Shite in Miniature II

[bunglebus]

57 minutes ago, sierraman said:

That garage looks fantastic, isn’t it a Corgi Batley garage?

It's about the same size as the Matchbox ones, I'm not familiar with the Corgis but they seem bigger with an up and over door?

[bunglebus]

Boot sale #1

[eddyramrod]

Nice haul!

[MiniMinorMk3]

15 hours ago, bunglebus said:

No maker's name on this garage, just a couple of wonky "Made in England" stamps on the base - any ideas?

 

It's a Master Range No.K59 Private Garage

Vectis Auctions | Master Range No.K58 'Dunlop' Tyre Rack - red

[MiniMinorMk3]

15 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Next up is a little bit of a rarity, some little tinker didn't appreciate the stripes and gave it a quick once-over in yellow Humbrol

 

 

Stripy the Magic Mini belonged to Candy Andy, who is one of Gerry Andersons lesser known creations.

Here's Candy Andy with his friends

 

[MiniMinorMk3]

Some more of the tat from my Wednesday win.

First up are a trio of Corgi comic book issues.

I've gained a few of these Supermobiles in both Juniors and Corgi sizes.

Very tidy US Van with good decals on both sides.

Bat Boat and trailer.

There's a bit of wear on the trailer.

There were a few bits of Huskey rubble...

and a well used Jag E-Type V12 from Majorette.

 

[MiniMinorMk3]

Regular wheels rubble included...

a well worn black wheel Morris J2 Pick Up,

a Rolls Phantom with no a-pillars. It does have a boot lid so I could put that with the one I cot on Tuesday without a lid.

Rough Studebaker.

The MG 1100 looks quite good in red...

but rear bumper has gone.

The Jag looks like it has been caught in a sand storm.

And we have an obligatory grit spreader, this time with bent chassis.

 

[MiniMinorMk3]

Finally the Superfasts from my Wednesday lot.

Knackered Binz

Luckily this repainted Orange camper had a white interior and not the rare orange interior.

Well worn Datsun 126X

And a played with Mini Ha Ha

Dayglo Pink Capri

The tow hook survives

Best of the bunch is the Cougar Villager.

It has the drop down plastic rear door.

There were two boat trailers, one with a missing wheel and one with a bent axle and a bent post.

A quick bit of levering with a small screw driver and some axle straightening...

and I have one good one.

 

[andrew e]

1 hour ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Stripy the Magic Mini belonged to Candy Andy, who is one of Gerry Andersons lesser known creations.

Here's Candy Andy with his friends

 

Unpopular opinion: Most of Andersons output was shite. I mean this is just terrifying  😳

 

 

[bunglebus]

Just back from boot sale too with some fantastic loose cars - and these two to sort out

[bunglebus]

27 minutes ago, andrew e said:

I was googling that last night, absolutely nothing about the original car from the series to be found

[eddyramrod]

Bloody hell Rich!  Can I come and have a weekend at yours?  I could do with some boot sales of that quality!

[bunglebus]

4 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

Bloody hell Rich!  Can I come and have a weekend at yours?  I could do with some boot sales of that quality!

It has been quite exceptional today, I could have bought twice the amount I actually did. Going to take me a while sorting them all

[AndyW201]

Right, so it was my birthday on Tuesday, but thanks to work and home stuff, I've just got the chance to get this out properly and have a look.

So, following on from the Corgi branded Screen Stars Professionals twin pack from a few weeks ago, comes the Professionalmania take on a Capri/Granada set.

Bit more sought after this one, as it's a fairly limited edition by today's standards and in this set, both cars are from the same series (4 in this case), unlike the Corgi one.

The box inner also acts as a diorama for display purposes, once the cars come out of the protective bubble,

They can be fixed to the inner with some Vanguards type fixings.

Starting with George Cowley's Granada 2.8i Ghia,

The Vanguards Mk2 Granny is always a nice thing to have. This one looks good in Midnight blue, sadly my phone and photographing skills dont really capture the colour very well here.

Being a Professionalmania commission, this Granada is a little bit better detailed than Corgi's. The wheels are done a bit better and the seats are in a two-tone finish,

Doyle's Capri 3.0S,

The Vanguards Mk3 Capri casting has been out for a while, but it still holds up well. I always hoped they'd do a version of OAR as I think it looks brilliant in Solar Gold.

The Carla check interior looks lovely in Autoshite-friendly brown.

Biggest improvement on the Professionalmania Capris S releases over the standard Vanguards ones, is the wheels, which Tony had tooled up by Corgi at his own expense, and really make the cars.

This does of course mean that OWC 827W, Bodie's silver Capri from this series is missing.

However, in the cabinet, I have the older Vanguards release  of UOO 303T, so after a quick dodgy plate change (which did happen to a lot of the real film cars I suppose...) 

Yeah, the plates aren't perfect, (my hand-eye co ordination isn't what it was now I'm over the half-century mark 🤣), and theres a slight problem with the Vanguards casting in that the tail lights are ever so slightly too wide meaning that the plate recess is slightly under scale. But they do the job. 

Series 4 cars -  level unlocked!

So, sliding uncontrollably down the CI5 slippery slope, I now have the Capri X pack from series1, (and the gold Capri Ghia in the pipeline), the RS2000, silver Capri and red Granada from series 2 & 3, the Capris and Granada from series 4 and the Capris from series 5. I suppose there are the early BL cars to go after but that would involve converting and painting  existing cars and with me, that would only lead to disaster.

All I need now is for Corgi to start doing the cars from The Sweeney in the Screen Stars range to be in real  trouble...

[ambassador84]

Guisval 2009 Seat Ibiza Cupra. Still a current release if you can still find them. The best place I've discovered is the Norauto chain which is where this freshly produced example came from.

[bunglebus]

Picked up a handful of boxed Matchbox today, all cheap £1-2 each, £3 for the Porsche 

[bunglebus]

Older Matchbox were everywhere today for some reason.

Accessory Pack petroleum pumps

Trollybus

Snow plough still with the plough

 Don't think I've unearthed this particular Muir Hill dumper before

Driver was on a fag break. Muir Hill must have been massive, everyone seems to have replicated their products, but it's not a name you hear now. 

DS and 100E were so nice I thought they were repaints at first

But they're nothing compared to these three, just chilling in a box of Yesteryears and £1 each

Not sure about the rider on this, sure he should be much more upright?

Mrs was giving me the side-eye when I picked up the Zoomy Baloonie. Mean Mutha indeed, do we think Lesney didn't know quite what that meant?

[bunglebus]

Majorettes next, I like these HiLux picks in non-4x4 guise

Tidy ambulance 

Lovely

Milky milky

What should be on this trailer?

Very tidy Sierra 

And I'm pretty sure this is the matching caravan 

Explorateur

A couple of people chilling in the back

Code 2 van

And one belonging to F*cko the clown

Coupla busses

And commercials

Interesting take on the wreck truck idea

[MiniMinorMk3]

4 hours ago, andrew e said:

Unpopular opinion: Most of Andersons output was shite. I mean this is just terrifying  😳

 

 

I have a Candy Andy and Friends book/annual somewhere. If it falls to hand in the next few days I stick some scans up.

[MiniMinorMk3]

1 hour ago, bunglebus said:

Not sure about the rider on this, sure he should be much more upright?

 

That rider is from a Britains BMW Sidecar Racing outfit.

[MiniMinorMk3]

Thought I'd dig out my spare Johnston Sweeper to fix up the one I got the other day with the yellow parts.

Variation one, silver grille and white grille.

Variation two, flat head and cross heads.

Variation three, white interior and cream interior.

Variation four, opening doors and non-opening doors.

Variation five, no it isn't a variation. The closed cab base has the pivot holes for the opening doors.

Oh well. I'll just change the screens then.

and wait for a door to show up later.

[ambassador84]

40 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Majorettes next, I like these HiLux picks in non-4x4 guise

Tidy ambulance 

Lovely

Milky milky

What should be on this trailer?

Very tidy Sierra 

And I'm pretty sure this is the matching caravan 

Explorateur

A couple of people chilling in the back

Code 2 van

And one belonging to F*cko the clown

Coupla busses

And commercials

Interesting take on the wreck truck idea

That's quite the spectacular haul.

[MiniMinorMk3]

Also made some improvements to the Dinky 147 Cadillac.

A careful bit of tweaking on the fins.

 

Followed by a scrub with an old toothbrush. I only use a soft paint brush for my initial cleaning.  Before

After. The tyres have come up quite well with the scrubbing. Also the shut lines and window edges look a lot better.

Before

After

[bunglebus]

A few odds ends and weirdos

Hong Kong copy of the Matchbox Mercedes trailer?

Tootsietoy Porsche

This certainly looks like a cribbed version of the Matchbox Ferrari, think it's the wheels

What's this supposed to be?

Yes folks, that's an MR2

This one's an Edocar, thought they were all MC Toys and Maisto castings

I'm sure someone can tell me who made this slightly mad Fuso fire tender

Galanite buggy was only a quid

I thought this was a corgi, but it's actually a Giodi

This was a pre-arranged pickup from the young lad who sells toy cars

I've been seeing these repro Mercury cars at toy fairs and boot sales for a few years, always just a bit more than I was willing to pay. Loads if them there today for £3.00 each so I grabbed the Beetle I wanted

Not many Hot Wheels about but I did get a Fire Eater with a casting defect

Plus a decent Hi-Raker

And some Zowees

Unusual horse box 

Turned out to be a Dinky Duplo 

[ambassador84]

7 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

A few odds ends and weirdos

Hong Kong copy of the Matchbox Mercedes trailer?

Tootsietoy Porsche

This certainly looks like a cribbed version of the Matchbox Ferrari, think it's the wheels

What's this supposed to be?

Yes folks, that's an MR2

This one's an Edocar, thought they were all MC Toys and Maisto castings

I'm sure someone can tell me who made this slightly mad Fuso fire tender

Galanite buggy was only a quid

I thought this was a corgi, but it's actually a Giodi

This was a pre-arranged pickup from the young lad who sells toy cars

I've been seeing these repro Mercury cars at toy fairs and bit sales for a few years, always just a bit more than I was willing to pay. Loads if them there today for £3.00 each so I grabbed the Beetle I wanted

Not many Hot Wheels about but I did get a Fire Eater with a casting defect

Plus a decent Hi-Raker

And some Zowees

Unusual horse box 

Turned out to be a Dinky Duplo 

Blue Mercedes trailer is by Yatming 

Silver Toyota MR2 by Gingell though usually described as Rhino Toys

Edocar Hino based ladder truck is a rebadged Yatming produced casting.

Fire Engine underneath was made by Summer.

[bunglebus]

K-7 transporter is actually in pretty good shape but was at the bottom of the box and absolutely filthy, had to risk a careful wash to get the dirt off. I reckon with a bit more TLC and a load cover this will be a decent example 

Transformer type space shuttle, unbranded again

Bought this at the first sale as it's mostly complete, even down to the mascot 

Same seller had a King size Foden, so a deal was agreed on the two. Not my thing really but too nice to leave behind 

Grabbed this Corgi (?) trailer thinking it was for the Bat Boat, but the wheels are too early I'd say

A couple of stray Matchbox I missed earlier. FX4 doesn't show up all that often compared to the Corgi one (and various others), but I'd say is the nicest thanks to the metal grill. Funny enough this is the second one this week, I only had the My First Matchbox version up to now. I'd suggest using this one as a base for a Wrecker!

Base has a bit of an oddity, what does that little oblong of interior plastic poke through the base for?

Grabbed this Rockets Escort for £2.00, happy days

Lots of differences compared to the Whizzwheels, front light bar/roo bar thing for a start

Another Rockets Cougar

Commercial vehicles aren't really my cup of tea, but I like Pepsi branded items

Iveco one is new to me too

One of three MK2 Transits in the box, at least this one has actual windows

Unusual Range Rover 

Land Rover

Green seems to be the most common Volvo colour

Orange Mercedes is unusual though

Sierra looks pretty good but the roof is tweaked a bit

Mercedes in a new to me livery

Haven't seen a Husky Olds Starfire in a while

Lastly, a Tomica coach

[quicksilver]

The horse trailer goes with the Dinky Dublo Land Rover. It looks very tall and thin and unsuitable for fat horses.

[eddyramrod]

I'm sure I had a Batboat from new on those wheels.  I may even still have the trailer somewhere.

[sheffcortinacentre]

8 hours ago, AndyW201 said:

Right, so it was my birthday on Tuesday, but thanks to work and home stuff, I've just got the chance to get this out properly and have a look.

So, following on from the Corgi branded Screen Stars Professionals twin pack from a few weeks ago, comes the Professionalmania take on a Capri/Granada set.

Bit more sought after this one, as it's a fairly limited edition by today's standards and in this set, both cars are from the same series (4 in this case), unlike the Corgi one.

The box inner also acts as a diorama for display purposes, once the cars come out of the protective bubble,

They can be fixed to the inner with some Vanguards type fixings.

Cowley's Mk2 Granada 2.8i Ghia,

The Vanguards Mk2 Granny is always a nice thing to have. This one looks good in Midnight blue, sadly my phone and photographing skills dont really capture the colour very well here.

Being a Professionalmania commission, this Granada is a little bit better detailed than Corgi's. The wheels are a little better detailed, and the seats are in two-tone.

Doyle's Capri 3.0S,

The Vanguards Mk3 Capri casting has been out for a while, but it still holds up well. I always hoped they'd do a version of OAR as I think it looks brilliant in Solar Gold.

The Carla check interior looks lovely in Autoshite-friendly brown.

Biggest improvement on the Professionalmania Capris S releases over the standard Vanguards ones, is the wheels, which Tony had tooled up by Corgi at his own expense, and really make the cars.

This does of course mean that OWC 827W, Bodie's silver Capri from this series is missing.

However, in the cabinet, I have the older Vanguards release  of UOO 303T, so after a quick dodgy plate change (which did happen to a lot of the real film cars I suppose...) 

Yeah, the plates aren't perfect, (my hand-eye co ordination isn't what it was now I'm over the half-century mark 🤣), and theres a slight problem with the Vanguards casting in that the tail lights are ever so slightly too wide meaning that the plate recess is slightly under scale. But they do the job. 

Series 4 car level - unlocked!

So, sliding uncontrollably down the CI5 slippery slope, I now have the Capri X pack from series1, (and the gold Capri Ghia in the pipeline), the RS2000, silver Capri and red Granada from series 2 & 3, the Capris and Granada from series 4 and the Capris from series 5. I suppose there are the early BL cars to go after but that would involve converting and painting  existing cars and that would only lead to disaster.

All I need now is for Corgi to start doing the cars from The Sweeney in the Screen Stars range to be in real trouble...

They have the correct casting for a Sweeney series ,so should be down to licensing.

They've already done the mk4 "S" from the Sweeney 2 film

[Split_Pin]

Super haul @bunglebus

The Hilux should have an orange generator trailer behind it, in case you ever find one . I have this and the 4x4 version. The 2wd version have the round lights of the earliest Hiluxes whereas the 4x4 had that detail removed to make it more up-to-date.