Shite in Miniature II

[mercrocker]

The Dyane has arrived...

 

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It takes a brave man to lift a Norev tail-gate!

[egg]

I do tailgates, but never a bonnet!

[Junkman]

It takes a brave man to lift a Norev tail-gate!

 

Are you, too, my friend, among the men whose bravery was rewarded with that peculiar 'snap' sound that's only too familiar to the true connoisseurs of vintage plastic wares?

A sound that's also often heard when after achieving a perfect paint job on a model kit body it is slightly spread to enable it to slip onto the chassis?

A sound whose likeliness to occur is directly proportional to the value of the object?

[mercrocker]

I learned the anguish as a child.   Maturity has done little to dent the frequency or emotion, sadly!

[mercrocker]

Christmas ain't all bad....

 

[Burnside]

Still have the Universal Hobbies 1:43 Royal Mail Land Rover For Sale. Anybody want it £10 posted?

 

 

[Felly Magic]

If I don't win an ebay auction tonight, hmmmmm re that OLLI van

[stuboy]

The new xm model and freedie pug 605 found room on shelf with other frenchies

[Junkman]

Caution!

 

There is a company in Belgium crushing old Norevs and model kits to make children's furniture out of them!

 

https://www.ecobirdy.com/

 

Please don't just avoid such doings, boycott them!

And for God's sake, safeguard your precious plastic!

 

Here is how the Norev scrappage scheme is hammered into the consciousness of unsuspecting children under a false pretext:

 

https://www.ecobirdy.com/school-programme/

 

A scandal!

[mercrocker]

I'm still getting over the fact that my Mother persuaded me to send some broken tat to a Blue Peter appeal.   In fact I only just replaced a Dinky Humber Hawk that went that way (it had to be the brown/beige with sufficient paint loss)    Kids of the world - unite!

[Junkman]

It makes me sad to see how children are being lured into such charlatanry.

[Datsuncog]

I'm still getting over the fact that my Mother persuaded me to send some broken tat to a Blue Peter appeal.   In fact I only just replaced a Dinky Humber Hawk that went that way (it had to be the brown/beige with sufficient paint loss)    Kids of the world - unite!

 

 

ALL YR DIECAST ARE BELONG TO US

 

 

Bet you Peter Purves took them home and played with them all.

 

 

I would.

 

 

EDIT: after badly cutting myself on a large (approx 1/18 scale) tinplate Talbot Alpine, I was made to throw out all my damaged tinplate, diecast and plastic cars and trucks - the majority of which had been brought back from abroad by family members. Having to chuck my beloved 1/12 scale Citroen CX (gold with a purpley-pink interior, but with a snapped A-pillar) in the bin still haunts me... so I feel your pain, guys.

[Split_Pin]

Fucking philistines these environmentalists®

[Junkman]

This is shocking.

[Junkman]

Among other I spot a Lesney Radio Rentals van with fully intact rear shutter and a Dinky VW 1600 TL.

[mercrocker]

There's a Dinky Hudson and Corgi Plymouth Sport Suburban there, too....They did actually auction off the decent gear but that was mainly pre-war Dinky.   Still can't look at those pictures in case my Humber's there...

[sierraman]

Peter Purves will have bagged up all the decent stuff and took it home, all the crap stuff he just let John Noakes stamp on. Rumour has it Purves still has all those old Dinkys in the loft, the whole thing was a plot for him to enlarge his own die cast collection.

[Junkman]

There is a Dinky Morris J van and a Silver Shadow and what I believe is a '58 Lincoln.

[Junkman]

Well, if you look at the prices they ask for that furniture they make from what they con out of those poor children by brainwashing them, without mentioning any charity they donate to, I'd just wait for them to show up at the school my children go to with a proper hard plastic baseball bat, lemme tellyas orl. And not before I have weaponised every kiddo with a nice plastic water pistol.

 

Thanks God my childhood was happier than Mercrocker's.

[Christine]

Valerie let Peter play with her Corsair..and Peter gave her a Probe ..

[RayMK]

I bet his Probe was dinky.

[RayMK]

In the 1960s prewar Dinky toys were commonly given away by prewar Uncles, Dads and Grandads. Collectors were few and far between.  I picked up my small collection of prewar and immediately post war re-issues from a small toy shop in Southsea which had 2nd hand toys for sale in a glass display box at the entrance.  I readily starved myself by diverting school dinner money to this noble cause.  All Dinky lorries were 3d each, as were most of the sports cars. My collection was thus valued at 1/6d in 1960, not that that interested me at all.  By the 1970s most early Dinky toys from the 30s, 40s and 50s were becoming collectable. I 'had' to pay £12 for four 2nd hand post war saloons in 1972.  All are now down from the loft but individually wrapped in 1970s *Andrex or *hankerchiefs together with a few similarly protected Spot-ons, Corgis, Matchbox and one or two Dinky aeroplanes. Surprisingly, I have a couple of Matchbox cars still with their boxes and several 1st issue Corgi Classics also boxed, even the blister packed (opened) Rolls Royce.  Yes, yes, I'll try to get some photos posted sometime.

 

*unused!     

[59Impala]

Just to show that I have been spending my pocket wisely here's a few pics of recent-ish acquisitions. French plasticky vehicles included.

A box with stuff in it.

 

Another box with boxed stuff.

Et voila Le Camping Cars

Ah the Commer with ludicrous narrow track.

Even more ludicrous Mini camper with all of 850cc to lug it along ever so slowly

Partwork for Argentina of the 1965 Rambler Ambassador, the one with the fugly nose.

As promised French plastic stuff, Les Norev ancienne.

Renault is badged as an Ondine.

Mini seems to dwarf the Fiat

Oops, definitely has a bent subframe

 

 

 

 

[Felly Magic]

I have been spending unwisely

 

 

In small form 

 

 

Bugger! I had stopped collecting bus models years back, now bought 4 in the last month! Fucksticks. The3 real thing had a family connection, so had to have a model of it, now quite an old model, about 20 years old give or take. 

[sheffcortinacentre]

Still want one of those mk1 transit campers.

[Felly Magic]

As a model it is rather sexual LOLOL, will ask around for you Sheff. 

[mercrocker]

Did those Volvo people-carriers use actual F88/89 screens and grilles or do they just look similar?

[Felly Magic]

They used boggo Alexander windscreens, and I think the grille was lifted from the F series truck, they also shared the engine, which was why they went like a stabbed rat! 

[sierraman]

Well, if you look at the prices they ask for that furniture they make from what they con out of those poor children by brainwashing them, without mentioning any charity they donate to, I'd just wait for them to show up at the school my children go to with a proper hard plastic baseball bat, lemme tellyas orl. And not before I have weaponised every kiddo with a nice plastic water pistol.

 

Thanks God my childhood was happier than Mercrocker's.

It went to the Peter Purves Diecast Appeal.

[cms206]

Did those Volvo people-carriers use actual F88/89 screens and grilles or do they just look similar?

Grilles were F88 items I believe; engine was the F86's 6724cc TD70-series putting out about 210bhp.

 

When your run of the mill Gardner 6LX in the mid 70s was churning out 150bhp (or 180bhp in 6LXB form) it was quite peppy.

 

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