Shite in Miniature II

[bramz7]

About 18 months ago I got my brother into Hot Wheels, and he's become quite the collector although he's ultra keen on finding them in shops as opposed to buying online. He has found a super and a chase car in two local to him shops, and he also joined the RLC and will occasionally buy one for me, which is very nice!

This turned up over the weekend:

It looks great. I so rarely buy any HW these days so it's nice to be bought a good one. 

[junkyarddog]

This must be my smallest all metal diecast find.

Benbros Bedford flatbed truck.

It even makes Smoll Eddy look big.

"Take it away,it looks like a fricken toy M8"

[bunglebus]

2 hours ago, Christine said:

Pretty crude !  But for 59p..

 

 

A bargain if that's what you paid

2 hours ago, andrew e said:

This morning £2.50 burn up!

Awesome, not found that Supercharger before

[FakeConcern]

I forgot to post about the toy fair last weekend which was most memorable for getting there too late to meet @bunglebus.

Nothing very exciting or cheap

I did get the first Dinky repros I've had for a decent price (I discovered when I got home and looked on ebay at what they go for)

I haven't got around to taking them out or even removing the cling wrap

Went to Brighton yesterday and bought these two

I really love them!

I've said before that I'm not into Jap cars so why do they excite me?

Partly it's because of opening everything

and they just look right

I was a bit annoyed with myself that I didn't notice a missing dashboard in the blue one. You may remember I got another Yonezawa a couple of weeks ago as well. I love these three...

Went to couple of boot fairs this morning and paid £5 for the nice Corgi transporter, £1 for all the other cars, transporters and Crescent ramp and 50p for the trailers which I think was fair

[junkyarddog]

6 minutes ago, FakeConcern said:

Went to Brighton yesterday and bought these two

 

Green with envy!!!

Great find!!

[Christine]

Daughter's just come home , bought me 6 cars  for £2   ! 

 

[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, FakeConcern said:

I forgot to post about the toy fair last weekend which was most memorable for getting there too late to meet @bunglebus

How did I miss the Dinkys? I did feel that particular toy fair suffered from a lack of bargains as some of the sellers were at Sandown the day before. Roll on 13th of October 

[FakeConcern]

1 minute ago, bunglebus said:

How did I miss the Dinkys? I did feel that particular toy fair suffered from a lack of bargains as some of the sellers were at Sandown the day before. Roll on 13th of October 

Those Dinkys were out on a limb by the toilets! I need to get them out of the boxes and have a look.

We shan't be going to another one at Rayleigh as it was a crazy journey especially going home when the M25, the Blackwall tunnel and London bridge were all closed!

Having said that, Mrs Concern did come home with a huge bag full of stuff fo her projects so you never know...

[flat4alfa]

12 hours ago, Spottedlaurel said:

very enjoyable

Looking forward to seeing that in a ‘darting about the kitchen floor’ video!

Even if the R/C electronics are fried, I like to just jump the circuit to run the motor and lock the wheels to let it run about in circles.  The cat loves* that sort of idea.

[bunglebus]

A couple of parcels arrived this afternoon. First contained a Neet Streeter, I wasn't aware of this particular version before

The second contained this fantastic condition Corgi Mazda B1600, in one of the rarer liveries

I did already have it but this one is in such good shape I couldn't resist. I think I have all of them now except a few of the really obscure Playart versions, and none of my Hulk ones have the green fellow in his cage - not going to worry about that having seen how much good examples cost!

[bunglebus]

Ooh, a late arrival from @Spottedlaurel

Corgi Karmann Ghia for customing

And some packaged Kidco Dinkys

Pickup card is fairly bartered but I have a better one

 

[bunglebus]

The muggles at Mattel did a pretty wizard job on the Anglia casting

Almost no defects or casting lines to sort out - but they definitely resorted to witchcraft to attach the paint, it's a pain to remove!

With the original - bigger, but not by too much

 

[junkyarddog]

Found this a week or so ago.

😁

[Remspoor]

20 hours ago, Christine said:

Daughter's just come home , bought me 6 cars  for £2   ! 

 

You look please to have them on your lap 😉

[andy18s]

Picked these up on a local auction site for £7.

The Opel GT is a Schuco and well detailed for a 1/43. Missing it's mirrors but I'll try to find something to replace them.

The Manta is a wierd 1. Made from resin I think but no markings at all.

The axle location parts are interesting to say the least,small nuts and a strip of sticky tape for the rear..

[FakeConcern]

Super quick delivery, thanks @Spottedlaurel!

Mrs Concern loves the caravan and says thankyou too!

[cms206]

On 12/09/2024 at 20:23, cms206 said:

Three for a quid in one of the local Salvation Army shops today - very pleased with the Guy for 33p!

Popped back in today on the off chance; some of the other odds and sods were gone, but I managed to snaffle the cab for the bulldozer, the skip for the Ford Cargo and the trailer for the Majorette Merc.

 

And a couple of others...

[Tenmil Socket]

18 hours ago, andy18s said:

Picked these up on a local auction site for £7.

The Opel GT is a Schuco and well detailed for a 1/43. Missing it's mirrors but I'll try to find something to replace them.

The Manta is a wierd 1. Made from resin I think but no markings at all.

The axle location parts are interesting to say the least,small nuts and a strip of sticky tape for the rear..

That Manta looks very intriguing!

[andrew e]

I learnt of the existence of this earlier - what a (expensive!) albeit unnecessary  1/18 big white elephant beauty!

https://www.plazajapan.com/0674110795318/

[bunglebus]

55 minutes ago, cms206 said:

Good score on those, especially the German G Wagon combo

[danthecapriman]

I’ve been working my way through a few unfinished projects lately, just adding in details etc etc. 

But, I ordered some 3D printed truck cabs a while back, which have now arrived so I’ve started sorting a chassis for the first one.        
This one’s an early AEC Ergomatic cab which will become an 8x4 flatbed. The cabs are all 1:43 so hopefully this means I don’t need to keep modifying old Dinky cabs! 
The donor chassis for this one is the old chassis from the Spanish Dodge I converted to a tractor unit a while back. It does need some modification to work though.

It’s clearly too long as it is. I’ve started by cutting the original cab base plate down so the new cab sits better.

With that done, I decided to remove everything from the chassis frame - axles and suspension just unclip, but I had to cut away the cast on fuel tank, air tanks and tool box. These are all either wrong style or the wrong side anyway.

Once they were removed it means you can refit the suspension and axles loose and just move them up and down the chassis until it looks right. While I was at it I decided to reduce the spacing between the axle pairs and swap the two rear drive axles around so the one with the differential is visible from the back, like you can see on real trucks.

  
You can see here using the original mud guard frame from this chassis how much I’ve actually moved them!

After all this I chopped the overall length down, and replaced the rear most cross member as it was lost when the end of the chassis came off.

   
I’ve cut up the mud guard frame and glued that back on as it also gives the rear body something to sit on and raise it to the right height over the wheels.

Obviously the wheels are the wrong style (apart from the lighter blue set which I temporarily took from a trailer) so will be swapped eventually. I’ll probably need to make a replacement fuel tank as it needs to be the cylindrical type rather than square. And the printed cab needs a clean up to get rid of the remaining stub things from the printing process.

The lengths you’ve got to go to, to get what you want!!

[danthecapriman]

I just got these from abroad too.

All as new but unboxed Corgi Vanguard’s Cavalier SRI’s. 
I was looking for one, but found a seller in China selling these in a lot so decided 5 is always better than 1 right!?

Im going to keep a couple for myself, but anyone fancy one?

@AndyW201?

[Lord Sterling]

47 minutes ago, danthecapriman said:

I just got these from abroad too.

All as new but unboxed Corgi Vanguard’s Cavalier SRI’s. 
I was looking for one, but found a seller in China selling these in a lot so decided 5 is always better than 1 right!?

Im going to keep a couple for myself, but anyone fancy one?

@AndyW201?

How much do you want? I've already got several myself, but if cheap enough then why not?

[danthecapriman]

14 minutes ago, Lord Sterling said:

How much do you want? I've already got several myself, but if cheap enough then why not?

£15 posted??

[bunglebus]

Had a bit of a bumper day today, in missions in London but with hours to spare in between - so lots of shops were visited. Home Bargains and BuM well stocked but nothing new

However - Tesco had a new case of Hot Wheels, as did the Poundland on the same estate, plus Sainsbury's came up trumps with Matchbox multipacks

But that's not all - video call from the Mrs netted a load more from a Tesco restock at home, hopefully she'll send me a pic in a bit as I'm not home until Friday PM now. The hunt will continue in Cardiff over the next few days (once I drive there later tonight) and then Liverpool on Friday!

[bunglebus]

Hot Wheels haul by the Mrs

[AndyW201]

6 hours ago, danthecapriman said:

I just got these from abroad too.

All as new but unboxed Corgi Vanguard’s Cavalier SRI’s. 
I was looking for one, but found a seller in China selling these in a lot so decided 5 is always better than 1 right!?

Im going to keep a couple for myself, but anyone fancy one?

@AndyW201?

Oh! An Astro Silver Mk2? Yes please Dan if you've one spare.

[danthecapriman]

15 minutes ago, AndyW201 said:

Oh! An Astro Silver Mk2? Yes please Dan if you've one spare.

One’s got your name on it!👍   
There’s no box or certificates with them but they are otherwise mint.

Theres potentially three available. I’ll keep one as it comes, then repaint another one for my own collection.  
If nobody wants the remaining two I’ll code 3 them too!

[Lord Sterling]

8 hours ago, danthecapriman said:

£15 posted??

Nice. I'll be honest, I'd have had one off you but I've been getting steadily more ill over the last couple of days which means I have to take time off work so things are gonna be very tight in the next month.

[danthecapriman]

8 hours ago, Lord Sterling said:

Nice. I'll be honest, I'd have had one off you but I've been getting steadily more ill over the last couple of days which means I have to take time off work so things are gonna be very tight in the next month.

Hope it’s nothing serious…

If you want one, I can happily send you one and just give me something later when you can? I’m in no rush for the money! 

Totally up to you👍