Shite in Miniature II

59,996 · April 20

Juniors Carreras on parade. Think I have a couple of boxed ones elsewhere

5,243 · April 20

Whispers quietly - I’ve never enjoyed that casting 😬

59,996 · April 20

I don't like the lack of a door shut line - but it's a Porsche! How do you feel about Chevrolet (or just U.S.) vans?

59,996 · April 20

Not got quite so many of these Range Rovers

I had a look at the roofless James Bond version and although they're similar, it is a different casting

10,277 · April 20

Some recent finds,mainly from car boots

Burago StreetKa came from @FakeConcern,nice to have this to go with the blue Welly version I already have

Lintoy XJ6,sure I can find a bonnet easily enough 🤣

If not,one from an Impy Mk 10 should fit easily enough

I don't normally do buses,but I just liked this

Lamborghini Miura was another one from @FakeConcern

Rockets Capri was a nice upgrade over the one I've already got

Majorettes are what I came home with when I went looking for Mk2 Escorts

27,109 · April 20

3 minutes ago, 155V6 said:

Some recent finds,mainly from car boots

Burago StreetKa came from @FakeConcern,nice to have this to go with the blue Welly version I already have

Lintoy XJ6,sure I can find a bonnet easily enough 🤣

If not,one from an Impy Mk 10 should fit easily enough

I don't normally do buses,but I just liked this

Lamborghini Miura was another one from @FakeConcern

Rockets Capri was a nice upgrade over the one I've already got

Majorettes are what I came home with when I went looking for Mk2 Escorts

I’m trying to avoid the small scale ones now and stick to 1:43 but that Majorette Volvo 240 really is lovely.

59,996 · April 20

16 minutes ago, 155V6 said:

Blue Phantom RS2000 is a nice find - as is the red Volvo I didn't know they were doing

43,466 · April 20

23 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Today's weird buy is this no name Hong Kong plastic Sunbeam Rapier, because why not?

Excellent. Typically cracked and warped at this age

I dread to think how much that would cost elsewhere

No I'm not going to ask what your plans are for it, not while you are doing Charlton Heston impressions

25,875 · April 20

6 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Hong Kong plastic Sunbeam Rapier.

That's a fantastic find!

10,277 · April 20

2 hours ago, danthecapriman said:

I’m trying to avoid the small scale ones now and stick to 1:43 but that Majorette Volvo 240 really is lovely.

2 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Blue Phantom RS2000 is a nice find - as is the red Volvo I didn't know they were doing

Red Volvo is much nicer than the white with graphics version I found a while ago

20,829 · April 20

I stopped buying toy cars save for Christmas however it dawned on me that apart from a magazine and a few cans of beer a month I never buy myself anything.

I have developed a thing for old hot wheels - blackwall hot wheels were exotic when I was a child as it usually meant a trip out of Widnes to get them - thr shops in Widnes sold superfast / corgi juniors and majorette. Which was what I usually got.

Ford Torino - it's an 80's reissue as the original was metallic red - and expensive.

Yellow mirada stocker.

Gold mirada stocker.

Peugeot 505. In excellent shape.

Redline 230 SL. I only have a couple of redlines - RR silver shadow and plymouth barracuda - I really like them - even if the castings are a bit crude - but they are a bit too salty pricewise - even tatty ones are comparatively expensive compared to matchbox.

12,246 · April 20

I went a bit mad at the toy fair today having not bought anything for a while

Catalogues were £2 each and £26 for the cars

Not sure that was a good price, but both Dinky Princess and Ovlov are more or less mint and the Fiat is complete and not bad. I've never heard of the Eligor BMW which is plastic.

£6 for these, I've been wanting another Lotus 11 to paint, but they are usually about £5 even as bad as this one

The Matchbox speedboat has a complete outboard motor which none of Mrs Concern's current ones do.

I don't remember seeing a Spot On Consul Classic and didn't really want one, but only held out for a few moments before paying £13 for this one.

I need to compare it to a Corgi one

Monaco is for Eddy

My fave seller was there

Corgi Beach Buggy and early Solido Camaro were £3 each, Corgi Camaro, KS Charger, Dinky Escrote & Politoys Merc were £2 each with broken Norev plastic 4CV and Lone Star El Camino for free. After quite a long conversation with the seller where we both slagged off Spot Ons I bought the MGA & Floride for £4 each!

Beach buggy is very good and has the driver, which I've not seen before and Mrs Concern nabbed it obv.

Solido Camaro is also very nice with the early style wheels

MGA & Renna bother shite

However £4 each for Spot On-yes please!

Swedish mad next, I have bought a yellow 9-3 and an Inter Cars 900 Combi from this seller before

So I've been wanting an Inter Cars 144 for a while and another 9-3 which looks stunning in purple IRL and I always get C30s when I see them

Have I said I like opening bits@

I already have a King Size Cossie, but the body kit has gone yellow, not been brave enough to try bleaching it so picked this one up for £3 and the others £2 for the three, speed boat has a flag

Ford all complete but had to soak the price label off the windscreen

I'm not sure why I was attracted to the Vanguards Cavalier as it's far too model like, The Gama Astra has opening bits and is quite toyish and I love it. Dinky Vogue is very good apart from slight crack in screen. The Man From Uncle Olds just has spot lamps missing and I think I have some spare. Both Illya and Napoleon are present and go click as they should when the periscope is pressed. I paid £20 for the lot.

I love the Astra SRi!

I also bought a gold colour Oxford Firenza for £4, but cleverly left it there after a paid, hopefully the seller will remember when I next see him haha!

Lastly I saw a red plastic politoys Alfa Sprint like the white one I Roffled, I'd looked at it a few weeks ago and it was up for £15. I talked him down to £12

A bit dear as I paid £4 for the white one, although that had a broken bumper and this is mint

The lot

20,829 · April 20

1 hour ago, FakeConcern said:

I went a bit mad at the toy fair today having not bought anything for a while

Catalogues were £2 each and £26 for the cars

Not sure that was a good price, but both Dinky Princess and Ovlov are more or less mint and the Fiat is complete and not bad. I've never heard of the Eligor BMW which is plastic.

£6 for these, I've been wanting another Lotus 11 to paint, but they are usually about £5 even as bad as this one

The Matchbox speedboat has a complete outboard motor which none of Mrs Concern's current ones do.

I don't remember seeing a Spot On Consul Classic and didn't really want one, but only held out for a few moments before paying £13 for this one.

I need to compare it to a Corgi one

Monaco is for Eddy

My fave seller was there

Corgi Beach Buggy and early Solido Camaro were £3 each, Corgi Camaro, KS Charger, Dinky Escrote & Politoys Merc were £2 each with broken Norev plastic 4CV and Lone Star El Camino for free. After quite a long conversation with the seller where we both slagged off Spot Ons I bought the MGA & Floride for £4 each!

Beach buggy is very good and has the driver, which I've not seen before and Mrs Concern nabbed it obv.

Solido Camaro is also very nice with the early style wheels

MGA & Renna bother shite

However £4 each for Spot On-yes please!

Swedish mad next, I have bought a yellow 9-3 and an Inter Cars 900 Combi from this seller before

So I've been wanting an Inter Cars 144 for a while and another 9-3 which looks stunning in purple IRL and I always get C30s when I see them

Have I said I like opening bits@

I already have a King Size Cossie, but the body kit has gone yellow, not been brave enough to try bleaching it so picked this one up for £3 and the others £2 for the three, speed boat has a flag

Ford all complete but had to soak the price label off the windscreen

I'm not sure why I was attracted to the Vanguards Cavalier as it's far too model like, The Gama Astra has opening bits and is quite toyish and I love it. Dinky Vogue is very good apart from slight crack in screen. The Man From Uncle Olds just has spot lamps missing and I think I have some spare. Both Illya and Napoleon are present and go click as they should when the periscope is pressed. I paid £20 for the lot.

I love the Astra SRi!

I also bought a gold colour Oxford Firenza for £4, but cleverly left it there after a paid, hopefully the seller will remember when I next see him haha!

Lastly I saw a red plastic politoys Alfa Sprint like the white one I Roffled, I'd looked at it a few weeks ago and it was up for £15. I talked him down to £12

A bit dear as I paid £4 for the white one, although that had a broken bumper and this is mint

The lot

Many 70's bath nights were spent with that matchbox chrysler speedboat.

5,491 · April 21

13 hours ago, eddyramrod said:

@AndyW201 If you've got any old ballpoint pens lurking about, try cutting a chunk off the inner section, that should be ideal for a big-bore at 1/43 scale!

Hmm, maybe a wee bit over scale, but then again, some people are partial to a big pipe...

At least there's something there now.

With the recent additions, Escrap was looking a bit bare at the front, so another root around the spares box found a pair of spotlights with Ford logo'd covers that had long ago been part of a four-light bar from a Mk2 Cortina-Lotus. They give a bit of balance to the front now.

So, I think I can call this one finished now. (Completely finished some might say...). It's been a fun little easy project that at one point was looking at being binned before being boy raced.

A bit like most Mk1 Escorts 30 years ago...

59,996 · April 21

9 hours ago, FakeConcern said:

I'd like a Dinky Vouge, about as close as I'll get to a Super Minx like my mum's

33,758 · April 21

Smashing weekend work all round chaps (I'll include myself this time!)

5,971 · April 21

9 hours ago, AndyW201 said:

Hmm, maybe a wee bit over scale, but then again, some people are partial to a big pipe...

At least there's something there now.

With the recent additions, Escrap was looking a bit bare at the front, so another root around the spares box found a pair of spotlights with Ford logo'd covers that had long ago been part of a four-light bar from a Mk2 Cortina-Lotus. They give a bit of balance to the front now.

So, I think I can call this one finished now. (Completely finished some might say...). It's been a fun little easy project that at one point was looking at being binned before being boy raced.

A bit like most Mk1 Escorts 30 years ago...

That Escort looks great.

5,971 · April 21

12 hours ago, FakeConcern said:

I went a bit mad at the toy fair today having not bought anything for a while

Catalogues were £2 each and £26 for the cars

Not sure that was a good price, but both Dinky Princess and Ovlov are more or less mint and the Fiat is complete and not bad. I've never heard of the Eligor BMW which is plastic.

£6 for these, I've been wanting another Lotus 11 to paint, but they are usually about £5 even as bad as this one

The Matchbox speedboat has a complete outboard motor which none of Mrs Concern's current ones do.

I don't remember seeing a Spot On Consul Classic and didn't really want one, but only held out for a few moments before paying £13 for this one.

I need to compare it to a Corgi one

Monaco is for Eddy

My fave seller was there

Corgi Beach Buggy and early Solido Camaro were £3 each, Corgi Camaro, KS Charger, Dinky Escrote & Politoys Merc were £2 each with broken Norev plastic 4CV and Lone Star El Camino for free. After quite a long conversation with the seller where we both slagged off Spot Ons I bought the MGA & Floride for £4 each!

Beach buggy is very good and has the driver, which I've not seen before and Mrs Concern nabbed it obv.

Solido Camaro is also very nice with the early style wheels

MGA & Renna bother shite

However £4 each for Spot On-yes please!

Swedish mad next, I have bought a yellow 9-3 and an Inter Cars 900 Combi from this seller before

So I've been wanting an Inter Cars 144 for a while and another 9-3 which looks stunning in purple IRL and I always get C30s when I see them

Have I said I like opening bits@

I already have a King Size Cossie, but the body kit has gone yellow, not been brave enough to try bleaching it so picked this one up for £3 and the others £2 for the three, speed boat has a flag

Ford all complete but had to soak the price label off the windscreen

I'm not sure why I was attracted to the Vanguards Cavalier as it's far too model like, The Gama Astra has opening bits and is quite toyish and I love it. Dinky Vogue is very good apart from slight crack in screen. The Man From Uncle Olds just has spot lamps missing and I think I have some spare. Both Illya and Napoleon are present and go click as they should when the periscope is pressed. I paid £20 for the lot.

I love the Astra SRi!

I also bought a gold colour Oxford Firenza for £4, but cleverly left it there after a paid, hopefully the seller will remember when I next see him haha!

Lastly I saw a red plastic politoys Alfa Sprint like the white one I Roffled, I'd looked at it a few weeks ago and it was up for £15. I talked him down to £12

A bit dear as I paid £4 for the white one, although that had a broken bumper and this is mint

The lot

I would be interested in the Cossie if you get bored of it 👍🏻

5,971 · April 21

My neighbour gave me this yesterday… not my thing so likely to go in a job lot on eBay or a roffle job lot.

59,996 · April 21

Decided to try Dunton boot sale today, and it was just as big, and useless as ever. At least 50% market stalls, bought nothing except a pile of 70s car mags. As we had time we tried the park and ride boot sale, which was half empty. Bought nothing.

Went home and dug out more Juniors, Mercedes 240D this time

59,996 · April 21

Good ol' Rover SD1 next, and again every one is different, even the police cars

59,996 · April 21

On 20/04/2025 at 02:42, flat4alfa said:

Looking at it, the front wheels have steerable mechanism. But the ‘pin’ does not move the steering. So is it a latch to lock the steering into one position? So you could set it to run about in circles - no need for guide track like a Motorific etc

You were absolutely spot on about the steering on the Commer, it locks it in position when the arm is up

59,996 · April 21

Sierras. Some very odd colour combos available on these, yellow with a red interior and brown base especially

59,996 · April 21

Ford's FWD family hatch for the 80s next, the metal base ones have a pleasing heft to them

59,996 · April 21

ovloV's next, and thankfully Corgi chose the much more interesting estate to model. Plenty of grille, interior, glass and paint options to chose from as well as different wheel types

59,996 · April 21

Last one for now, Citroens in the form of two different 2CVs and the Dyane. Purple one is my absolute favourite

45,044 · April 21

15 hours ago, FakeConcern said:

I've never heard of the Eligor BMW which is plastic.

A lot of the Eligor models from the 1980s are old Norev castings that have been modified. The original Norev had opening doors.

Norev Jaguar MkI

Eligor plastic bodied Jag Mk1

Norev Morris Mini

Eligor versions

15 hours ago, FakeConcern said:

The lot

Nice haul by the way, especially the Politoys Alfa

33,758 · April 21

For some reason I assumed there were about 20 or 30 different exterior colour issues on the Juniors Escorts and Sierras. I don't know why I thought that though. I can now also see there were only about 3 issued in actual factory paint shades. I'm fairly sure there were a few more like that in the larger scale, especially early promotional items.

Anyway, I love Matchbox but I think I'm a Corgi man at the end of the day, as far as that era is concerned 😅