Shite in Miniature II

[eddyramrod]

2 hours ago, sierraman said:

Having a clear out anyone want these? Definitely not for the display cabinet but maybe someone could do something with them? £2 for the lot plus postage. @eddyramrod ?

 

2 hours ago, sierraman said:

Miscellaneous trucks and a chassis less Transit. Ideal for someone to make something out of without ruining a good one. £3 plus postage for the lot

 

2 hours ago, sierraman said:

Corgi Mini Minor, needs tyres and paint but I think it looks viable. £1.50 plus postage

Yes Please!  On every count.

 

@bunglebus was there something specific in that first batch that you fancied?

[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, junkyarddog said:

Finally 🙄

An elusive one that, even on AliExpress they're much more than the others in the mix

[ambassador84]

29 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

An elusive one that, even on AliExpress they're much more than the others in the mix

Poundland and Morrisons have got in this batch atm if that helps.

[ambassador84]

Just visiting the lovely town of Bakewell and naturally my first port of call was to Big Top Toys. A small shop but one which yielded a decent amount of diecasts. I couldn't take any pics as it was too crowded. Everything was new apart from a clearance tub containing mainly larger scale Chinese brands all in mint unopened condition. The only 1:64 stuff worth grabbing was this Chad Valley set which of course contains some of Realtoys finest 😉

[MAF260]

3 hours ago, bunglebus said:

An elusive one that, even on AliExpress they're much more than the others in the mix

want!

[bunglebus]

Tonight's 2p machine win

But what's inside? I don't think series three are easily decoded 

Only one way to find out then

Not bad. Still angling to get the Golf or one of the Chargers

[ambassador84]

3 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Tonight's 2p machine win

But what's inside? I don't think series three are easily decoded 

Only one way to find out then

Not bad. Still angling to get the Golf or one of the Chargers

I found the entire Series 3 Tune Ups at Boyes some months back.

[sierraman]

Lone Star Corvair, would restore quite well I think. 50p plus postage 

[eddyramrod]

Yes please.

[sierraman]

Let me nip to Morrisons to find something suitable to package them in and I’ll send the totals out and post them. 

[bunglebus]

Had a little trundle out today, got wind of a toy shop in Wroxham. Took this pic 3 seconds before the heavens opened

Pretty good stock of Hot Wheels, Matchbox, Jada, Siku etc etc

Pleasingly they had this for £9.99, one I should have bought when it came out anyway

[junkyarddog]

54 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

before the heavens opened

https://www.visitgreatyarmouth.co.uk/visitor-information/great-yarmouth-webcams

Bit damp looking in Yarmouth too.

[bunglebus]

Kiddo has been playing on the 2p machines winning weird Bum Bum stuffed toy things. I'm cashing in the tickets for

By pure fluke, none are duplicates and I got the Golf and Charger I wanted

The 4x4 type could perhaps do with the tuning parts fitted (i.e. luggage)

[morrisoxide]

50p each from Thornes Park show.

[bunglebus]

Is that a Minix at the front?

[morrisoxide]

1 hour ago, bunglebus said:

Is that a Minix at the front?

Yes it is.

I thought it was a Triumph 2000 when first I picked it up.

[bunglebus]

One more. Still didn't get a duplicate

[FakeConcern]

Toy fair today

I have another Corgi Tri deck which I've decided to pain and stock with the correct cars so picked these up

The red Capri is hard to find. I already have another Firebird, but this was very cheap and the Teledial wheels are less common than red spots. The seller also had a Whizzwheels orange Lancia for £15 which is a good price, but I now have three of them thanks mainly to this forum!

A quite nice Dinky Moteverdi was hard to turn down even though I have one already so let me know if you'd like it. The Norev Renner 30 is one I didn't have and very nice too!

Opening everything on the Dinky is great!

Another opening everything Dinky with a wheel broken off, but in the boot! The crap Europa is the forth I've bought to repaint, but the others were all too good to strip!

I have a Joal CX already, but this is nicer.

What fantastic looking car the CX is

A couple to paint

I think I'm addicted to Spot On even though they aren't that good

I have my childhood A40 so this is to paint and the Fiat just so cute!

Here's everything

My usual Spot On seller had this Lansdowne MG Magnette which weighed a ton and was quite interesting, but I didn't buy.

The chap I bought the Fiat 500 from was showing one of his mates a project he'd been working on

3D printed VDP Princess, he'd bought the bare prints and smoothed etc. the shell, made the glazing and finished off the two tone one before noticing the shape of the rear wings was wrong and doing the white one, which is really good

He's working on a Cortina Mk2 Estate now and promised to bring it in when finished, another pic of the VDP

 

 

[MiniMinorMk3]

15 hours ago, FakeConcern said:

My usual Spot On seller had this Lansdowne MG Magnette which weighed a ton and was quite interesting, but I didn't buy.

 

 

Those Lansdownes are great. They have done a lot of old British stuff that the usual suspects have never modelled. That MG Magnette is an early version, worth about £30-£40 boxed.

Here's an early one in the original green and gold box.

Updated version in green. Note that the LDM plate had been changed to a more conventional British type plate and separate chrome trim added to the front wing. This version still has cast in wipers and door handles.

Green version in later box with separate door handles, front indicators and wipers.

Police version from the Brooklin International Police Vehicles Collection.

 

 

[MiniMinorMk3]

A cheaper model of the MG Magnette can be found in the Oxford range.

 

[bramz7]

I kept getting outbid on these on eBay so just had to bite the BIN bullet (albeit with an offer accepted).

Probably the only one I'll ever own.

 

A curious 'one and done' casting. No other variations exist and it was only for sale in 2004. There is a different card back but that's the only difference. 

[ambassador84]

A bit of Rong Xing loving and in the bizarre world of Chinese cheapo copies these are actually different castings to the one Bunglebus posted a couple of weeks ago! A copy of a copy of a copy....

[Tenmil Socket]

2 hours ago, ambassador84 said:

A bit of Rong Xing loving and in the bizarre world of Chinese cheapo copies these are actually different castings to the one Bunglebus posted a couple of weeks ago! A copy of a copy of a copy....

Max strong

 

[bunglebus]

Before I delve into the many boxes of shite that seem to have arrived over the weekend/come home with me, does anyone need the red Volvo, as I picked up a spare?

[Lord Sterling]

6 hours ago, bramz7 said:

I kept getting outbid on these on eBay so just had to bite the BIN bullet (albeit with an offer accepted).

Probably the only one I'll ever own.

 

A curious 'one and done' casting. No other variations exist and it was only for sale in 2004. There is a different card back but that's the only difference. 

Wow, I even got one of those. Bought it when it first came out many years ago.

[Lord Sterling]

Some of you may remember a I bought a 1/24 Jaguar XJ6 off @Datsuncog a couple of years back. It had a rear missing bumper.

I'd looked for one on eBay for a while but absolutely nothing came up. There was someone who'd broken one up for parts in Italy but even they had no bumpers.

A few days ago, I happened upon a cheap Polistil Jaguar XJ6 complete with box and rear bumper. However, it's front bumper was in pieces and it's general condition wasn't anything to shout about.

I decided to hit the B.I.N button despite being utterly low of ££s. 

It arrived today and I decided to get to work:

I removed its rear bumper and attached it to mine:

My Jag is now complete. I briefly put it back in a box it would have come in when new:

But its permanently on display in my front room, now it just looks more complete. 

I gave the box a clean and tried to clean whatever stains appeared to be on the polystyrene, I attached the newly-bought and now bumperless Jag to its display after finding some screws and out it back in its box.

I may have a go at restoring it if I can, it now needs a pair of bumpers to reattach to it and a bonnet hinge.

[bunglebus]

@Tenmil Socket put me onto the trail of this one, a Matchbox Graffic Traffic Dodge Challenger 

It's very thoroughly "grafficed" and I had to pay way over the odds for it in a job lot

However I want to try and restore it, as I made a custom out of the last one I found, before I realised the significance of it. It was knackered though. One thing that struck me about this Chinese made example, was how naff the dot-dash wheels look

Compared to some proper 80s examples

Sticking with Challengers, I stumbled across this one for sale while investigating something else

They also had a boxed example, so I got that too.

Both of these have plastic bases disappointingly 

[bunglebus]

Same seller had this Bulgarian Midnight Magic, which looks like it was painted by a reasonably competent 12 year old

I wonder why it was this base, rather than Tanzara, that ended up with the Bulgarians?

This Racing Mini turned up with some other stuff. I remember doing something similar to a Corgi Metro with a large file when I was a kid

Red Superfast 1600TLs don't exactly grown on trees this one could do with restoring but then how would I prove it was a red original?

[bunglebus]

Power Grabs Autozam turned up in a collectables shop, they had a decent selection of Hot Wheels and carded Matchbox including premiums, Matchbox Collectors etc too

(Madeleine) Macan is perhaps a bit modern for me, but it looks good in orange

Picked up this Audi in Smyths, not a colour I'd found previously 

Dinky BMW was one of the few Kidco based cars I didn't have carded

I've got a handful of these Speed Rebels cars, but not on a card. Has a wheel centre floating around loose inside the blister, presumably from a  left wheel

It's marked Playing Mantis, which I thought was the Johnny Lightning company

This slightly awkward Fiat 500 was another job lot tag-along, no maker's name to be found

Maisto Jetta supplied as a kit is an oddity

Smyths this afternoon had new Team Transports, of which this is one

My main target in the job lot was this Welly twin pack of Golf MK4 and Lupo

I missed out on a set the same as this recently as the listing got mentioned in a Facebook Lupo group. Luckily this time it flew under the radar

Checking my Flickr, it seems we already have one, but with different wheels

Here's the golf

 

[bunglebus]

Lastly, a couple of big 'uns. Plastic VW T1 is very obviously a copy of the Corgi 490 Breakdown Truck, sadly with the tow rig part broken off and the chrome tools pinched out of the locker

When I saw it, my first thought was Lucky Toys, but this one's unbranded with just "NO 313 MADE IN HONGKONG" on the base. Not even Hong Kong, "HONGKONG".

Having found the Maisto Squareback and Fastback, I had to have the Notchback when it got listed. A few bits have gone walkies as is usually the case

The front opens...

....but despite the engine lid being a separate casting, it does not open - my square has the tailgate fixed closed by means of a plastic trim inside, so I suspect this is similar. Y tho?

Last, and definitely not least, is this quirky tin plate Bedford CA

Lithographed interior 

And absolutely nothing on the base. I can't work out if it was made 50 years or 5 minutes ago