Shite in Miniature II

[danthecapriman]

  On 08/10/2024 at 19:38, FakeConcern said:

I kind of got the Norev Jet Car Renner 12 finished today. I have been working to get the grill and headlights made by using baking foil pressed over the front of one of the plastic 12s and then filling the concave side with Araldite. Not a perfect solution and I may try a different approach at some point, but it'll do for now.

You may have seen I had the missing rear door and bonnet made up and painted the other day. The paint was mixed from several Humbrol colours and polished and is not too bad a match.

So I now have one complete metal Norev R12 and two plastic ones

I still find it very interesting that they made both

I did try painting the grill black, but it didn't come out very well so I stuck with the silver like the brown car

For some reason this one will only display upside down!

Here with most of the Norevs I have

and including both a metal (black) and plastic (blue) Citroen CX. I'd love to know what other cars they modelled in both materials

 

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Interesting how you’re making your replacement grills! 
I’ve been thinking of ways to best do something similar as I need an MAN truck grill. I’ve got an original to use as a pattern so was thinking maybe pressing it into clay or play dough etc then pouring something like resin or even molten white metal into it to make a replica.

Anyone else done anything similar?

[junkyarddog]

 

I experimented with resin and plasticine.

[danthecapriman]

  On 08/10/2024 at 22:15, junkyarddog said:

 

I experimented with resin and plasticine.

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That looks ideal I think. Details and everything look to have come out spot on.

What resin do you use? 
Most of the stuff on eBay seems to be clear which I think is meant for jewellery etc. does it really matter?

[barrett]

  On 08/10/2024 at 19:38, FakeConcern said:

 I'd love to know what other cars they modelled in both materials

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I think they starting making metal 1:43s in about 1971, and at first the entire range was models they were already making in plastic, so there was a lot of crossover with both diecast and plastic versions of the same car. By the mid-70s the metal cars were the 'standard' range but they continued producing plastic versions of some as a 'budget' range. I've seen plastic versions of lots of 70s cars but they were definitely metal-only by the 1980s came round. As usual with these things, it's really annoying that there isn't a Norev nerd website which just has a complete list of models with dates and colours etc so this could be easily answered!

The one I'd really like is this metal Simca Mille coupe

Which you could also get in plastic...

[junkyarddog]

  On 08/10/2024 at 22:38, danthecapriman said:

What resin do you use? 

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Just ordinary fiberglass resin from one of those David's kits.

I've used car body filler too in the past.

[danthecapriman]

  On 09/10/2024 at 10:12, junkyarddog said:

Just ordinary fiberglass resin from one of those David's kits.

I've used car body filler too in the past.

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Car body filler’s a good idea. I’ve got that to hand at the moment so I might have a go.

Just got to liberate the pattern grill from its model first!

[junkyarddog]

  On 09/10/2024 at 10:16, danthecapriman said:

Car body filler’s a good idea. I’ve got that to hand at the moment so I might have a go.

Just got to liberate the pattern grill from its model first!

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It may be an idea to add a piece of wire or similar into the mould as a bit of reinforcement.

[MiniMinorMk3]

  On 09/10/2024 at 09:52, barrett said:

I think they starting making metal 1:43s in about 1971, and at first the entire range was models they were already making in plastic, so there was a lot of crossover with both diecast and plastic versions of the same car. By the mid-70s the metal cars were the 'standard' range but they continued producing plastic versions of some as a 'budget' range. I've seen plastic versions of lots of 70s cars but they were definitely metal-only by the 1980s came round. As usual with these things, it's really annoying that there isn't a Norev nerd website which just has a complete list of models with dates and colours etc so this could be easily answered!

 

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Norev still made plastic stuff in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s.

[MiniMinorMk3]

Here's on of the worst renditions of a Dino 246 GTS I have ever seen in 1/43rd.

 

Unlike this SM Presidential, which looks quite good for a 1970s diecast.

 

By the way, the diecast Norevs ended up being made in Portugal.

 

[MiniMinorMk3]

One last bit of Norev trivia.

Norev sponsored Jimmy Mieusset, who became the company mascot.

 

 

 

[RoadworkUK]

Weirdest Norev I have is this 307CC paperweight...

... which I think is really cool.

[sierraman]

A guy was remaking the surfboards for the MB9 Golf a while back out of resin. I think they were six quid a pop so not a bad little cottage industry. 

[bunglebus]

Found a new series of Fat and Fabulous cars in BuM and Smyths today - just the Skyline to find, of course they were all gone

This one is definitely my favourite, nicely detailed too

350Z has a really odd tampo, matt black against gloss makes it quite hard to see

[bunglebus]

I spotted a couple of Matchbox oddities on eBay - a Turbo Fury, but with the 86 sticker normally found on the similar Blue Shark

Plus yet another colour combination on the Sand Cat - the red/green version normally has a light grey interior and roof, but this one's got the black interior out of the orange version 

That'll go nicely with the others - I've got a red with all small wheels somewhere too

 

[danthecapriman]

Just a heads up, I have one final Vanguard’s Cavalier available if anyone is interested at £15 posted… 

If not I’ll repaint it!

[FakeConcern]

  On 08/10/2024 at 22:38, danthecapriman said:

 

What resin do you use? 
Most of the stuff on eBay seems to be clear which I think is meant for jewellery etc. does it really matter?

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I saw my daughter yesterday and she makes jewellery using UV cured resin

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BR5DXQNN?ref=cm_sw_r_cso_fm_apin_dp_48FB2KAQZKK9NJV71BPZ&ref_=cm_sw_r_cso_fm_apin_dp_48FB2KAQZKK9NJV71BPZ&social_share=cm_sw_r_cso_fm_apin_dp_48FB2KAQZKK9NJV71BPZ&starsLeft=1&skipTwisterOG=1

I think I may get some to try

[sierraman]

How resilient is the resin? Will it be durable enough? 

[danthecapriman]

  On 10/10/2024 at 08:18, sierraman said:

How resilient is the resin? Will it be durable enough? 

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That was one of my concerns with using car filler to fill the mould. It’s probably going to be quite brittle.

Although how much impact damage is a model likely to get?!

My mum was using one of those resin casting kits to make some little cup coasters with various things set into the resin and it seemed pretty robust stuff. It could scratch easy though (being clear) but if it’s on a model and painted it’ll probably be fine.

[bunglebus]

On missions again, to Bath this time. Stopped off at various supermarkets, BuM, Home Bargains etc but found nothing new. The Range had a spectacular range of Hot Wheels 

[bunglebus]

Walked into a branch of Entertainer that had a recent delivery, all had been rummaged through but I found a few goodies

New version of the Lotus, spot the difference!

GT

NSX with a weird casting error

And this

[junkyarddog]

Found the Toyota Corolla ke25 Levin today.

You like Japanese cars Smoll Eddy?

"Ah So M8"

What did you call me!!!!😮

[MiniMinorMk3]

  On 11/10/2024 at 13:30, bunglebus said:

Walked into a branch of Entertainer that had a recent delivery, all had been rummaged through but I found a few goodies

New version of the Lotus, spot the difference!

 

 

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Race number is now 4, and central moulding that include the driver, front suspension and exhausts is silver instead of white.

[bunglebus]

Pretty much....

 

[bunglebus]

Mooching around Bath for a few days, most of the charity shops are those ghastly boutique ones with nothing interesting in - however Oxfam of all places came up trumps with a 49p World Class Rolls Royce

[flat4alfa]

Norev Transporteur Plastique!

[FakeConcern]

  On 11/10/2024 at 18:06, flat4alfa said:

Norev Transporteur Plastique!

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That is fab!

 

Found one on ebay, well part of one anyway

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/115512178223?_skw=norev+car+transporter&itmmeta=01J9YCW843XNYE7CJ5FCGJRX3T&hash=item1ae50ff62f:g:2HEAAOSwdbJjEQAN&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAA8HoV3kP08IDx%2BKZ9MfhVJKn0dDqsY0nCFz0Ws5D8A04syalO%2FdzM9ojAc40V4iX3Xivf%2Br9ZFQQAo%2BPrfwtRFpL5BA8sG%2BR0R88BCmO8P95nRsPVj%2BU9plQL9NUU5dKvD5kyjGc6RD%2F4XDhW4T0u%2Bh%2Fhib%2BdWbuN5VfxQ1RkzbHSjPf22lEEK5RB40oi22qfj7DlMjtJQ7cMcFwMR8IoCjH40169HRaQamab4gHxWEoSYFucPzQobnCg4UZuVsTQ1rQ5wqH9Epf%2FCAavxvCuiXl2%2FD2jTmiUVNkHa53cF0FGnkWbUzveE4qPoM1frxVZ0g%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR5SC8czPZA

I won't be buying that one for £45...

 

[Christine]

Any MGB  Gt  doors about  ?  

Having dug this childhood toy out , I previously used as a roller skate when i was 5 or 6  .... I thought i'd do it up  a bit !   I need a door !      Pics 

[Christine]

 

 

 

[Christine]

I built up the new pillars with solder on the pins .. my daughter gave me some diamond earrings for the headlights 

 

 

 

 

 

[danthecapriman]

  On 11/10/2024 at 18:48, Christine said:

I built up the new pillars with solder on the pins .. my daughter gave me some diamond earrings for the headlights 

 

 

 

 

 

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Nice work on that, particularly rebuilding the broken pillars! Very tidy.

I think that MG is probably one of my favourite Corgis of that era.