Shite in Miniature II

[bunglebus]

I think I've had a similar scenario and the sorting office found my parcel - it must have the correct details for the postie to have brought it in the first place

[bunglebus]

Today's boot sale bits 

[Split_Pin]

Good find on the Superkings Leyland transporter.

[bunglebus]

Just now, Split_Pin said:

Good find on the Superkings Leyland transporter.

I only really grabbed that as it was interesting, I won't be keeping it

[junkyarddog]

Old Dinky Volkswagen beetle that I found a while back.

It had been repainted and missing the engine cover.

Wasn't particularly taken with the later wheels,but had a spares car that provided a new engine cover and early style wheels.

Stripped ready for paint.

Found some paint in Halfords that was near enough the correct original colour.

Quite happy how this turned out.

 

[Split_Pin]

1 hour ago, bunglebus said:

I only really grabbed that as it was interesting, I won't be keeping it

Dibs if you dont want  it please, I think I've a box sitting with you anyway?

[danthecapriman]

Couldn’t believe it this morning when I woke up. It actually wasn’t raining for once! Must’ve been the longest dry period all year so far. 
That meant I could get from the house to the shed without the risk of drowning too.

Did a bit of painting, chassis for the Leyland Lynx is now primed and satin black. Decided on a colour for the Cortina mk3 too! So that’s drying overnight.

Did some work on Val & Earl’s Jeep too.  
Cab has got a new rear bulkhead with the correct small window. Bed has had fuel tank made from rectangular plastic section, then the extra boxing in around the back and the new home made style bumper with the recess for the tow hitch.

Ill sand off the tailgate detail once everything is cured as the original truck had a piece of wood as a tailgate!

[bunglebus]

3 hours ago, junkyarddog said:

Quite happy how this turned out

Yeah man, it really annoys me that I forgot to paint the back of the headlight rhinestones on mine before I glued them back in

While I'm on the subject, K70 has gone pear shaped too. Paint had gone off overnight but I wasn't too happy with the finish so wanted to clear coat it after a careful flatting back. Then I found a tiny hair stuck to the bonnet, trying to sand that out and I could see the primer starting to come through, so had to give it another coat of paint - and it did this

Ungrateful git is sitting in paint thinner now, I'll have to try decanting some of the colour into my airbrush and doing it that way instead, it had occured to me beforehand but I was being lazy 

[bunglebus]

Let's have a look through today's buys instead. Big Bburago Golf

With an error - presumably that rear wheel centre is inside out?

Don't know a lot about this Corgi Merc, but it's in nice condition and seriously shiny

Big Transit with complete boom etc. Cracked screen unfortunately 

Matchbox Peterbilt with working steering, presumably missing a trailer

All the big ones came from one seller, and were hiding in his van - I buy so much off him that he keeps stuff aside for me to look through. This was among them and seems to have sparked a bit of interest 

I have to say, the racheting mechanism to slide the bed on and off and also lower/raise the ramp is very clever, even if if does need a little help to do so now!

This was in a three for £10 box, I thought it was worth £3.33

Even if the lower tailgate/valance is missing

This guy was wedged inside, he looks like a visit to the chiropractor is in order

Superkings Golf with the less common wheels. Still yet to find the white version with the other rims, which i think exists

Alarm Cars/Specials

And a 911

Plus 944

Best* Porsche find today is this Kidco effort

I don't know what it is about terrible Hong Kong etc castings I find so fascinating, I think part of it is seeing they've tried to make it good, single seat interior with roll cage for example

Talking of terrible castings, behold the 205

This BMW E30 cabrio isn't the greatest either, looks OK on initial inspection 

But this door is seriously out of whack like it's twisted

Smaller finds include a Majorette Motor

These two early Matchbox which were the other ⅔ of the 3 for £10 deal

You can see a shadow on the roof of the Corsair from the roofrack it once wore

I found another crispy Glo Racer

And one of the slightly wrong Matchbox 55 Chevies

[Hertz]

9 hours ago, danthecapriman said:

It’s a bugger when it’s something difficult to replace like that Caprice. 
The parcels I had it with were an Ethernet cable which wasn’t expensive but at least easy to replace, and they damaged a parcel I sent to @Hertz and a few items fell out going missing. Nothings happening about either despite pressing them a few times since.

Hopefully you’ll have better luck.

TBF The nice postie lady did go back to the local sorting office and found the missing cars on the floor near the cages and brought them to me the next day. So worth an ask @Split_Pin or visit to your local RM depot.

[Lord Sterling]

3 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Let's have a look through today's buys instead. Big Bburago Golf

With an error - presumably that rear wheel centre is inside out?

Don't know a lot about this Corgi Merc, but it's in nice condition and seriously shiny

 

I thought the Merc may have been a partworks James Bond one, I have one somewhere in storage, but it doesn't appear to be.

The Golf looks great with that inside-put wheel, like a plastic wheel trim.

I like the recovery truck, never seen one with turning wheels, but then I never had Matchbox SuperKings trucks.

If any of these are available. I'll be very happy to give them a home.

[bunglebus]

51 minutes ago, Lord Sterling said:

I thought the Merc may have been a partworks James Bond one

The tyres don't stay on especially well, now I know why. Rather a cool set of wheels I thought, a bit like polished Centerlines or DDS etc

There's one on eBay with the same wheels and tyres, for over 10 times what I paid

[garycox]

I recently had this set including the Lufthansa Porsche… the fifth model was missing but I think it was an airport coach. 
I bought it with these two other sets, similarly missing coaches.

[Tenmil Socket]

14 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Let's have a look through today's buys instead. Big Bburago Golf

With an error - presumably that rear wheel centre is inside out?

Don't know a lot about this Corgi Merc, but it's in nice condition and seriously shiny

Big Transit with complete boom etc. Cracked screen unfortunately 

Matchbox Peterbilt with working steering, presumably missing a trailer

All the big ones came from one seller, and were hiding in his van - I buy so much off him that he keeps stuff aside for me to look through. This was among them and seems to have sparked a bit of interest 

I have to say, the racheting mechanism to slide the bed on and off and also lower/raise the ramp is very clever, even if if does need a little help to do so now!

This was in a three for £10 box, I thought it was worth £3.33

Even if the lower tailgate/valance is missing

This guy was wedged inside, he looks like a visit to the chiropractor is in order

Superkings Golf with the less common wheels. Still yet to find the white version with the other rims, which i think exists

Alarm Cars/Specials

And a 911

Plus 944

Best* Porsche find today is this Kidco effort

I don't know what it is about terrible Hong Kong etc castings I find so fascinating, I think part of it is seeing they've tried to make it good, single seat interior with roll cage for example

Talking of terrible castings, behold the 205

This BMW E30 cabrio isn't the greatest either, looks OK on initial inspection 

But this door is seriously out of whack like it's twisted

Smaller finds include a Majorette Motor

These two early Matchbox which were the other ⅔ of the 3 for £10 deal

You can see a shadow on the roof of the Corsair from the roofrack it once wore

I found another crispy Glo Racer

And one of the slightly wrong Matchbox 55 Chevies

I’ve got that 205, terrible isn’t it!

No idea who makes it, I’d love to know what else they offered 😁

[bunglebus]

I thought it was another one of these, but it's a different terrible 205

 

[Tenmil Socket]

6 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

I thought it was another one of these, but it's a different terrible 205

 

I’ve got that too, it may have been off you?

[Hertz]

Just picked these up locally on FB for a Tenner. Any good uns in there?

 

[junkyarddog]

17 hours ago, bunglebus said:

I forgot to paint the back of the headlight rhinestones on mine before I glued them back in

I used pound shop gemstones.

 

3 minutes ago, Hertz said:

Just picked these up locally on FB for a Tenner. Any good uns in there?

 

The General Lee and Old McDonalds farm truck are the standout ones.

[bunglebus]

^ that and the Chopper. You'd get a tenner for the ERTL on a good day, where's it made out for interest? I've got USA, China, Hong Kong and Singapore in my collection!

[bunglebus]

Airbrush to the rescue 

A few coats of Halfords lacquer 

I can never get as shiny a finish with this as I did with the 151 stuff I used to use - unfortunately after they rebranded it as "Yacht Lacquer" I've found it crazes after a few weeks, which has ruined some previously lovely paint jobs.

Moving on, thought I'd found another Voikowageng, but this one has nothing on the base other than Made in Chi-na

[Hertz]

2 hours ago, bunglebus said:

^ that and the Chopper. You'd get a tenner for the ERTL on a good day, where's it made out for interest? I've got USA, China, Hong Kong and Singapore in my collection!

Hong Kong.

Thought the blue van was interesting as never seen one before. Also got a Bruce bonus of some freebies from the seller.

[bunglebus]

Wigwam Van, also available in pink

 

 

[bunglebus]

Much abused early K70 with square lights

Now slightly improved I hope

Maybe a slightly lighter green than original but it's what I had. Early wheels with push in caps sit wonkily on the very thin original axles, there's not a lot you can do unless you literally glue them on, it's just wear in the hubs doing it. Love the pressed in wheel centres the look a look like NSU RO80 wheels if you squint a bit.

Think there are parts from three different cars here, the bodies bend very easily so I'm happy I got this one pretty straight in the end. I do have another square light base but the towbar is snapped off. This one came up nice after a citric acid bath and a whizzy wheel once over from the Dremel

[Spottedlaurel]

8 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Nicely done!

Majorette did quite a thorough job on changing it to the round headlights version. Just noticed that they reduced the size of the indicator under the bumper and added a pair of foglights inboard of them.

[danthecapriman]

43 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Much abused early K70 with square lights

Now slightly improved I hope

Maybe a slightly lighter green than original but it's what I had. Early wheels with push in caps sit wonkily on the very thin original axles, there's not a lot you can do unless you literally glue them on, it's just wear in the hubs doing it. Love the pressed in wheel centres the look a look like NSU RO80 wheels if you squint a bit.

Think there are parts from three different cars here, the bodies bend very easily so I'm happy I got this one pretty straight in the end. I do have another square light base but the towbar is snapped off. This one came up nice after a citric acid bath and a whizzy wheel once over from the Dremel

Lovely job, I actually prefer the colour you used.

For the wheels could you use a tiny length of plastic or brass tube to sleeve the worn wheel stubs where the axle fits into them? Might be a fiddle though.

[bunglebus]

4 minutes ago, danthecapriman said:

For the wheels could you use a tiny length of plastic or brass tube to sleeve the worn wheel stubs where the axle fits into them? Might be a fiddle though.

I think the only way would be to glue the holes up and re-drill them, there's only a very narrow area that actually sits on the axle as the wheels are quite deep to take those plastic caps. Axles are extremely thin and are just bent at 90° rather than splayed at the ends 

[Dick Cheeseburger]

56 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Much abused early K70 with square lights

Now slightly improved I hope

Maybe a slightly lighter green than original but it's what I had. Early wheels with push in caps sit wonkily on the very thin original axles, there's not a lot you can do unless you literally glue them on, it's just wear in the hubs doing it. Love the pressed in wheel centres the look a look like NSU RO80 wheels if you squint a bit.

Think there are parts from three different cars here, the bodies bend very easily so I'm happy I got this one pretty straight in the end. I do have another square light base but the towbar is snapped off. This one came up nice after a citric acid bath and a whizzy wheel once over from the Dremel

Lovely work. Could you remind me the spec of the bolt and drill bit you use to replace the rivets on the baseplate? It looks really neat. I remember asking ages ago but didn't make a note of your reply at the time 😆

[junkyarddog]

Found another Farts and spurious set yesterday. 

4 door Integra casting is a new one to me.

Also found the Gran Turismo Porsche. 

[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, Dick Cheeseburger said:

Lovely work. Could you remind me the spec of the bolt and drill bit you use to replace the rivets on the baseplate? It looks really neat. I remember asking ages ago but didn't make a note of your reply at the time 😆

1.5 mm drill, M2 tap and then I have various M2 screws in 2-4mm length, either countersunk or cap head. The K70 got a countersunk as it seemed to fit best.

These are some I've used before

https://ebay.us/m/vqg5dO

[Dick Cheeseburger]

14 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

1.5 mm drill, M2 tap and then I have various M2 screws in 2-4mm length, either countersunk or cap head. The K70 got a countersunk as it seemed to fit best.

These are some I've used before

https://ebay.us/m/vqg5dO

Brilliant, thanks chap. Will go have a look on the 'bay!