Shite in Miniature II

[bunglebus]

Toy fair day. I almost didn't go as I was supposed to be demolishing my dad's shed, but he got the delivery dates wrong. Good job really as there was a lot to see. I came home with these

Pretty restrained for me? Yeah except just as I was leaving I stopped to dribble over two large trays of very tidy Matchbox. I was going to take just four, but came to an agreement with the seller - and took the lot!

Don't think I'll be going through them all straight away, as I'm on a job for a few days from tomorrow morning. Hopefully by next weekend I'll have them catalogued

 

[danthecapriman]

14 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Toy fair day. I almost didn't go as I was supposed to be demolishing my dad's shed, but he got the delivery dates wrong. Good job really as there was a lot to see. I came home with these

Pretty restrained for me? Yeah except just as I was leaving I stopped to dribble over two large trays of very tidy Matchbox. I was going to take just four, but came to an agreement with the seller - and took the lot!

Don't think I'll be going through them all straight away, as I'm on a job for a few days from tomorrow morning. Hopefully by next weekend I'll have them catalogued

 

Nice!

Ive got one of those big Triang BMC trucks here somewhere waiting its turn for restoring. They’re an impressive looking toy!

Is that an AMC Gremlin I can see there too? Green in its box.

[bunglebus]

3 minutes ago, danthecapriman said:

Nice!

Ive got one of those big Triang BMC trucks here somewhere waiting its turn for restoring. They’re an impressive looking toy!

Is that an AMC Gremlin I can see there too? Green in its box.

That Triang, and most of the loose cars were 50p each. I wasn't leaving it behind at that price.

The AMC came from a seller with lots of oddities, I could have bought various other things but was trying be restrained! Here are some pics I took today 

[sierraman]

1 hour ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Is that the shop that’s next to a McDonalds?

There’s a McD just down the road, it’s behind tower. Did get a Black AMX Javellin for £1.50 though! Couldn’t leave empty handed 😂😂

[barrett]

15 hours ago, bunglebus said:

There seems to be quite a lot of mystery around Pilen, with most (if not all) of their castings originating elsewhere - and yet they were clearly capable of good work, with the added opening doors etc as discussed above

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto_Pilen

I thought my Adams Probe was a Pilen but it's a Joal. Spain seems to have been a bit of a hotbed of copying/borrowing/inheriting castings for a while!

 

Here's my most recent Pilen list. Without comparing some of the castings directly I can't be certain about some but I think this is pretty accurate as to the source of their castings.

The original castings are particularly lovely – probably the nicest mid/late-70s toys out there when all the other companies were in full-on cost-cutting mode. The remakes are usually better quality than the prototypes, too, as they all have accurate wheels and really nice colour schemes. The one downside for collectors I guess is the fairly limited colour pallete – quite a few were only ever produced in one colour from what I can tell so there isn't much variety.

Here are my two most recent buys, both ex-French Dinky

The CX has been touched in with a bit of detailling but it actually looks quite neat. I love the wheel castings which pretty accurately denote it as a 1976 Pallas (iirc). I recently packed most of my diecast stuff away in boxes but I've kept the Pilens out as I like them so much.

[MiniMinorMk3]

A couple missing from your @barrett list.

Volvo 66 was a Pilen original

Buggi Playeroo

 

Lotus Elite pull back

Porsche 917

Porsche (906) Carrera 6

Range Rover

Renault R5

[155V6]

I went over to the dark side today.After looking round the car boot for an hour,& not buying a single thing,I paid 10p for this Oxford (Austin?) van just because I like crows 😆

[155V6]

3 hours ago, quicksilver said:

I'd have gone for Cayman Blue for obvious reasons. Anyone spotted Matchbox's error? The base says it's a Mondeo Ghia but it can't be as it hasn't got a sunroof.

Pretty sure the 1st BTCC Mondeos were badged as Ghias,but obviously a race car wouldn't have a sunroof.It wouldn't have had 5 seats either though 🤪

[danthecapriman]

1 hour ago, barrett said:

Here's my most recent Pilen list. Without comparing some of the castings directly I can't be certain about some but I think this is pretty accurate as to the source of their castings.

The original castings are particularly lovely – probably the nicest mid/late-70s toys out there when all the other companies were in full-on cost-cutting mode. The remakes are usually better quality than the prototypes, too, as they all have accurate wheels and really nice colour schemes. The one downside for collectors I guess is the fairly limited colour pallete – quite a few were only ever produced in one colour from what I can tell so there isn't much variety.

Here are my two most recent buys, both ex-French Dinky

The CX has been touched in with a bit of detailling but it actually looks quite neat. I love the wheel castings which pretty accurately denote it as a 1976 Pallas (iirc). I recently packed most of my diecast stuff away in boxes but I've kept the Pilens out as I like them so much.

Wait! Dinky Fiesta?? 
Dinky didn’t do a Fiesta did they??

[bunglebus]

Much want

 

[danthecapriman]

2 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Much want

 

Wow!! That is a handsome little thing!

Ive never seen or heard of those before. I’m guessing it’s a rare one they didn’t make for long?

[barrett]

Oh yeah the Daf in particular is one that I really want. Annoyingly I missed this auction recently - the same day a Fiesta on its own (in box, admittedly) sold for £55 so I'm really annoyed by my own laziness

[barrett]

1 minute ago, danthecapriman said:

Wow!! That is a handsome little thing!

Ive never seen or heard of those before. I’m guessing it’s a rare one they didn’t make for long?

The same with all those late French Dinky castings which were actually made in Spain by Pilen... the last gasp before Dinky basically collapsed and was reorganised making horrible Bedford CFs and whatnot. They're all quite rare and expensive, but the Pilen-branded versions which carried on afterwards are identical and relatively affordable.

[danthecapriman]

2 minutes ago, barrett said:

Oh yeah the Daf in particular is one that I really want. Annoyingly I missed this auction recently - the same day a Fiesta on its own (in box, admittedly) sold for £55 so I'm really annoyed by my own laziness

That lot of 3 looks like a right bargain someone got.

[danthecapriman]

Only Dinky one I can find on eBay is this in California.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/395771201381?_skw=dinky+fiesta&itmmeta=01JCB6J3MRWVTSR270GYPC96G8&hash=item5c25cd4765:g:SWkAAOSwMTJnBCsF

Description is not good and not particularly accurate either though.

[bunglebus]

Here are some of today's finds. Got this Corgi Range Rover for next to nothing due to the broken spotlamps. Didn't expect to find all the bits inside

Most expensive single buy, and I think I might have been slightly hasty. Still, I'd not seen a Dinky Monteverdi before

Still, the cost was offset buy a glut of bargains. This was 50p

Typical Ford boot struts!

£2 for a boxed Corgi '3i - all the others were the common versions. Doors are really stiff, obviously never been opened before

This cost the same as the Dinky above, but I got a few others thrown in for nothing

Seriously spotty!

Another £2.00 bargain 

This was 50p! I had no idea of the make but was too good to leave behind. I know who made it now, do you?

Boxed Polistil Scirocco...

...is a slight improvement from the last one I found

Solido doesn't always do it for me, but this Opel was too good to leave behind 

That awesome Gremlin. Cracked lid on the box I can live with

And a not-Dinky (Cougar) Talbot Tagora

[danthecapriman]

That Gremlin is all kinds of cool! Great colour for it too.

You did well with that lot.

[bunglebus]

Here are a few of the non-Matchbox buys. There was some discussion earlier about the Hot Wheels Cadillac, and it's a casting I've been keeping an eye out for anyway

Welly Lupo...

Because she wants every one on earth it seems. I have one in my own collection, as well as the yellow custom one in addition to these

Siku

Gotta stop buying these!

Corgi Snowmobile had to come home for 50p

Sane for the Husky Jeep, only wanted the windscreen, but it's decent under the dirt

 

[MiniMinorMk3]

32 minutes ago, danthecapriman said:

Wow!! That is a handsome little thing!

Ive never seen or heard of those before. I’m guessing it’s a rare one they didn’t make for long?

Vectis get them quite often. They sell between £50 and £100. They are known as Spanish Dinky Toys. Quite a few of the Pilen stuff was sold as Dinky Toys in Spain.

Vectis Auctions | Search

 

[MiniMinorMk3]

By the way Pilens are quite affordable at Vectis.

Coming up on Tuesday

Vectis Auctions | Pilen group of (made in Spain) cars -

 

A couple of recent results

With commission about £20 each

again about £20 each with commission

 

[danthecapriman]

14 minutes ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Vectis get them quite often. They sell between £50 and £100. They are known as Spanish Dinky Toys. Quite a few of the Pilen stuff was sold as Dinky Toys in Spain.

Vectis Auctions | Search

 

I have seen that Renault 17 before, boxed too. Sadly my pockets weren’t deep enough to take it home!

 

 

[Tenmil Socket]

28 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Here are a few of the non-Matchbox buys. There was some discussion earlier about the Hot Wheels Cadillac, and it's a casting I've been keeping an eye out for anyway

Welly Lupo...

Because she wants every one on earth it seems. I have one in my own collection, as well as the yellow custom one in addition to these

Siku

Gotta stop buying these!

Corgi Snowmobile had to come home for 50p

Sane for the Husky Jeep, only wanted the windscreen, but it's decent under the dirt

 

You got some crackers today!

[bunglebus]

25 minutes ago, Tenmil Socket said:

You got some crackers today!

I'm looking at all these Matchbox and wondering if my phone has enough storage to take pics!

[danthecapriman]

A while back I was posting something else up and mentioned I’d found another vehicle that I’d never seen in model, or at least my preferred scale of 1:43. Well it arrived yesterday. All the way from Japan!

70’s Datsun Cedric estate! One for @Spottedlaurel

I stumbled on this completely by chance. I had no idea they existed, but it turns out there was a Japanese vehicle collection of similar vehicles that doesn’t seem to have been available elsewhere. There’s quite a few cars and vans in the collection from what I’ve been able to find so far, but they’re not particularly easy to track down.

Heres the magazine type thing it came with. Absolutely no clue what it says!😆

  
Im assuming it’s a Japanese version of the AA or RAC?? I’m not entirely sure what the contraption in the boot is either, compressor maybe? But regardless of that it’s a very nice model of those big 70’s Jap cars! Quite an unusual thing to find.

I can just about remember seeing these running around here in the UK, although even by then they weren’t all that common. Certainly not as common as similar things like Granada’s. Saloons always seemed a bit more common than estates too. I remember a former colleague having a saloon one for banger racing too, rotten but still a magnificent looking car!

[eddyramrod]

As we've reached page 1800....

[bunglebus]

26 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

As we've reached page 1800....

Corgi Fiat 1800

Dinky Triumph 1800

Solido Lancia Beta 1800

Hot Wheels Ford Escort RS1800

Bburago Escort RS1800

Corgi Marcos 1800 (repro)

And original 

Lone Star Volvo P1800

Corgi Volvo P1800 (repro)

Politoys Lancia Beta 1800

Matchbox BMC 1800 Pininfarina

Hot Wheels Volvo P1800

Matchbox Volvo P1800S

Corgi Volvo P1800

 

[ETCHY]

5 hours ago, quicksilver said:

It's not a bad effort for such a small scale but something about it doesn't look quite right to my eyes. It seems a bit top heavy so perhaps the glasshouse is a tad too big and the wheels too tucked under. Compared with the 3D print the windscreen especially is a lot bigger and my memory of Metros is of the screen being quite small.

Is that blue one on the left  the same model ?

If so  then yes you have a point .

[ETCHY]

2 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Here are some of today's finds. Got this Corgi Range Rover for next to nothing due to the broken spotlamps. Didn't expect to find all the bits inside

Most expensive single buy, and I think I might have been slightly hasty. Still, I'd not seen a Dinky Monteverdi before

Still, the cost was offset buy a glut of bargains. This was 50p

£2 for a boxed Corgi '3i - all the others were the common versions. Doors are really stiff, obviously never been opened before

This cost the same as the Dinky above, but I got a few others thrown in for nothing

Seriously spotty!

Another £2.00 bargain 

This was 50p! I had no idea of the make but was too good to leave behind. I know who made it now, do you?

Boxed Polistil Scirocco...

...is a slight improvement from the last one I found

Solido doesn't always do it for me, but this Opel was too good to leave behind 

That awesome Gremlin. Cracked lid on the box I can live with

And a not-Dinky (Cougar) Talbot Tagora

Good haul.

I do like an AMC Gremlin, I think they look brill.

 

[Spottedlaurel]

1 hour ago, danthecapriman said:

A while back I was posting something else up and mentioned I’d found another vehicle that I’d never seen in model, or at least my preferred scale of 1:43. Well it arrived yesterday. All the way from Japan!

70’s Datsun Cedric estate! One for @Spottedlaurel

Very nice, certainly one I'd be happy to have in my not-collection of 1:43 things.

Lik wise I can only recall one or two from pre-Datsun OC/banger racing days. One was up the road from us and I remember at the time being a little disappointed when it disappeared and they got a rear-engined Skoda instead

[danthecapriman]

8 minutes ago, Spottedlaurel said:

Very nice, certainly one I'd be happy to have in my not-collection of 1:43 things.

Lik wise I can only recall one or two from pre-Datsun OC/banger racing days. One was up the road from us and I remember at the time being a little disappointed when it disappeared and they got a rear-engined Skoda instead

Definitely one to try and find. A saloon model would be most welcome too. Likewise a Laurel!

The one my former colleague had didn’t actually last very long on the banger track. It was in the days where rules were much looser and they allowed things to race together that really shouldn’t have been. 
It got T boned, hard, by a Nissan Patrol still running its 4x4!! Hit it so hard he almost got knocked out. The H frame actually got knocked loose too so he wasn’t allowed to race it for the day afterwards. I remember it specifically because it nearly ended up in a fist fight afterwards because he shouldn’t have been allowed to use the Patrol!