Shite in Miniature II

[eddyramrod]

I always wanted that D-series kit, but never got one.  Took me many years just to get my hands on the sweeper version.

[DoctorRetro]

Xmas present - It was a Matchbox 5 pack. 

 

[bunglebus]

This is my Christmas present from the GF, think she's a keeper! I had one but it was battered

[Bren]

Fatha christmas brought me some stuff- 

 

[Bren]

And for those approaching 50 or over - 

[RoadworkUK]

 

 

 

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That tipper also came in kit form, so your code 3 may not actually have had factory paint at all.

 

Ah, that makes sense. I had no idea.

 

Where paint is dropping off, there's no evidence of previous colour. It's only the considerable overpaint on the chassis that pointed to it being a DIY effort.

 

 

 

[Twisterboy]

Had this since I was a kid so most likely a good 30 years! Think I got it for Christmas paints seen better days and you could also get it as a police car and rally's car with the same registration.

 

Also have a Skoda 136 Matchbox car somewhere as well.

 

But I did just buy myself this today.

[DoctorRetro]

That's awesome, but £7.99 for a Hot Wheels car!?

[Twisterboy]

1 hour ago, TheDoctor said:

That's awesome, but £7.99 for a Hot Wheels car!?

That's the cheapest I could find lol.... there's been quite a lot of interest from Volvo Owners wanting it. 

volvo 

[Jon]

I'm sorry to say that I went shopping the other day and saw an offer of 5 x hotwheels for $10 (about a fiver) and managed to find 5 of those 850 touring cars, before deciding that there probably wouldn't be much demand for them here, now that they seem to be hitting uk shelves.

 

But in all honesty, spending 8 quid on something you really want is hardly going to see anyone out on the streets, so Merry Christmas sierraman! Sorry, I mean Twisterboy!

 

Have I seemingly found a goldmine of Volvo 850's, then?!

 

 

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[Split_Pin]

The reason I have never paid ebay prices for a desireable HotWheels is 3 fold.

1) Greedy collectors take 10 at a time or as many as they can get their dirty little hands on and then either sell them at a profit or use them in a trade which is heavily biased in their favour. You can spot them from a hundered miles away though so easily avoided.

2) They will become commonplace in a few months. 

3) I enjoy the chase and also happy that I paid the correct £1.50 or so for one.

Try The Entertainer,  that's where I got mine. They always have the latest cases, Tesco are slow and way behind. 

[warch]

14 hours ago, Twisterboy said:

Had this since I was a kid so most likely a good 30 years! Think I got it for Christmas paints seen better days and you could also get it as a police car and rally's car with the same registration.

 

I must lay my mitts on one of these, never seen one in the red, probably the most common real life colour. 

 

[sierraman]

I’m just too fucking tight to pay more than the £1.50 or more that they’ll be. 

[egg]

Xmas pressie...

[Bren]

1 hour ago, warch said:

I must lay my mitts on one of these, never seen one in the red, probably the most common real life colour. 

 

I still have mine with those wheels which are of the rarer variety IIRC

[junkyarddog]

"Wots in this box M8?"

Let's see shall we Smoll Eddy?

"Yes M8"

It a Matchbox Kenworth fuel tanker Smoll Eddy,although it does have Dinky printed on the base of the tanker too.

"Thank gawd fer that!!,A fuel delivery!!,Me tanks were runnin' dry M8"

[sierraman]

Weren’t they called Real Workin Rigs? 

Kids got a Hot Wheels loop the loop thing for Xmas, is actually quite a lot of fun, the kids like it anyway. The newer matchbox don’t seem to work as good in it as the Hot Wheels, they seem to roll a lot better. 

[junkyarddog]

I was lucky enough to find a mint early Kadett a few months back. 

"Flash git M8"

 

[sierraman]

3 hours ago, warch said:

I must lay my mitts on one of these, never seen one in the red, probably the most common real life colour. 

 

Picked one of these up a few months ago. 

[155V6]

I've got these three

I just had a look on eBay,& there's quite a few more.A couple more rally cars,3 or 4 more Police cars including the plain white Graffic Traffic version,& the My 1st Matchbox version with blue tyres ?.There's also a plain yellow car which I'd never seen before.

[sierraman]

Also a Telecom one from the gift set. The other Rally one is based on the Astra 4S from Rallycross with the Sphere Drake tampo on 

[155V6]

45 minutes ago, sierraman said:

Also a Telecom one from the gift set. The other Rally one is based on the Astra 4S from Rallycross with the Sphere Drake tampo on 

The Rallycross car was the John Welch car,I used to see it a lot as they are based about a mile from where I live.

I had a look on German eBay,there's one in a BP box,& also a World Cup version.

[flat4alfa]

On 12/25/2019 at 11:22 AM, bunglebus said:

This is my Christmas present from the GF, think she's a keeper! I had one but it was battered

I had a GF like that once

[AndyW201]

I loved the MB MK2 Astra when it came out, as much as I liked the real thing. Our main toy shop in the town was a big Matchbox dealer but the first place I saw the Astra was in the window of a small newsagent that I was riding past on my bike, aged 11. Even then, my taste in diecast was more towards the more mundane, everyday stuff. I also loved the fact it was RHD and with a UK registration number.

I had to have it.

So , after saving that weeks pocket money, I went down and got it. Inside the shop, I then saw they also had the bright green Camaro Iroc-Z, and the Golf MK2 GTi.

So that was my pocket money getting saved up for the next couple of weeks...

1985 & 1986 were good years for Matchbox. That Astra was the more common version with the 8 hole wheels and it got those wheels played off it. I reluctantly had to bin it when the base plate snapped around the front rivet. But I finally got a replacement in very nice condition a couple of years ago, (with those older type superfast wheels), in a small joblot I bought from this very thread. Still one of my all time favourite smol MB castings.

[bunglebus]

Found an engine variation on the Milligans Mill Speed King car

 

20191226_162311 by RS, on Flickr

20191226_162329 by RS, on Flickr

[Twisterboy]

8 hours ago, junkyarddog said:

I was lucky enough to find a mint early Kadett a few months back. 

"Flash git M8"

 

Mines Defo went Vauxhall pink lol

[flat4alfa]

1 hour ago, bunglebus said:

Found an engine variation on the Milligans Mill Speed King car

Is must be just the scoops

left scoop is off Big Banger

right scoop is a size down from Cambuster

[flat4alfa]

In other news

Santa popped by

So chuffed!

[flat4alfa]

On 12/21/2019 at 2:21 PM, bunglebus said:

Found it!

SNAP !

Gah! Saw this and popped it in a bundle thinking it was perfect for you, and here we are now with forum over-supply! ?

Limited Connectables research told me (Charlie Mack was no help) that the Kellogg’s tie was for cereal Rice Krispies; three models to collect tokens and send off for:

SNAP was the beetle 

CRACKLE was ?

POP was the road roller

What Charlie Mack did say in his Matchbox Tyco Years book was the range was UK-only, although were released later in Germany in orange rather than grey [silver]

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