Shite in Miniature II

6,672 · April 20, 2020

12 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Excellent, was that sold as a Hot Wheels or a Micro Machine?

Hot Wheels I believe. It got put in with the Micro Machines. I got it from a junk shop with a HW 66 Corvette Stingray and a Lone Star 70's Corvette.

59,666 · April 20, 2020

Grabbed a victim to try tampo removal with a dry wipe marker. Also used a bit of acetone but the marker seemed to do the most. As usual there's a bit left in the door shuts and repeated rubbing does thin the paint on edges and handles etc. Not too bad though

A bit of black Sharpie around the lines helps

28,547 · April 20, 2020

16 hours ago, AndyW201 said:

I have been looking for ages for the ordinary Daytona yellow version of the Consul, as it would make a nice contrast with the other posher variants in the collection (Consul 3.0 GT, Purple velvet Granada and a few 3.0 Ghias) but people are asking silly money for them on ebay. These taxi versions though are a lot cheaper, mint boxed versions can be had for not much more than a tenner so I have been toying with getting another one of these and reverting it to 'civilian' spec. I don't know if the Tampos could be removed without having to redo the paint job?

Hey Andy, I’ve got a Vanguards Daytona yellow civvy Consul that you’re welcome to have. As new, boxed.

I thought I might get into collecting Vanguards way back when, but I went off the idea after about three models, of which this is one.

PM me your address and I’ll send it to you once I’ve dug it out of the cupboard.

59,666 · April 20, 2020

Had another play with nail varnish and thinner via my ancient airbrush. Rather pleased with the results so some different ones are on order

10,275 · April 20, 2020

I found some of those tiny Hotwheels as well

15,149 · April 20, 2020

A couple close to being finished, just need gluing back together.

Renault 11 needs another coat on the sides.

The Studebaker looks pretty good on Corgi wheels. It will be a little lower at the front when back together properly.

As a bonus, the fold down tailgate now works.

I also created a panel to go in the roof, being as the original sliding roof doesn't, but not sure about it.

43,410 · April 20, 2020

7 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Great

All you've got left to do is fashion a new hood and it will be ready for its MOT !

43,410 · April 20, 2020

OMG WLTM etc

43,410 · April 20, 2020

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18,091 · April 20, 2020

i too have a Charlies Angels Van.

though mine, (bought off this forum) is a common Corgi Juniors one.

i don't remember ever watching Charlies Angels on the telly as a nipper, i do remember these generic american vans made by Corgi.

they did come in a range of different liveries, Charlies Angels, Superman, i think there was a Spiderman one too.

no doubt there were even more of them

43,410 · April 20, 2020

5 minutes ago, MarvinsMom said:

i too have a Charlies Angels Van.

though mine, (bought off this forum) is a common Corgi Juniors one.

i don't remember ever watching Charlies Angels on the telly as a nipper, i do remember these generic american vans made by Corgi.

they did come in a range of different liveries, Charlies Angels, Superman, i think there was a Spiderman one too.

no doubt there were even more of them

Yes I have the large scale Corgi one. No, in fact I have four. in various states of undress...

I suffered an embarassing perchant for the range and have the lot....

:tired:

23,386 · April 21, 2020

I am not "into" the HotWheels rod rods but I had to watch a series called Life Size presented by Nicole Lyons.

I don't know if there are more but I have watched 4 so far all around 10 mins long. The subject is life sized HotWheel cars.

It is a bit light and American shouty, (if you know what I mean). But in the times when light entertainment is needed this is a recommendation. Has anyone else watched them?

59,666 · April 21, 2020

Yeah I've seen them, somehow the toy cars don't really translate into life size ones well for me. If they did some of the ones based on actual production cars I'd be interested

59,666 · April 21, 2020

A quartet of 911s have joined the fleet...

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...including this, one of a few I've been trying to find. A Hot Wheels from when they used some ex-Corgi castings. It's a bit squished but they don't turn up often

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9,744 · April 21, 2020

So this arrived today unopened and with a small amount of card creasing I'm happy with it

Both cars in almost perfect condition with the Manta having some red showing through at the very back of the roof

59,666 · April 21, 2020

Can't seem to find much info online, but there seem to be quite a lot of different countries of origin on Hot Wheels. That Porsche ^ is Malaysia, as are all the ones made currently

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This in need of resto Mirada Stocker courtesy of @flat4alfa is one of very few French ones I've found

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Hare Splitter from Hong Kong

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Chinese Beetle

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Corvette from Thailand

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A few have the country of origin ~~removed~~. I have another the same that says Hong Kong - but why remove it?

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McDonald's meal toy from Vietnam

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What I don't have, is any that are made in the USA. The original 1968 cars were made in both the USA and Hong Kong, with differences in each casting depending where it was made. All my 1968 cars are Hong Kong, as presumably they supplied the UK market. I can't find out anything about USA production and when it stopped altogether.

10,275 · April 21, 2020

I just had a quick look at my 15 or so battered Redlines.All of them are made in Hong Kong,apart from this Custom AMX.

The Hong Kong cars don't have the USA after Mattel.Inc. & usually have Hong Kong somewhere else on the base.

@bunglebus do you ever go on the UK Hotwheels forum?

25,852 · April 21, 2020

I picked up a near mint USA A.M.X last year somtime,

was in with a load of newer HotWheels cars.

Will find it tomorrow and post up a pic,think I have one or two other USA made Redlines too.

43,410 · April 21, 2020

13 hours ago, Remspoor said:

I am not "into" the HotWheels rod rods but I had to watch a series called Life Size presented by Nicole Lyons.

I don't know if there are more but I have watched 4 so far all around 10 mins long. The subject is life sized HotWheel cars.

It is a bit light and American shouty, (if you know what I mean). But in the times when light entertainment is needed this is a recommendation. Has anyone else watched them?

Unfortunately we can only get that in UK with Motortrend subscription and payment £50 pa

59,666 · April 22, 2020

They had an offer on subs recently, might still be on?

59,666 · April 22, 2020

10 hours ago, 155V6 said:

@bunglebus do you ever go on the UK Hotwheels forum?

I am a member but I also go on all sorts of different die cast forums and FB groups, sometimes I forget what I've joined!

23,386 · April 22, 2020

pm me if you want a link which is free to watch ? It is not totally legal and any link is followed at you own discretion.

11,768 · April 22, 2020

Grande Punto van...

11,768 · April 22, 2020

Land Rover lost its wheels.

Ford GT gained some. ?

25,852 · April 22, 2020

This is my American made Hot wheels AMX.

It has some toning to the paint,but it's almost mint.

Was a lucky find.

So was the original Rally case.

:mrgreen:

43,410 · April 22, 2020

6 hours ago, bunglebus said:

They had an offer on subs recently, might still be on?

No it ended a while ago

I subscribed for the 'free' week, realised I'd seen all the RoadKill episodes anyhow and cancelled it quick before the week ended so a world of pain cancelling a US service did not ensue

10,166 · April 22, 2020

Check out this hot rally duo, they're so fast!! Nyeeeeown!!

One of these I picked up only recently, despite having one already. In fairness though, the first one I collected has a bit of fire/hob damage, inthe shape of a wonky melted rear wheel and damaged side glass, as well as scorch marking. No such issues for the latter.

And while I'm on the subject of documenting accurate portrayals of Ford rally cars, what better way for Matchbox to deftly mimic a Sierra Cosworth, than start with an XR4i as a base and then add some seamless panel gaps betwixt plastic base and metal body? I'd joke that the almost-close but grossly inaccurately scaled backdrop was a knowing wink from me to Matchbox's feat here but in reality, it's just a crap effort. Unless giant men and half torsos really did film racing Sierras back in the day.

5,918 · April 22, 2020

20 minutes ago, Jon said:

Check out this hot rally duo, they're so fast!! Nyeeeeown!!

One of these I picked up only recently, despite having one already. In fairness though, the first one I collected has a bit of fire/hob damage, inthe shape of a wonky melted rear wheel and damaged side glass, as well as scorch marking. No such issues for the latter.

And while I'm on the subject of documenting accurate portrayals of Ford rally cars, what better way for Matchbox to deftly mimic a Sierra Cosworth, than start with an XR4i as a base and then add some seamless panel gaps betwixt plastic base and metal body? I'd joke that the almost-close but grossly inaccurately scaled backdrop was a knowing wink from me to Matchbox's feat here but in reality, it's just a crap effort. Unless giant men and half torsos really did film racing Sierras back in the day.

4,209 · April 22, 2020

I've had some time on my hands today.

I realised that I need* a pickup for my 2cv pickup.

I had some spare H vans and an angle grinder so:

And...

Et voila...

Stevie wonder can't see the join ?

59,666 · April 22, 2020

Not tea bag ^

@junkyarddog that Redline is a beauty! I've never tried to collect them other than the 1968 cars, due to the price they go for. Obviously I wouldn't turn any down!

@Jon on the subject of badly moulded Sierras,this has arrived;

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Usual no-name Chinese base, came with this Bimmer;

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Got a nice Tomica Corvette too;

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Had to do some shopping for mother Bunglebus, she insisted on Sainsbury's so I had a sneaky peaky down the toy aisle;

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Got home and finished these two off;

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