Shite in Miniature II

[flat4alfa]

On 6/2/2019 at 6:39 PM, flat4alfa said:

i have that Majorette R18 taxi too! Bought it in Brittany in 1983

Checked and I bought both the Simca 1100 and Renault 18 in 1982 actually.  I can remember the store too!  Maman-Bebe in Chateaubriant....      yet I can't remember what I did last Thursday.

The HW Delorean is an impostor in this photo.  I just like it and want to enlarge it to 1:32 somehow.  Maybe I'll ask Alice when she's ten feet tall.

[flat4alfa]

On 6/3/2019 at 3:58 PM, flat4alfa said:

I've got the Model T Rod not as Fire Truck but in green metallic 

Might let it go actually.

In fact this little whole little lot can go.  Not looking for money as much as swaps.  

Clockwise from top left:  Daft Majorette Dyane is a rarity I think.  Norev Laguna wagon.  Corgi X1/9, really looking for a better example.  MB Transit.  HW red stripy Beatnick Bandit.  MB Rover 800.  Majorette Bagheera I have two of.  Last but not least the MB SuperKings HOT-T rod that I seem to have paid £2.50 for, according to the sticker underneath!

 

Renault seats for the win.

[flat4alfa]

On 6/2/2019 at 10:48 PM, bunglebus said:

Can anyone tell me more about this van?

20190602_181806 by RS, on Flickr

Yatming Ford Econoline.  Looks to be a later sub-contracted pressing as the Yatming logo is blanked-off

[Tenmil Socket]

32 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Might let it go actually.

In fact this little whole little lot can go.  Not looking for money as much as swaps.  

Clockwise from top left:  Daft Majorette Dyane is a rarity I think.  Norev Laguna wagon.  Corgi X1/9, really looking for a better example.  MB Transit.  HW red stripy Beatnick Bandit.  MB Rover 800.  Majorette Bagheera I have two of.  Last but not least the MB SuperKings HOT-T rod that I seem to have paid £2.50 for, according to the sticker underneath!

 

Renault seats for the win.

Love the Transit. What's the cargo?

 

[flat4alfa]

The crated-up Ark of the Covenant I think 

[bunglebus]

On 6/3/2019 at 3:08 PM, TheDoctor said:

Bunglebus, what's the chances of that Land Rover FC being available? I have a bit of a thing for forward control LRs. 

Sure, paid 50p so that plus postage and it's yours

 

Took pics of some more from my collection;

 

20190604_123051 by RS, on Flickr

Steering and suspension on this one

20190604_123110 by RS, on Flickr

 

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Also picked this up in the charity shop, so now the glass will turn up out of the (other) one I already have

 

20190604_134049 by RS, on Flickr

 

Lastly, this HW blackwall Jaaaag turned up today

 

20190604_120148 by RS, on Flickr

[bunglebus]

2 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

 

The HW Delorean is an impostor in this photo.  I just like it and want to enlarge it to 1:32 somehow.  Maybe I'll ask Alice when she's ten feet tall.

That Delorean's one of the two colours I need!

[bunglebus]

2 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

Might let it go actually.

 Last but not least the MB SuperKings HOT-T rod that I seem to have paid £2.50 for, according to the sticker underneath!

I'd like that, what are you after in return? The Matra would be great too.

 

I've already got one, but that Beatnik Bandit HW at the front is from the 1st year of production, 1968. Missing its bubble top though.

[bunglebus]

2 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

Yatming Ford Econoline.  Looks to be a later sub-contracted pressing as the Yatming logo is blanked-off

Thanks - just wondered what the Universal Studios bit was about

 

20190602_181751 by RS, on Flickr

[DoctorRetro]

2 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

 

 

In fact this little whole little lot can go.  Not looking for money as much as swaps. 

 

 

Fancy a random swapshop? 

 

[flat4alfa]

my thing at the moment is to get hold of 1:28-1:36 sizes that I can motorise for slot use. All the hundreds of 1:48-1:64ish things could go. Probably! I do hoard...

example would be the oversize stuff such as the Corgi Charlie's Angels van which I am doing at moment. The Sloterised Corgi Acclaim with Carlos Fandango wheels is a hoot.

[155V6]

Anything particular you're after?,I could probably find  something 1/36ish to swap for the Majorette Dyane.

[flat4alfa]

Chasing list, from top of head (after a drink...) :

Corgi Prelude, Merc 190 Coupe or 114 Saloon

Anything CanAm-ish including Corgi Mr Marvel (!)

Made in Hong Kong scaling disasters that look ok enough for a laugh

Kits. Built, falling to bits car kits, in fact anything in this scale range 

Pennies either way

[155V6]

Sure I've got a Prelude somewhere,I'll have a look tomorrow & see what else I can find.

[barrett]

Check this out! I didn't have an R16 model for my shelf of small cars wot I have owned and managed to pick this up for a bargain price on ebay. It's a 1:32 Solido 600 series from the very early '70s. Solido released three 1:32 models -this, a 504 and an Opel Commodore - but the range only lasted three years and was quietly forgotten. It probably didn't help that the real R16 was restyled not long after the toy was launched, leaving Solido with a stock of obsolete castings. It's actually a little less detailed than a contemporary 1:43 and much more toy-like, and the proportions are quite odd, but these things are incredibly rare and I've never seen another for sale.

It's a pretty substantial thing, when compared to a Solido 1:43 Ami

[vulgalour]

The green is pretty stubborn.  Getting there.  There's some parts, like the engine, that I've not tried to dismantle because there's too high a risk of damaging the bits.  Now I've got it dismantled I found that there's half of one of the rear springs missing and there's a few small bits of damage here and there.  I removed and reglued the steering wheel since that was on upside down.  This is now at the cleaning up stage and should be in primer without too much effort.

[Sudsprint]

I thought the photo was of a French Dinky Renault 16 in Corgi R16 colour!

[Datsuncog]

17 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

In fact this little whole little lot can go.  Not looking for money as much as swaps.  

Clockwise from top left:  Daft Majorette Dyane is a rarity I think.  Norev Laguna wagon.  Corgi X1/9, really looking for a better example.  MB Transit.  HW red stripy Beatnick Bandit.  MB Rover 800.  Majorette Bagheera I have two of.  Last but not least the MB SuperKings HOT-T rod that I seem to have paid £2.50 for, according to the sticker underneath!

Renault seats for the win.

Cor, colour me interested for that Phase 1 Laguna estate (in Fiji Green, same as two of my old shitters).

Also the MB Transit Mk1 and Rover Sterling, if no-one else has put their hand up yet.

Looking at your wants list, I believe I still have two 1/35-ish Airfix Aston Martin DB5s, which I built/converted for slot car use (sat nicely on a Scalextric XR3 chassis, with no need for modification) and an Airfix MGB Roadster - all built-up and painted (badly) many moons ago, now falling to bits but still in their boxes and largely complete.

I should look those out, if you've any interest?. I just hope I didn't bin them off last year, thinking that no-one could possibly ever want them... will check and get back to you.

I really need to get the finger out and post up all the other recent diecast acquisitions which I don't really need, in case anyone here fancies them for SWOPS or CASH 2NITE M8. I also have a few other waifs and strays left over from last year's clearout which might be of some use to someone....

[flat4alfa]

Ok cheers.  Yes even borked slot cars are worth picking up rather than see them skipped

A friend of mine found out his schoolboy set of Airfix cars, after plenty of prodding.  He was embarrassed as the painting was, well, schoolboy efforts.  Looking at how ridiculous they go for on eBay etc, the mess was no matter to me - two cans of oven cleaner had all that paint off

Before i go any further...  are any of you babygirl7marty on that eBay?

 

 

[Datsuncog]

13 hours ago, barrett said:

Check this out! I didn't have an R16 model for my shelf of small cars wot I have owned and managed to pick this up for a bargain price on ebay. It's a 1:32 Solido 600 series from the very early '70s. Solido released three 1:32 models -this, a 504 and an Opel Commodore - but the range only lasted three years and was quietly forgotten. It probably didn't help that the real R16 was restyled not long after the toy was launched, leaving Solido with a stock of obsolete castings. It's actually a little less detailed than a contemporary 1:43 and much more toy-like, and the proportions are quite odd, but these things are incredibly rare and I've never seen another for sale.

It's a pretty substantial thing, when compared to a Solido 1:43 Ami

That is bloody lovely. A new one on me too - I'd no idea Solido ever produced castings of that size. Wow. 

Have you plans to track down the 504 and Commodore as well? I can't even find images for either of them online, so they must be pretty damn scarce.

Seems a few manufacturers had the bright idea of 'going big' around that time, with equally dismal results - as I recall, Dinky's 1/25 Mk1 Capri (in road, rally and police variants) was meant to be the trailblazer of a whole new range of large-format models, but they simply didn't sell and none of the other proposed castings ever saw the light of day.

Again, despite clear effort on the part of the manufacturer to things like add windscreen wipers and separate doorhandles, they still somehow manage to look cruder than the 1/43 version. Weird.

I'm not sure that similarly-scaled Bburago and Polistil cars of the era were significantly better, yet they apparently managed to sell pretty well. Could have been a price thing, or maybe Dinky's sales projections were just over-ambitious...

I'm guessing the R16 roughly scales in with the late-70s Corgi range?

[Datsuncog]

10 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Ok cheers.  Yes even borked slot cars are worth picking up rather than see them skipped

A friend of mine found out his schoolboy set of Airfix cars, after plenty of prodding.  He was embarrassed as the painting was, well, schoolboy efforts.  Looking at how ridiculous they go for on eBay etc, the mess was no matter to me - two cans of oven cleaner had all that paint off

Before i go any further...  are any of you babygirl7marty on that eBay?

Good stuff! Will have a hoke, and get back to you.

There was a somewhat melted Mk1 Escort slot car shell in Market Blokey's 50p box the other week - appeared that someone had tried chemical cleaners and it had all gone a bit pear-shaped (almost literally); if it's still there on Friday, and it's of any interest, I can pull it out for you? (See terrible pic below, cropped from a photo of the entire box - Scalextric shell?)

I'm Datsuncog on eBay, btw, because I have no imagination...

[bunglebus]

Got this Majorette MK1 Mundano if anyone wants it?

 

20190605_105649 by RS, on Flickr

20190605_105705 by RS, on Flickr

20190605_105712 by RS, on Flickr

 

Working sunroof and steering

 

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[bunglebus]

Also had a new pair of HW VWs arrive

 

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[Jon]

Cor blimey, that's a beautiful 16 you picked up there barrett!

 

I recently picked up this tatty old Land Rover, which is the first Spot On that's entered my hoard collection.

It's a nice casting yet not as weighty as I'd expected a Spot On to be, since they're a cut above their Dinky and Corgi compatriots.

 

Also nice that the interior blends in so well with this sandstone quarry scene. Actually, hang on a minute.....

 

 

I've got 2! Both with terrible paint, so at least one can see a repaint at some point (probably never).

 

They certainly weren't buttons but also weren't offensively expensive, either - I got both for less than the cheapest one I could find on Ebay at the time, which is my arbiter of 'value' . Would love to find another Spot On or two but I'm in no rush, as the chase is much of the fun, eh 'shiters?

[flat4alfa]

4 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

There was a somewhat melted Mk1 Escort slot car shell in Market Blokey's 50p box the other week - appeared that someone had tried chemical cleaners and it had all gone a bit pear-shaped (almost literally); if it's still there on Friday, and it's of any interest, I can pull it out for you? (See terrible pic below, cropped from a photo of the entire box - Scalextric shell?)

Yes that's a Scalextric shell, only in red on the re-re-release (AFAIK) so it's not the vintage pressing that collectors get excited about

If it's a pound or so, yes maybe.  I could do a bit of a custom effort, perhaps as a banger, or a convertible.  Or van it.

[Split_Pin]

4 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Got this Majorette MK1 Mundano if anyone wants it?

 

20190605_105649 by RS, on Flickr

20190605_105705 by RS, on Flickr

20190605_105712 by RS, on Flickr

 

Working sunroof and steering

 

20190605_105758 by RS, on Flickr

20190605_105753 by RS, on Flickr

20190605_105804 by RS, on Flickr

Yes please

[155V6]

19 hours ago, 155V6 said:

Sure I've got a Prelude somewhere,I'll have a look tomorrow & see what else I can find.

I've just spent an hour pulling out one of my big cupboards of stuff looking for this,but no luck,so it must be in the other one.

I did find this Zylmex Supervan though.The real one was posted a while back as a possible influence for the Matchbox Stretcha Fetcha 

[flat4alfa]

21 hours ago, barrett said:

Check this out! I didn't have an R16 model for my shelf of small cars wot I have owned and managed to pick this up for a bargain price on ebay. It's a 1:32 Solido 600 series from the very early '70s. Solido released three 1:32 models -this, a 504 and an Opel Commodore - but the range only lasted three years and was quietly forgotten. It probably didn't help that the real R16 was restyled not long after the toy was launched, leaving Solido with a stock of obsolete castings. It's actually a little less detailed than a contemporary 1:43 and much more toy-like, and the proportions are quite odd, but these things are incredibly rare and I've never seen another for sale.

It's a pretty substantial thing, when compared to a Solido 1:43 Ami

I never knew

It seems the three were sold with trailers under the Maxicar subbrand

[vulgalour]

I'm really pleased with how well this built back up.  This is the first shot of primer, no filler work, and it looks really good already.  The headlights, grille, and bumper were all one casting originally, I split them so I can blend the headlight cowling into the wing properly since that's supposed to be body coloured rather than chromed and should help the model look more real.  I ran out of primer to do the interior panels, I'm just happy the body is mostly done now.  Filler work shouldn't be too challenging, the majority of the body is in very good shape, it's just a couple of the panel joins that need the work really.

[Amishtat]

Looking forward to seeing it in paint!