Shite in Miniature II

[Felly Magic]

Star prize on Bully's Prize Board lol

[Wack]

Not worth it's own thread so

I saw this at an auction today, I desperately wanted to bid on it but the earache would've been immense , made £100 + 24% premium , n gauge layout

[Felly Magic]

For £124 that would have been a bargain

[Wack]

I'd think there's £500+ just in parts , he said £100, £100 , £100 and I'm selling at £100

 

It took everything I had to not bid

[mercrocker]

That's flipping brilliant.   I would have lived in the shed with that for a few months....

[Bren]

Latest purchase. Have the husky one but it's a bit battered.

[SierraMikeHotel]

You know I'm thinking about buying a Volvo estate, right?

 

Bought one.

 

 

They're in support of these guys, who do amazing work.

 

https://www.pdtrust.org/

[davehedgehog31]

I've got loads of model cars from my yoof up my parents loft. I'll need to go for a good rummage one day.

[mercrocker]

I've got loads of model cars from my yoof up my parents loft. I'll need to go for a good rummage one day, take lots of photos and show them on here

 

Aye.

[Felly Magic]

Too right Mr Hedgehog

[NorfolkNWeigh]

 

My hilairious* family bought this today, it's an almost exact replica of my V70, in its natural habitat, apparently. They've got a point it has been on a recovery vehicle 6 different times since I've had it.

The spec is vaguely VW T5 but a different scale to the Volvo, which appears to be 1/36ish.

[Split_Pin]

My son has the police spec of that Volvo, loves it!

[Felly Magic]

Conrad you can haz PM

[Felly Magic]

One has purchasificated 3 quality used diecasts from Conrad Motors  

[Pillock]

I was in Asda today and they had a similar Recovery set for £6.50 (although an RAC-ish Orange truck, and a different box) as well as a police Volvo with flashing lights and some other actually reasonably well modelled stuff. Even the Fast and Furious 1:18 stuff looked to be well made.

[quicksilver]

More new stuff from Oxford. The Gusset Brown Triumph is strangely appealing and the Cavalier is based on the one in the Vauxhall Heritage Fleet.

 

Gusset Brown by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

 

Vauxhall Heritage by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

 

And some modern PCP-financed shit, soon to be seen driving aggressively without indicating and parked in stupid places (other stereotypes are available)

White Beemer by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

[RayMK]

Nice backdrop of a typically haphazard industrial units type setting.  The Triumph is particularly good looking.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

 

While we're on the topic of supermarket play sets, look - a Senator police car in Sainsburys!

[Felly Magic]

The old Richmond Toys casting Omega that over the years has been in various guises including The Bill, who never used vauxhall Omegas iirc 

[Felly Magic]

Looks like the horribly out of scale Volvo fire engine too in that set. 

[quicksilver]

Here's something I was pleased to get hold of. I'd been looking for the old Efsi Commer Walk-Thru for years but the few I came across were all going for silly money. Then at last weekend's model bus show, something interesting caught my eye among the usual piles of diecasts on the bring and buy stall. At 3 quid for the pair these were quickly snaffled.

 

The green one is a repaint and a bit battered, but an early version with narrow wheels. Blue is a later one in good original condition.

Dutch Commers by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

 

Comparison with the new Oxford Diecast version and the resin kit by Road Transport Images (I'll get round to building it eventually)

Commer comparison by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

[MarvinsMom]

ome more recent diecast additions, i had been bidding on fleabay for a Corgi Buick Riviera, but got snipped in the last few moments, so to make up for the dissapointment, i went out and got these

the pontiac supirior critirion ambulance, its been played with, has its doors, light (dunno if it works) and original tires. one problem that i have since found with it though, been a full sized" yank station wagon its too flippin' long to go into the cabinate..... bugger!!

 

"stardate 180318 - the ship is marooned on a strange world full of old crap...."

its miussing its torpedoes and shuttle craft, and the stickers on the warp nacelles, but esencially its complete and the saucer section is still white, having not discoloured with age. 

 

i didn't have one of these when i was a kid, inspite been a big fan for Star Trek. i did have friends though who had one, so i do remember playing with one of these years ago.

 

and anyone remember this heap?

 

well it seems that the paint has fallen off (helped by some paint stripper)

 

some paintage then occured

 

further updates as and when, and depending on how it turns out!

 

 

[Split_Pin]

I had the KLM Commer but with the earlier wheels. I loved it, wish id kept it now, it was in great condition.

[Felly Magic]

I had that Dinky USS Enterprise as a nipper, was great for hitting my older brother with

[MarvinsMom]

after a day baking in the paint booth under the anglepoise lamp on the table, i've been and finished the Commer VH van.

 

first, lets attempt to paint some detailling onto the van

 

even with the new reading glasses this is not the easiest thing to achive.

now i can see what i'm doing, it doesn't stop my hand shaking.....

 

then to put it all back together

 

all in one piece

 

and now with the original and unadulteraded COOP milk float.

[egg]

MM - did you ever paint up my old Police Mini?

[MarvinsMom]

why yes i did, here it is looking as good as new. plus been a '70s vintage Dinky it screws together, so no rivets to drill out!

 

i was really made up with how that one came out, so it has a place in the cabinate, sat below the Singer Vogue and above a Chunderbird.

[egg]

Thanks, that's fantastic . As a car I'd owned for 35-40 years, nice to see it have a second life. Thanks for sharing!

[Split_Pin]

Great job on all of these!

[vulgalour]

I finally had a weekend so I got some diecast work in.

 

This had a broken tow hitch which I repaired but when I was filing it to fine tune the fit, I broke the repair so I need to do it again.  Repairing tow hitches is a ballache.  Painted this 1958 Berkeley Cavalier to match my previously repainted Corsair.

 

I had started a repaint on this Minor in enamels but the purple I was using went really weird and discoloured sort of green, and not in a good way.  Repainted it today with acrylics before giving it a lacquer and I'm much happier with it.  The colour is a weird grey-lilac, the nearest I had to Mirage.

 

 

Aircraft carrier got a makeover too.   This was quite rough when I started with very little paint and really dirty.  The brown I chose ended up a bit darker than I wanted but that's balanced out by the masking for the matt varnish to make the black roof look like vinyl turning out exceptionally well.  I don't really like this shape Z car very much, but it was a model I was struggling to get hold of so I'm not about to get rid of it now that it looks nice and tidy.

 

 

 

This Jaguar XJ-S from the Corgi Whizzwheels range is rubbish.  I don't really like them.  However, this one gets a stay of execution/sale because my brother and I had one each when we were kids so I felt like tarting up this really rough example.  Something has had a right go at the wheels on it, they're really chewed up, but careful painting has hidden most of the damage.