Shite in Miniature II

62,641 · August 10, 2019

21 minutes ago, 155V6 said:

There's an E Type Jag & Lamborghini Miura as well.No pics of mine though,I'm in the pub ?

So there is. Corgi E type, Matchbox Miura

10,422 · August 10, 2019

If you like copies of stuff have a look for Telsalda.They made copies of Dinky & Corgi models,but larger & in plastic.There are several other makes as well ?

63,438 · August 10, 2019

4 minutes ago, 155V6 said:

Telsalda

Completely new to me....but wow!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Telsalda-Type-Laurie-Toys-Austin-1800/202749665476

18,091 · August 10, 2019

19 hours ago, Jon said:

Is this the Victor 101 you're looking for?

https://www.trademe.co.nz/toys-models/vintage/listing-2261478723.htm?rsqid=bc60ba1869b7442a94ffde6095030120-004

Currently no bids with a start price of $25 (NZ - or £13.44) with 2 days to go. If it's bargainous at that price, I'll happily bid for you. I sent a plastic Norev to Junkman last year and it cost £7-8 in international postage from memory, so those two combined would stretch your budget a smidge (I can likely collect from the seller) but I very much doubt you'd shell out more than £25, max. Maybe a little too playworn but it does look like a nice casting!

i got one of them! its an ace model, one of many from that "golden age" for british diecast toys.

for me, i think it starts in 1956 when Corgi went on sale, and Dinky had to improve their offerings, and running into the mid-1970s.

the few models released by Dinky before they went under at the end of 1979 were not a patch on those older products.

i think there is an Ambulance version of the Victor, but i might have dream't that

18,091 · August 10, 2019

2 hours ago, bunglebus said:

So there is. Corgi E type, Matchbox Miura

and Corgi Husky (cream) and Matchbox (blue) did versions of the Studebaker Wagonaire. which must have been a rare sight on the road even in the US of A.

62,641 · August 10, 2019

8 minutes ago, 155V6 said:

If you like copies of stuff have a look for Telsalda.They made copies of Dinky & Corgi models,but larger & in plastic.There are several other makes as well ?

Oh I like those! It's not so much that I like copies, but all the Chinese toy cars I'd seen before were just generic crap - then I spent ages trying to work out what the hell the Rolls Royce listed in a job lot of Matchbox was, seemed to have early Superfast wheels, but I couldn't ID the casting for the life of me. Purely by chance I found a picture of the Zee Toys one and solved the mystery. That lead me a bit of a fascination with copies and knockoffs, I had no idea it happened until recently.

63,438 · August 10, 2019

The addition of the light blue model brings my Norev Simca thou' collection to 3.

40,903 · August 10, 2019

On the subject of Laser Wheels, anyone remember the ones with the same wide smooth wheels but a sort of multi spoke wheel fitted?

13,783 · August 11, 2019

So, what does $10 get you in the Australian Dinky Princess market?

Cracked glazing and a bent axle by the looks of things. I’m still quite happy as finding BL chod is very difficult down under so I’ll take what I can get.

34,740 · August 11, 2019

If I had known about this model as a kid in the 1980s I would probably have had a meltdown. A largeish model of an everyday car that wasn't an Escort or a Metro.

I got a boxed one for my Christmas in 1994 and picked up an identical one to yours in 97 which I inexplicably repainted Ford Bermuda Blue with a black vinyl effect roof.

40,903 · August 11, 2019

I’ve never actually seen one in the flesh

29,677 · August 11, 2019

I have two, both repainted to match the real cars I owned, so one is red, the other black. VTX 481S and HCK 333W. Don't worry, they were pretty worn before I started. (So were the real ones!)

Meanwhile: didn't someone want an early, LWB Britains Land Rover? I've found one in my stock, you can have it for £7 posted. Quite good condition but no canopy.

August 11, 2019

I hadn't heard of mctoys before, and picked up a 309 off ebay. The wheels were rusted solid so I changed them and gave the car a tart up

40,903 · August 11, 2019

Picked these up at the charity shop today. 20p each.

34,740 · August 11, 2019

For a straight Britain's Land Rover that is teriffic value.

40,903 · August 11, 2019

I’m hoping I can get the marker off the graffic traffic Transit. I’ve alrea got the Porsche but at 20p I wasn’t going to leave it.

62,641 · August 11, 2019

The 911 and Supervan are well worth that!

7,973 · August 11, 2019

Meths will get that marker pen off, but you probably knew that already

18,091 · August 11, 2019

Dinkys BL Princess is right at the end of Dinky.

dimensionally i think its about there, BUT those wheels are so, so underscale!

if nothing else, it is a better model than their SD1 was.

this one is mine, i think it was a fiver, or thereabouts when i got it. cos i like BL a bit too much......

mine has a squiffy rear axil, i think they are all a bit like that, even when new. here is mine, along wit a Corgi XJ12-C, Metro, Mini and SD1, amongst other things.

meanwhile, cos the weather has been shite, i have been repainting a Matchbox Kingsize Foden Wrecker, itself another one of the refugee's from Mr Ramrods collection.

this is what it looked like when i got it too bits.

and then the paint kinda fell off, eventually. i think that the paint that Matchbox used took a good deal more effort to shift that the paint that either Corgi or Dinky used. still eventually it did come off. leaving this. i had to leave the glazing pice still in the cab, cos unlike a Corgi or Dinky, this flippin' thing was riveted in. ah well, no problem, we'll just have to manage as best as we can....

which then got painted.

and put back together, and then with some decals added. i fucked up the small one on the o/s which is a bugger. bit that i can live with.

like many golden oldies, it is a lovely casting. not quiet up to Corgi/Dinky standards, but i guess Matchbox sold at a lower price than the others?

AND i have also bought myself some new, well new to me tat. none other than Corgi's Oldsmobile Toronado. what a looker, this ine has the golden jacks, which are loose on one side! the joys* of a 50-odd year old toy car. they are almost as many joys as owning a real car tat old! the headlamps both pop up, and it does look soooooo cool, even for a big yank.

14,703 · August 11, 2019

Just back from France, a bit of hunting around a couple of 'vide grenier' village boot/yard sales saw me end up with this lot of Majorettes:

The light blue 604 has a damaged scuttle panel where someone appears to have forced the bonnet open, unless it's been like that since new? I bought the bonnetless 604 thinking I could make one good example from the two, but realistically that won't ever happen. Renault 18 and pickup both appear to have bits missing, but as all of them cost me 50c to 1 Euro I'm not worried, they're on a par with the others I've picked up here or which have survived from my own childhood.

No Norevs or anything else of great significance seen on the stalls, but I'm already regretting not buying a few more of other random cheapies.

63,438 · August 11, 2019

Nice, is that R18 the taxi version - and the sign is missing?

14,703 · August 11, 2019

4 minutes ago, egg said:

Nice, is that R18 the taxi version - and the sign is missing?

Cheers. Yes, I presume it was a taxi although most of the images I can immediately find show it in yellow. Some have decals, some don't (they're not very attractive anyway).

63,438 · August 11, 2019

Yes, I had the yellow one as a kid, probably bought in France, also with the sign missing!

10,422 · August 11, 2019

25 minutes ago, egg said:

Nice, is that R18 the taxi version - and the sign is missing?

The R18 is the version that tows a caravan,the hole in the roof is for a spoiler.I think they just used the Taxi casting & used the spoiler to fill the hole where the roof sign would have been.I don't think the R18 ever came without anything on the roof.

The Taxi version normally had a driver figure,& a rear passenger.

The orange pickup should have a canvas hood,you can get reproductions but they're a bit pricey once you add the postage.

40,903 · August 12, 2019

The spoils thing was called a windjammer iirc

43,274 · August 12, 2019

Another new-to-me Corgi arrival, for the ever-expanding fleet of 1/35-ish larger-scales...

Proportions are good; though wheels are a bit wank.

Things open...

...and close again.

Looks a smidge naked at the back without a numberplate, mind.

The guy who did the base detailing was on holiday that week.

Overall, I'd say it's a nicer model than the late-80s Matchbox Superkings version - somehow it seems to embody the RR a bit better.

^^^ I passed this one on last year - owned from new, the suspension never sat right and the wheels looked way too blingy. Rear tailgate is a bit blocky and crude on the Matchbox, too.

Shame Corgi didn't manage to include an opening clamshell bonnet, like the 70s Dinky version - that would really have been the icing on the cake.

This one's from (at least) 2001, going by the box - but really hadn't changed much from the 1984 release.

(Pre-production resin appeared in the '84 catalogue)

The earliest Mettoy versions can fetch big bucks, mind.

They also came in rally, rally support, police, RAC, and AA liveries, amongst others, from 1985 - I think the two-tone beige/brown was only made for a year.

Various special editions also put in an appearance in recent years - 30 years of Range Rover, and 40 years of Range Rover.

But I think I like the plain green one the best.

With change from a tenner, posted, I'm quite pleased with it.