Shite in Miniature II

[bunglebus]

On 16/08/2024 at 23:54, eddyramrod said:

While we're "wanting" stuff...

Anybody got a spare door for the Corgi 1/36 Escort van? 

 

2 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

No lowball offers, I know what I've got

50p + P+P

 

[flat4alfa]

2 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Didn't think I was going to find much today, until the second boot sale where several 3 for £1 tubs appeared

Wait …what… Dinky Jaguar XJ12C !

Sold

 

And what is that blue contraption next to it?

[Tenmil Socket]

2 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Didn't think I was going to find much today, until the second boot sale where several 3 for £1 tubs appeared

Sierra Superking for sale?

Only just realised that Superkings are cigarettes too!

[bunglebus]

Okey dokey today was interesting, almost nothing to speak of at boot sale #1, then boxes of tat in one stall at the later one. It was tempting to ask a price for all of it but I don't need hundreds more cars to sort out and sell on.

This is an interesting one, I've found a few Gus's Gulper and Mulligans Mill misbuilds due to them sharing the base, and interior but in different colours. This one has the Gulper interior and engine scoop, but the correct orange rollcage! Very odd

And a second for comparison 

Picked up a couple of 240s too as they were cheap

And a complete Mod Tractor 

Superkings Rangie is one I've not had before 

Along with a late release Jaguar 

XR4I is in great condition 

I've got a Graffic Traffic Specials F40 already but I could restore this one

I'd not seen the 512 BB before though

Golf is really tidy.

Grabbed these two Escorts, again due to bargain-ness. Van is in Mr Ramrod's box as there was room

Not a Galanite

Big Cat Jag is quite needy but definitely not something you see often 

[bunglebus]

35 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Wait …what… Dinky Jaguar XJ12C !

Sold

And what is that blue contraption next to it?

It's not the greatest, part of the Chin spoiler is broken

Kenner Dyn-O-Charger. Don't ask

20 minutes ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Sierra Superking for sale?

I'm keeping that for now. Did see the Cosworth one today but it was a bit knackered 

[flat4alfa]

57 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Kenner Dyn-O-Charger. Don't ask

I'm keeping that for now. Did see the Cosworth one today but it was a bit knackered 

Ah I see now, it would have had a rip cord.  So Dyn-O-Charger is the model name and not a model series name.

So that means this contraption is part of the same series as the gawky Mercedes C111

Interestingly, Kenner used the Dyn-O tag for a whole slot car series.  Ok, that's not really that interesting.

[flat4alfa]

1 hour ago, bunglebus said:

It's not the greatest, part of the Chin spoiler is broken

Looks a good save.  I would just trim the whole spoiler away as it looks better without, as the bumper is intact, being part of the casting.

After all the Broadspeed chin spoiler cars never had the original road-going front bumper fitted

Also the Steed car had a different spoiler anyway

John rang in and reluctantly agreed.

[FakeConcern]

1st Boot fair

Majorette Simca will attach to one of Mrs Concerns caravans, not sure about the Juniors Polo

2nd Boot fair ex police Spot On Jag and Corgi Ovlov I've been wanting for a while even though, as you know, I don't collect the 1/36 Corgis.

Mrs Concern recognised the seller as a miserable git with unrealistically high prices we've seen at a toy fair. His absolute lowest price was £10 for these two and he'd already had to lower prices to suit boot fair. Paid £8 which I was happy with although I had to endure him moaning haha.

I like the number plate sticker on the back of the Jag

and the moulded in one on the Ovlov

[MiniMinorMk3]

A Broadspeed Jag yesterday parked up in Abingdon.

[bunglebus]

Wrote a long post about the smaller cars and it disappeared. Annoying.

Polizei horsebox in better nick than the one I found a few weeks back

Martini Hi-Tailer to go in a white K-7

Nice score finding an RS2000 and trailer

Bought a few Astras in case in need donors for my Graffic Traffic resto

Including a Graffic Traffic!

Found a weird casting change where it says CHINA on the base 

Talking of Graffic Traffics, I found another Ambulance too

My First Helicopter 

Tyrone with the tampo on the spoiler - there are a few versions it seems

Very nice SL

And a Lasertronic SEC

Baja

Corgis are represented by this minty Polo

Very tidy SD1 with rear window 

And a red/red

This had me stumped at first - it's part of a 007 set and goes behind the red topless Range Rover 

Mini just so @flat4alfa can sleep at night

I don't often pick up the Hong Kong type castings any more but this Fuego amused me

McSierra

Couple of Majo Toyos

Had to persuade someone to sell me just this Husky Cadillac out of a bag of bits

Possibly my favourite find is a Hot Wheels Gleamers 959

[MiniMinorMk3]

12 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

This had me stumped at first - it's part of a 007 set and goes behind the red topless Range Rover 

 

 

 

 

[flat4alfa]

1 hour ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

A Broadspeed Jag yesterday parked up in Abingdon.

It's got a useless handbrake.

[Jon]

Am guessing the Bond horse box didn’t come with the glider? You’re lucky enough to retain the fake horse arse though, since it’s hinged and unclips easily from the trailer.

The spring attached to the lever would ungracefully spit the glider out the back in a ball of disappointment, as it had a metal base and hinged wings that didn’t lock, so absolutely no play value beyond the novelty of the packaging of components and the tie in to a film.

On a personal note, the Range Rover being about 1/3 height of the ‘box  caused much derision  regarding scaling, as a young’un. Not much has changed today.

In retrospect, with Octopussy being released so late in the Mettoy era of Corgi, by that time I imagine launching anything, especially licenced, was worth a stab. 

[sierraman]

Dibs if the horsebox polizei comes up in a sale! 

[bunglebus]

I do have another but it's been enthusiastically enjoyed

 

[flat4alfa]

[andrew e]

A £1 win Siku Golf at an auto jumble yesterday!

[junkyarddog]

Fashionably low too!!

[bunglebus]

3 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

Decisions 

[Dick Cheeseburger]

First diecast paintwork project in many, many years. My son owns a Big Banger (sourced from someone on here at some point I think) which has always had a missing engine. He's been on at me for ages to do something with it and I had some spare gold aerosol left over from my old mk2 Escrot. 

Step 1: Filler!

Flat off with some fine wet and dry:

Prime (and then flat):

Annoyingly, I had a small area of paint reaction near the scuttle area. I was rushing a bit by this point though so tidied it up and flashed a bit more primer over it. 

Then gold colour and lacquer:

Then put it all together and tidy up the edges!

I'm pretty pleased with it considering I rushed the process and haven't done any diecast work for decades. The main thing is my lad is chuffed with it. 

I'm may have to do another at some point...

[danthecapriman]

Nice work @Dick Longbridge gold looks really good on it!👍

[sierraman]

Blew a full twenty five pence on this at the weekend. 

[bunglebus]

Got excited today thinking Poundland had new stock - but it's the mix I found when I visited NI And did my Tat Friday cameo appearance 

Think this a new 5 pack in Sainsbury's. Still no sign of the VW one

[Datsuncog]

Was in my local Sainsburys branch this evening and noticed they had a load of new 2024 Matchbox 5-packs and Hot Wheels 8-packs on the shelves, which I don't believe were there at the weekend.

Nothing that really grabbed me - some very nice individual items, but none of the sets contained enough gems vs dross to make me stump up my hard-earned (ok, maybe not dross - but I find I already have quite a few of them already, just in different colours).

Is it the set with the Mk2 Golf Country you're looking for, @bunglebus? If so, there was definitely one of them in there... let me know if you're desperate, and I'll see what I can do!

Sadly a whistle-stop tour of several larger Sainsburys branches on Friday revealed zero Moving Parts on offer, and no individual mainlines either - in terms of Matchbox, there were only the 5-packs. Maybe NI stores will get some later, or maybe not. They'd a lot of tinned Majorettes though.

Tesco/Entertainer has the same 2024 Matchbox sets out, but at a higher price - I think Tesco has them out for £12 reduced to £9, whereas Sainsburys is doing them for £12 each but two packs for £15.

In fact, they've reprofiled the Mattel bay after less than a month, to make space for more mainlnes:

Three rummage bins now, and more Matchbox on pegs as well.

Still the same old Matchbox stuff we've been seeing for nearly a year now, though.

Fresh stickers on the tubs too, for the benefit of the hard-of-mathsing - not just '£2.40 - Buy 1 Get 1 Half Price', but now showing '2 for £3.60'.

 

I did find a Tesco store on Friday with a vast amount of (mostly) 2023 5-packs reduced to £5 a go - presumably it's moving to Entertainer stock soon too, so these were all on clearance.

Some Hot Wheels 5-packs left too, but nowhere near as many.

The shelves were absolutely crammed.

Despite being temptingly cheap, there wasn't anything there I was really after - I think I managed to sate my desires when my local store was flogging them off for a fiver earlier in the year.

Mainlines were still out at full whack, oddly - £2.10 each. But they were all last year's stuff, too.

Mildly disappointing, but good to see some new stuff is coming through.

[bunglebus]

Volkswagen 5 pack:

I'd quite like the Autoshite Express one too

[Datsuncog]

5 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Volkswagen 5 pack:

I'd quite like the Autoshite Express one too

Ah, I didn't see the pack with the orange Karmann Ghia or red Bay in it - turns out it was the MBX Retro set I was thinking of.

Sorry for getting your hopes up!

A few of the Autobahn Express V sets were on the shelves too though - I do like that T3 crewcab and the blue Alfa.

Will keep my eyes peeled when I'm out and about, nonetheless!

[sierraman]

Found a suitably knackered on with glazing to restore. Wonder if the wheels from the 1600TL will fit? 

[sierraman]

Never seen this majorette either? 

[bunglebus]

8 minutes ago, sierraman said:

Found a suitably knackered on with glazing to restore. Wonder if the wheels from the 1600TL will fit? 

Only one way to find out. Sure there's another Austin in your tat box, which went off yesterday 

 

[bunglebus]

This just appeared on T-Hunted, think I'll be having one if it appears!