Shite in Miniature II

[Split_Pin]

X-platform aficionados probably know but there was a decent Hot Wheels Chevrolet Citation that would go nice with these.....

Was that a bronze coloured fastback type thing? If so I had that but sold it on a few years ago along with all my older HW stuff.

[eddyramrod]

That's right.  I have some of those...

[Split_Pin]

My mate had that Olds Omega - it met its fate in a fly-press in his dad's workshop.

 

Was your flimsy plastic yacht yellow and blue? If it was, I had the same one coupled with a colour-matched Honda Accord.

Yes it is! I have a yellow Accord, maybe Ill display the boat with it for a bit!

 

My favourite Majorette is the Simca 1308 GT in bronze. The badges have the correct font, the front lights are just right and the colour sets it off in my opinion.

[Split_Pin]

Eddy that MO Oxford is superb, on my bucket list together with the Austin Devon and Phase 1 Standard Vanguard.

 

Did Dinky ever do a Jowett Javelin or an I imagining that?

[Jon]

X-platform aficionados probably know but there was a decent Hot Wheels Chevrolet Citation that would go nice with these.....

 

Not Hotwheels and also not so small but here's a really half-arsed Citation I bought on our US road trip last year:

 

 

Couldn't resist the low quality, built down to a price manufacture. Made in Hong Kong for ERTL, according to the yellowing box.

[eddyramrod]

Eddy that MO Oxford is superb, on my bucket list together with the Austin Devon and Phase 1 Standard Vanguard.

 

Did Dinky ever do a Jowett Javelin or an I imagining that?

I don't know of a Dinky Javelin, but it's possible it might have slipped past me; Jowett were extinct before I was born.  I remember having the Devon and the Vanguard many years ago, but I have a feeling I let them go in a job lot I flogged off around the end of my teens.

[mercrocker]

Dinky should have made a Javelin - it was catalogued as No. 40C but never actually produced.

 

Aside from the modern Oxford stuff I can only think of white medal models - Lansdowne, Mikansue and I think Pathfinder....

[Split_Pin]

I would love both a Javelin and a Jupiter but at £150 or so for one of those, its not gonna happen. I had a white metal Rover P5 once, think it was a Lansdowne or Sommerville or something like that. Very very heavy but not that detailed, a bit disappointing I thought. I sold it some years ago.

[eddyramrod]

Spot-On did a lovely heavy P5 saloon.  Pretty sure I still have mine somewhere, complete with many coats of Humbrol and broken bumpers.

[155V6]

Was that a bronze coloured fastback type thing? If so I had that but sold it on a few years ago along with all my older HW stuff.

I got a bit confused then,I thought the Citation was yellow.Then I realised they also did a Dodge Aries wagon which was yellow 

[mercrocker]

The Spot-On is a lovely thing.   I agree with Split Pin about the white metal gear, it doesn't appeal to me at that sort of price.  I bought a Mikansue white metal kit of a Facel II once, honestly I have had more luck getting a good finish on old Corgis which have been chucked repeatedly on a playground then rubbed on a brick wall.....  

 

There is a Spanish EKO HO scale P5 saloon too.... 

 

Ref. the Citation, mine is bronze but they did a blue,red and white one as well, can't remember the logo on it as I don't have that one any longer.

[eddyramrod]

Another vote against the white-metal models.  I can't justify the price of most diecasts, never mind WMs!  So I guess I'll just have to dive into these restorations and make something decent out of what I already have.  There's a queue of about two dozen waiting for their baths...

[eddyramrod]

It wouldn't be that difficult to amass a fleet of assorted 70s Yankshite to go with Minishitestang...

[Split_Pin]

I got a bit confused then,I thought the Citation was yellow.Then I realised they also did a Dodge Aries wagon which was yellow

I lost that one somewhere too, Id love another. I think all the wood scratched off the sides if I remember correctly!

[eddyramrod]

Aries wagon?  Something else I have a fleet of, mostly Humbrolled.

 

I'm beginning to wonder if I should dig out some "project" examples and have a Sale!

[Split_Pin]

*rubs hands*

[eddyramrod]

Requests, anyone?  I'll see what there is in the Projects box, but it won't be tonight.

[Split_Pin]

Crikey that reminds me I assembled 2 K&R replicas white metal Dolomites 20 years ago. Absolutely awful. I'm no expert but I can make a model look half decent if I try but these just fought me all the way. One was a 1300 and the other was a Sprint. The bodyshell of the former was buckled and the headlights were missing in the kit of the latter . Both now long gone thankfully

[MarvinsMom]

Once ive gotten over buying my big 1/1 scale motor I wouldnt mind a go at this malarky

 

I did models once but they are quite fragile and take up too much space

 

I have got a Dinky Mini Clubman somewhere that i kept painting with Rimmel when i was bored!

 

Think thats got a screw on base could be worth a go restoring?

 

 

DO IT! DO IT! DO IT!

 

the dinky clubman does indeed just screw together and unlike sone corgi/matchbox major models the doors aren't riveted onto the main part of the model.

 

this is the police one i got cheap off of a member here, and promptly attacked it with a paintbrush

 

[Split_Pin]

Requests, anyone? I'll see what there is in the Projects box, but it won't be tonight.

A Dodge Aries

[MorrisItalSLX]

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DO NOT PAINT!!!

[MorrisItalSLX]

DO IT! DO IT! DO IT!

 

the dinky clubman does indeed just screw together and unlike sone corgi/matchbox major models the doors aren't riveted onto the main part of the model.

 

this is the police one i got cheap off of a member here, and promptly attacked it with a paintbrush

 

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[Datsuncog]

Think I still have both a HW Aries (yellow) and a Citation (bronze) in the 'to go' pile, if anyone's absolutely gagging for one... neither is exactly mint, but not that dreadful either. Will look them out when I get home, sure!

[59Impala]

Dinky should have made a Javelin - it was catalogued as No. 40C but never actually produced.

 

Aside from the modern Oxford stuff I can only think of white medal models - Lansdowne, Mikansue and I think Pathfinder....

A chap by the name of Hodge did a few models in the style of 50s Dinkys under the brand name of Odgi, one of them was a Javelin. Quite difficult to find these days and can be pricey. I have the Javelin and also a Mk2 Consul and E93A Prefect. They are quite charming. I can take a photo of them tomorrow if any of you would like to see them.

[mercrocker]

Thans Mr Impala - I had it in my mind that Odgi did a Javelin but couldn't remember the correct spelling.  I had that Dinky-style Mk2 Consul he made but succumbed to a too-good-to-refuse offer for it many years ago.

[andrew e]

These come up in conversation earlier - fake Tamiya? Hercules 1/14th Truck RC models, have I been living under a rock?

 

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[59Impala]

As promised here are a few piccies of my three ODGI models together with some Dinky versions from the 50's, they look pretty similar I reckon. I can't remember other models that ODGI did although a Daimler Conquest Roadster and a van, possibly a Jowett or Bradford spring to mind.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[mercrocker]

Aye, they were nice models......Far better interpretations of what Dinky might have done than all that copy-cat Atlas tosh

[mercrocker]

There's an Odgi Bradford and the Dolomite-Dinky-Never-Made on the Bay of Fools at present.   They seem less appealing than the 3 saloon cars, though....Sellers want a wunner each which is pretty much nearly what my Consul fetched when I got that un-refusable offer.

[59Impala]

Blimey I hadn't realised that they were that much! Looks as if the Consul has gone as only the van is on there, someone has a box for the Jaguar XK150 too. I am old enough to remember when you could buy a real Consul for a wunner, indeed back in the mid-70s a friend bought a 57 Consul Convertible for 15 quid plus two brand new wings for a tenner each. The car did need restoring but then was pretty solid. Alas he never got around to it, left it in a damp garage and when it was pulled out it fell in half.