Shite in Miniature II

[FakeConcern]

Nothing from the below selection, but yes to the Spot on Bedford Tractor unit!!

[eddyramrod]

Pearl grey Bentley S2 please?  Also Chitty just because I've never had one.  Maybe I should scoop up the other Bentleys too, I'll soon have enough to stage an all-Bentley grid!

[SilverMachine]

On 18/06/2026 at 21:58, FakeConcern said:

Thanks for the input, I forgot to say the headlamp was known to be missing and I plan to reproduce it in resin. I love the diorama idea and Mrs Concern would be well up to it*, but as it's to be a present for her sister that's not the idea. The toy is a diecast mazac or similar so yes we will use epoxy resin possibly with a wire in it to give some strength to fix the bumper.

* @SilverMachine I'm not sure if you were a regular when I posted the pics of the almost scratch built Judy Garland Trolley Song model Mrs Concern made a couple of years ago, anyway here it is

 

that is rather splendid! 

[DodgeRover]

40 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

Pearl grey Bentley S2 please?  Also Chitty just because I've never had one.  Maybe I should scoop up the other Bentleys too, I'll soon have enough to stage an all-Bentley grid!

Drop me a message and I'll sort something out. 

[bunglebus]

All the way from the US of A, color* changers Matchbox VW T3 crew cab

This is the "hot" colour

And the cold

[bunglebus]

Also from the states, and arriving at the same time, but in a different box were these unusual Hot Wheels 

[bunglebus]

Last Vinted purchase was this, and I had to buy it twice - for some reason recently, three separate deliveries via Evri have been returned to sender as "unable to deliver". This one made it back to the sender and then to me, again

This one's a Fisher Price, I've got a hankering for a replacement dragster the same as the one I remember so well, spinning up the friction motor to ridiculous RPM before hitting the button to send it wheelieing off into a distant sideboard. I missed out on a cheap pair on eBay because I dithered, so I grabbed this funny car to tide me over in the meantime 

[bunglebus]

Not much larger scale stuff today, one seller had a table full of mostly familiar cars that I perhaps should have picked over more carefully, as he wasn't greedy. Cost me a fiver to get this X1/9 and boat set, trailer is missing a wheel but I have trailers up the wazoo

Another couple of quid netted me a SuperKings Crapi

Polistil Roller was a pound from my usual Saturday seller

Mmm, tilty seats

[bunglebus]

Waifs, strays, oddballs and weirdos now, and plenty of them. A trio of never found before Zylmex, starting with a mildly squished Cobra Street Racer

The "as seen in a B movie" Van Killer

Plus a Trans       Am (well that's how it's spaced on the base)

To Spain next, with a Guisval car transporter full of Lancia Stratoseseses

Yatming had a decent stab at the E21 BMW 3 series

Several of today's finds are missing doors frustratingly. I bought them anyway as you never know what might turn up - will I find a donor for a Playart Citroen CX?

No donor needed for the same brand Rolls Royce. My VW and Porsche collecting nemesis materialised this morning and seemed very interested in this one and a few others I'd dug out. Nice to be ahead of him for once!

Mira Granada...

...only missing one door

Last doorless one is this Guisval Ritmo

PT Cruiser is unbranded and was one chucked in as a bonus freebie

Along with two Road Champs Mercuries. Nice casting ruined by shite wheels, so I may do some swapsies here

Fairly terrible Mustang appears at first glance to be a Majorette, but it's actually a Road Champs

Lastly, two Lido "Gun of a car" efforts, the red one definitely isn't a Honda 

[bunglebus]

Back to normality with some little Corgis, and seemingly more on the endless list of variations. Big effort here with a wonky POLICE decal slapped on a plain Chevrolet Van

Equally plain E30, nice M3 shape with the box arches

DB6 comes in many colours, but this one's a little unusual in having a factory respray from yellow to blue. Was it originally one of the common Weetabix giveaways, rejigged for retail?

Red one was always this colour

Maroon SD1

Colour coded engines never really caught on outside of the word of air cooled VWs, But no-one told Corgi

All beige Carrera is delightful for reasons I can't quite explain 

Volvo breaks things up with a yellow interior though

Apparently I don't have this combination of colour, windows, interior and wheels, so it joins the collection 

Two new types of RO80 also found in the carrier bags this morning 

P1800 is just nicer than my current example 

I didn't have this Super Stock Car though

Early Whizzwheels DS using the larger Husky casting

Which transitions nicely into this, Husky MK10 Jag in chrome finish, but again the bigger version. Previously I've only found the smaller, plastic based version of this one in a chrome finish 

[bunglebus]

Not a lot else to write home about today, got this Majorette Simca that seems to be an improvement on any I've found before 

It seems though, that I didn't find every El Camino last week, so I brought this home

Hardly any Matchbox today, Laser Wheels Allante is a tough one to find in good shape 

Only other thing to mention is the Schuco sweeper, which had a bath in oven cleaner and looks quite cool now on its bare metal finish 

[quicksilver]

Nothing of interest at the market this morning. Thought I had struck gold when I spotted a Cararama box labelled Ford Ka, this being a particularly rare one and subject to Ford tax so I've been looking for one for years.  A closer look revealed someone had put a common Mercedes C-class in the wrong box. Major disappoint.

[eddyramrod]

There's work going on here.  First pic is three chassis that I've now taken downstairs because they need some cutting.

From the front: Corgi Cortina GXL chassis was a police car, so I need to cut off the siren that Corgi added to the front number plate, because this is now going to be a civilian car (see below).  Next up is a Corgi Aston Martin DB4, which needs a little adjustment to a couple of the posts that hold the interior.  Easy enough.  And finally, a Dinky AEC Merryweather fire engine chassis: I need to cut off the control/outlet panel you can see, to go on something else.

And here's the rest of the Cortina.  Next time you see it, it'll be right way up and surrounded by sisters!  Now the next two pics are near-as-dammit completed; I just have to fit the steering wheel to the Armstrong Siddeley and the front axle to the grey Jag.

Now then: if you've been keeping track, you know that I've been building up a stock of (mostly) Matchbox King Size fantasy vehicles, to make what might be considered background traffic in street scenes, as might have been used (but obviously never were) by Gerry Anderson.  So I got my hands on the Matchbox camper...

...and made a plain van!

The roof is a section cut from a Dinky Ford Transit, filling the hole where the camper top flipped up.  Rear door was missing so I cut down a section of a broken caravan body to make a new one (fixed rather than opening!  I'm not that good!).  Windows were filed to remove the cast-in frames, then filled with P38.  I always stick a strip of masking tape on the inside so the filler doesn't just blob through.  Both vehicles can now join the fleet.  If I lay hands on another one I might do a minibus...

[junkyarddog]

10 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

made a plain van

That does look rather good Eddy!

[flat4alfa]

I remember that set from the catalogue when I was a boy. Always wanted that Carlsberg set with the Power Boat

Never seen the Spindrift set though

[Lord Sterling]

11 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Only other thing to mention is the Schuco sweeper, which had a bath in oven cleaner and looks quite cool now on its bare metal finish 

That, is amazing. I love that. Can't find one except for one in Switzerland for £124 which I can't afford and wouldn't pay anyway.

It reminds me of this which I often drive at work:

Yes, its not a street sweeper, bit its from the same kind of family.

[AndyW201]

An arrival, yesterday.

A bit of a selfish, indulgent purchase this one. Still got a bit of guilt over it as being a low volume resin model, these Matrix models aren't cheap.

My mother passed away a few weeks ago. I started getting sentimental and looking through old pics where I came across this (abysmal) pic of me in my first car in 1991). 

(This was the result of picking a filthy cold wet October day for my mate Dave to try to take a picture of me trying to wheelspin a 998cc shitheap.) It was a base MiniMetro which someone had attempted to inject some street cred into with MG stripes and interior, (red carpets and seatbelts FTW), colour coded grille, spotlights and later TD wheels. 

I've long wanted a Metro in model form. I've got the period 1/36 Corgi versions in blue and red, but I always wanted a nice 1/43 version. For a car that was literally everywhere, options are limited. For a replica of my old car, the nearest options  would be the Mk1 Vermillion red MGs by Neo,

And Lansdowne,

Sadly price and rarity rule these two out straight away. Plus the Lansdowne just looks wrong to me.

So, the Matrix is a Mk2 Turbo, and a different shade of red, but sod it! Its a red MG so it got the job. These Matrix Metros are a lot more readily available, and I got a pretty good offer from an ebay seller. RRP on these is somewhere around the £100+ mark (still cheaper than the Neo and Lansdowne ones) but this ended up working out about the same as two Vanguards cars. Clearpay instalments eased the pain also.

Its been a bit of a shit time at 201 towers lately so when the offer came through I had a bit of a F-it moment. I work 60 hours a week, don't smoke, and drink 'in moderation'. Apart from my old Merc, diecast is my one vice, so what the heck.

This is the first resin model I've had. Finish is impressive and everything just seems sharper and more delicate than diecast. The glazing on this is so thin you can actually see clearly inside without the 'bottle bottom' effect of cheaper models.

Nice to see the sideways cranked MG spec tailpipe!

Interior detail is superb,

Even has the correct Philips digital stereo,

And cassette holder. Note the red carpets!

There are tiny seperate plated parts like the MG grille badge and door and boot locks,

Plus the side repeaters and aerial stub.

Worth the price of two Vanguards? Open to debate. But I absolutely love it. My favourite mini-shite purchase for a long while and it's brought a bit of joy at what has been a bit of a shitty time.

Can't put a price on that can you?

[bunglebus]

Boot sale 1, done

[bunglebus]

Plus a present from my eldest