Shite in Miniature II

[bunglebus]

My nemesis is the VW collector who always seems to be just ahead of me at every boot sale and toy fair when there's a mega bargain to be had. I'm sure he tells me porkies sometimes about the price he's just paid for a tray full of mint Matchboxes or whatever

[bunglebus]

Talking of which - some more job lots arrived, containing among other things, some tidy Matchbox 

This one was the main target, a version that always seems to be battered, probably due to being a stock car

Laser Wheels is also well preserved 

This was along for the ride, a copy of the Matchbox Isuzu Mysterious Utility Wizard?

Majorette

Nice Corgi Capri too

Don't think this Hot Wheels 56 Chevy casting is seen very often, not a fan of the 56 as much as the 55 and 57, but it's well represented and has a metal base

Mini with removable body and tongue in cheek "Fits & Giggles" theme

There was a yellow one too, so I got to compare Malaysian "Mini Cooper" with Chinese "Morris Mini" base

A couple of Micro Hot Wheels too

[FakeConcern]

7 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Mine's a little bit tatty, don't mind another one!

No thank you on the Beetle though, bit modern for my tastes

The Cub

Pretty sure no cracks

The Charger

Quite nice all round

6 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

Crikey I had one of those which came with a Jeep and a trailer but annoyingly I lost the Charger. The trailer is long gone but the wreck of the Jeep survived at my mum's house up until about last year I think.

@Split_Pin Obv Bunglebus is having the nice white one, but I have this yellow one as well let me know if you'd like it

I have put some tyres on it since these pics were taken

Missing the louvres in rear window, but still quite nice

 

[Split_Pin]

15 minutes ago, FakeConcern said:

The Cub

Pretty sure no cracks

The Charger

Quite nice all round

@Split_Pin Obv Bunglebus is having the nice white one, but I have this yellow one as well let me know if you'd like it

I have put some tyres on it since these pics were taken

Missing the louvres in rear window, but still quite nice

 

Thank you Mr FC, that would be great, I can repaint it white just like my old one 😀

Let me know what I owe you and I'll make it so!

[FakeConcern]

6 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

Thank you Mr FC, that would be great, I can repaint it white just like my old one 😀

Let me know what I owe you and I'll make it so!

I'll have to find it first!

[bunglebus]

2 hours ago, FakeConcern said:

The Cub

Is it bad that I feel somewhat indignant, as it's not a Cub? I'm in far too deep I think

[bunglebus]

On 03/11/2024 at 20:29, AndyW201 said:

Sadly the 911 and Plymouth Savoy had already gone, which were the ones I was after. Still, if they're selling, hopefully we'll see more in there.

I'm popping back into my local Entertainer, and doing some hunting further afield today - if I spot these do you want them?

[Hertz]

Finally got round to unpacking all the @danthecapriman collection haul. Now on display in the living room with the rest of them. Even Mrs Hertz likes them.

[bunglebus]

Another rarity recreated. As well as the white Piston Popper, Matchbox also made a white Saab Sonett. Starting with a fairly good original one;

And ending up with this

Restos give me mixed feelings, as it goes against my normal ethos of removing all the casting lines etc - there's even a bit of flash next to one of the rear side windows. I elected to clean the base up with the wheels attached rather than drilling out the rivets holding the suspension on, I I just masked up to protect the plastic.

I seem to be doing a lot of white MB lately, there's a pile of Graffic Traffics awaiting a coat of it on my workbench 

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[danthecapriman]

1 hour ago, Hertz said:

Finally got round to unpacking all the @danthecapriman collection haul. Now on display in the living room with the rest of them. Even Mrs Hertz likes them.

👍 glad you like them, and glad you didn’t get killed for that massive haul!!😆

They look well on display like that, far better use for them than just sitting in a big box in my loft.

[Snake Charmer]

😎

[sierraman]

Where do people find these job lots? On eBay they seem to go for insane money on stuff that I’d have consigned to the recycling bin, or massive job lots going for daft money but when you look they’re all the really undesirable items like the MB Personnel Carrier. 

[bunglebus]

14 minutes ago, sierraman said:

Where do people find these job lots? On eBay they seem to go for insane money on stuff that I’d have consigned to the recycling bin, or massive job lots going for daft money but when you look they’re all the really undesirable items like the MB Personnel Carrier. 

Mainly eBay for me, I agree a lot of them go for mad money, suits me when I'm selling though.

Sometimes there are hidden gems in poorly described/photographed listings, just got to spend time looking through them

[sierraman]

6 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Mainly eBay for me, I agree a lot of them go for mad money, suits me when I'm selling though.

Sometimes there are hidden gems in poorly described/photographed listings, just got to spend time looking through them

I suppose I’m as bad, a few years ago I sold a load of Stretcha Fetchas, I think they went for something like £15. Christ knows what they wanted them for…🙂

[AndyW201]

2 hours ago, bunglebus said:

I'm popping back into my local Entertainer, and doing some hunting further afield today - if I spot these do you want them?

Cheers Rich, I'll hang fire and see if more of those appear in Morrisons, but on the other hand, if you come across another of those white Mazda 323s, I'd be mega  grateful...

[MiniMinorMk3]

20 hours ago, bunglebus said:

These ain't toys

 

 

[captain_70s]

2 hours ago, Hertz said:

Finally got round to unpacking all the @danthecapriman collection haul. Now on display in the living room with the rest of them. Even Mrs Hertz likes them.

Sharp Music Centre under the DeLorean/Cobra?

[Christine]

Bargain  from the toy shop ! 

 

[MiniMinorMk3]

Cortina Mk1 clean.

Before

After

Before

After

Before

After

That residue was removed with..

This stuff is very good at removing old paint, however it must be treated with care as it will ruin plastic windows and, if left on a painted surface for too long, make the paint go all soft and sticky. I only use it as a last resort.

For less stubborn stains and the stickers I used...

To get the bonnet sticker to lie flat I used a bit of Humbrol Clear Fix

There's a lot of paint loss on the raised edges, so it must have had some use in the past.

The base and tyre are in good condition so it mustn't have been outside and ragged around the patio and flower beds.

The model is fictitious. The stickers would suggest the 1965 East African Safari Rally, but there was no number 8 Corina on that rally. Also the number plate is a bit of late registration madness.

The box is in fair condition, but playtime must have made the end flap crease weak, leading to its loss.

 

[danthecapriman]

3 hours ago, sierraman said:

Where do people find these job lots? On eBay they seem to go for insane money on stuff that I’d have consigned to the recycling bin, or massive job lots going for daft money but when you look they’re all the really undesirable items like the MB Personnel Carrier. 

EBay can be good, but as @bunglebus said, it can mean trawling through loads of listings looking for the stuff that’s badly described or with poor pics. Sometimes the ones to look for are those where the seller is just trying to get rid of a load of old toys - so the pic is of a general pile of toy cars rather than stuff neatly laid out. If you take the time to scrutinise the pics like that it’s sometimes possible to spot a little score! 
Word of mouth is another good way though. A few of my best job lots have come that way. In fact some of those ones I sold to you lot came from a pretty decent job lot I got simply by someone talking to someone else and they mentioned me as someone who likes cars… I went to have a look and scored some nice stuff.

[danthecapriman]

Picked one of these up the other day. Shouldn’t be buying things at the moment but, you know…!

IXO pre facelift Granada mk2 estate.

Ive already get a couple of the silver IXO facelift versions (yes, one will be getting painted metallic blue like my old one!) but I can’t resist a Granada! I do intend to repaint this one eventually into a more normal Granny. Extra cool because it’s RHD too.

I do have another 1:43 car on the way from another part of the world too. Again, shouldn’t have but it’s very hard to find so had to do it! And the type of car it is, is absolute weapons grade Autoshite too!

[RoadworkUK]

"Oooh, 1:43Mk2 Granny estate"

*fires up eBay, sees how much they change hands for.

 

 

*swiftly puts eBay away.

[sierraman]

1 hour ago, danthecapriman said:

EBay can be good, but as @bunglebus said, it can mean trawling through loads of listings looking for the stuff that’s badly described or with poor pics. Sometimes the ones to look for are those where the seller is just trying to get rid of a load of old toys - so the pic is of a general pile of toy cars rather than stuff neatly laid out. If you take the time to scrutinise the pics like that it’s sometimes possible to spot a little score! 
Word of mouth is another good way though. A few of my best job lots have come that way. In fact some of those ones I sold to you lot came from a pretty decent job lot I got simply by someone talking to someone else and they mentioned me as someone who likes cars… I went to have a look and scored some nice stuff.

I had that a while ago - a box full of old diecast cars. Turned out it was a pile of old Dayz Gone By, had to break it to them it probably* wasn’t worth the square root of shit. 

[sierraman]

21 hours ago, bunglebus said:

My nemesis is the VW collector who always seems to be just ahead of me at every boot sale and toy fair when there's a mega bargain to be had. I'm sure he tells me porkies sometimes about the price he's just paid for a tray full of mint Matchboxes or whatever

Sounds like a wind up merchant! I’d just play it back to him about the ‘shop in town’ that you found a Beales Bealson Matchbox Bedford in for fifty pence. 

[danthecapriman]

1 hour ago, sierraman said:

I had that a while ago - a box full of old diecast cars. Turned out it was a pile of old Dayz Gone By, had to break it to them it probably* wasn’t worth the square root of shit. 

They are the worst, yes! Days Gone and the Yesteryears stuff seem to be absolutely everywhere. It’s unusual to get a job lot that doesn’t have at least one or two in there, or those awful Corgi vintage things they did that are just the cheapest nastiest looking things ever. 
They just end up back on eBay! Take whatever you can get from them!

[bunglebus]

Called into a Tesco today and found a new batch of Hot Wheels 

Treasure hunt 

Yay, Goldbug

[Christine]

BB iwas in charity shop today , there was a beetle,  black wings white body  , some decals but i didn't have my bins on ...32nd  scale diecast , plastic base,  pull back action  49p .. i thought you probably had it anyway

[Remspoor]

5 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Also the number plate is a bit of late registration madness.

That is because it is on false plates.

It is from the Purple Capri.

[sheffcortinacentre]

8 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

These ain't toys

 

 

I've always been disappointed with my purple velvet MK3 cortina 2000E I've always considered it bloated ,I presume others do to by lack of sales not helped by price too.

[bunglebus]

Latest CMC list, starting to see a few I'm just not interested in now. I do like the original Batmobile, but I don't want a Yellow Submarine or Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (much as I was very disappointed to find it wasn't on display at Beaulieu when I visited as a kid). I tried to cancel the ice cream van but it was already en route, so I returned it as I think it's too similar to the very first vehicle the club produced