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More shite has arrived at Chez Felly, the XR3i from Monsieur Lobster of this parish, and a Cortina Mk3 via a fb group I'm on for a very good price

 

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The wheels actually don't look too bad up close. it means I now have 3 Escort XR3's in my collection. And it arrived less than 48 hrs from ordering. :)

 

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It's the cheapo Haynes one with RS style side decals, fog lights from a Cararama Capri, and photo etched wipers

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It's been tits cold this past week, and its only going to get worse as winter draws in. So, where big chod is too outdoors and chilly, little chod prevails! 

 

Those up for restoration are:

 

Golf MK1

Vw T2 pop top

Renault 17 TS

Sunbeam Alpine

Fraud Crapi

And... For Mr Lobster himself... a blue Renault 4 van

 

All are going to be restored, but colour suggestions are appreciated, so that preferably they are all scale replicas of real cars on Autoshite.

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!!!!!WARNING!!!!!

 

I bought an AMT kit after Christmas and, now I have begun to assemble it, immediately regret this decision. The sprues appear to have been made from recycled plastic cups on Guangdong province's first injection moulding machine and the instructions are a vague, grainy image of what the thing should ultimately look like. Not a single part has gone together correctly yet and a large amount have broken. Do not buy AMT. Buy Italeri every time.

 

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At least the box art warns you not to expect perfect front axle alignment...

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The kit is quite dated, it's been around for 40 years, but I didn't find it very challenging.

 

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Mine is a newly manufactured kit but I imagine the quality is probably down to several decade old tooling etc then.

 

I see yours has lost a few parts  :-P

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Some fantastic stuff there, it just shows an old kit can still look the part. In much smaller scale truck shite news, could this be the fleet of the SVM Road Haulage division?

 

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Well I was bored over the weekend, so attacked that Vanguards Police Cortina, and now it looks a bit different, and some photos with my other Cortinas. Just need a mk1 for the full house.

 

Sodding drill slipped when I was drilling out the windows to paint the roof, and borked the windscreen. Tried using sheet acetate from a model box, wouldn't have it, needed to be slightly curved, had a shiters brainwave, a Pepsi Max bottle...So it was out with the cutting disc, cut out the damaged windscreen, use as a template, and job done. 

 

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Remember all that talk a while back of the Russian CSI bus in the partwork collection at Poundland?  I've wanted one from the first pic I saw on ebay, and have been chasing them ever since, but they always run over budget.  Well last week I got one, at the toy fair at Bolton that caused me such misery (so it wasn't a total loss).  Three whole English pounds, in the bubble pack.  That's the nearest I've ever seen them to Poundland prices.  Speaking of which: my local branch has a new series in, modern supercars.  So far I've seen three: Dodge Viper, Chevrolet Corvette and some kind of Maserati (curiously the only one not painted red!).  Not my thing so I doubt I'll be buying, unless any shiter wants them and has difficulty locally.  Let me know if that happens.

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£3 isn't a bad price mate for one of them. It looks a pretty decent sized model as well. Photos required of course. I've just ordered a couple of russian partwork models today as well

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Pictures?  We can do that...

Barrow has two branches of Poundland now, so today I went in the other one, where I saw much the same selection, unsurprisingly.  However, my eye was caught by the sole example of an Aston Martin DB4 in among the Vipers and Maseratis, so I grabbed it.

So here they are in all their 1.43 glory, my DB4, Moskvich and CSi bus.

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Oh fuck what have I bought now? From a seller in the Ukraine

 

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The mags are brilliant too, can't understand what they are on about, but they have nice pictures :)

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I have a friend who can read, write and speak Russian I could ask him to translate but I think know what the answer will be!

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Out of the packet :) 

 

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I've detailed them up a bit, and made the burgundy one into a 'Mini Keith'. They are great models tbh, and I've been after a 21099 saloon for a bit, and I regretted selling my MF Cars branded Samara,. This is the same casting just recoloured. Sputniktastic

 

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  On 27/12/2014 at 15:49, AndyW201 said:

My little diecast haul from this Christmas. As can be seen from my previous pics, I am a bit of a closet old skool Ford fan, and seeing as most of the real thing are out of my league price wise, I make up for it in diecast! I already have most of the Vanguards mk1 Escys, and had to have this one. I remember an RS2000 around here years ago with the sebring red/yellow stripe combo and four football sized Cibies like this one.20141227_145800_zpsbb06a4da.jpg

I missed out on most of the standard spec Vanguard XR3is when they came out, and they quickly went up to silly money. I already have the less detailed haynes version with the booklet though. Didnt really fancy a police

 

version, though they can still be had for reasonable money. So I set my sights on the Modelzone boy racer version, it made sense as I already have the rest of the Vanguards boy racer series. Pretty well observed this one, with the 'Stylistick' stripes, 'tailblazer' in the rear screen and Ripspeed sticker on the tailgate. Takes me back to 1993, when I was doing very similar to a China blue mk3 popular...20141227_151035_zps3e89435e.jpg

So, have to find room in the display cabinet now. Ive already had a signal green mk2 mexico waiting its turn since last christmas!

I just got hold of this one (along with a mk2 Mex) and to be honest am a little disappointed with it. To my eyes, there is something not quite right with the rear arch. Also procured a a Mk2 Astra SR which is ace

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