Shite in Miniature II

[morrisoxide]

3 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Have you seen this. Probably be silly money judging by the price of their Land Rovers. I want a red one with white wheels.

Twisted, Custom Land Rover Defender and Suzuki Jimny - UK

Twisted are limbering up to do custom new Jimnys too. Think they are waiting for the 4 doors to land in the UK. I do the odd bit for them where I work.

EDIT

I took a toy  scale model to work day and modified it a tad. It's the HW new Model A on some Jimny dial faces to keep it topical.

 

[FakeConcern]

25 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Saw these in Dunelm today, very tempting!

I have used all three Colour Shifts on Corgi Stingray C3 customs and I was very impressed with the results, you need the black primer/undercoat on first.

Cosmic Blue on the Whizzwheels version.

Purple Eclipse

Galaxy Green on the Convertible.  Annoyingly I took all three out of the display case in one go, dropped this one and  chipped the hood/bonnet, touched it in with a Sharpie! I'll have to see what it looks like in daylight.

[bunglebus]

I've done colourshift paint before but took the hard route of thinning nail polish and airbrushing it. Almost impossible to capture the effect, cameras seem to see the black undercoat while our eyes see the iridescent colours

 

[danthecapriman]

3 hours ago, andrew e said:

And now for something completely different! 

Backstory to the paint is these are both my trucks, the orange Arcos is a functional tipper and 6x6 wheel driven, and as good as finished, the Volvo FH12 was a single axle kit thats now twin front steer, four axle on airbags. It’s a work in progress, and I slowly funnel some cash its way every payday (Don’t tell the Merc!).

It drove itself up there happily, though its unloaded in that picture. Below thats 10kg (half a bag of cement) on the weighbridge! 



Like I mentioned, Volvo work in progress so mechanically all done, it has a single speed gearbox as the twin steer gets in the way of the 3 speed gearbox these normally have. The body is next, it had a quick blow over, but really needs a roof chop/ channel when I get brave.

It’s a cut and shut Bruder trailer body, balanced on a box of siku, the tail ramps are now alloy and fully functional raise and lower - somebody far more talented (Piggy Taylor) machined them!  Spot the fake quad airbags, which do have springs inside them and do compress. Alloy wheels too. I know it’s not real world Lorryist, but what the hell!

 

 

 

Those are absolutely incredible! I’ve seen similar things on YouTube, usually in Germany, where they set up huge ‘sand boxes’ like that and just spend hours digging, loading and dumping all the materials. They do it for r/c military vehicles too.

What scale are they?

[Lord Sterling]

I recently procured a Matchbox SuperKings Range Rover. Received today:

(Note* the tailgate does close properly, I just didn't push it all the way)

It's a nice model, not bad in terms of proportions. I like the wheels.

But the lack of detail has always annoyed me somewhat. 

Firstly, the model got a wash, t-cut and polish. I don't usually go this far with models, but this one really needed it, the bonnet and roof looked like they'd not seen even a wipe over to remove settled dust, ever. The paint on those areas was quite matted. It's a bit shinier and looks a bit cleaner. Next was detailing, a black sharpie to sort out that floating roof Range Rovers of that era often came with. The rear lights look like they've have a dab of red paint so I left them as they're OK.

The wheels has its inserts blackened but this was a tad crudely done. My fine marker didn't want to play ball so I had to use something a bit thicker, then go over the edging bits with a Molotow chrome pen.

It's not a bad effort from a distance. It'll do until I decide to tidy up the efforts once I get some better pens.

On this model, I liked the mudflaps detailing:

It's a nice little touch and good to them all still intact.

Who does the Range Rover better then?

Corgi, Matchbox or Majorette?

My vote goes to the Corgi. It's the best proportioned Range Rover there, it's chunky and the earlier versions, like mine here, do have the floating roof detailing etc... the Majorette is by far the worst. It barely looks like a Range Rover and despite my detailing efforts, it just never looks any better.

The Majorette one (with the red interior) thus, is for sale. Chuck me a derisory offer with £3.50 postage and it's yours.

[andrew e]

8 hours ago, danthecapriman said:

Those are absolutely incredible! I’ve seen similar things on YouTube, usually in Germany, where they set up huge ‘sand boxes’ like that and just spend hours digging, loading and dumping all the materials. They do it for r/c military vehicles too.

What scale are they?

1/14 Dan, about 180/200 mm wide, lengths variable obviously 👍

[bunglebus]

7 hours ago, Lord Sterling said:

Who does the Range Rover better then?

Corgi, Matchbox or Majorette?

I think the Dinky is rather good too, although it represents a much earlier version

Your Matchbox looks like some sort of code two promotional versions, quite unusual. Those King Size ones don't seem to stand up to play very well, most of mine are a bit tatty

 

[Spottedlaurel]

Unexpected item in bagging area:

Surprising but good to find the BMW in our small local Tesco.

Off to a nearby toy fair this morning. New venue, apparently sharing/merged with an antiques/collectibles fair - not predicting great things, let's see.....

[sierraman]

Matchbox for whatever reason couldn’t call the Police Patrol a Range Rover, even though it obviously was, then they brought out the King Size Range Rover in the late 70’s. Perhaps at the 11th hour they couldn’t get the licence agreed so had to drop the RR name? But then got it resolved later?

[Tenmil Socket]

14 hours ago, andrew e said:

And now for something completely different! 

Backstory to the paint is these are both my trucks, the orange Arcos is a functional tipper and 6x6 wheel driven, and as good as finished, the Volvo FH12 was a single axle kit thats now twin front steer, four axle on airbags. It’s a work in progress, and I slowly funnel some cash its way every payday (Don’t tell the Merc!).

It drove itself up there happily, though its unloaded in that picture. Below thats 10kg (half a bag of cement) on the weighbridge! 



Like I mentioned, Volvo work in progress so mechanically all done, it has a single speed gearbox as the twin steer gets in the way of the 3 speed gearbox these normally have. The body is next, it had a quick blow over, but really needs a roof chop/ channel when I get brave.

It’s a cut and shut Bruder trailer body, balanced on a box of siku, the tail ramps are now alloy and fully functional raise and lower - somebody far more talented (Piggy Taylor) machined them!  Spot the fake quad airbags, which do have springs inside them and do compress. Alloy wheels too. I know it’s not real world Lorryist, but what the hell!

 

 

 

That looks tremendous fun! 

[danthecapriman]

Nice work on that Matchbox Range Rover @Lord Sterling the extra details really improve it.

If anyone fancies one I’ve got this one here available for not much? 
Top half of the tailgate is missing though. Smart and Corgi Renault 5 are available too…

 

[mk2_craig]

Charity shoppin. 

Bburago Camargue for 8 quid and some others including a Maisto XJ220. 

This particular store has become a bit salty of late, I left them on the shelf

[Aston Martin]

Uno

 

[quicksilver]

16 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Saw these in Dunelm today, very tempting!

I did these Rover 75s in Tamiya PS colour-shift paints. Those Rustoleum ones look like an interesting alternative in different colours and the cosmic blue seems similar to an MGR Monogram paint.

 

[Split_Pin]

35 minutes ago, quicksilver said:

I did these Rover 75s in Tamiya PS colour-shift paints. Those Rustoleum ones look like an interesting alternative in different colours and the cosmic blue seems similar to an MGR Monogram paint.

 

Great idea!

[danthecapriman]

Coming to you LIVE from Madison Square Gardens Coleford Dans Shed!

Started dirtying up the Kraz today.

A mixture of Ammo Mig weathering mud/dirt paints, dirty washes & weathering powders. 
Designed really for military models but works equally well here on site equipment. The aim of the game really is to create a muddy manky mess! Spatter it all over anywhere that’s likely to get muddy. The powders are dry brushed on while the base paint is still tacky so it adds texture to the paint but also sticks. 
Once it’s all dry I’ll use a stiffer brush to dry brush over it all to blend it together and knock off all the excess. 
Added the painted on vehicle number too. Tried to make it look hand done, which of course it is!

Ill use some thinner mud paint to do the tyre treads later too.

 

[junkyarddog]

How wonderfully humdrum is this!!

Matchbox Opel Astra.

You like it Smoll Eddy??

"ZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzM8"

[danthecapriman]

1 hour ago, danthecapriman said:

Coming to you LIVE from Madison Square Gardens Coleford Dans Shed!

Started dirtying up the Kraz today.

A mixture of Ammo Mig weathering mud/dirt paints, dirty washes & weathering powders. 
Designed really for military models but works equally well here on site equipment. The aim of the game really is to create a muddy manky mess! Spatter it all over anywhere that’s likely to get muddy. The powders are dry brushed on while the base paint is still tacky so it adds texture to the paint but also sticks. 
Once it’s all dry I’ll use a stiffer brush to dry brush over it all to blend it together and knock off all the excess. 
Added the painted on vehicle number too. Tried to make it look hand done, which of course it is!

Ill use some thinner mud paint to do the tyre treads later too.

 

Just a few more pics now it’s advanced a bit more.

 
All the paint & powders are starting to dry now and the colour is starting to come through. I’ve also ‘flicked’ some light mud colour onto it all over aiming up from the bottom to look like splattered muddy water from bombing around on a site. Did the same to the windscreen unit but added a wiper arc mask to leave a clean spot. 
Front wheels are now back on after swapping the originals for a different style. They’ll need dirtying up later once the glue sets.

I did more to the inside of the tipper too. This bit would be a right mess on a real truck so nothing to lose by going heavy!

Shows how adding paint and dirt highlights details too. You can really see the springs here, but before when it was clean you could barely see them.

[Spottedlaurel]

Norwich toy fair relocated to Attleborough due to a clash of dates with the usual venue. I think most of the usual sellers were there, just scattered around differently.

Managed to avoid spending too much, but happy to have found both boxed Superfasts and some Majorettes. I don't really know any of the sellers as such, but it seems I'm sufficiently regular and my tastes predictable enough that the seller with the Renault 5 and VW said he thought I'd like them. The R5 is a nice replacement for the one I lost/got taken from me at primary school, nearly 50 years ago........

Very few boxed Superfast there but great to get this pair, both new to me. Neither anywhere near mint, but they weren't particularly expensive either.

Two more ticks on the list I first started going back in 1991. Note the prices I paid for a lot of them in those early days! They were probably more genuine and in better condition than those I'm getting now. I know there are some gaps that will never be filled.

[Bren]

9 minutes ago, Spottedlaurel said:

Norwich toy fair relocated to Attleborough due to a clash of dates with the usual venue. I think most of the usual sellers were there, just scattered around differently.

Managed to avoid spending too much, but happy to have found both boxed Superfasts and some Majorettes. I don't really know any of the sellers as such, but it seems I'm sufficiently regular and my tastes predictable enough that the seller with the Renault 5 and VW said he thought I'd like them. The R5 is a nice replacement for the one I lost/got taken from me at primary school, nearly 50 years ago........

Very few boxed Superfast there but great to get this pair, both new to me. Neither anywhere near mint, but they weren't particularly expensive either.

Two more ticks on the list I first started going back in 1991. Note the prices I paid for a lot of them in those early days! They were probably more genuine and in better condition than those I'm getting now. I know there are some gaps that will never be filled.

I ended up compiling a list because I simply lost track of what I had - I almost bought ones I already had.

[bunglebus]

I buy ones I know I've already got just in case they're in better condition.

Found five copper KP-1 versions of the Caper Cart in my stash the other day...

[bunglebus]

No toy fairs or even boot sales for me, rain stops play. This Playart Alfa P33 landed on the mat though

[Tenmil Socket]

@bunglebus there may be a couple of oddities in the job lot I collected earlier?

Check the WhatsApp group.

 

[Tenmil Socket]

Job lot included:

 

[junkyarddog]

Found the flamed Knight Industries Two  Thousand today.

Here with the original release from 2011 and the Super Pursuit version.

You like knight Rider Smoll Eddy?

"Silly K-niggits M8"

 

 

[AndyW201]

For once, our local Poundland had some of the recent Matchbox releases, it usually takes months for them to catch up. Just as well I got the red Jag from AliExpress as they were conspicuous by their abscence, but I still got a few I had been after,

At long last, I've wanted one of these for a while now!

Lovely colour scheme on the TT, I'm a sucker for a red interior...

Another casting I've been hunting high and low for,

As previewed upthread, this is the type of Matchbox car I always used to go for; a basic, everyday family car.  I really wanted the yellow version of this Astra when it came out, but I don't think we got that mix here.

Weirdly, all the ones of these in the shop had that weird rear wheel positioning in the arches. Looks like it's been clouted in the rear quarter then pulled out, still with a bent rear beam...

It's nicely done, but whether this brings the same sort of excitement as seeing the red Astra GTE for the first time in my local toyshop back in 1986, I'm not sure...

This came through the post,

Part of yet another bloody new F&F silver series collection. Rumour has it that the next Hot Wheels F&F themed release will be a four-wheeled milk carton with Vin Diesel riding on top titled "Milkin' it"...

I do love the Hot Wheels EG Civic, but as can be seen, this is an all new casting, with a wide arch body kit, representing one of the lesser known cars of the series.

The colour is nice, and the body mods are well modelled, but the wheels look a bit on the small side. Nothing like the wheels on the real car either, as that had a set of large diameter gold cross spokes on.

[bunglebus]

Romping Rabbit is DONE

Poor unfortunate No.7 Golf arrived in a job lot so was the perfect crush car to use

Interior is a dusky pink that works rather well

I was going to paint the WD40 straws that I used as wheel spacers black, but I actually quite like the red. In any case I've glued the rear axle to the base after moving it back as much as possible so it's not happening now

 

[Datsuncog]

Headed out this morning on a minor tat hunt.

Well, I succeeded insofar as I found a Minor at Sainsbury's.

Very very clean Traveller, and still wearing local plates.

A new branch of Home Bargains opened this morning out of town, and I wanted to get in early doors to see what they had.

16 pegs full of Hot Wheels - we're as far along as the 2025 H-Case here, with quite a few Mini Vans and BMW 635s, but nothing that I haven't already seen (and nabbed).

Tesco had very little to interest me today, and neither did Poundland or Poundstretcher.

Mooched over to Holywood (partially so I could see how the Avensis felt at motorway speed after getting its new belts and tyres - pretty damn good, as it happens), and although Stewart Miller didn't have much new, I did take some pics of the Car Tuned vehicles that @bunglebus had clocked in the background of a pic I took a few months back in this store:

They're kind of like big Micro Machines - not mega-cheap at a fiver a throw, but quite nicely done.

All eight from this Series 1 collection were there, though some were down to their last example.

Daresay there'll be somewhere nearby that has these, if not via the web.

I then shuffled round the corner to the antiques and collectibles shop, to marvel at the wide range of pricing on offer...

Capricious doesn't cover it.

There's signs everywhere saying NO PHOTOGRAPHY, so I couldn't bless you with a pic of the mid/late '70s Dinky Cadillac Ambulance on plastic speed wheels with no front end and not much paint, but still inexplicably priced at £35.

Or the good-to-average Lesney Merryweather fire appliance that had a '£25' sticker on it.

The Darda buggy in the above sneaky-pic was either £6 or £9 (I wasn't sure which way up the sticker on the base was meant to read), while the trashed 2000s Matchbox Baja Beetle was £4, like the various Hongwells and some of the other Lesneys.

But - I came away with these two.

US Matchbox releases - the No.57 Mini Truck being from the dog days of Lesney, and in a colourway we didn't see in Blighty, while the No.44 Chevy 4x4 Van is the same as the one I had as a kid, and heavily played with (it was one of my favourites).

Not cheap-cheap at £8 each, but then they're not getting any cheaper...

[Tenmil Socket]

Some more pics after some had a bath. Will be picking out what I’d like to keep and the rest will be available.

 

[Tenmil Socket]

This stuff is available free.