Shite in Miniature II

[bunglebus]

Astra mission cancelled as I appear to have contracted Giffer Flu at some point. While I sit here radiating heat, I might as well have a look at some bits. 

I doubt I'll ever top this

2 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

Boobie Radio.

There's also a boobie mug and a boobie... thing. And lots of dirt

In one of those weird coincidences, I was literally thinking about finding a Firenza in that box, as someone found a blue one at the Brentwood toy fair yesterday 

No news on price of course 

[quicksilver]

Holy crap! After all the jokes about cheap Lone Star Firenzas, he's only gone and found one for real! I think that tops even @Datsuncog's £5 resin FRM bus from a few years ago and it cost not much more than the 25p it would have been new. Just goes to show there are still gems out there with sellers who don't know what they've got.

[danthecapriman]

I bet your heart was pounding out of your chest @bunglebus when you first spotted that in the box!😄

Well done👍

[flat4alfa]

[matt79]

Awesome find @bunglebus 👍 (you didn't win the £111 million euro millions jackpot on Friday as well did you?)

With the longer, colder months on the way, I've started my next little project - "soccer mom" (inspired by early / mid nineties mini-truck custom scene)

From this ugly hippo -

 

To this (progress so far)-

Thinking yellow / purple / orange colour scheme, a taste of summer for the colder days ahead.

[danthecapriman]

49 minutes ago, matt79 said:

Awesome find @bunglebus 👍 (you didn't win the £111 million euro millions jackpot on Friday as well did you?)

With the longer, colder months on the way, I've started my next little project - "soccer mom" (inspired by early / mid nineties mini-truck custom scene)

From this ugly hippo -

Progress so far-

Thinking yellow / purple / orange colour scheme, a taste of summer for the colder days ahead.

That’s brilliant! 
What the heck was it before? Can’t say I’ve ever seen one of those.

[flat4alfa]

Dunmow, in period

[matt79]

13 minutes ago, danthecapriman said:

That’s brilliant! 
What the heck was it before? Can’t say I’ve ever seen one of those.

Its a Mk1 Ford Galaxy / Seat Alhambra / VW Sharan, I believe originally a Maisto / Realtoy casting in around 1/64 scale, It was just a broken model I gained in a job lot purchase and I was just going to bin it....

It actually looks quite detailed, under the garish colour scheme it currently wears - the details for the headlights, front grill & tail lights are cast in not just printed on. 

[flat4alfa]

25 minutes ago, danthecapriman said:

Can’t say I’ve ever seen one of those.

Realtoy 

https://ebay.io/m/uDn3tr

https://ebay.io/m/QQdIpn

https://ebay.io/m/LBqY89

[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, matt79 said:

you didn't win the £111 million euro millions jackpot on Friday as well did you?

No, and I was a bit annoyed! Thought it was a dead cert.

Not complaining today though, there's a bit too much to catalogue every single one, so I've just cherry picked the nice/rare/interesting ones here.

Dinky Cadillac ambulance is quite the beast

Picked up the Whizzwheels and red hub Firebirds as projects/donors, the interiors are different? One seems designed to stay as an open top permanently 

Tidy 911 Targa

MGC is in really good condition 

Tilty seats!

I've seen a handful of these in 50p tubs recently, actually took the plunge today. Surely @tooSavvy doesn't need any more?

This was not 50p, not even close

Interior was fairly disgusting 

So I took a chance and gave it a dunk in with the Tupperware 

Much better

I did remove the battery compartment first. TV is playing a documentary about sailing ships it seems

Newer Corgi Jag is pretty much complete 

Unbranded base though

Some Matchbox action now, red grille/interior Mod Tractor is uncommon

As is the green version 

You also don't get clear windows in a Cambuster very often 

[MVX11V]

Blue team matchbox for a fiver posted? Happy with that. 

 

[flat4alfa]

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TV is playing a documentary about sailing ships it seems

The one back here has the same program on the Telly.

What I ought get hold of is the Clown Show, to match my life 

[Datsuncog]

2 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Newer Corgi Jag is pretty much complete 

Unbranded base though

Nice, from one of the St Michael Motorway Gift Sets produced for M&S by Corgi in 1978/79:

#8002 Motorway Police Patrol

#8102 Motorway Breakdown

#8402 Motorway Rescue

If you ever see one of their exclusive Fire Chief Buick Regals, you know what to do. 😉

[flat4alfa]

[bunglebus]

Smaller bits now, loads of Matchbox but some are fairly average. SD1 is nice though

Only regular wheels find today

Skip Truck with skip

Not the best Commando VW T3 I've ever seen, but I wasn't leaving it behind 

This was what I saw through the side of the big tub that lead me to my special find. It can go on a shelf somewhere with other no-hopers

A couple of Speed Riders 

The Mrs tool a shine to this Thunderbird 

And Jeep. It is very tidy though

Villager. Always amuses me to see where they had to chop off the tow hook to fit it in the box

Very clean Transit

Another twin pack Field Car

Ruff Trek with the bits still attached 

Dark green, closed door AMX

And it's American cousin, the Cam Cracker 

Flamed Piston Popper is another unusual find

Flames on this one are interesting in an abstract way. Shame really as the US Mail Truck itself was very clean

IMSA Mustang was one of my childhood favourites, this version seems to often be battered to death though

Here's a weirdo. Is this the only Juniors to use the Rostyle wheels from the bigger cars?

Tidy Majorette was in the Matchbox case

There were some blackwall era Hot Wheels about, although this is much newer than it appears 

Cute little bus is a keyring by Kinsfun, only 20p and I thought it might look good with custom paint

Auto Pilen Buggi Playero is heftly. Got a chome one already 

Weirdos contain, among other things, this Triang Spacex vehicle

This plastic fantastic is marked NN no.202 and made in Hong Kong 

FWD naturally. Last plastic one is this trailer which looks very familiar! No brand on it

Scooped up another example of the Mini Dinky Corvette too

A Norev Fox Body Mustang 

Plus this Guisval

Lastly another Lone Star, the "Gran Turismo" Corvette this time

[andrew e]

That fox body Mustang is a cracker 👌 

[flat4alfa]

3 minutes ago, andrew e said:

That fox body Mustang is a cracker 👌 

It was, until Gemma Collins sat on it and bent the axles

[flat4alfa]

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That was a Lucky find

[WillCarter]

First car boot in a few weeks, was plenty of Diecast around but I wasn't in much of a buying mood for some reason. These were the exception though, all boxed, I was deliberating which ones to get and he said £12 the lot. Well, rude not to, right?

[flat4alfa]

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Oh hello…

A proper Bburago Alfa Romeo 33

They only went and did two sizes, didn’t they.  1:18 and 1:43.

Both were of MK1 version, complete with faithful weirdo dashboards if you take a look inside

I’ve still got a Mk1 in real life 1:1 scale, in the garage. But a bit borked now. To be fair, they were borked when new.

[Split_Pin]

I have a Ford D series artic Corgi Juniors with the larger Rostyle wheels. As it was a Husky I'm not sure it counts though.

[bunglebus]

16 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Newer Corgi Jag is pretty much complete 

 

 

14 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

Nice, from one of the St Michael Motorway Gift Sets produced for M&S by Corgi in 1978/79:

#8002 Motorway Police Patrol

#8102 Motorway Breakdown

#8402 Motorway Rescue

Just realised I have another one

 

[matt79]

Little bit more Impy Lonestar love for a Monday - got some lacquer on this yesterday, a few more little details to do but I'm calling this project complete (for the most part)- 

Need to get a better backdrop, not a tatty paint stained cutting mat....

[Remspoor]

Started to go though some of the stuff I collected from Dad's More to follow.

[WillCarter]

1 hour ago, matt79 said:

Need to get a better backdrop, not a tatty paint stained cutting mat....

I use one of these

[bunglebus]

17 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

Looks like water based paint to me

I thought the same, but Fairy and the other half's toothbrush failed to shift it

[bunglebus]

3 hours ago, matt79 said:

 

What did you do to get a decent engine in there? I seem to recall you couldn't just chop out the bay due to the axle location. I think on mine I ground the original 4 cylinder off and glued a Matchbox engine in, after painting everything black to hide the carnage

 

[matt79]

39 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

What did you do to get a decent engine in there? I seem to recall you couldn't just chop out the bay due to the axle location. I think on mine I ground the original 4 cylinder off and glued a Matchbox engine in, after painting everything black to hide the carnage

 

I cut the engine bay casting out completely, using a jewellers saw. Had to glue the front doors shut (the spring for these is mounted under the engine casting). The base has a small locating tab on he rear, the front is held with a dab of super glue. The axles are mounted in .8mm tube, glued to the top side of the base. The engine itself is one I printed at home as a test (I won a 3d printer roffle on here a few months ago, so now I have another new toy  expensive hobby)

[SilverMachine]

anyone parting with any renault 19 5 door hatchbacks cheap? phase 1 and 2  if possible

[danthecapriman]

Jumajo ordered just arrived.😬

And there’s a Fiat tipper coming too which I need to combine with another Fiat I’ve already got here to create two trucks I’ve wanted to build for a while. 
Should keep me busy through winter!