Shite in Miniature II

[Lord Sterling]

Was looking at Spot-Ons on eBay, they are seriously expensive for one in fair-condition. 

[danthecapriman]

2 hours ago, Lord Sterling said:

Was looking at Spot-Ons on eBay, they are seriously expensive for one in fair-condition. 

They certainly are. Generally they’re a chunk above Corgi and Dinky prices. Although they are often nicer models imho. There’s something about Spot-On’s that other brands don’t have. Somehow.

[Lord Sterling]

Just now, danthecapriman said:

They certainly are. Generally they’re a chunk above Corgi and Dinky prices. Although they are often nicer models imho. There’s something about Spot-On’s that other brands don’t have. Somehow.

I was thinking about getting myself one, particularly the MG 1100 but at the prices they command it'll be a long time, if ever I get one.

[danthecapriman]

4 minutes ago, Lord Sterling said:

I was thinking about getting myself one, particularly the MG 1100 but at the prices they command it'll be a long time, if ever I get one.

They are definitely worth getting if you see them at boot sales or wherever at non eBay prices. 
Even if the bumpers etc are broken, you can get reproduction replacement ones so it’s not the end of the world.

The 1100 is a great looking model too. I did have one but passed it on to @flat4alfa 

The ones still here (somewhere!) are:

Rover P5.  
Ford Zodiac.   
Ford Zephyr.  
Commer Walkthru.    
Austin Cambridge.  
Vauxhall Cresta PB.   

All lovely models!
 

 

[MiniMinorMk3]

20 minutes ago, Lord Sterling said:

I was thinking about getting myself one, particularly the MG 1100 but at the prices they command it'll be a long time, if ever I get one.

 

10 minutes ago, danthecapriman said:

They are definitely worth getting if you see them at boot sales or wherever at non eBay prices. 
 

After looking at Ebay prices I still can not believe that no one else bid on the ones I got yesterday. I was expecting to get out bid with my limit being £60.

[bunglebus]

I keep an eye on the Beetles when they pop up - one in complete, but playworn condition just sold for about £60.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/127079294267?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=LE5K8Lj6TCW&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=X5RtjeAxSP-&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Maybe if I win the Euromillions I'll buy this one

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/146545834511?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=q_vwve0sspw&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=X5RtjeAxSP-&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

[danthecapriman]

2 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

I keep an eye on the Beetles when they pop up - one in complete, but playworn condition just sold for about £60. Maybe if I win the Euromillions I'll buy this one

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/146545834511?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=q_vwve0sspw&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=X5RtjeAxSP-&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

F**k me!😄

The trucks and bus are always expensive too if you can find them. Closest I’ve ever come was a wheel-less trailer from the Thames Trader (I think).

6 minutes ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

 

After looking at Ebay prices I still can not believe that no one else bid on the ones I got yesterday. I was expecting to get out bid with my limit being £60.

You did well on those. I’m surprised nobody else didn’t outbid you too. They’re not in bad condition either.

[bunglebus]

Outside on the patio for pictures this evening, as the light in my photo booth has gone phut

Zylmex Lola and Monza GT

[MiniMinorMk3]

39 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

I keep an eye on the Beetles when they pop up - one in complete, but playworn condition just sold for about £60.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/127079294267?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=LE5K8Lj6TCW&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=X5RtjeAxSP-&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Maybe if I win the Euromillions I'll buy this one

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/146545834511?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=q_vwve0sspw&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=X5RtjeAxSP-&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Last three sold at Vectis

 

[Noel Tidybeard]

ooof! space 19999999 😍

[FakeConcern]

As Spot On have been mentioned and I was rather jealous seeing the bunch @MiniMinorMk3 got for a bargain price, I decided to asses my collection with a view to renovating a few of them.

First my childhood ones. I also had a Cresta PA and Armstrong Siddley Saphire but don't have them now and no idea what happened to them, also had an MG 1100 and an Anglia, both very bashed up and now with @flat4alfa

The Rolls was green and silver like one like @MiniMinorMk3 has just picked up. No idea what happened to the wheels of the TR3

I'm thinking I'll restore the Thames Trader and try to match the original blue as seen underneath

Here's the ones I've picked up

A couple of nice Fords, I really wanted one to paint, but these are too good

I bought the grey Cresta intending to paint it like the one I had as a kid which was orange, but it has a blue interior which is unusual and wouldn't look right. The pink one I bought on ebay thinking it was the colour of my childhood one. It isn't! I may paint the grey one yellow.

These are nice, but the Humber has a repro grill that looks too bright, I may try to dull it down by dry brushing it

Jags

The PB Cresta and the NSU look quite good and would be better with some minor work

I got this combo for Mrs Concern and have been meaning to paint a white stripe down the side of the Cambridge and tidy up the caravan, but not got around to it yet

Volvos

I was intending to restore the Amazon, but the rally look has grown on me so I'll probably just fit a grill and re paint the bonnet in matt black a bit better

My original 1800 was turned into a London Sidney Marathon replica by the young me so I had intended to paint the blue one I got from @danthecapriman red and keep the original one but replace the bonnet and glazing etc. However the blue one is too good and it'll stay as it is.

I'll look out for another one in red or bad enough to paint

These were all bought to replace lost childhood toys, the Armstrong Siddley will have the roof painted black, the others will be stripped and painted

[flat4alfa]

20 hours ago, bunglebus said:

There's been a spate of cheap Spot-On 1100s lately, I picked one up a few weeks ago for next to nothing 

Even I've got a couple of those Morrises...

It's the MG 1100 that is the scarce one

[Datsuncog]

Going full Vic Reeves with all this Spot-On action today.

Oosh.

[Split_Pin]

44 minutes ago, FakeConcern said:

As Spot On have been mentioned and I was rather jealous seeing the bunch @MiniMinorMk3 got for a bargain price, I decided to asses my collection with a view to renovating a few of them.

First my childhood ones. I also had a Cresta PA and Armstrong Siddley Saphire but don't have them now and no idea what happened to them, also had an MG 1100 and an Anglia, both very bashed up and now with @flat4alfa

The Rolls was green and silver like one like @MiniMinorMk3 has just picked up. No idea what happened to the wheels of the TR3

I'm thinking I'll restore the Thames Trader and try to match the original blue as seen underneath

Here's the ones I've picked up

A couple of nice Fords, I really wanted one to paint, but these are too good

I bought the grey Cresta intending to paint it like the one I had as a kid which was orange, but it has a blue interior which is unusual and wouldn't look right. The pink one I bought on ebay thinking it was the colour of my childhood one. It isn't! I may paint the grey one yellow.

These are nice, but the Humber has a repro grill that looks too bright, I may try to dull it down by dry brushing it

Jags

The PB Cresta and the NSU look quite good and would be better with some minor work

I got this combo for Mrs Concern and have been meaning to paint a white stripe down the side of the Cambridge and tidy up the caravan, but not got around to it yet

Volvos

I was intending to restore the Amazon, but the rally look has grown on me so I'll probably just fit a grill and re paint the bonnet in matt black a bit better

My original 1800 was turned into a London Sidney Marathon replica by the young me so I had intended to paint the blue one I got from @danthecapriman red and keep the original one but replace the bonnet and glazing etc. However the blue one is too good and it'll stay as it is.

I'll look out for another one in red or bad enough to paint

These were all bought to replace lost childhood toys, the Armstrong Siddley will have the roof painted black, the others will be stripped and painted

Fantastic collection. I've only the one Spot On, the blue Landcrab. Does yours have Mum and son going to school (or maybe Church, they're in their 'good' clothes)?

[flat4alfa]

10 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

It is one of those with lighting, but the battery holder is missing.

Unfortunately the GB sticker was lost during the clean, and the silver trim was compromised by the thinner

Great effort on resurrecting your one!  Look like it need a bit of work to the optic looking at the 'missing' N/S rear light, but you are in luck :

Quote 100L Ford Zodiac white plastic battery box with connectors (no bulb) £6.00 100L Ford Zodiac battery box clear bulb      £1.30 100L Ford Zodiac clear plastic light delivery bar (front to rear internal part)      Each  £1.60 100L Ford Zodiac Red plastic rear light unit    Each  £0.90 [http://model-supplies.co.uk/spot_on_parts_range.htm]

The battery holder repros are a bit flimsy but work ok and cheap.  The one back here had to have one fitted yet otherwise great condition, unlike its Corgi sister example available on the day this shot was taken 

Was going to get one for the Spot-on Rover P5 and make a good one of the two.  But both were also sold-on during last years long disastrous period of unemployability

[morrisoxide]

Loved playing with this Spot On Rover as a kid (and still do to be honest) because of the brilliant suspension.

This car is fitted with Flexomatic independent suspension I love that text on the base.

[FakeConcern]

39 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

Fantastic collection. I've only the one Spot On, the blue Landcrab. Does yours have Mum and son going to school (or maybe Church, they're in their 'good' clothes)?

No the people are missing from both 1800s and I don't remember the one I had from new ever having people, but there are holes in the seats showing they must have been there. I think I've said before that as a kid I always removed the people from my toy cars.

[FakeConcern]

7 minutes ago, morrisoxide said:

Loved playing with this Spot On Rover as a kid (and still do to be honest) because of the brilliant suspension.

This car is fitted with Flexomatic independent suspension I love that text on the base.

Nice Rover!

The suspension is a strange one on Spot on as I was always fascinated that some like the Landcrab had plastic springs moulded as part of the interior and some like the A40 Farina had tiny steel coil springs despite the leaf springs cast into the base!

[flat4alfa]

4 hours ago, danthecapriman said:

The 1100 is a great looking model too. I did have one but passed it on to @flat4alfa 

Starsky is very much still here!

[flat4alfa]

1 hour ago, FakeConcern said:

First my childhood ones.

had an MG 1100 and an Anglia, both very bashed up and now with @flat4alfa

I thought in my head that MG 1100 had been restored now, as I knew I got hold of an outrageous donor of a transverse engine to fit sticking out.... but no, here it is STILL in its finest...

[flat4alfa]

10 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Goggomobile has bent base but is saveable.

Had one of those things, *similar wear and tear - but white roof though...   all FriskySports were convertibles so not sure why they went for white variation...

Apparently 13 of the FriskySports are known to exist, 5 of those over the pond.  Chad and Barbara loved their LHD plaything

Spot-On Goggomobil equally as scarce a choice of thing to model 

[flat4alfa]

Spot-On Commer and Aston Martin DB3

 

[flat4alfa]

Tom liked his Spot-on Hillman and Midget

[FakeConcern]

7 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Spot-On Commer and Aston Martin DB3

 

Never had a DB3 or Commer, but that Anglia was mine!

 

7 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Tom liked his Spot-on Hillman and Midget

I don't have a Spridget either!

[bunglebus]

I must be one of the few people who doesn't get all the fuss. They're nice, but no different to some of the other castings around at the time.

That's not to say I don't like them, I have a few, including a trio of Beetles. This one needs help

The second is not in bad shape, all things considered 

The third is my favourite though, as somehow I've managed to keep hold of the blue one I'm pretty sure I bought at a jumble sale as a kid, despite almost all my other childhood cars being lost now

 

[flat4alfa]

Some are a bit off, like the gawky too-tall-for-its-length Mini Van.

Or the afforesaid Anglia and A40, that are nearer 1:40 than Spot-on at 1:42 as they said on the tin

[eddyramrod]

I suppose I should weigh in a few Spot-Ons, shouldn't I?  A40... but isn't that caravan a bit big for it?

Maybe it would sit better behind a Bentley?

Or a Humber Super Snipe?

Crabs by Spot-On and Dinky...

Just a handful from the archives!

I remember them new.  I remember receiving them for birthdays and Christmas.  They did seem a bit special compared to Corgi and Dinky, even though they never had any American cars in the range.  I had all the colours of mk3 Zephyr, none of which survive.  I had the Armstrong Siddeley and Rover P5 which went, respectively, to Marvin's Mom and Mercrocker formerly of this parish.  The Humber, A40 and several others I've restored were with me from new, so you can imagine the life they led.  I could have looked after my toys better... still, I'm making up for it now with the survivors.

 

[flat4alfa]

Dinky France 230SL (bought in France) alongside Spot-On 230SL hard top (bought in a weak moment while in a Cornish antique shop, the type with PRICE TAGS)

Picked up the New-Ray (the light red one) cheap, meaning to utilise the screen for the Franco Dinky, but it's a bit too nice on its own after all!

[flat4alfa]

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What's all this fuss about Sporrrrht-ons then?

A chipped but almost complete model of the 1961 Rolls-Royce Phantom V that our late Queen was ferried about in

Needs a boot lid, rear bumper corner, the Royal Crest, some tyres.  Spot-On just named it 'Royal Rolls Royce'. 

The real thing was known by 'Number One State Car', as per usual.  Saw it at Sandringham and it looked lush in its 'Bible Black over Royal Claret' paint

Replaced by the bomb-proof (literally) 1977 Phantom VI built for the Silver Jubilee, until the introduction of the two Bentley State Limousines for 2002 Golden Jubilee.  Saw Queenie and Phil in one when she travelled up to visit the Zoo nearby in 2017.  That looked proper lush.

[flat4alfa]

The *famous 'Spot-On-for-a-pound on a TAT Wednesday' Alpine now sports a full set of tyres and Tiny Tom has just found out he can reach the pedals after all.