Shite in Miniature II

[Split_Pin]

9 hours ago, Twisterboy said:

My word I remember the little white Sierra, Defo had this at some point in my life.

 

Does anyone remember the little Pointers Food Transit?? I had this as a kid and found one at my sons playgroup a month or so back. Was so tempted to pocket it!

Yes I have one albeit with the then-new cloverleaf style wheels. They were part of the BP petrol station promotion in 1988. Its definitely the most accurate MK3 Transit casting out there.

[Sudsprint]

13 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

I had one of those as a boy!

it’s a Dassault Mirage

As featured here

 

Now those are made of steel

[bunglebus]

8 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

 

 

Well jel of the GT Vantastic. Your Nomad is from 2004, using the first of two re-tools of the original 1969 casting

[flat4alfa]

Guessed as much as tampo is way too young, seen it before and wondered why they didn’t update the base date(s). Retooling isn’t exactly cheap and is the time to add extra details? ; after all you’d state it on a book reprint etc

[bunglebus]

Pretty much all diecasts just have the original copyright date cast into the base. Newer HW have a code printed on the base to denote month and year of production though

[Twisterboy]

2 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

Yes I have one albeit with the then-new cloverleaf style wheels. They were part of the BP petrol station promotion in 1988. Its definitely the most accurate MK3 Transit casting out there.

That explains where it came from we used to have a BP Garage along the street from us, my dad must have collected what was required and sent them off!

[bunglebus]

Corgi 1983

 

Corgi 1983 01 by RS, on Flickr

Corgi 1983 02 by RS, on Flickr

Corgi 1983 03 by RS, on Flickr

Corgi 1983 04 by RS, on Flickr

Corgi 1983 05 by RS, on Flickr

Corgi 1983 06 by RS, on Flickr

Corgi 1983 07 by RS, on Flickr

Corgi 1983 08 by RS, on Flickr

Corgi 1983 09 by RS, on Flickr

Corgi 1983 10 by RS, on Flickr

Corgi 1983 11 by RS, on Flickr

Corgi 1983 12 by RS, on Flickr

Corgi 1983 13 by RS, on Flickr

Corgi 1983 14 by RS, on Flickr

Corgi 1983 15 by RS, on Flickr

Corgi 1983 16 by RS, on Flickr

Corgi 1983 17 by RS, on Flickr

Corgi 1983 18 by RS, on Flickr

Corgi 1983 19 by RS, on Flickr

 

Don't think I've ever seen the driving school Acclaim or the cabrio Range Rover before

[155V6]

Yellow Volvo 245 ?,I like the German Juniors too.

[ETCHY]

Great catalogue ta for posting that. I had the Maestro with the working lights very cool it was, although having that feature did compromise the model a bit.

The outline shown of the new one to be released looks like a BX. Did Corgi make that?

[paulplom]

Any good? Nabbed at asda.

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[Frogchod]

Here's my latest Citroen 

A 1919 tractor.

I saw a real one at the Citroen 100 show it is as small as it looks.

 

[sierraman]

52 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Corgi 1983

 

Corgi 1983 01 by RS, on Flickr

Corgi 1983 02 by RS, on Flickr

Corgi 1983 03 by RS, on Flickr

Corgi 1983 04 by RS, on Flickr

Corgi 1983 05 by RS, on Flickr

Corgi 1983 06 by RS, on Flickr

Corgi 1983 07 by RS, on Flickr

Corgi 1983 08 by RS, on Flickr

Corgi 1983 09 by RS, on Flickr

Corgi 1983 10 by RS, on Flickr

Corgi 1983 11 by RS, on Flickr

Corgi 1983 12 by RS, on Flickr

Corgi 1983 13 by RS, on Flickr

Corgi 1983 14 by RS, on Flickr

Corgi 1983 15 by RS, on Flickr

Corgi 1983 16 by RS, on Flickr

Corgi 1983 17 by RS, on Flickr

Corgi 1983 18 by RS, on Flickr

Corgi 1983 19 by RS, on Flickr

 

Don't think I've ever seen the driving school Acclaim or the cabrio Range Rover before

I’ve got the Rapport Range Rover somewhere. Think it was something to do with James Bond?

[MarvinsMom]

the raport range rover is from the opening sequence of Octopussy, where Roger Moore jumped into the miniature jet inside the horse box and escape from the Russian. Cuban other commie stooges chasin them, after first blowing up a series of hangers while avoiding some surface to air missiles.

i remember having the set as a nipper, though sadly its now long gone, shame as i think in good order they are worth something now.

1983, wasn't that the year when Mettoy went under?

[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, ETCHY said:

Great catalogue ta for posting that. I had the Maestro with the working lights very cool it was, although having that feature did compromise the model a bit.

The outline shown of the new one to be released looks like a BX. Did Corgi make that?

 

C384 is a Renault 11 GTL apparently

[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, paulplom said:

Any good? Nabbed at asda.


 

 

MK1 is always sought after, only found one so far - look out for it on a white card, it's an ID chase car

[Amishtat]

I had the driving school Acclaim in red but I seem to recall it was a Honda Ballade. Fairly sure I've mentioned it before on here and somebody confirmed it but I can't remember who or when. (I had the metallic blue Acclaim too, but I haven't seen either of them or my red Sierra since about 1997.Fuck knows where they are) 

[Bren]

When I was small I would regularly visit the local shop for a skybuster. When they came out they were 17p.

[ETCHY]

52 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

 

C384 is a Renault 11 GTL apparently

Yep now you say that it does look like an 11, my error.

[Frogchod]

Next release from Hachette is a C15 in 1/24 scale.

It'll be 25.99 in frog shops or silly money on ebay.

Of course I will be buying one. Then painting it red like my first C15

 

[flat4alfa]

Some in that Corgi catalogue I don’t think released ?

Magnum Ferrari 308

Tour de France XJ6 set

Corgitronics Chevrolet Radio Van in red with white roof

Escort Mk3 panda car

2CV in Charleston black/burgundy colours

Juniors Train and Passenger Car

[flat4alfa]

I have both the met blue and yellow driving school Acclaims and are both badged Acclaim

Yellow one has slot for roof steering wheel. Works well, but quite naff for the time though I reckon 

[flat4alfa]

Forgot to mention the post lady popped by ?

Well actually that was a bit of a fib as a few were won by Tesco and B&M attack formation 

But as the Royal Mail have most of my years’ earnings in their coffers, it feels like they were all posted....!

Batmobile a new one on me and was a Tesco surprise

‘JPS’ Lotus came from this forum. This place, etc

[flat4alfa]

Whereas dogger Ken was most impressed with this weeks’ charity shop finds, especially the daft  Stormtrooper car

[flat4alfa]

Dear Dolly, however, was less than impressed with the top bid spend on a proper STARTEX Jaguar MK1. But I had to remind her it was less than the cost of four watered-down beers in that there London 

[Split_Pin]

35 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Some in that Corgi catalogue I don’t think released ?

Magnum Ferrari 308

Tour de France XJ6 set

Corgitronics Chevrolet Radio Van in red with white roof

Escort Mk3 panda car

2CV in Charleston black/burgundy colours

Juniors Train and Passenger Car

 

 

My friend Euan had the Charleston 2cv, I got the red and white example from my school Fayre for 10p with a missing headlamp. Another that my mum did a good job of repainting for me and a decade or so later I made a new lamp from layers of plasticard filed to shape. I still have it.

[Jon]

I'm not sure of the Chevrolet radio van in red, nor the Juniors train and passenger car but I know all the other ones from the above list were launched. I don't think I missed an XJ 6 Tour de France set, so presumably you mean the 505, one of which I picked up sans all the accassories, a few weeks back:

 That said, I had a red Ferrari 308 GTB but it was a much later Mobil issued one, so I'm not sure whether it was launched as a Magnum PI one, too. Interesting to see so many of the TV/film tie-in ones were also sold within the standard range too, completely unaltered!

Incidentally, I think my brother and I must have both had the James Bond Range Rover sets back in the day, as I vaguely remember us having 2 glider-launcher horse boxes, though strangely don't remember duplicates of the glider and RR. The RR shown there isn't actually a production model, as that one came only with the windscreen and not the door frame surrounds, as shown. As a set, it was a good concept but crap in execution; launching the glider out the back of the horse box would see it tumble out a couple of inches, in a ball of hinged wings and fuselage. That's if it didn't hit the side walls when launched, or get slowed down by the mock horse's bum!

Two further things of note about the James Bond Set. The Range Rover was a totally different casting to the rescue services RR that was around at the time, which I always found strange. The horse box was also very tall and being towed behind a cut-roof Range Rover only accentuated this. It was also at odds to the other Corgi Juniors horse box seen being towed behind a Rancho, which is tiny! 

[Sudsprint]

I feel you need Richard E Grant leaning out of that Jag shouting 'Scrubbers'..

9 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

 

 

[junkyarddog]

Picked up this Matchbox Beemer yesterday at a boot sale. 

I like the German Polizei decals on this one Eddy!

"Kraut cozzers innit M8"

[junkyarddog]

Another find from yesterday, a Corgi Sunbeam Imp!!

You like this Panda car Eddy?

"The krauts have beemers,and we have imps M8"

"Where's the blue light M8?"

It's rattling around inside smoll Eddy. 

"Back suspension looked fucked M8"

[MarvinsMom]

17 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

Some in that Corgi catalogue I don’t think released ?

Magnum Ferrari 308

Tour de France XJ6 set

Corgitronics Chevrolet Radio Van in red with white roof

Escort Mk3 panda car

2CV in Charleston black/burgundy colours

Juniors Train and Passenger Car

the juniors train and passenger car, i'm sure i had one of them as a nipper.....