Shite in Miniature II

[Datsuncog]

2 hours ago, bunglebus said:

I was surprised to see how small the wheels are on the A60 - as far as I can tell, it uses the same sized tyres as the Mini.

Though, weirdly, not quite the same tyres.

[bunglebus]

Popped into Toys R Expensive to see if they had anything interesting in their amazing £2.99/two for £5 deal

Well I would have if you could actually get to them  - here they are behind a cash desk and all with security tags on the cards 

[danthecapriman]

I thought Toys R Us had gone bust and closed down?

[bunglebus]

5 minutes ago, danthecapriman said:

I thought Toys R Us had gone bust and closed down?

In some branches of WH Smiths now

https://www.toysrus.co.uk/storefinder.html?_gl=1*15uu438*_up*MQ..&gclid=Cj0KCQjwltKxBhDMARIsAG8KnqVHY1DrBV7Vyo8BrLhv3zcvW8Z6nCu9OoDjAUTuqhVsN4x_lYVVY0caAmkzEALw_wcB

[Datsuncog]

2 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Popped into Toys R Expensive to see if they had anything interesting in their amazing £2.99/two for £5 deal

Well I would have if you could actually get to them  - here they are behind a cash desk and all with security tags on the cards 

That's a baffling place to store them. Can't imagine they'll sell many there?

My local Poundstretcher's not great either, with Mattel diecast kept at eye level up beside the till, and crammed together so tightly you can't see much more than what's at the very front - or else a whole lot of them fall off the pegs and skitter noisily across the floor (ask me how I know),

I wonder if WHS/ Toys R We have had twonks pulling open the packaging, thinking that's the way to find Treasure Hunts?

I've been deluged with YouTube videos about finding Treasure Hunts lately, and a couple of shop staff have asked me about them when they see me with a couple at the checkout... so, combined with the absolute carnage encountered in Tesco's toy aisles lately, I dunno if it's suddenly becoming A Thing for non-diecast people to stick their oar in about.

[bunglebus]

Trawl around the charity shops saw a Dickie Toys Merc in a bag for £6

And a Pass N Gasser I didn't have

 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I’ve started a new job this week at an automotive events company , came across this cabinet in the “scrap aisle” in the warehouse.  As I’m basically 12, I’m more excited about this than picking up an Alpine A110 GT from the F1 HQ yesterday. I might volunteer to tidy up that area when I e got nothing to do…

[flat4alfa]

2 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

I dunno if it's suddenly becoming A Thing for non-diecast people to stick their oar in about.

We can’t stand for this!

Shall we start a Posse of vigilantes?

I think I could drum up a couple of fellas (retired) and we could get a few arm bands ready off the local print shop.  They might struggle with Spectraflame colours though

I’ve set up a WhatsApp group ready. ‘The Cog Cast Bunch™’

[bunglebus]

I don't really "do" models, but that YouTube suggested an unboxing video of one of these, and now I need one!

Solido's website somehow makes it look less realistic than it actually is

Wow

Looking around online I found a few other pics - bizarrely it seems to have a 1303 dash despite being a flat screen car

 

Found a red one with steelies too. Dear Santa...

Very 80s custom

[bunglebus]

FFS there's a buggy too

Is there a decent UK supplier or am I lining eBay's pockets again?

[Snake Charmer]

39 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

FFS there's a buggy too

Is there a decent UK supplier or am I lining eBay's pockets again?

They're really cool.

[andrew e]

Are these the 1/18s? Seemed quite plentiful in France but at €49!

[MiniMinorMk3]

2 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Is there a decent UK supplier or am I lining eBay's pockets again?

John Ayrey list the Baja and the Beach Buggy. RRP is around £55.

VW Beetle Baja Red 1976 - John Ayrey Die Casts

Meyers Manx Buggy Soft Roof Purple 1968 - John Ayrey Die Casts

Beware, clicking those link could cost you a lot of time investigating all the stuff that they sell wholesale.

 

Amerang also list the Baja, so there must be a retailer for them somewhere in the UK. 

Road Cars (amerang.co.uk)

 

It's a pity they chose to model a car with the lamps in the wings and not the bug version.

Here's my first ever Beetle that had a crash through a hawthorn bush one night and spent a couple of months in the garage being fixed with the help of an Autocarvan Baja kit. The picture were taken at the 1982 VW Action at Stoneleigh Park.

 

 

[flat4alfa]

Seems a lot of money for just a static model that takes up shelf space

My money would be put towards a Tamiya Sand Scorcher and I can be 12 years old again

It can also drive the cat mental 

[quicksilver]

I mentioned earlier that I'd painted a Rover 75 in Tamiya PS-46 so here it is. Hopefully you can see the green-purple colour shift that looks a lot like Monogram Typhoon. It's fascinating to move it around and watch the colour change as the light hits it differently.

Alongside the 75 is its less-loved predecessor, which I think is the first 600 ever to be modelled. This one is in the classic Nightfire Red as so many were.

[Noel Tidybeard]

some buyage may* have occurred

[NorfolkNWeigh]

12 minutes ago, quicksilver said:

I mentioned earlier that I'd painted a Rover 75 in Tamiya PS-46 so here it is. Hopefully you can see the green-purple colour shift that looks a lot like Monogram Typhoon. It's fascinating to move it around and watch the colour change as the light hits it differently.

Alongside the 75 is its less-loved predecessor, which I think is the first 600 ever to be modelled. This one is in the classic Nightfire Red as so many were.

I must take exception to your “less loved predecessor” description of the 600. The 600 was a proper competitive player in the BMW 3 Series market segment . I remember at launch being so impressed how they drove, (admittedly because of Honda) even compared to the then new Mondeo or the 405. Lots of user-choosers at my company chose them over a bare bones 318 or A4 and they were even more reliable than the 2/400.

Whereas , in my unpopular opinion , on here anyway , the 75 was a cobbled together cynical pastiche . Trying to appeal to a very limited aged demographic. Probably why they’ve got an early classic following. A bit like VdP 1300 and 1500s.

The only 600 I’ve had was more than 10 years ago when I paid £100 for @Angrydicky’s Dad’s old car , various daughters used abused, went to Europe in and on two occasions crashed it , it still lasted 3 years with us before it wouldn’t MOT because of the hangover of front end damage. 75’s sound much more fragile from things I read on here.

[danthecapriman]

Inspired by a certain collection mission thread on here at the moment, I decided to have a cheeky bid on one with no bids and a few hours left to run.

And winning it!

It’s a lovely little thing! Captures the slightly awkward styling of the real ones well imho. Not 100% keen on the colour, these came in some really nice shades so a gunmetal grey metallic is a bit of a dull way to go, but that’s easily changed!!   
Interior looks great though. 
For less than a tenner it’s brilliant.

[quicksilver]

22 minutes ago, NorfolkNWeigh said:

I must take exception to your “less loved predecessor” description of the 600. The 600 was a proper competitive player in the BMW 3 Series market segment . I remember at launch being so impressed how they drove, (admittedly because of Honda) even compared to the then new Mondeo or the 405. Lots of user-choosers at my company chose them over a bare bones 318 or A4 and they were even more reliable than the 2/400.

Whereas , in my unpopular opinion , on here anyway , the 75 was a cobbled together cynical pastiche . Trying to appeal to a very limited aged demographic. Probably why they’ve got an early classic following. A bit like VdP 1300 and 1500s.

The only 600 I’ve had was more than 10 years ago when I paid £100 for @Angrydicky’s Dad’s old car , various daughters used abused, went to Europe in and on two occasions crashed it , it still lasted 3 years with us before it wouldn’t MOT because of the hangover of front end damage. 75’s sound much more fragile from things I read on here.

Okay, maybe that's bit harsh now but certainly seemed to be the case a few years ago and don't get me wrong, I like the 600 and think it was one of the best cars Rover ever made that was underappreciated for too long. It was a great car in period by all accounts but just didn't get the same enthusiastic classic following as other Rovers; until recently it didn't have an owners' club and it was rare to see more than one or two even at the big Rover shows, although happily that has changed in the last 2-3 years. The fact that this is the first model 600 ever made but Vanguards did the 75 in 2004 says a lot about their relative popularity.

[bunglebus]

I've been after a Lucky Toys VW pickup for years, finally bought one for way too much. It's awful.

I love it.

It is of course a blatant rip off of the Husky casting

[sutty2006]

Majorette Jaaaaaaaaaagwarr 

 

one from my childhood now passed down to my son. These are so better than new hotwheels. Working suspension, doors etc etc

 

 

[bunglebus]

So much want 

So much money tho

[FakeConcern]

31 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

So much want 

So much money tho

So what is it? It looks like a Corgi VW pickup tool box, but what is everything else?

[bunglebus]

2 minutes ago, FakeConcern said:

So what is it? It looks like a Corgi VW pickup tool box, but what is everything else?

All Lucky. Same one as I posted earlier but posing as the Corgi pickup instead of a Husky

[eddyramrod]

Word is getting around.  A staff member at one of my support groups has been having a loft clearout and brought these in for me.

OK, not really my area but I'm never going to complain!  Three Ferraris, a Lambo and a Porsche.  He says there are more to come...  The two big ones are 1/18; two 1/43s and a 1/64-ish Maisto Porsche.

Now, recognise this?

In Mona Lisa, Bob Hoskins spends a lot of the film chauffeuring for Cathy Tyson, using his Jag that Robbie Coltrane has been looking after while Bob was "away."  It's a early one, Old English White, on steels.  I had a spare Morse Jag, which is conveniently on steels too, and found a suitably creamy white in Halfrauds.

One for my Life Of Shite collection now:

Vanguards have only ever made the Ford 100E as the Anglia/Popular saloon, or the 300E van.  However... when I was at primary school, in about 1965, my mum's car was a grey Ford Prefect, which of course has four doors.  So I stripped a Vanguards Popular, cut out the B post and remade it further forward.  It now wears the correct number plate, SXK 803.

And since I had a battered Corgi Kojak Buick and a tin of Rover Tara Green, I thought I should do this!  I'm rather pleased with it.

[FakeConcern]

4 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

Word is getting around.  A staff member at one of my support groups has been having a loft clearout and brought these in for me.

OK, not really my area but I'm never going to complain!  Three Ferraris, a Lambo and a Porsche.  He says there are more to come...  The two big ones are 1/18; two 1/43s and a 1/64-ish Maisto Porsche.

Now, recognise this?

In Mona Lisa, Bob Hoskins spends a lot of the film chauffeuring for Cathy Tyson, using his Jag that Robbie Coltrane has been looking after while Bob was "away."  It's a early one, Old English White, on steels.  I had a spare Morse Jag, which is conveniently on steels too, and found a suitably creamy white in Halfrauds.

One for my Life Of Shite collection now:

Vanguards have only ever made the Ford 100E as the Anglia/Popular saloon, or the 300E van.  However... when I was at primary school, in about 1965, my mum's car was a grey Ford Prefect, which of course has four doors.  So I stripped a Vanguards Popular, cut out the B post and remade it further forward.  It now wears the correct number plate, SXK 803.

And since I had a battered Corgi Kojak Buick and a tin of Rover Tara Green, I thought I should do this!  I'm rather pleased with it.

Love the big lambo and the four door 100E and the Jag (I've even seen the film!) and the Tara green Kojak!

[FakeConcern]

A very quiet toy fair this morning

First seller

Vanguards Princess is very good

Looks just right

Guisval Seat Ronda not seen one before and don't have any Guisval

Says 1/43 but seems a bit big, I may turn it into a Fiat Ritmo (irony)

Jet Car Pug 305

Not their best effort

Two Models of Yesteryear (can't believe I I'd buy one!) but really nice

I got one then saw how nice it was and went back for the other one

Even the underside is good, I love these even though I really only collect toys rather than models

Some scrap for project work next

and a cheap Corgi rozzer 911 for the light on the side as I have a nice one with that missing

So quiet but worth going...

[Spottedlaurel]

10 hours ago, sutty2006 said:

Majorette Jaaaaaaaaaagwarr

Nice! Like much Majorette stuff they sit rather high, but at least the springing allows you to push them down with a finger to what looks more right (albeit temporarily, before it boings back up again). I always found that particularly effective and satisfying with their Porsche 924.

[Spottedlaurel]

This week's care package from @bunglebus, thanks!

Three of the leftover HWs from a 10-pack, of obvious appeal to me. Haven't yet found this more standard version of the Civic as a single.

Poor photo, but the Soarer (A.K.A. Lexus SC) is really nicely done. F&F stuff is restrained and the paintwork looks very good. It's a weighty thing too with the metal base.

Seeing this is moving my Fujimi kit version up the queue a bit:

[sutty2006]

2 hours ago, Spottedlaurel said:

Nice! Like much Majorette stuff they sit rather high, but at least the springing allows you to push them down with a finger to what looks more right (albeit temporarily, before it boings back up again). I always found that particularly effective and satisfying with their Porsche 924.

There are more. Will photograph when available