Shite in Miniature II

[morrisoxide]

Staying in Bridlington this weekend for Race the waves. Bumped into a mate of mine who just bought this for £15.

[MAF260]

Decent haul at Tesco earlier 

[eddyramrod]

Funny, I was looking at that ice-blue Batmobile in Tesco the other day.  It reminded me of the kind of repaints I did back in the 70s, but better quality.  I put it back...

[sheffcortinacentre]

2 hours ago, morrisoxide said:

Staying in Bridlington this weekend for Race the waves. Bumped into a mate of mine who just bought this for £15.

Must get to that one day.y.

[morrisoxide]

9 hours ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

Must get to that one day.y.

It's a good show. It's getting bigger and bigger every year.

Suns coming out too.

[Tenmil Socket]

How many variations is there of the Corgi VW Polo is there in the smaller scale? The light blue one is nice.

Is this orange one rare?

 

 

[bunglebus]

Some of these are definitely a lighter colour

 

No orange one!

[bunglebus]

Found a few bobs at the boot sale today

Unbranded Jeep with opening hood

Yatming maybe? Looks like Kidco but isn't 

635 casting is a new one on me, another possible Yatminger

Tiny Camaro also isn't giving up any secrets 

Fiat Jolly was very very cheap. Hopefully Mr. Flowers can help revive it

Anyone know about these Corgi Cargo bits?

Or this sheet metal canopy, Land Rover maybe?

Siku LT has a cracked screen, still worth a quid though

Twin pack Mercedes lorry in a new colour

Non pink Cadillac 

Matchbox trailer, another I'm not sure about the origins of

I know this is a silver Turbo 2

Another mystery. Anyone care to tell me what's going on with this Peterbilt?

[matt79]

14 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Tiny Camaro also isn't giving up any secrets 

This is from the Monogram Mini Exacts range from the early 1990's - 1/87 scale iirc

[bunglebus]

Found a mix of Matchbox in Poundland that I thought I'd seen, but I'd not found this Field Car or Aldi TT before

Entertainer had two unopened K cases, get in!

Alfa is a new casting, and very nice too

Treasure hunt is another new casting, Chevroletor

Recoloured T3 looks great

This is the one everyone's w*nking over of course, and it is actually pretty good

Lastly, Bini van by another name is a fun one

 

[AndyW201]

Recent round up,

Morrisons have Hot Wheels on offer with the More Card. Premiums down to £6.50 but not a lot left apart from the VW Samba Bus and Toyota LandCruiser from previous Boulevard series. They also had some F&F Silver Series down to £3 so I grabbed the sludge coloured Camaro, as I do like the early shape fastbacks,

Nothing really new at Tescotainer, apart from a new freestanding display unit for Hot Wheels Premiums and 5 packs, which was, again, already well picked over as Premiums were down to £7.20. Again, mainly Sambas and LandCrusisers, along with a few of that recent Toyota off-roader series. But then, I spotted this, and grabbed it,

Only one left out of this series, sadly, as I would have liked the black Porsche.

But it's a lovely one, this, the first time I've had a 510 wagon as a premium, the extra detailing really makes it.

Finally found this one at Smyths, after hunting one for months. I thought I didn't have a Hot Wheels E46, turns out I already have a F&F one in white with green wheels. This one is much more attractive though, in factory Phoenix yellow, cheekily referenced in the reg plate,

The latest batch of Neon Speeders have some nice castings amonst them, I limited myself to just this Porsche for now though. Predictably, no 2002s there unfortunately.

For a Neon Speeders release, it's fairly subtle,

[MiniMinorMk3]

2 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Anyone know about these Corgi Cargo bits?

 

 

 

 

Planks

Cement

Bricks

Milk Churns

Skip and Churns

Some times sold in a gift set

 

2 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Or this sheet metal canopy, Land Rover maybe?

 

 

 

That is from

[AndyW201]

Best find of the week was today though, Smyths again.

Quite a few of these 1/43 Hot Wheels have been done now. TBH they should be a dream come true for me, being a) Hot Wheels and b) in my favourite scale of 1/43. But the castings up to now have been a bit meh for me. The only one that has appealed so far was the silver Merc  AMG W108, but by the time I'd finished umming and ahhhing over that, it had sold out, and I appear to have missed the boat with that one.

But the recent crop appeal a lot more,

TBH, I'd have the Porsche and the Aston too, but I've been on a mission to get one of these Civics for a couple of weeks. Stock checker on the Smyths website has shown none in stock for most of the country, but today showed 2 in the Stockton store, and I got the last one!

As the first one of these 1/43 Premiums I've had, I have to say, for just over half the price of a Vanguards model, it's bloody impressive.

The shape of the EK Civic is captured well, and it's nicely detailed, easily good enough to display with more expensive models.

It's a bloody weighty thing too, with the metal base, decent enough detailing there too. 

Interior detail is good, with the red front seats, red detail on the door trims, and alloy gearknob detail, 

Nice Honda logo'd wheel too. RHD is another bonus.

So its nice to see one of these as a "factory fresh" type release. Will go nicely with the other '80s and '90s hot hatches in the collection.

[bunglebus]

Loads of Civics and Astons in my local Smyths today - and the black/white/grey Porsche in Tesco on offer!

 

[danthecapriman]

1 hour ago, AndyW201 said:

Best find of the week was today though, Smyths again.

Quite a few of these 1/43 Hot Wheels have been done now. TBH they should be a dream come true for me, being a) Hot Wheels and b) in my favourite scale of 1/43. But the castings up to now have been a bit meh for me. The only one that has appealed so far was the silver Merc  AMG W108, but by the time I'd finished umming and ahhhing over that, it had sold out, and I appear to have missed the boat with that one.

But the recent crop appeal a lot more,

TBH, I'd have the Porsche and the Aston too, but I've been on a mission to get one of these Civics for a couple of weeks. Stock checker on the Smyths website has shown none in stock for most of the country, but today showed 2 in the Stockton store, and I got the last one!

As the first one of these 1/43 Premiums I've had, I have to say, for just over half the price of a Vanguards model, it's bloody impressive.

The shape of the EK Civic is captured well, and it's nicely detailed, easily good enough to display with more expensive models.

It's a bloody weighty thing too, with the metal base, decent enough detailing there too. 

Interior detail is good, with the red front seats, red detail on the door trims, and alloy gearknob detail, 

Nice Honda logo'd wheel too. RHD is another bonus.

So its nice to see one of these as a "factory fresh" type release. Will go nicely with the other '80s and '90s hot hatches in the collection.

That does look very nice, especially for the money. 
They’re suffering from the usual Hot Wheels problem though for me, in that everything is either A; a supercar B; it’s heavily Barry’d C; not the sort of car I like.

The Chevy Nova could’ve been nice but they chose to put stupid ugly wide arches on and boy racer crap stuck to it everywhere. 
That Civic is probably the closest thing so far they’ve done that’s a stock normal car, but that sort of car does nothing for me so I won’t be buying one. 
Hopefully though they’ll increase the range with some more older standard stuff.

BTW, there’s sellers on eBay asking nearly £30 + postage for these Civics!

[bunglebus]

Scored a few cheap bits on Vinted

Did Asda really commission a Matchbox just to advertise their baked beans?

Scrambler Renault 5 in decent shape

Unusual Red Arrows Dodge Caravan was in a job lot

Along with a few that aren't really for me, but interesting all the same. Major Pack Dinkum Dumper

And a slightly broken King Size Muir Hill Dumper

[bunglebus]

Aha

[Datsuncog]

9 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Matchbox trailer, another I'm not sure about the origins of

That trailer was part of a twin pack being pulled by a white Land Rover Ninety and carrying a Seafire:

(Pic cribbed from the internet - my brother owned this set so I recognised it immediately!)

[bunglebus]

Found the blue Mercedes Truck and Trailer, also a trim pack

[sierraman]

9 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Aha

‘Can I have £5 to send to a Matchbox fan club in Nottingham?’… ‘No’

[sierraman]

Looked up CV211DZ on Google, it’s just several factories now. Seemingly occupied by Matchbox from 1990-1996, not as a factory but as a U.K. headquarters and distribution centre. 

[bunglebus]

Boot sale #1. Cost me a few quid

[Split_Pin]

37 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Boot sale #1. Cost me a few quid

What's the yellow truck bottom left? It looks like a Majorette MK1 Hilux but it doesn't look like the bonnet opens?

[Tenmil Socket]

9 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

That trailer was part of a twin pack being pulled by a white Land Rover Ninety and carrying a Seafire:

(Pic cribbed from the internet - my brother owned this set so I recognised it immediately!)

Does that speed boat have a V8 engine?

[Datsuncog]

2 hours ago, sierraman said:

‘Can I have £5 to send to a Matchbox fan club in Nottingham?’… ‘No’

Over a tenner in today's money - a fair old whack just to get an 'exclusive' Model A van, a couple of stickers, and marketing bumf through the door twice a year.

[sierraman]

21 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

Over a tenner in today's money - a fair old whack just to get an 'exclusive' Model A van, a couple of stickers, and marketing bumf through the door twice a year.

And… secret information about new models! You can’t put a price on that! 

[bunglebus]

2 hours ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Does that speed boat have a V8 engine?

Yes it's a Seafire, kinda regretting selling all mine now as I had various ones that were part of twin pack sets

 

[bunglebus]

3 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

What's the yellow truck bottom left? It looks like a Majorette MK1 Hilux but it doesn't look like the bonnet opens?

Hot Wheels Beach Patrol/Surf Patrol

[sierraman]

52 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Yes it's a Seafire, kinda regretting selling all mine now as I had various ones that were part of twin pack sets

 

That, a stretcha fetcha and a personnel carrier is one of those things guaranteed in a job lot. 

[bunglebus]

Okey dokey, more diecast gubbins got dragged home from the two boot sales this morning.

Boxed Motoring Mammaries Beetle

Compulsory comparison with the original. Like the rear thing, this casting had a long life

I swore off buying more Gus's Gulpers - but this one's different, can you see it?

Dinky caravan was only 50p

I bought several cars from one seller (after the usual "had loads of those earlier M9" speech", including that Gulper, and this Dinky ambulance 

Patient patiently waiting in the back

Ice cream sellers seem in no rush, think the passenger is updating his Insta

Rice Horsebox was another 50p find

Friction motored Bedford was rather more

Another in the bundle I bought was this Corgi Caddy ambulance 

Battery compartment intact, AA battery jammed in there now removed

Another one in the bundle is this lovely Chrysler Imperial 

Wayne and Tracey look a bit deformed 

Last one I did a deal on was this Astro

Bond and Moneypenny chillin'

I had to buy this off a seller I normally deliberately avoid as she's just so rude and horrible to people, however today she seemed a bit happier, and I couldn't leave this Jet Dragster behind as it's so tidy

Ready for takeoff