Shite in Miniature II

[eddyramrod]

2 hours ago, bunglebus said:

One for @eddyramrod maybe? My young lad friend is selling it

Thanks Rich, but I'm going to decline that one!  It's too good, I don't really do MIB.  Very kind of you to think of me though.

[morrisoxide]

2 hours ago, danthecapriman said:

I couldn’t stand not knowing so I went and got one of the axle sets!

Looks like it’s all one.

 
But it ain’t!!

I had no idea. The join for the centres is so tight you can’t see it. 
I owe you a beer @bunglebus 👍

Some Johnny Lightning wheels are like that too. Quite good for swapping wheels without swapping axles.

[danthecapriman]

1 hour ago, morrisoxide said:

Some Johnny Lightning wheels are like that too. Quite good for swapping wheels without swapping axles.

First time I’ve seen them like it tbh. Good thing to find out though😄

Im hoping the axles can just be slid through the holes in the IXO chassis and the wheel put back on but I’ve got a funny feeling the axles aren’t the same and the new Vanguard’s wheels will stick out the arches too far. Hopefully I’m wrong though. I’ll find out tomorrow. 
 

[danthecapriman]

Easy peasy once you know how to get the wheels off😄

Just putting it back together now and painting the details in. 
Body is Nevada beige which was on the original colour chart for the early mk2 Granada’s, mk1 Fiesta’s, late mk3 & early mk4 Cortina’s. Bit of a funny colour but I quite like it! It’s more orangey than most beiges. 
I had to strip & spray this one twice though. First attempt the paint went very orange peel, looked and felt like Hammerite hammered finish paint! No idea why but it didn’t spray well either. This time it’s quite a bit warmer and went on better, although still not perfect. I think some spay cans & nozzles are better than others though, this one wasn’t so good.

[Datsuncog]

9 minutes ago, danthecapriman said:

Body is Nevada beige which was on the original colour chart for the early mk2 Granada’s, mk1 Fiesta’s, late mk3 & early mk4 Cortina’s. Bit of a funny colour but I quite like it! It’s more orangey than most beiges. 

Looks like the colour of the Mk2 Granada owned by my friend James' grandparents.

That's it there in the background - and not too dissimilar to BL Sandglow Beige on the Marina.

1970s beige seemed to have a bit more vibrancy than those 1980s beiges which tended to be the colour of sad tea.

[eddyramrod]

I would say Sandglow is rather lighter than Nevada.  I remember a Nevada Cortina for sale at a garage where I worked in 1979-80; some years later my then-girlfriend had a Sandglow Mini Clubman.  The Cortina was a 1.6L automatic mk4, probably not a common spec even when new.

Don't know how much use that information is to anyone but you know, someone has to remember shit like this!

[danthecapriman]

1 hour ago, Datsuncog said:

Looks like the colour of the Mk2 Granada owned by my friend James' grandparents.

That's it there in the background - and not too dissimilar to BL Sandglow Beige on the Marina.

1970s beige seemed to have a bit more vibrancy than those 1980s beiges which tended to be the colour of sad tea.

Definitely looks like Nevada on that Granada saloon. It’s a funny colour, like vomit😆 but definitely very 70’s and vibrant. Later beige is, as you say, much more washed out and pale. Sierra beige was a later Ford colour and was waaay paler.

Another great colour was Meadow green, which I’ll be putt On a Cortina mk5 at some point.

[Split_Pin]

Smashing job Dan, a fantastic late 70s colour (as are all beige hues on cars of the time)

[danthecapriman]

11 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

Smashing job Dan, a fantastic late 70s colour (as are all beige hues on cars of the time)

Thanks.

I like doing cars like that. Just about all the donor models are of the sports or top end versions but the normal stuff is just ignored. A bit of work like taking off bumper over riders, spot lamps etc etc and a more basic paint job gives you something a bit more unique.

[Split_Pin]

7 minutes ago, danthecapriman said:

normal stuff

I'm eagerly awaiting the Vanguards Fiesta MK2 1.1l in blue. It's identical to a very tatty but much-loved works hack E920 JST in the late 1990s. It was absolutely rotten but soldered on until early 2000.

[danthecapriman]

1 minute ago, Split_Pin said:

I'm eagerly awaiting the Vanguards Fiesta MK2 1.1l in blue. It's identical to a very tatty but much-loved works hack E920 JST in the late 1990s. It was absolutely rotten but soldered on until early 2000.

Yes, that’s one I’m waiting for too. 
I do need want a second one to do my old B reg 1.3 Ghia though.

Did I see it right they were doing a van version too? Or am I imagining it?

[Split_Pin]

I've just pre ordered it from Corgi as they don't take payment until dispatch. I haven't bought a contemporary 1/43 model (lots of old ones though!) for quite some years now but this one was just too evocative to miss. 

Nobody else wanted to drive it at my work as the brakes were poor but I was a plucky 18 year old at the time and was just delighted to get behind the wheel of a shonky old Ford. The front cross member was so rotten that the engine hit the bulkhead when you pressed the clutch whilst on the move 😅 It had Hadrian panels over rotting originals everywhere, even the entire boot floor!

[Datsuncog]

1 hour ago, danthecapriman said:

Another great colour was Meadow green, which I’ll be putt On a Cortina mk5 at some point.

Funny you should say that... have another couple from the DC Archive!

Total rotbox, just like the Marina, but still - fond memories all the same.

[danthecapriman]

46 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

I've just pre ordered it from Corgi as they don't take payment until dispatch. I haven't bought a contemporary 1/43 model (lots of old ones though!) for quite some years now but this one was just too evocative to miss. 

Nobody else wanted to drive it at my work as the brakes were poor but I was a plucky 18 year old at the time and was just delighted to get behind the wheel of a shonky old Ford. The front cross member was so rotten that the engine hit the bulkhead when you pressed the clutch whilst on the move 😅 It had Hadrian panels over rotting originals everywhere, even the entire boot floor!

Mine wasn’t that bad. 
It had the black tide mark all around the bottom edges where it’d either rotted and been plated or had rust and they just painted over to stop it getting worse. The windscreen seal pissed water in which ran down behind the dash and into the drivers footwell, which then rusted through and self emptied! Boot floor was a crispy mess in mine but I just ignored it and didn’t put anything heavy in there! It smoked a bit too, but it was a CVH engine. 
It had nearly a years MOT on it when I got it but it wasn’t going to pass another without some serious metal work, which at the time I wasn’t up to and the car wasn’t worth it either. The clutch bearing went in the end and that’s what killed it. Simply wasn’t worth the time or effort to replace it. 
It was a lovely car inside though, being the Ghia it had the blue velour seats and trim with the big early style headrests. Economy light thingy, remote boot release and all that. It was fast too! Those Fiesta’s weigh nothing, especially when half of it has rusted away, and that CVH engine was pretty big for the size of car. Being the 1.3 it wasn’t one of the lean burn ones either. It really did shift if you wanted it too. Stopping it of course wasn’t so good as the brakes were appalling. Handbrake did virtually nothing either.

But, I’d have that little bastard back in a heartbeat now. Welding is easy (now I can do it and have all the stuff & space) and I reckon I could have made it good again tbh. 
It was great fun back then having cars like that. I mean, they were fucked, but somehow that made it so much more fun and interesting. Thinking about it now, that Fiesta at 1.3 was actually the smallest car I’ve ever owned!

It was replaced by;

The Onion of doom! 
H reg, first year of that shape Orion, 1.4GLX. Which was actually even worse than the Fiesta! Not as rusty but it’d had a hard life. I think it was on about 110k miles when I got it, and the thing ran terrible. Still running a carb even at H reg and it was in desperate need of a rebuild. 
Still, despite it being shit, I’d have that back now too. 
It was replaced by a J reg Volvo 340 which was absolutely spot on. That car was a revelation after those two knackered Fords!

[danthecapriman]

1 minute ago, Datsuncog said:

Funny you should say that... have another couple from the DC Archive!

Total rotbox, just like the Marina, but still - fond memories all the same.

Lovely car! 
Wasnt meadow green only used on the first year or two of the mk5? 
Ill probably use one of the IXO based Cortina/Taunus models for the repaint,like the Titan blue over silver one I did last year.

[Datsuncog]

2 minutes ago, danthecapriman said:

Wasnt meadow green only used on the first year or two of the mk5? 

I think so - mine was a 1980 example, so that fits.

I only ever saw one other Cortina in Meadow Green, don't think it was a very popular shade!

Can't wait to see your version (and I'm loving the progress on the Nevada Beige Granada estate, of course).

[Split_Pin]

14 minutes ago, danthecapriman said:

Mine wasn’t that bad. 
It had the black tide mark all around the bottom edges where it’d either rotted and been plated or had rust and they just painted over to stop it getting worse. The windscreen seal pissed water in which ran down behind the dash and into the drivers footwell, which then rusted through and self emptied! Boot floor was a crispy mess in mine but I just ignored it and didn’t put anything heavy in there! It smoked a bit too, but it was a CVH engine. 
It had nearly a years MOT on it when I got it but it wasn’t going to pass another without some serious metal work, which at the time I wasn’t up to and the car wasn’t worth it either. The clutch bearing went in the end and that’s what killed it. Simply wasn’t worth the time or effort to replace it. 
It was a lovely car inside though, being the Ghia it had the blue velour seats and trim with the big early style headrests. Economy light thingy, remote boot release and all that. It was fast too! Those Fiesta’s weigh nothing, especially when half of it has rusted away, and that CVH engine was pretty big for the size of car. Being the 1.3 it wasn’t one of the lean burn ones either. It really did shift if you wanted it too. Stopping it of course wasn’t so good as the brakes were appalling. Handbrake did virtually nothing either.

But, I’d have that little bastard back in a heartbeat now. Welding is easy (now I can do it and have all the stuff & space) and I reckon I could have made it good again tbh. 
It was great fun back then having cars like that. I mean, they were fucked, but somehow that made it so much more fun and interesting. Thinking about it now, that Fiesta at 1.3 was actually the smallest car I’ve ever owned!

It was replaced by;

The Onion of doom! 
H reg, first year of that shape Orion, 1.4GLX. Which was actually even worse than the Fiesta! Not as rusty but it’d had a hard life. I think it was on about 110k miles when I got it, and the thing ran terrible. Still running a carb even at H reg and it was in desperate need of a rebuild. 
Still, despite it being shit, I’d have that back now too. 
It was replaced by a J reg Volvo 340 which was absolutely spot on. That car was a revelation after those two knackered Fords!

Weren't those cars great! The scuttle on JST was rotten as well. It was fillered over but still leaked. 

We also had a 1.6D, F457YSF with MK3 XR2i Alloys and a nifty boot spoiler  in white it actually looked great. I spent the summer of 1998 wobbing the arches and spraying them and making plates for my colleague to weld onto it. I recall my colleague finding yet more rot in the boot floor and literally kicking his boot through it from the inside in frustration (that made even more work!)

The foreman got word that I was surprisingly good at cataloy and paint work so I got that job on other vehicles too which was great!

[Macscrooge]

Today’s arrival from eBay. It’s 1/43 scale but not a Daimler Dingo. It is in fact a Lancia Lince  - a copy of the Daimler but presumably with a less spartan interior trimmed in plush velour. 
A Schuco  model so probably quite pricey when new. 

[danthecapriman]

A couple of deliveries today of things I’ve struggled to find so far so nice get an example of each.

Firstly, probably one of, if not the, shittest small van ever;

The Simca/Talbot/Dodge 1100 van! 
Quite a cool little rig but my god did they rust. I can vaguely remember seeing a few still about as a kid but I’ve not seen one for a very long time. I’m sure these were actually rather popular though at the time as they were pretty cheap compared to the competitors.

 
Across the pond next for a shite car of a different sort. 
The Mustang II. 
Probably the most hated Mustang ever due to it not really being all that muscular anymore and a bit flabby, plus it was the generation they started being strangled by all that emissions crap. 
But, I think the Mustang II is my favourite one of them all. 
This one’s from some French Mustang partwork we didn’t get (surprise surprise!) and not a model I’ve seen before until a spotting one on another site.

[bunglebus]

33 minutes ago, danthecapriman said:

I think the Mustang II is my favourite one of them all. 

Seek help

In that colour you could make a nice* replica of a Monroe Handler

[Christine]

Gota few Minix!  

 

[danthecapriman]

14 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Seek help

In that colour you could make a nice* replica of a Monroe Handler

Not really my cuppa.

This is much more me!

 

[Christine]

Got a few lesney ...

[Christine]

And moar...

[Christine]

And moar..

[Christine]

Got about 100   more buses .... (sold last  weeks thank goodness! ) still 50 more to get 

[Christine]

[bunglebus]

12 minutes ago, Christine said:

Got a few lesney ...

Is that a Morris Minor? Looking for one of those

[bunglebus]

13 minutes ago, Christine said:

And moar..

Not all those are Lesney, the Minor vans certainly aren't. Dinky Dublo maybe? They sell for good money

[Christine]

Some dublo yes ..See that tiny yellow  lone star ciroen  ds  and fire engine ? Is that ironsides van?