Shite in Miniature II

[bunglebus]

Just now, FakeConcern said:

Some great finds today!

As regards the Spot On Austin 1800, no idea what you paid, but the cheapest I've ever paid  for one was £8.

Woohoo, £5.00 😁

[Tenmil Socket]

Another Vinted purchase has just been delivered… it’s not oil in there BTW.

 

[Tenmil Socket]

It is this…

[Tenmil Socket]

[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Good advice 

[Christine]

charity shop,  a whole pound!  Matchbox 1992 china

 

 

 

 

[Datsuncog]

3 hours ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Another Vinted purchase has just been delivered… it’s not oil in there BTW.

Looks to be well-packed for a change - box, tape, everything! Maybe even a bit of bubble wrap in there?

Fancy.

I haven't bought any diecast online for a good long while now; the last few I bought from a private seller on eBay arrived just roughly taped up in a plastic bag, which was disappointing as it was a couple of (formerly) MIB 1/36 Corgis and Matchbox Superfast, all dating from the early 80s.

It took me a while to carefully unglue, dampen and flatten the crumpled boxes before reassembly with new clear plastic windows. Even then, they still don't look as crisp as they did in the original listing pics. All for the want of a cardboard box!

Going by the absolute state of some of the recent arrivals to this thread, I feel I'd be lucky these days to have my purchase chucked into a Warburton's loaf bag and lobbed vaguely in the direction of an Evri depot from a moving car on a nearby dual carriageway...

Best to buy from trusted shiters!

[Tenmil Socket]

9 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

Looks to be well-packed for a change - box, tape, everything! Maybe even a bit of bubble wrap in there?

Fancy.

I haven't bought any diecast online for a good long while now; the last few I bought from a private seller on eBay arrived just roughly taped up in a plastic bag, which was disappointing as it was a couple of (formerly) MIB 1/36 Corgis and Matchbox Superfast, all dating from the early 80s.

It took me a while to carefully unglue, dampen and flatten the crumpled boxes before reassembly with new clear plastic windows. Even then, they still don't look as crisp as they did in the original listing pics. All for the want of a cardboard box!

Going by the absolute state of some of the recent arrivals to this thread, I feel I'd be lucky these days to have my purchase chucked into a Warburton's loaf bag and lobbed vaguely in the direction of an Evri depot from a moving car on a nearby dual carriageway...

Best to buy from trusted shiters!

It was very well packed indeed so positive feedback was left. I did ask the seller to pack it well and he said not to worry as he was a collector himself.

 

[danthecapriman]

Applied some transfers today. What an absolute shit they were to get on an in the right shape/place. Honestly I was sat piddling around with them for hours trying to get them on right.

They are tiny and very very fine gold stripes for the Last Boy Scout Buick.

The little V on the front was a particular menace to get on.  
After having done that I’m not sure if it’d be easier or harder to mask up and paint them on given the awkward shapes involved. Getting the transfer to flex and curve wasn’t easy. 
Next step will be letting them dry off then a coat of satin varnish over the body to seal the transfers in, then I might put some matt varnish on the vinyl top to tone the shine down (glossy off white was all I had suitable). Then a bit of weathering here & there.

[Zie]

Erm.... This may take a while and no, I don't know what's in here apart from what you can see. 

[RoadworkUK]

6 hours ago, Tenmil Socket said:

It is this…

That is absolutely gorgeous.

I have a bit of a soft spot for Nikko stuff. 

When I was 12 or so I got a Nikko Cosmo 5 RC rail buggy type thing that I absolutely loved.

It was played with HARD, until a few years later it suffered some kind of gear linkage problem that made it never quite work properly again. It didn't seem like something that could have been disassembled and repaired (unlike the modular drivegear that you get with a Tamiya product, for instance). 

As a result, it sat, gathering dust in the corner of my bedroom for the next 15 years or so, as something I "Used to love".

To the extent, even, that it survived moving to my first house, and then – a decade later – to this one.

Only two years ago did I suddenly think rationally and deposit it with the waste electrical items at my local tip. I broke off part of the bodywork to keep as a souvenir and it lives on my bedside cabinet.

Because there's something wrong with me.

[bunglebus]

I bought a job lot of fairly random stuff, just for these two books

Many, many hours were spent as a kid dribbling over the impossibly nice cars displayed on glass shelves. My original copy is AWOL but might still be on a shelf at my mum's house. I thought I'd already bought a replacement but I can't find it. This one I've never had before

Most of the job lot are buses so not really for me, but the Dinky kit is rather interesting 

A clever move on Dinky's part I think, sling unmade diecasts into a blister pack with a pot of paint, and laugh at the almost always terrible results 

Nice to see it in the raw, quite how this differs from the many I've stripped of paint I'm not quite sure, but it feels it somehow 

[jim89]

2 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Most of the job lot are buses so not really for me, but the Dinky kit is rather interesting 

A clever move on Dinky's part I think, sling unmade diecasts into a blister pack with a pot of paint, and laugh at the almost always terrible results 

Nice to see it in the raw, quite how this differs from the many I've stripped of paint I'm not quite sure, but it feels it somehow 

I built & painted 😬 one of those in my yout' ❤️

[Zie]

Corgi Fowler and Sentinel. 

[bunglebus]

I've been after the big ERTL General Lee for ages, normally they get too expensive but not this time

Custom bonnet prop

It's not perfect, push bar is broken and someone's wanged the wrong screws in - I had lots of spares though so soon fixed

[Dick Cheeseburger]

56 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

I've been after the big ERTL General Lee for ages, normally they get too expensive but not this time

Custom bonnet prop

It's not perfect, push bar is broken and someone's wanged the wrong screws in - I had lots of spares though so soon fixed

Noice. I have a large, mid 80s Ertl pressed steel General which I bought a few years back to replace my long dead, childhood example. When does this one date from? I see it's diecast so quite a different example despite initial looks. Cracking model. 

[andrew e]

That looks even better like that, than if it was mintola example 👌

[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, Dick Cheeseburger said:

.When does this one date from?

It's copyrighted 1981 but I don't know a lot about them, just keep seeing them pop up at prices I'm not comfortable with. 

I'd be interested to see your pressed steel one, still ERTL?

EDIT wow the steel is a mahoosive 1:16

[bunglebus]

I built this kit as a kid

Unfortunately I got glue on one of the dining room chairs doing it and my mum confiscated it until I could work out how to get the glue out 🤷🏼‍♀️

[Split_Pin]

17 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

It's copyrighted 1981 but I don't know a lot about them, just keep seeing them pop up at prices I'm not comfortable with. 

I'd be interested to see your pressed steel one, still ERTL?

EDIT wow the steel is a mahoosive 1:16

I still have my childhood 1/25 Ertl GL which I restored in 2001 using paper stickers I made on MS paint. 

The same kid who absolutely mullered it had the big pressed steel one. It came with a plastic ramp and I remember when I was about 4 he jumped it off it and right into my arm full force. I was only about 4 and still recall the pain.

[eddyramrod]

1 hour ago, bunglebus said:

I bought a job lot of fairly random stuff, just for these two books

Many, many hours were spent as a kid dribbling over the impossibly nice cars displayed on glass shelves when I was a kid, my original copy is AWOL but might still be on a shelf at my mum's house. I thought I already bought a replacement but I can't find it. This one I've never had before

Most of the job lot are buses so not really for me, but the Dinky kit is rather interesting 

A clever move on Dinky's part I think, sling unmade diecasts into a blister pack with a pot of paint, and laugh at the almost always terrible results 

Nice to see it in the raw, quite how this differs from the many I've stripped of paint I'm not quite sure, but it feels it somehow 

I had that Patrick Trench book too!  Must have been the mid-80s, and I couldn't tell you when I last saw it, but it's definitely AWOL.  

[Dick Cheeseburger]

25 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

It's copyrighted 1981 but I don't know a lot about them, just keep seeing them pop up at prices I'm not comfortable with. 

I'd be interested to see your pressed steel one, still ERTL?

EDIT wow the steel is a mahoosive 1:16

That's the one! It's a lovely model although the detail is pretty poor in contrast to yours. I'll have to dig it out at some point and photograph it with my 80s Ertl A team van!

Edit: Found a photo of my van from a few years back. Just need to dig out the Charger next...

[bunglebus]

You have two Screaming Mad Murdochs?

[Dick Cheeseburger]

45 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

You have two Screaming Mad Murdochs?

I used to. I think one of them ended up as part of a roffle bundle I offered on here a while ago. The rest are firmly tucked away. I'd like to add an Amy to the set but they seem to make mega £££ and are rarely available.

[sierraman]

I had the Ertl Corvette which I think was from the A-Team. It went for decent money on eBay as well. 

[Split_Pin]

I had the pressed steel Knight Rider car as a kid but I really wanted the Dukes Charger. I ended up finding the 1/25 KITT at the Lakeland Motor Museum when it was in Keswick, in 1996. They were flogging a load of MiB examples for a tenner each, I jumped at it!

[bunglebus]

I think I sold my A Team van a while back - the big one anyway

Still got a Kidko

Little ERTL

And LJN

 

[Split_Pin]

I only had the wee ERTL one of that. I also had a KITT in that size which went AWOL in the 1980s but I bought another nice one about ten years ago in a job lot.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Here's my LJN 'Vette. Owned since childhood and repaired a couple of years back after being out of action for a few decades!

 

 

[bunglebus]

Don't remember a Z car in the A Team, but LJN thought there was

Anyone know what this is? In one of those Vintage Honeypots eBay lots but even my substantial bid was trumped

Thought it might be a plastic Dinky Transit copy. Now I've done a bit of Googling, it could be a Siku

Nice, but I'm not so upset that I missed a mystery one now