Shite in Miniature II

[Frogchod]

4 hours ago, RoadworkUK said:

If this is a Solido like mine is, my favourite feature is the sliding knob on the chassis that raises and lowers the suspension.

Thanks for that.

Now I've got to buy one...

[bunglebus]

53 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

I've just started a little sorting-out in my office/model room (front bedroom) and found a biscuit tin filled with broken and abused diecasts.  I'll take some photos in a bit and bang them up on my sales thread.

Got a link M9?

[Split_Pin]

20 hours ago, Lord Sterling said:

Got into a MINI mode recently. Just as the Corona virus thingy was unravelling, I landed myself a temporary job at an office in Birmingham. A lady who sat at the desk opposite was a fan of MINIs and had a 1/18 scale model by Motor Max on her desk. As corona got worse most of the staff were sent to work at home. I temporarily 'adopted' the green MINI as a desk ornament for the last few days I was there and gave it a good clean as it was very dusty.

It inspired me to buy one, I bid and got one for £10 delivered:

Mine is a 1/18 scale by Burago. The interior is a bit more detailed than the Green Motor Max one, the scale on mine seems bigger than the Green one plus the shape is more realistic than the green one. Mine also has realistic looking brake discs.

If you're wondering about the Blue car:

1/18 Citroen DS that I got given by a mate some years ago. Needs a hubcap.

I have the Bburago R50, interior detail is decent indeed, one of the nicer Mini models out there.

[DoctorRetro]

R5 boot on, and in paint.

 

Traveller spec Transit I did the other day

 

Tried to mask up the Lite-Ace, but failed miserably. Had to rescue freehand instead. 

[Tenmil Socket]

 

[eddyramrod]

Just now, bunglebus said:

Got a link M9?

No point yet, but I'll snap them now and post the pics later.  Good to know someone's interested!

[sierraman]

6 hours ago, bunglebus said:

One of these?

 

Yeah

[sierraman]

VW T3 stripped and the hole in the roof filled. Thinking green for the finish? 

[bunglebus]

I'd try and file that dome on the roof flat, and go for white or cream like most campers

Or

[sierraman]

Went for Pink... 

[bunglebus]

I that the poundland metallic pink?

[sierraman]

No it’s Wilkos one, the wife had it left over from a job. 

[bunglebus]

I really rate Wilko paint but it's not the cheapest. Poundland normally only do black, white and grey primer, but I have had red primer, metallic pink, metallic green, two different silvers etc out of them when they've had it.

 

Green

 

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Pink, over red primer

 

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Love this silver, made by Paint Factory which they have in stock occasionally. There's a straight silver and a sparkly one as here;

 

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[DoctorRetro]

@bunglebus, they're awesome. 

I think I'll quit now ?

 

[bunglebus]

9 minutes ago, TheDoctor said:

@bunglebus, they're awesome. 

I think I'll quit now ?

 

Don't be daft, I love seeing everyone's work. Each one done is another one saved.

I started as a kid putting big wheels on my Matchbox Beetles and buses and painting them with Humbrol. They were bloody awful but I loved them 

[bunglebus]

On that note, I'm going to crack on with some of mine while the we're in lockdown and sun's shining

[egg]

I posted about this Welly Merc before.

Looks like this now, shame I've already got some marks on it

[bunglebus]

As promised, getting on with the Yatming Chevrolet Astro I (XP-842) Concept

 

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Selecting new wheels

 

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Cleaned up all the casting lines and flash around the windows

 

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I knew I'd have a fight getting the paint on, the flakes are huge so they block the airbrush and it's not easy dissolving the gel nail varnish into the thinner.

Also as ever a bitch to show the finish

 

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Actually shows up better out of focus

 

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Base is in my favourite sparkly silver

 

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Done the interior in grey and polished the glass. Now I just need to sit on my hands for a day or two until the paint's cured.

[bunglebus]

Couldn't resist gently dropping it all together. I'll add lights as appropriate later

 

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[Reluctant Adult]

Just fitted a wall-mounted display case I bought back in the late ‘90s - so now it’s time to put in a selection of my favourites from 30ish years of collecting small-scale diecasts!

The early Majorette SM box holds a secret - it’s a DS!

More pix to follow...

[Datsuncog]

17 hours ago, Reluctant Adult said:

More pix to follow...

[DoctorRetro]

Renault 5 is passable, OK for littlun to play with. 

 

Next project is this really bad no-name Peugeot 205...

So far I've fixed the suspension and found better wheels. Going 90's Max Power on this one... 

[egg]

I've been working on this little 1950's tiddler for a while, with care, because it's one for the long term matchbox collection.

[danthecapriman]

I got this in the post today having been alerted to their existence by @eddyramrod 

1/18 scale Otto models Capri mk2, in Miami blue. Obvious why I wanted it! 

Got to say, it’s absolutely stunning! It looks ‘right’ and the level of detail is amazing. Even comes with a separate aerial if you want to fit it. Not a particularly cheap model but one I had to have. I’ll try to get a pic of it with my 1/1 scale version soon!

I made the mistake of looking at some of their other models after this...

It seems they do a Volvo 740, which looks amazing too. 

 

 

 

So i bought one of those too!

Pics once it arrives.

[Jon]

It's day two here of a 4 week lockdown, so I thought it might be nice to stick up an occasional photo of my latest buys (which I photographed a couple of weeks ago), over the next few weeks. Thing is, I've got a couple of friends staying with me from the UK (they were only staying for a week!) but that does mean I can't set up my home studio (aka piles of old books and a camera on a tripod) to take any more photos, lest I look like a total weirdo.

 

So here's the first one, an incredibly fortuitous Solido X1/9 hanging out in a deserted piazza:

Note the annoying bubbled rims, which have expanded for some reason or other, to the point of stopping the wheels turning. I've got a Solido Peugeot 104 that's similarly afflicted and it has the same small wheels as this one, so maybe it was an issue Solido had with these particular ones. Thankfully it hasn't affected the Citoren LN I've got too, which has similar ones.

 

Here's a bonus archive shot of said Citoren, which is a great little casting, although the headlights being a bit too small does irk me somewhat. 

 

Anyone else up for making some small car scenes in their time off?

[eddyramrod]

27 minutes ago, danthecapriman said:

I got this in the post today @eddyramrod 

1/18 scale Otto models

 

So i bought one of those too!

You're earning too much money!

[Tenmil Socket]

These are brilliant....

[RoadworkUK]

Otto Capri is rather nice. Much better than the Norev Mk3, which is so nigglingly wrong in various aspects of its proportions that I'd slowly go mad in its presence.

[bunglebus]

1st of today's victims is this MB Cortina. Some little oik has given it a gentle stomping, so the A pillars were bent to one side

 

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Better, but both pillars are cracked and require supergluing. Off to the dunk tank to get the paint off.

Next, Corgi E-type. I'm not really a big Corgi fan as a lot of the Whizzwheels era stuff feels a bit cheap. This is a metal base car, spoilt by thick paint and naff wheels. Not helped by some previous customiser's efforts

 

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Once the paint was off and I'd cleaned up some minor casting marks, I realised what a lovely thing it actually is. The details on it are really lovely

 

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Quick mock up for now, there's only one colour for an E-type. May have to re-do it as a bit of crap found its way onto the N/S wing. Lots of work sorting out correct length axles, 10 shite points to whoever can ID the wheels!

 

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[bunglebus]

Remember this little dude with the broken roof?

 

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Paint isn't perfect as it's done with a paint pen, but almost unbelievably I had a set of Hot Wheels wheels the right size for the tiny thing! Think they're from under a boat or something where it has to roll but sit as close to the ground as possible. Even the axles were the right width

 

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