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The Peugeot 205 didn't come out well, due to the orange paint being gloopy but still very transparent. So it took 3 coats, and now it looks terrible. I'll probably strip it all off and start again at some point.

60,097 · March 27, 2020

Nice rimz M9 - where are they from?

15,149 · March 27, 2020

44 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Nice rimz M9 - where are they from?

I think from a 'Street Machine' or 'Fresh Metal' type of thing, Poundland /Wilko specials

25,885 · March 27, 2020

A recent find is this Lesney London Trolleybus.

The early ones were fitted with metal wheels,then the grey plastic ones like this has,then black.

A bit of research suggests this one dates from around 1959!

It wasn't too bad,a few chips,but butterfingers here dropped it and damaged the roof mounted conducting arms,so a repaint it had to be,new transfers too.

You like it Smoll Eddy?

"I do,it makes me look huge M8"

"They should bring 'em back M8"

:mrgreen:

60,097 · March 27, 2020

6 minutes ago, junkyarddog said:

It wasn't too bad,a few chips,but butterfingers here dropped it and damaged the roof

I'm using what looks like a very similar red on my E-type, 151 multipurpose from QD I think - worth trying a touch up (oh-er)?

60,097 · March 27, 2020

Onwards and upwards. I take it back about Corgi, the 1800 is covered in loads of really awkward casting lines

42,543 · March 27, 2020

3 hours ago, TheDoctor said:

Cor, that 205's very Maxy P!

Looks tons better with those rims, for sure.

Isn't that one from the recent Tat Box delivery? I'm always very impressed with the ingenuity on here - taking basically broken old toys and making them into something good again. Keep at it!

With that in mind, I'm trying to cobble together something of a Friday Tat Market retrospective, since it's anyone's guess when we'll all be free again to rifle through crumpled banana boxes filled with filthy diecast rammel, shoulder-to-shoulder with other tragic old men...

I kept several folders worth of the pictures taken at the market, all neatly cropped and size-reduced - but annoyingly they're all stuck on my work PC's hard drive, and far too big to have emailed to myself.

But yeah, there have been some highlights for sure... currently delving through the AS archives to see what I can find.

Watch this space...

28,494 · March 27, 2020

Just dug out the bucket of my Dad’s old Dinkys, that I’d decided years ago weren’t worth bothering with. Either too far gone or I didn’t like them as a kid,

Will now scour eBay for ramps, screens , steering wheels etc. If nothing else I’m going to strip and repaint the bus, coach and loudspeaker van.

42,543 · March 27, 2020

So... where did it all start, the Tat Stall?

Last January, as it happens.

I was well aware of the Tat Stall, as I've been a loiterer at the St Georges Market for many years.

Since it's directly on the route from Belfast's Lanyon Place Railway Station and where I work, it was the easiest thing to just nip in while passing for groceries, light bulbs, vacuum bags and that sort of thing. When MrsDC was working in nearby Lanyon Plaza, we used to meet up for lunch and stuff like that too.

I'd glanced at Nostalgic Collectables - the Tat Stall's real name - the odd time in passing, and clocked that it often had a lot of diecast cars and stuff gracing it.

But, rather like a recovering alcoholic passing an off-licence, I really didn't want to seriously entertain stopping and browsing.

See, I'd got myself into diffs with indiscriminate and excessive diecast hoarding before, and only just managed to ease myself out of it (see the Great Clearout of summer 2018), with a personal policy now in place that I would allow myself 1/43 models that I wished to have as part of a curated collection - but no more broken toys hoovered up based on opportunity.

So I would glance, and just pass on by.

That particular morning, on a damp and drizzly January, I'd only gone in to pick up a bag of scones for a team meeting, which I successfully procured...

And then, on my way out, this happened.

Tat Box Ground Zero.

Ohhhhhh...

And I couldn't help myself.

With the limited change in my pocket, I bought these two.

And then, in what would become a deeply familiar pattern over time, I went back at lunchtime via a cashpoint, and ended up with all these for a fiver...

And so the Tat Odyssey began...

More intense reminscincing to follow!

15,149 · March 27, 2020

1 hour ago, Datsuncog said:

Cor, that 205's very Maxy P!

Looks tons better with those rims, for sure.

Isn't that one from the recent Tat Box delivery? I'm always very impressed with the ingenuity on here - taking basically broken old toys and making them into something good again. Keep at it!

Yep, that's the one. It's actually a Maisto, and it has a plastic strip for the suspension that had worn out. A drop of superglue partway down each side means it doesn't bounce like new, but at least it doesn't look like a dog dragging it's poop chute along the ground

60,097 · March 27, 2020

Dug out the SLR to try and better capture the colours of this

Colour flip 008 by RS, on Flickr

P1800 is now painted and drying. Tincorner is in primer which has revealed various minor blemishes to try and fix.

20200327_124646 by RS, on Flickr

20200327_155654 by RS, on Flickr

Put some cheapo jewels in this for headlights

20200327_125058 by RS, on Flickr

Detailing the E-type chassis

20200327_122449 by RS, on Flickr

Dropped all the bits of the E-type together - it will be lower once the chassis is clipped in properly. Then it'll be time to try and do the chrome...

20200327_144638 by RS, on Flickr

17,923 · March 27, 2020

1 hour ago, NorfolkNWeigh said:

Just dug out the bucket of my Dad’s old Dinkys, that I’d decided years ago weren’t worth bothering with. Either too far gone or I didn’t like them as a kid,

Will now scour eBay for ramps, screens , steering wheels etc. If nothing else I’m going to strip and repaint the bus, coach and loudspeaker van.

You know what, I think you should leave those well alone. They look fantastic as they are and have a real story to tell (one personal to you, too). Just like real cars, restored toys never, ever look as good as originals and those things have so clearly been loved and played with and are all the more honest for it. Picking something out of a 50p tat box and restoring it is one thing, but I think stuff like that with a family connection is much better left as it is. Just my two cents, but remember once you start stripping them down you'll never be able to recreate what's been lost...

43,504 · March 27, 2020

59 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

And then, on my way out, this happened.

Please say you got these

60,097 · March 27, 2020

Thought I was having fun getting rid of casting marks - look at the state of this one

20200327_155144 by RS, on Flickr

9,766 · March 27, 2020

These arrived today,all 5 for £24 posted

The only thing I might consider doing is replacing the "racing" decals with the correct "rothmans" on the 2 Opels

Otherwise I'm more than happy with them!

42,543 · March 27, 2020

1 hour ago, flat4alfa said:

Please say you got these

I probably did get some of them, and quite possibly they're with you!

Ah now - the good ol' days of yore when tat boxes overflowed, and you could still buy a Big Mac and a pint (though not in the same establishment)

I should do another dunging-out session though, as there's still a shoebox full of tat box items I've no real plans for...

60,097 · March 27, 2020

Couldn't resist it. Chrome tomorrow

43,504 · March 27, 2020

Looks miles better than standard!

6,790 · March 27, 2020

21 hours ago, bunglebus said:

20200326_183330 by RS, on Flickr

20200326_183427 by RS, on Flickr

Wasn't that part of a BP garage fuel promotion back in the late 80s?

43,504 · March 27, 2020

3 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

the good ol' days of yore when tat boxes overflowed

I was thinking earlier that I hope Market Blokey is tucked at home safe during this pestilence period

28,753 · March 27, 2020

On 3/27/2020 at 5:56 PM, andy18s said:

These arrived today,all 5 for £24 posted

The only thing I might consider doing is replacing the "racing" decals with the correct "rothmans" on the 2 Opels

Otherwise I'm more than happy with them!

"Racing" would be correct on those Opels, just as the multiple crescents would on the Subaru. Rally cars would often appear in the 80s and 90s with a market-specific livery if the local laws didn't allow tobacco advertising. You would just get the colours you knew, with the sponsor's name deleted: Rothman's and 555 in these two cases.

43,504 · March 27, 2020

1 hour ago, warch said:

Wasn't that part of a BP garage fuel promotion back in the late 80s?

Yes, 1985

Shell/Corgi promotion where £6 of fuel would get you a 'wheel' voucher - 4 of which would then get you a Corgi junior car in a unique for the range box. There were 8 trucks & 24 cars

The only one I have is the blue Renault 5 Turbo II jobbie

So that makes at least two in the AS library ?

63,080 · March 27, 2020

I had the escort for a bit, but sold it again.

43,504 · March 27, 2020

No matter, that still counts ?

Any bids above 3 ?

60,097 · March 27, 2020

Well that's the only boxed Corgi I have, so I'm out! Just the boxes that are unique?

43,504 · March 27, 2020

Boxes, yes, but otherwise I'm not that sure - but there are definite BP 'liveries' on the Renault 5, Vauxhall Nova and Ford Transit recoveries.

43,504 · March 27, 2020

Some recent acquistions.

Sources were a mix of AS touting, eBay bid waring, charitable shopping and in the case of the Rolamatic Capri, pulled out of the stock cupboard to console myself over the crushing Maxi Taxi loss from a few pages back

60,097 · March 27, 2020

9 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Boxes, yes, but otherwise I'm not that sure - but there are definite BP 'liveries' on the Renault 5, Vauxhall Nova and Ford Transit recoveries.

20190605_105721 by RS, on Flickr

20200210_123217 by RS, on Flickr

I had the 5 but think it was in my actual Renault 5 when it went AWOL

20,845 · March 27, 2020

23 hours ago, bunglebus said:

My pre-lockdown eBay wins all arrived at once;

20200326_182555 by RS, on Flickr

20200326_182628 by RS, on Flickr

20200326_182658 by RS, on Flickr

20200326_182720 by RS, on Flickr

20200326_182754 by RS, on Flickr

20200326_182826 by RS, on Flickr

20200326_182833 by RS, on Flickr

20200326_182840 by RS, on Flickr

20200326_182941 by RS, on Flickr

20200326_183009 by RS, on Flickr

Odd size plastic Renault 5

20200326_183048 by RS, on Flickr

20200326_183055 by RS, on Flickr

20200326_183143 by RS, on Flickr

20200326_183207 by RS, on Flickr

Tin snail...

20200326_183249 by RS, on Flickr

...with opening doors

20200326_183304 by RS, on Flickr

20200326_183330 by RS, on Flickr

20200326_183427 by RS, on Flickr

See the renault 5? I won that at z summer fair. In 1983. I kid you not.

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