Shite in Miniature II

[Split_Pin]

JYD Guisval were never available in the UK but theres a fair few in the UK from people bringing them back from their holidays, me included.

 

The Efsi Commer is an absolute belter though. I had a KLM one and wish I had kept itn

[quicksilver]

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One of yesterday's autojumble finds.

 

Commer van by Efsi.

Would love to see how this compares to the new one from Oxford Diecast - they're the same scale apparently.

[Junkman]

Today's haul.

 

Anomalies (so I bought them despite their miserable condition):

Jeep with green interior:




Fire Chief with wrong baseplate:

[danthecapriman]

Just in from Germania!

 

IMG_0761 by Dan Clark, on Flickr

 

Polistil pig iron! Really sweet little model these by the look of them.

[mercrocker]

Today's haul.

 

 

 

Anomalies (so I bought them despite their miserable condition):

 

Jeep with green interior:

 

 

 

Fire Chief with wrong baseplate:

 

 

 

Nice work JM!   That blue OLLI is a less common shade too.

[Split_Pin]

I have that Volvo in Saloon and Estate, its a grand model and as far as I know tje only 1/25 diecast examoke that you can get.

[danthecapriman]

I have that Volvo in Saloon and Estate, its a grand model and as far as I know tje only 1/25 diecast examoke that you can get.

I might have to get a saloon version too. There's a dark blue saloon on eBay at the moment but it's missing it's rear lights sadly. Still looks good though if you don't look at the back!

 

Just waiting for my Stahlberg 760GLE estate to arrive now...

I'd like the saloon version of this too. Oh, and the rather lovely looking 244.

[59Impala]

Thought I would take some photos of stuff lurking around in my lounge and share them with you whether you wanted me to or not. The Impalas on top of the cabinet are plastic kits made for me some years ago by a friend whose skill level was way above mine. They are nigh on perfect replicas of my Impalas. The middle row of the cabinet has the same two Impalas but in metal and were made by a company in California, they have superb detail, everything opens, the hubcaps can be removed etc etc. The 58 Chevy wagon and the 66 Pontiac are cars that I once owned in the olden days. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[mercrocker]

I like seeing any model collections / displays on here.   Be not afraid to post!

[danthecapriman]

I just got called an immature idiot. A grown man spending his wages on toy cars!!

[mercrocker]

Probably by somebody who spends all their time flicking a phone screen up and down..... 

 

Anyhoo, my immature idiocy is definitely intact and being nurtured.   This is a corner of our spare bedroom.....

 

.Sometime in the distant future I will renovate the garage in the background and extend it with a ramp up onto the roof.    The shed in the foreground isn't getting touched - my grandfather made it for me before I started school.   God knows how it survived but I played with it for years....

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Split_Pin]

I might have to get a saloon version too. There's a dark blue saloon on eBay at the moment but it's missing it's rear lights sadly. Still looks good though if you don't look at the back!

 

Just waiting for my Stahlberg 760GLE estate to arrive now...

I'd like the saloon version of this too. Oh, and the rather lovely looking 244.

Id love a Stahlberg one too. I have a 343, 244 and a Saab 900 but they are pricey so next year maybe!

[59Impala]

Probably by somebody who spends all their time flicking a phone screen up and down..... 

 

Anyhoo, my immature idiocy is definitely intact and being nurtured.   This is a corner of our spare bedroom.....

 

.Sometime in the distant future I will renovate the garage in the background and extend it with a ramp up onto the roof.    The shed in the foreground isn't getting touched - my grandfather made it for me before I started school.   God knows how it survived but I played with it for years....

 

 

 

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I love model garages and dioramas. Love that bus garage and great that you're leaving it as is. I bought a lovely handmade garage from the Ebay and as luck would have it the fellow selling it lived in Spalding so I collected it. He told me that his father made it for the grandson but it took him so long to do it that said lad was way past being a child and it was never played with which is a bit of shame. I see that you have the Matchbox fire station, I had one of those when I were a wee boy. I loved playing with my Matchbox cars using our coal bunkers as the roads. Still got a couple of Matchbox garages and have acquired a few others over the years, think they will have to go on top of my display cabinets in my model room. 

[Junkman]

Nice work JM!   That blue OLLI is a less common shade too.

 

Thanks!

 

It's more of a dark turquoise colour, very difficult to photograph.

[eddyramrod]

I just got called an immature idiot. A grown man spending his wages on toy cars!!

My wife calls me that (but not in so many words...) all the time.  Not least today, when one model has arrived from ebay and one from our very own Mr Barrett.  Both, incidentally, models I've been chasing on ebay for years.

[mercrocker]

Some men sit by a river in the hope of catching something other than a cold.....Others run about in the rain with ten other blokes all trying to kick a ball through a garage door-frame.  

I suppose we haven't grown out of something - that lure of the one we haven't got yet, the mental ticking off from some long-lost catalogue or the "bloody hell, I've gotta have that..." of more recent years.     

 

Some folk just don't understand.....

[Wack]

I just got called an immature idiot. A grown man spending his wages on toy cars!!

I saw this in cash convertors a few weeks ago, luckily Mrs wack was in another shop so didn't see me handing over £50 for it

 

[Split_Pin]

I just got called an immature idiot. A grown man spending his wages on toy cars!!

Im so explicit with my model car collecting (every purchase shared to my Facebook album, Instagram, Flickr and sometimes here) that I dont think people feel the need to say anything derogatory because they know I would not give a monkey's Uncle.

 

M.Rocker esq has hit the spot, its usually some normie, sterile wazoc that makes comments like that.

 

I spent the evening with my 4 year old playing with my Technic Mercedes truck with a pneumatic bucket on the back. When my wife came in she sat diwn with us and watched!

[59Impala]

Keep me away from the Ebay! I just bought eleven more old models tonight, mind you they were bargains. I keep telling myself that.

[eddyramrod]

My mrs is getting rather tired of hearing me say "I've been chasing these on ebay for years and this is the first one that's finished at my price."  I don't think she believed it the first time, so why do I keep trying?

[Felly Magic]

Back in the day when I was in the trade, my shop became the 'man creche' with the kettle almost permanently on, and I had a group of regular punters you could almost set your watch to, if their Mrs' ever came in, I always had to tell em either that A) I haven't seen their hubby, or he has only spent £20 etc. I did have customers who some weeks would spend well in to 3 figures, esp one bloke who was a driver for Stobarts, nearly every week he would spend that. To some it is like an addictive drug, and they had to have their weekly hit', esp Lledo Les who collected Days gone stuff.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

 

Repainted a few of the Escort fleet. On the blue one I Bare Metal Foil'd the the lights before painting in the colour with clear red/orange. It looks great, although it doesn't come across in the photos. Will re-do the others soon. 

 

At the weekend I picked up another one, BNIB, for four quid. They're getting pricey! What the hell am I going to do with a sealed package though? Wouldn't it be even more enjoyable not in the package?

 

[Felly Magic]

Didn't realise they did the Corgi Juniors Scrote in both left & right hand drive

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Didn't realise they did the Corgi Juniors Scrote in both left & right hand drive

 

 

I don't think they did. I converted a bunch of them a while ago.

 

I also remove the massive towbars. There's a big chunk of metal jutting out from the numberplate to remove, and then the rear bumper and lower valance has to be re-created from Isopon. 

[Felly Magic]

Ah, that's a fair bit of work there, and they look top notch

[Split_Pin]

My mrs is getting rather tired of hearing me say "I've been chasing these on ebay for years and this is the first one that's finished at my price." I don't think she believed it the first time, so why do I keep trying?

Blimey this is also me exactly!

[Junkman]

I just got called an immature idiot. A grown man spending his wages on toy cars!!

 

My little one is at the age where everything must be quantified with numbers.

Hence she asked me whether men are finally grown up at age 35.

I said yes, I was, for the shittiest two minutes in my life.

[andy18s]

This arrived courtesy of Felly Magic to raised eyebrows from the Mrs as I'd told her the 1/18 Sunbeam was going to be the last.....

Unless an RS200/6R4/Quattro Sport turn up cheap

[Junkman]

Besides, I recognise collecting model cars being motivated by the same appreciation of form and function as collecting art or artifacts.

I suggest not recognising this is immature.

 

Now what?

[sierraman]

I get called a sad bastard for it but quite frankly I couldn’t give a shit. Watching the TV sounds like a sad hobby to me.

 

My vice is Matchbox stuff, of any age really, I’ve tried to collect as many variations as possible of stuff. I’ve even collected the new stuff, some of the models they bring out now are excellent, the Nissan 240k Skyline is great as is the VW transporter.

 

The best guide incidentally if you are into this stuff is the Charlie Mack guide, it’s about £25 and it’s got all the variations in, it’s invaluable.