Shite in Miniature II

[flat4alfa]

I bet they are sick to the stomach in that eBay bulk sale..

[Spottedlaurel]

Purchases from a 1:1 car show I popped along to this morning:

Most/all seem to be US releases, the guy had brought a load in.

Also found time to get all the Majorette 1/60-ish camions together:

 

The one that started it all is the boat transporter, which came from a French holiday in 1980. It was only fairly recently that the mast disappeared, may still be lurking in the bottom of one of Master SL's toy boxes....

They're a nice size, pretty close to Matchbox Superkings and not far off Siku.

And my trio of Shinsei Mini Power trucks:

Weighty and well-engineered with various working/moving features.

Found time to do a bit on a couple of 1/24 kits, reportage to follow tomorrow.

[Spottedlaurel]

A decent bit of progress being made on the current kit projects:

Humbrol (Esci) Fiat that I first built in the early-mid '80s, then for some reason got attacked with yellow aerosol and left in the parts box for years and years.

 

Stripped and now going through a repetitive cycle of fill, sand and prime. Just one more round to go, hopefully. Back in the day I got sent a load of replacement parts when I had a problem putting it together, so I don't have to rely on re-using everything from the original build.

Lots of primer then first coats of colour going down on the Tamiya Nissan Fairlady ZG (similar to but much more detailed  than the purple Fujimi version I recently completed):

 

931 Ochre, same colour as the 1:1 Datsun 1200 I had a few years ago. Assembly of this will be much easier due to the arch flares etc being separate mouldings, they've all been painted metallic grey:

The correct way would be to remove all these parts then laboriously fix them to cocktail sticks or whatever to paint them. However, in most cases the attachment points are sufficiently hidden that I can snip them off afterwards and just touch them up (hopefully).

I'm building this one as hi-po restomod so it's getting the RB26 engine from a Skyline GT-R, converted to RWD. A little more work required on the mounts but it fits OK so far - it's of similar physial size and I'm just replacing one straight-six with another.

A tiny bit of clean-up and more coats of paint required on the outer bodywork, but at least now I can see what it's going to look like and I can get on with the interior, suspension, engine installation etc.

[bunglebus]

Went to the boot sale again today as the weather looked alright, and I had cars to pick up from the young lad who runs a stall there. 

Not many sellers, and it did start to rain after a while too.

Still, came home with some bits

[flat4alfa]

Majorette Acadiane less common in that yellow. Does it have both rear doors?  

[bunglebus]

30 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Majorette Acadiane less common in that yellow. Does it have both rear doors?  

No baguettes left in vehicle overnight 

Johnny Lightning DeLorean has a dodgy tyre, wheel swap required 

Trekker for the Mrs

And a Beetle to keep it company 

This was actually from yesterday, forgot I put it in my pocket to protect it from damage

Range Rover and Sierra were pre-arranged collections, Sierra is especially nice

Just as we got to the end I spotted this...

...for 50p

[flat4alfa]

Crazy. I don’t know how you do it

The Zodiac here cost £20 as restored with new battery cell compartment as it’s a lit lights one

 

[bunglebus]

Hayden of the boot sale stall buys job lots, latest one was Hot Wheels so I pulled out some older ones, and a couple of Matchbox too

[MiniMinorMk3]

Some of those Matchbox Collectibles casting were used under the Hot Wheels banner.

These never came out of the box as it looked impossible to do it without damage, and being a number limited series I left well alone. They turned out to be not as sort after as the original Matchbox versions, but these were the only ones I have seen.

1970 Chevelle.

Chromatic dark blue finish.

1 of 5000 pieces, so they are probably fairly easy to find on the interwebs.

The 'Cuda got an outing

This time in Chromatic Purple, probably a nod to Plum Crazy, a popular Mopar colour.

1968 Camaro SS

The last in the series was something that Matchbox did do, a 1971 Plymouth GTX.

Opening bonnet is something the Matchbox Collectibles did not have.

[bunglebus]

Both Matchbox and Hot Wheels ones are very nice!

[eddyramrod]

I've managed to finish up some of my current projects.  Remember this, from the charity shop?

It looks rather different now...

All ready for some heavy-recovery work now.  The police CF was an AA van once, but is now the first police vehicle I've painted in this shade of blue; a substitute for the Ford Galaxy Blue I was using before.  We also have some screen cars...

Dinky police Volvo becomes Lovejoy's car, and at least is a (correct) 265 unlike the smaller Corgi Junior I did recently.  The blue Charger is from Christine, driven by Arnie's buddy Dennis.  Also...

Ex-Kojak Buick suits BL Tara Green, I think!  It works on the old Cresta too.  And the Buick joins a little fleet here....

[bunglebus]

36 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

We also have some screen cars...

Dinky police Volvo becomes Lovejoy's car

I thought you were going to say The Good Life

[eddyramrod]

10 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

I thought you were going to say The Good Life

No, that's a 145.  You can get a model of it but not at any price I can afford.

[Christine]

Fujimi kit nearly finished .. 4 off   Ej9s now,  small medium and large . And a full size one ! 

 

 

 

⅞

 

 

[sheffcortinacentre]

21 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

I thought you were going to say The Good Life

Jerry!

[Spottedlaurel]

Got colour on the Fiat kit yesterday evening:

 

Still needs clearcoat. I chose this shade as it's reminiscent of the Olio Fiat rally cars - it's being built as a hi-po road car, so I can do what I like. I'm imagining it's what the team gave one of their drivers as a thank you.

[Christine]

Oh dear , i forgot  the rear view mirror on the Civic .... it'll have to come apart again 

 

[flat4alfa]

9 hours ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

Jerry!

Geraldine!

(the goat)

[flat4alfa]

On 06/05/2024 at 22:17, eddyramrod said:

Dinky police Volvo becomes Lovejoy's car, and at least is a (correct) 265

Well done. Can see you’ve added plate too. The only pics found are quite washed-out ‘VHS’ quality, unsurprisingly. 

It made me smile at the time, as a friend’s family ran an antiques business for a few years and ran a succession of Volvo estates. They even had a 245 in that yellow that I drove over for it’s late-life respray. It was an old crate and drove like one, so I questioned why they spent on it and he explained it was a perception thing: You don’t turn up to buy antiques from rich people in a rich car, but you have to look like you care. Life lesson.

[sierraman]

Car boot yesterday a complete waste of time, even the kids who are normally like they’ve got money burning a hole in their pocket didn’t buy anything, it was just full of nobheads trying to bum you out of a fiver. 
 

Didn’t come away empty handed though! 2 x Matchbox Jaguar XJ220 purchased. 

[Tenmil Socket]

Never knew these existed!

 

[sierraman]

3 minutes ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Never knew these existed!

 

Yeah they come in white as well, made in early 80’s I think? 

[flat4alfa]

23 minutes ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Never knew these existed!

Can’t say I knew of that one either

Carmichael Commando was just produced within two years 1982-84.  That’s a short run

[sierraman]

Often wondered how one would look as a camper custom…

[bunglebus]

My Carmichaels are a bit playworn 

 

[Tenmil Socket]

18 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

My Carmichaels are a bit playworn 

 

I think there’s a light blue one too?

[bunglebus]

On 01/05/2024 at 17:14, flat4alfa said:

Ah... you've found the Mini-Dinky Cadillac.  Buy it quick, if not tell me where it is pretty please

Boo

[quicksilver]

1 hour ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Never knew these existed!

 

I had one of those. It annoyed me as it's way too wide for its length - imagine it as a standard 4-wheel Range Rover and it'd be almost square! Length and height-wise it's about the same as the Oxford Diecast version (so around 1/76) but far wider. Somewhere in one of my boxes of random bits I have a resin shell cast from one narrowed to the correct width.

[eddyramrod]

39 minutes ago, sierraman said:

Often wondered how one would look as a camper custom…

[MiniMinorMk3]

Here's a small Carmichael kit I have