer at £2 a go...

And I was so nearly going to go for this, another apparent fruit of Corgi's buyout of Lledo in the early 2000s...

...but literally as I moved to pick it up, a fella I recognised as one of the butchers from the far end of the market swooped in first and nabbed it, plus another Days Gone twin pack.

I haven't come this far on Tat Friday to get involved in a fight with a man holding a load of sharp knives, over a Days Gone...

This milk float seemed to have had a rough time of it, wherever it was stored...

The Nemesis' haul wasn't very spectacular, but he seemed happy enough.

After last-week's wallet-busting tinplate Mercfest, I can understand why.

Cylinder-less cement truck is by Joal, not Dinky.

A quick spin round the other stalls revealed more giffer-tat of indeterminate price, interspersed with genuine* Fabergé Eggs...

Minx was quite nice, to be fair. But probably priced the same as a real Fabergé Egg.

Plus rather more of this sort of thing than we'd ideally like:

Yeah, no. 

Someone thought they were being SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSMAN YO by snapping up a load of Market Blokey's £1 models to flip at twice the price; a cunning strategy, true, but one rather undermined by the fact he still has several boxes of exactly the same sort of shit on offer for a quid.

And he's only two stalls down.

Interested in seeing how this one pans out.

The Charity Stall did tantalise from afar...

But nah.

Although I could have had a signed Brian Kennedy CD for 50p.

Time to regroup with some sore-needed sustenance, then, and hastily edit some pics...

[AndyW201]

Can you grab the Octavia please Tim, if it's not too late (or expensive)

[Datsuncog]

35 minutes ago, Spottedlaurel said:

I'd be interested in the Majorette Mercedes fire appliance if the squirter thing on the roof is still there, which it looks to be, and it's fairly cheap. I think mine might have gone AWOL.

Any other intact 1970s/80s Majorettes would be good please....

 

20 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

@Datsuncog

SAVIEM please

Both secured!

But sadly, I gotta run... may or may not be more diecast japes to follow!

[andy18s]

What sort of price was the 1/24 Audi Tim?

[Datsuncog]

6 minutes ago, AndyW201 said:

Can you grab the Octavia please Tim, if it's not too late (or expensive)

You're in luck - I hadn't quite made it as far as the crossing, so turned back...

Yours for a fiver!

[Datsuncog]

2 minutes ago, andy18s said:

What sort of price was the 1/24 Audi Tim?

I think he wanted four or five pounds for it - seemed a bit stiff since it was incomplete.

[bunglebus]

34 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

Manufacturer on the base just given as 'S'.

Possibly Speedwell/Sunnyside/Superior - usually have a four digit code too

[andrew e]

33 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

I haven't come this far on Tat Friday to get involved in a fight with a man holding a load of sharp knives, over a Days Gone...

I’m in tears reading this 🤣🤣🤣 Tat-Friday to a tee!!!

[junkyarddog]

Glad you bought those two Daf regular wheels Transporters,they are hard to find in decent condition,the yellow/orange version especially. 

[Split_Pin]

56 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

You're in luck - I hadn't quite made it as far as the crossing, so turned back...

Yours for a fiver!

Should we do a 'virtual' AS diecast calendar  for 2024? I vote this one as January.

[bunglebus]

Two things arrived from postie man this morning, both 60s commercials and so ugly that they're beautiful.

First up, Lone Star 23 window deluxe. Sure, I have a handful of these but they're just so nice, I really think LS deserved to have been more successful with these early castings

Just a single missing eye and a barely perceptible stress line in the sunroof glazing. Base is a little odd, all my others have either got the bent out tabs, a rivet or a screw depending on when it was made. This has what looks like a rivet/screw base but the body is the tab type.

Next up is this gorgeous Siku Taunus Transit

Who could resist this face?

I did think this might be a repaint but it appears to be original 

[Tenmil Socket]

@Datsuncog Brian Kennedy CD please...

 

*joking.

[MiniMinorMk3]

1 hour ago, flat4alfa said:

Hammer Price: £1,700

Seems cheap to me considering the amount of inflation there has been since the first one I saw go through at £5000.

1 hour ago, Datsuncog said:

 

Dealer-box Octavia (Schuco?) was actually alright, though the case is fairly scratched.

 

 

That's an early Abrex. It should have a card sleeve like this one

 

14 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

First up, Lone Star 23 window deluxe. Sure, I have a handful of these but they're just so nice, I really think LS deserved to have been more successful with these early castings

 

A nice pair of rarities.

[flat4alfa]

46 minutes ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Seems cheap to me considering the amount of inflation there has been since the first one I saw go through at £5000.

Silly time of year to send to auction though I think

[bunglebus]

Ohh

No chance of seeing one of course

[Zie]

31 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Ohh

No chance of seeing one of course

But if anyone does don't forget your old pal Zie. 😆

[Datsuncog]

Forgot to mention, Alan had just finished setting out his famed 50p Tray at the point I was exiting the market (for the second time):

Not much to get in a flap about, sadly - other than two non-matching Matchbox Connectables:

Oh well.

Which was maybe just as well, since I'd already lost my last pound coin - fumbling my change from the coffee shop, I dropped the coin, then watched as it scooted off on its edge with startling velocity.

After rolling nearly the entire length of the market, it came into contact with the shoe of an old biddy shuffling the other way, sending it spinning back down towards me...  at which point it glanced off someone else's shoe, and vanished under a stall selling movie posters.

I poked around but couldn't see it.

Annoying, as I'd vaguely thought of picking this up from the charity stall...

But then, the original's probably better anyway.

[RoadworkUK]

But it's marked up as 6p! I'll lend you that if it helps...