Shite in Miniature II

[junkyarddog]

That is epic!!

One of my favorite Matchbox cars ever!!!

[andy18s]

1 hour ago, flat4alfa said:

Nice Hillman Avenger Hatchback they were

Back when they were young(ish) one fella nearby had two on the drive - Lotus-engined ones, that is. The two-tone blue one made some impression on me as a younger lad.

Avon Sunbeam Lotus, loved mine. 

[andy18s]

1 hour ago, AndyW201 said:

While all of the likely lads were skidding around our area in Mk1 and Mk2 Escorts circa 1991/92, there was one guy on our estate with a Sunbeam done in the same white/wide blue stripe as the works rally car, as below. With a 1600 Ti motor (twin 40s as standard), it was more than a match for the Escorts.

 

[Zie]

Been a good week for hotwheels hunting. 

Morrisons provided this lot. 

Smyths netted me these. 

Lone one from Aldi. 

This lot from Homebargins.

Not what I'd normally go for but, dont find treasure hunts and quite like these.

The 8 ball car answered it's own question. 

I don't have a problem these for decorating my workshop that's nowhere near finished. 😆

[AndyW201]

Great haul! That BMW 6 series is one that's eluding me at the moment...

[bunglebus]

One of the friendly Entertainer staff let me go through four or five boxes in Tesco earlier - someone had taken the BMWs out of every one, even leaving the Ferraris behind!

[bunglebus]

Got a couple of bits in the post today, spotted a redline Torero in a job lot, turned out not to be very good with a missing wheel unfortunately 

Not to worry though, I also scored this charming little Siku 1200 Beetle due to it having a poor description. Not found one of these before

[andrew e]

How old is the beetle? It’s just made in Germany not West Germany? It’s a little cracker BTW.

[Datsuncog]

Some Entertainer finds from mid-week:

I hadn't realised until now that Mattel have two completely different Challenger castings in their current lineup, with different pack artwork too -

The purple one's marked as a 1970, while the orange one's a 1971 model.

There wasn't a massive amount of difference between these two model years, mainly just changes to the grille, lights and side vents, but the miniature versions are quite different in their construction:

Orange one has the bumpers as part of the base moulding, with the grille and front and rear lights made from the black interior moulding.

The purple one is just a single metal casting encompassing everything on the body except the hood scoop.

Same construction to the rear, while the orange version wears a bigger rear spoiler too.

The base indicates that the orange '71 Challenger is copyrighted to 2024, while the purple '70 is given as a 2006 casting revised in 2017.

Odd that two very, very similar subjects have been separately modelled, and that they're both available in the 2025 lineup!

I'm sure there's a reason behind it somewhere...

Also spotted this POS signage in The Entertainer:

I mean, it's not unusual for toymakers to target adults with their adverts to get them to buy toys for their kids, but I think it's less common to see promotional materials the other way round. Indicative of the rise of the kidult sector as a key driver for toy shop sales?

Maybe quite telling that the models they've chosen to fill out the separate display are all those peg-warmer premiums from ages ago that collectors clearly don't want. Offloading them as Father's Day gifts might be one way to do it, but I reckon they'd be better off doing what Smyth's do and drop the prices to £3 - might get some takers then (even if just as wheel donors).

[Tenmil Socket]

21 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Last lot from my auction delivery was the lot of 27 Norev blister packs. 

Here's the first batch of nine.

All the cards are the same, with the same bar code and...

the same reference number.

Some have Centre Leclerc price labels. I think the exchange was around 10-11 French Francs to the Pound, so these cost around £1.

Although not printed on the card, these are Norev Jet Car models in 1/43rd scale.

Paris Fire Brigade Renault 4 Fourgone which looks overloaded...

has a Saône-et-Loire number plate.

Haribo R4 Van

Polizei Golf Mk1.

Rhône number plate.

Talbot Horizon.

Talbot in Tic-Tac livery. I've not had a box of Tic-Tacs in years. I liked the orange ones.

305 Police car.

From the Rhône Departement

Porsche 924.

Mk3 Escort.

Has overiders front...

and back with XR3 style rear spoiler.

Another on in green...

that has suffered some box rub to the roof.

There's that spoiler again.

 

I made an attempt to get one of these out of its bubble. I tried lighter fluid and enamel thinners but the bubble would not lift without lifting the printed surface off the card. So they will remain trapped for now.

I'll post up the rest of these Norevs later.

1 x Escort please if available?

[flat4alfa]

I am in Arundel again in THAT shop and was enjoying looking at this sort of thing

[bunglebus]

Boot sale haul

A couple of very nice wins in there

 

[Zie]

Oops, still no F1 Espace. 

[Split_Pin]

BMW Silver Series in The Entertainer.

I'm happy to find an E39 as its one of the few 90s /00s BMW models I don't have.

[MAF260]

Random model shop in Malta. Judging by the dust some of these models have been here for a while!

[Split_Pin]

Most of those look like white metal hand built models, the Somervilles definitely are. Probably the equivalent of £80- £100, hence dust.

[MiniMinorMk3]

Yes lot of British made white metal from Brooklin, Lansdowne and Somerville. They can be found at auction quite often, and prices are a lot less than asked by retailers. I have bought and sold hundreds of the years.

Somervilles are no longer produced, but they did make some great Volvo and Saabs along with a lot of old British cars.

Brooklins and Lansdownes are still being produced, they are part of the same group. The Brooklin models are all American cars and the Lansdownes are all British. They retail for well over £100 now. The next Lansdowne release is something that has not been modelled for a long time, the Austin Montego. It will be available in both saloon and estate versions. However you need deep pockets as the pre-order price is £134.

1984 Austin Montego Estate 1.6L - Champagne Beige – Brooklin Models

1984 Austin Montego Saloon 1.6L - Clove Brown – Brooklin Models

[junkyarddog]

Picked this up recently. 

I haven't the heart to open it though.

Dated 1999.

 

[Split_Pin]

I can't see why someone would pay £134 for a Montego saloon when you can get a partwork model for a fraction of the price and it still looks great. 

I've had 1 Lansdowne model, a Rover P5 and I found it pretty charmless. I sold it on about ten years ago.

Obviously people do buy them though, I'd be interested to understand the attraction.

[bunglebus]

Some new arrivals, mostly from the boot sale but a few from eBay too - such as this Hot Wheels Step On It Race & Crash Set

Inside;

If you didn't know, you wouldn't guess these were made by Mattel, it may not be clear from the pictures but these are quite large scale cars

Here's how they work, just brute force really. Don't think this has seen much action since the early 70s when it was made

Next up, two Tonka Polistils I picked up at the boot sale as I thought one of you might want them. 2CV has had a weeny bit of customising but both are complete and undamaged otherwise

Any guesses how much I paid? I'll give you a clue, they were each the same price as this 1998 Matchbox 5 pack

I don't think this has been opened, but the side flap was flapping so I took them out for a closer look, cutting the original sellotape holding the plastic halves of the bit the cars sit in  (sacrilege)

DTM Calibra is not a casting I've found before

Astra is a great find, never seen this version. Most of the pack have a very "Graffic Traffic" feel about them, especially this one with its white Made in China base

Talking of bases, some have this odd text on them

[Split_Pin]

Yes please on the Deux! @sierraman sent me an identical Aston a few years ago.

 

[bunglebus]

Oops, missed a boxed one - very fragile feeling plastic EKO GMC

[bunglebus]

2 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

Yes please on the Deux! @sierraman sent me an identical Aston a few years ago.

 

You don't know how much it cost yet, might have been £50!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But it was a fiver 

[MiniMinorMk3]

2 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

Obviously people do buy them though, I'd be interested to understand the attraction.

They are handmade models for collectors', and are made in limited numbers. However, a lot of Brooklins and Lansdownes do not have a stated limited, hence why on the auction market they can be found a lot cheaper than new. A lot of the early Brooklins and Lansdownes can be had for around £20-£30, but some, like the MkIV Cortina are worth a bit more.

I think the appeal is in that it is hand made and a lot of what they model is not made by other manufacturers. If you collect a certain marque, then you will probably go for some of the hand made items to fill the gaps. Others might just like to collect models from one maker, so no matter what Lansdowne produce that type of collector will buy them.

I'm a Mini collector so I have a couple of examples of the only Mini they have ever made, the Mini Van with Lansdowne script on the side. It's crude and looks crap, even when compared to an early Lledo Vanguards, but it's a 1/43rd Mini.

The Rover you had was probably LDM 5, the fifth model ever made by Lansdowne. Being an early model is was quite basic with cast in wipers. The shape is quite good if a little chunky, but the whole thing is metal, even the lights. The only part that is not metal is the window vac-form.

LDM 15 P5 Rover with separate wipers.

When did you last see a Ford Squire modelled?

What about a Jowett Javelin?

Bedford Dormobile

Wolseley 1500

Vauxhall Ventora.

Bristol 411

Aston Martin DB2-4

[delux]

For the past while I've been trying to think of a hobby.

Technically, messing about with cars has been my hobby since I was young. I've raced, restored, driven and broken them. I fully intend to carry on as long as I can.

During the week I am a mechanic in car dealerships. All though I am usually very modest, I think I am the best mechanic I know! 😆😆😆

But sometimes the lines between my job and my hobby become blurred! Lunchtimes spent freeing off and cleaning parts for the weekend, shuffling about in the garage until late and at weekends.

I'm worried one day I may reach breaking point and resort to taking up some sort of physical excercise or sport! What if I end up with a pedalbike? Or golf clubs? I dont want to be that guy!

Then I remembered my Covid project! Unlike all those lucky gits that were signed off long enough to tile the bathroom/fix the garden/become alcoholic/complete pornhub/start a family/get divorced I was only furloughed for 3 weeks!

Long enough to make a model of what I would probably have been working on had I been at work...

Recently when raking about in my garage I found the model kit I had started before going back to work. Surprisingly I hadnt lost any bits so I stuck it together and added it to my luxury display case...

...Issuing a 'do not dust' order to Mrs. Delux, its still too soon to joke about the Pajeros missing mirror!

Anyway, to test whether this is a suitable hobby before spending any more I decided to build one more model.

If it turns out shite or frustrates me as much as the Impreza ('kin roof bars! Glue them on them paint them, not the other way round like I did!) then I'll carry on.

So today I go stuck into 'Fish paradise'!

Might turn out ok. Might sit for 5 years. Might join a gym!

[eddyramrod]

I don't know... boot sales on a Saturday, with diecasts even!  What kind of decadent Utopia do you soft southerners live in?

[bunglebus]

A few Tonkas came home with me,  I believe this one is a Mitsubishi Galant

I'm certain these are Corvettes, I've been eyeing up similar ones at the toy fair for months

A question while I waffle about my other finds: what do you suppose this is meant to be, and who made it?

I didn't actually mean to buy this Corgi Cub, just put it aside and send a pic in the WhatsApp group to see if anyone fancied it as it has windows(!). It was in my bag when I got home so I guess I bought it

I bought these two Corgis along with some others I'll come back to shortly, I think it was a steal

Complete Jumbo Crane

These two caravans came in with the deal I mentioned earlier, yellow...

...and cream. Both in fabulous condition 

However something's odd when you look at both with the roofs off

Yep, the cream one is an error with the interior in facing the wrong way, so it partially covers one of the windows

Talking of caravans, has @FakeConcern got a blue door Superfast?

There was something lurking inside

Which I've retrieved 

Green Jeep

50p Sun Burner wasn't getting left behind 

I like Pepsi stuff, so I picked up this tidy Ford Aeromax

These were given to me FOC, they at least show the 12/13 louvre variation clearly

No pineapples on the roof of this Corgi Beetle

This was an eBay find, one of the last of the line Lone Star samba, cost cutting in full effect with cast shut corner windows, engine lid and rear hatch, and headlights where diamontes once lived

At least the side doors open

One of the HW Matchbox Lamborghini copies

Siku whores trailer is interesting with various opening bits, and even an adjustable jockey wheel - one of the road wheels is broken unfortunately 

Hot Hot Wheels 

Corgi Merc with a decent stab at roof rails, don't think I've seen that detail before

Majorette Bernard bin lorry feels like clumsy French children could have snapped the back off in an instant, but somehow it has survived 

I picked this Corgi train carriage thing up as I somehow ended up with the locomotive recently too

It does at least have a sliding door. Both Matchbox and Corgi tried making train stuff, didn't work out for either company it seems

X1/9

Blaupunkt Carrera is a new livery for me

The Mrs picked up this Aston 

SD1 with orange interior 

These are the last of the bundle I bought, and are all in exceptional condition 

These last few are definitely today's best buys though, Derek Fiske roundy racer complete with trailer...

...which goes behind this

Those were sold as the Rockets Super Stock Set 2, and the purple seems to be the most unusual of the colours the Capri came in

I gave the guy £15 for the big Consul and Zephyr, the older Matchbox caravans, the Transit, Skip Lorry, Capri, stock car and trailer, and ran away laughing

[danthecapriman]

14 minutes ago, delux said:

For the past while I've been trying to think of a hobby.

Technically, messing about with cars has been my hobby since I was young. I've raced, restored, driven and broken them. I fully intend to carry on as long as I can.

During the week I am a mechanic in car dealerships. All though I am usually very modest, I think I am the best mechanic I know! 😆😆😆

But sometimes the lines between my job and my hobby become blurred! Lunchtimes spent freeing off and cleaning parts for the weekend, shuffling about in the garage until late and at weekends.

I'm worried one day I may reach breaking point and resort to taking up some sort of physical excercise or sport! What if I end up with a pedalbike? Or golf clubs? I dont want to be that guy!

Then I remembered my Covid project! Unlike all those lucky gits that were signed off long enough to tile the bathroom/fix the garden/become alcoholic/complete pornhub/start a family/get divorced I was only furloughed for 3 weeks!

Long enough to make a model of what I would probably have been working on had I been at work...

Recently when raking about in my garage I found the model kit I had started before going back to work. Surprisingly I hadnt lost any bits so I stuck it together and added it to my luxury display case...

...Issuing a 'do not dust' order to Mrs. Delux, its still too soon to joke about the Pajeros missing mirror!

Anyway, to test whether this is a suitable hobby before spending any more I decided to build one more model.

If it turns out shite or frustrates me as much as the Impreza ('kin roof bars! Glue them on them paint them, not the other way round like I did!) then I'll carry on.

So today I go stuck into 'Fish paradise'!

Might turn out ok. Might sit for 5 years. Might join a gym!

Dude…nothing is ever bad enough that you need to start exercising or playing fucking golf!😆 

Youve chosen a great hobby there, and the models are looking great. Carry on👍

[bunglebus]

21 minutes ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Vauxhall Ventora.

My friend will be pleased to learn this!

 

[danthecapriman]

21 minutes ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

They are handmade models for collectors', and are made in limited numbers. However, a lot of Brooklins and Lansdownes do not have a stated limited, hence why on the auction market they can be found a lot cheaper than new. A lot of the early Brooklins and Lansdownes can be had for around £20-£30, but some, like the MkIV Cortina are worth a bit more.

I think the appeal is in that it is hand made and a lot of what they model is not made by other manufacturers. If you collect a certain marque, then you will probably go for some of the hand made items to fill the gaps. Others might just like to collect models from one maker, so no matter what Lansdowne produce that type of collector will buy them.

I'm a Mini collector so I have a couple of examples of the only Mini they have ever made, the Mini Van with Lansdowne script on the side. It's crude and looks crap, even when compared to an early Lledo Vanguards, but it's a 1/43rd Mini.

The Rover you had was probably LDM 5, the fifth model ever made by Lansdowne. Being an early model is was quite basic with cast in wipers. The shape is quite good if a little chunky, but the whole thing is metal, even the lights. The only part that is not metal is the window vac-form.

LDM 15 P5 Rover with separate wipers.

When did you last see a Ford Squire modelled?

What about a Jowett Javelin?

Bedford Dormobile

Wolseley 1500

Vauxhall Ventora.

Bristol 411

Aston Martin DB2-4

Some of those look fantastic. 
Mustard mit, I’m not one for collecting those but even so, to fill in a gap I’d probably buy one if the price was right (looking right at that Ventora there!).

Is it Lansdowne that do a PC Cresta?