Shite in Miniature II

[bunglebus]

Had a couple of bits land on the mat today, Husky E-Type

 

20200515_125239 by RS, on Flickr

 

I'd imagined Corgi kept this casting and modified it into a Whizzwheels/Rocket/Growler, but no;

 

20200515_130108 by RS, on Flickr

20200515_130058 by RS, on Flickr

 

Also this

 

20200515_125529 by RS, on Flickr

20200515_125606 by RS, on Flickr

20200515_125506 by RS, on Flickr

 

I'll get it scanned but there's a few new ones on me - 329 Rally Mustang for a start

[Amishtat]

Against some stiff competition these two are my Tat Friday highlights. 

[bunglebus]

I've been sorting a load of stuff out this week and not had a lot of time to do up toy cars. As I was sorting the loft it did give me an excuse to ask WDIB? This week, the C3 Corvette. Left to right, Matchbox, Hot Wheels, Tomica, unknown Macau key car, Kidco, unknown Hong Kong, Kidco, Hot Wheels

 

20200515_184731 by RS, on Flickr

20200515_184759 by RS, on Flickr

20200515_184831 by RS, on Flickr

20200515_184910 by RS, on Flickr

 

Next up, Pontiac Firebird (you'll forgive me if I get these wrong, Firebirds/Trans-Ams and later Camaros aren't my area of expertise). Majorette, Corgi with plastic/metal base, Yatming

 

20200515_185631 by RS, on Flickr

20200515_185654 by RS, on Flickr

20200515_185621 by RS, on Flickr

20200515_185718 by RS, on Flickr 

 

And the same but different, Matchbox, Hot Wheels, Yatming, Dinky, Zylmex

 

20200515_185809 by RS, on Flickr

20200515_185825 by RS, on Flickr

20200515_185851 by RS, on Flickr

20200515_185920 by RS, on Flickr

[155V6]

6 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

I've been sorting a load of stuff out this week and not had a lot of time to do up toy cars. As I was sorting the loft it did give me an excuse to ask WDIB? This week, the C3 Corvette. Left to right, Matchbox, Hot Wheels, Tomica, unknown Macau key car, Kidco, unknown Hong Kong, Kidco, Hot Wheels

 

20200515_184731 by RS, on Flickr

20200515_184759 by RS, on Flickr

20200515_184831 by RS, on Flickr

20200515_184910 by RS, on Flickr

 

Next up, Pontiac Firebird (you'll forgive me if I get these wrong, Firebirds/Trans-Ams and later Camaros aren't my area of expertise). Majorette, Corgi with plastic/metal base, Yatming

 

20200515_185631 by RS, on Flickr

20200515_185654 by RS, on Flickr

20200515_185621 by RS, on Flickr

20200515_185718 by RS, on Flickr 

 

And the same but different, Matchbox, Hot Wheels, Yatming, Dinky, Zylmex

 

20200515_185809 by RS, on Flickr

20200515_185825 by RS, on Flickr

20200515_185851 by RS, on Flickr

20200515_185920 by RS, on Flickr

Have you seen the version of the Majorette Trans Am with normal sized wheels & on oversized engine sticking out?

[Christine]

Just been to tesco..hadto buy a toy

Thats well 50's innit !

 

[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, 155V6 said:

Have you seen the version of the Majorette Trans Am with normal sized wheels & on oversized engine sticking out?

Yes I have one, I was trying to stick to stock(ish) castings for comparison. Had to kick a Hot Wheels Corvette funny car out for the same reason...

[Split_Pin]

That's a very interesting 1976 Corgi Brochure there.

There's a curious mix of last of the line 60s 1/43 castings on Whizzwheels, the new era 1/36 items and those bizarre 'inbetween' 1/43 cars like the Mercedes SL and Datsun. These are strangely more detailed than other early 70s Whizzwheel issues such as the MK3 Cortina and the Marina ( can't see that here). Even the Mini is available in the new age 1/36 (my favourite, I had over 20 variations last time I counted) and the old 1/43 casting from the 1960s. I also see the Land rover casting there which must surely date from the 1950s?

I've never understood the move to 1/36 scale from 1/43 however as a boy who had a fair few of the former in his childhood, they certainly had good play value and were pretty robust. 

[Richard_FM]

2 hours ago, Christine said:

Just been to tesco..hadto buy a toy

Thats well 50's innit !

 

Is it from Lady Penelope's street racer phase?

[Christine]

Dream garage..

[Datsuncog]

22 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

I've never understood the move to 1/36 scale from 1/43 however as a boy who had a fair few of the former in his childhood, they certainly had good play value and were pretty robust. 

Heh, this is the exact same question that's vexed me for many a long year, starting with my dented 1/43 Land Rover...

It saddened me that it was too big to put in with my basket of 'small cars', but too small to go in with my 'big cars' - and hence it had to live in the box with the Britain's farm stuff along with a Dinky John Brown tractor, because even at that young age my diecast taxonomy was becoming inflexible...

But I could never work out why, either, in the early 1970s Corgi Toys suddenly started to expand to 1/36 scale.

Trying to find an answer to that very question was one reason for my splurge on that Marcel Van Cleemput book a few weeks back - and it seems that it was down to their incoming range of accurate F1 cars in 1972.

Corgi apparently were in some fairly heavy-duty negotiations with a number of leading Grand Prix Association constructors in the early 70s, trying to thrash out a licensing agreement to make models of the cars that appeared on the starting  grid. Some manufacturers were okay with letting Corgi make models of their cars, just happy for the free publicity, while others were demanding huge sums for the rights to model their cars.

As part of the agreements being hammered out, the issue of accurate sponsor decals cropped up. On the usual Corgi 1/43 scale, it would be tricky for some of the sponsor logos to be legible  - unless the models were made bigger.

As a compromise, it was agreed that the models would be made in the bigger 1/36 scale. That way, racing teams could negotiate bigger sponsorship deals, on the grounds that their product's logo would also appear on millions of toy cars (great news for cigarette companies!) The first 1/36 car was No.150, the Surtees TS9, released in June 1972.

Further F1 releases appeared throughout 1973 and 1974, with the iconic black and gold JPS Lotus shifting over 2 million examples, making it one of Corgi's biggest sellers. The company were on to a winner.

But Van Cleemput felt that the bigger scale looked much more appealing in general - in his words, they had greater "eyeball value" to children.

As he explains it in the book:

"the thinking behind this was that, within reason, the size of the model did not affect the initial costs of design and development. Design, pattern-making, mould-making, tool-making, development and assembly costs remained virtually the same, whether the model was an inch bigger or not. The only added cost was in raw materials and the slight increase in packaging, freight and warehousing. What it did give, however, was a much greater 'eye-ball' value. A model at 1/36 scale compared to the same model at, say, 1/43 appears to be half as big again, thus tending to make competitors' products seem poor value for money by comparison.

"We knew that the collectors would be up in arms, but in those days they only represented a very small percentage of the buying public. We were, after all, a toy company selling toys for kids to parents and grandparents etc. The idea caught on and later some of our competitors followed suit."

So, after a number of prototypes were considered, Corgi's first 1/36 passenger cars appeared in June 1973: No.323 and No.324, two versions of the Ferrari Daytona, one of which was accurately decorated with the Corgi sponsorship decals of Anthony Bamford's Le Mans 24hr Race entry Daytona. Once again, it was the promise of bigger sponsor stickers that helped drive the change.

That same year, the Can-Am Porsche Audi 917-10 also appeared in 1/36 (with L&M and Goodyear sponsor decals).

Corgi weren't like Spot-On - they didn't subscribe to a constant scale for their entire range, and while many in their range were around the 1/43 range, others were a bit bigger or smaller. With the Lintoy contract to supply aircraft and many of their military vehicle models via Hong Kong, further odd scales such as 1/60 were introduced to the Corgi range. The introduction of the big 1/18 F1 cars with take-off wheels also proved a hit, so it seemed that producing their toys in multiple scales was no barrier to sales.

From there on in, all brand-new castings of road and racing cars would be modelled in 1/36 scale, starting with the Jaguar XJ12C and Citroen Dyane in December 1974. Some new commercial vehicles (like the Pathfinder Airport Crash Truck) would appear in 1/43, but the main range of Corgi cars had gone big and would stay big.

Confusingly, a number of legacy 1/43 cars remained in the main range for quite a long time, with decal and paint changes to keep things fresh. This led Corgi catalogues to have specific 1/36 scale pages for 1973, 74 and 75 while the older, smaller cars kept to their own scale group.

Later, as the bigger cars became more numerous, some rather incongruous group pictures appeared which blended the two scales. By 1979 though, the only 1/43 still in the main range was the police Range Rover Vigilant, and that was gone by 1980. With the exception of some military vehicles, and the ever-present Routemaster bus, 1/36 was now the only scale in town.

Before long, Matchbox started to upscale their Superkings cars to match Corgi, and Dinky started doing the same, with the Superior Rescuer ambulance and BL Princess being the first to appear in the larger scale, followed by the Volvo 265, Rover 3500, and Plymouth Gran Fury (and causing similar havoc with their catalogue group photos).

But it must have been mighty annoying for quite a while if you were a car-loving kid in the 1970s! I only ever remember the larger 1980s models, so the small ones were no more than curios whenever I turned them up from time to time at jumble sales and so on.

But I felt quite relieved to finally understand why this scale change occurred. Hope this helps you too!!

[bunglebus]

5 hours ago, Richard_FM said:

Is it from Lady Penelope's street racer phase?

The Dream Car was the first toy car Mattel ever made, way back in 1953. The dream mobile is a homage to it

[flat4alfa]

Yes Dream Car - yet to find one in any shop myself

Good short documentary here

 

[flat4alfa]

9 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

That same year, the Can-Am Porsche Audi 917-10 also appeared in 1/36 (with L&M and Goodyear sponsor decals).

From there on in, all brand-new castings of road cars would be modelled in 1/36 scale, starting with the Jaguar XJ12C and Citroen Dyane in December 1974. Some new commercial vehicles (like the Pathfinder Airport Crash Truck) would appear in 1/43, but the main range of Corgi cars had gone big and would stay big.

Funny you should mention the L&M Can-Am as I just sold my boxed example - because I prefer the presence of the Polistil 1/28 example instead, proving Cleemput's thoughts (and my Wife wanted to know why I keep back 'clones'...)

The Pathfinder though - is it really 1/43 ?  It's enormous!!  

Will do photos

[Datsuncog]

53 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

The Pathfinder though - is it really 1/43?  It's enormous!!  

Apparently so! It's possible that a 1/36 version would have been too big... more like a baseball bat with a siren...

[flat4alfa]

The Polistil L2 Porsche-Audi 917-10 Can Am in '1/32 scale'

Although, it looks nearer 1/30 to me, which is perhaps all the better as that means more metal for your money?

Decorated as the 1972 car from Team Penske Racing, sponsored by L&M Tobacco
- Driven by racing legends Mark Donohue and George Follmer (who could lap the field).
- Dominated the '72 Can-Am series taking 1st at 5 of 9 races.
- Hitting 220 MPH in 1972, one of the most powerful road racers even today.

Sadly, this example missing the engine/exhaust part 

.

Picked it up with three other similar-era Sports Cars to motorise for slot use.  But in truth, they are far too heavy.  So slot car purchasing resumed after all and this was kept back, unmolested.  Did you want to see the others while I'm babbling about the Can-Am Sports Car subject that impressed me so as a boy?

[flat4alfa]

16 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Yes I have one, I was trying to stick to stock(ish) castings for comparison. Had to kick a Hot Wheels Corvette funny car out for the same reason...

I don't think you've showed that one?

Like this?

[NorfolkNWeigh]

P

12 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

Heh, this is the exact same question that's vexed me for many a long year, starting with my dented 1/43 Land Rover...

It saddened me that it was too big to put in with my basket of 'small cars', but too small to go in with my 'big cars' - and hence it had to live in the box with the Britain's farm stuff along with a Dinky John Brown tractor, because even at that young age my diecast taxonomy was becoming inflexible...

But I could never work out why, either, in the early 1970s Corgi Toys suddenly started to expand to 1/36 scale.

Trying to find an answer to that very question was one reason for my splurge on that Marcel Van Cleemput book a few weeks back - and it seems that it was down to their incoming range of accurate F1 cars in 1972.

Corgi apparently were in some fairly heavy-duty negotiations with a number of leading Granx Prix Association constructors in the early 70s, trying to thrash out a licensing agreement to make models of the cars that appeared on the starting  grid. Some manufacturers were okay with letting Corgi make models of their cars, just happy for the free publicity, while others were demanding huge sums for the rights to model their cars.

As part of the agreements being hammered out, the issue of accurate sponsor decals cropped up. On the usual Corgi 1/43 scale, it would be tricky for some of the sponsor logos to be legible  - unless the models were made bigger.

As a compromise, it was agreed that the models would be made in the bigger 1/36 scale. That way, racing teams could negotiate bigger sponsorship deals, on the grounds that their product's logo would also appear on millions of toy cars (great news for cigarette companies!) The first 1/36 car was No.150, the Surtees TS9, released in June 1972.

Further F1 releases appeared throughout 1973 and 1974, with the iconic black and gold JPS Lotus shifting over 2 million examples, making it one of Corgi's biggest sellers. The company were on to a winner.

But Van Cleemput felt that the bigger scale looked much more appealing in general - in his words, they had greater "eyeball value" to children.

As he explains it in the book:

"the thinking behind this was that, within reason, the size of the model did not affect the initial costs of design and development. Design, pattern-making, mould-making, tool-making, development and assembly costs remained virtually the same, whether the model was an inch bigger or not. The only added cost was in raw materials and the slight increase in packaging, freight and warehousing. What it did give, however, was a much greater 'eye-ball' value. A model at 1/36 scale compared to the same model at, say, 1/43 appears to be half as big again, thus tending to make competitors' products seem poor value for money by comparison.

"We knew that the collectors would be up in arms, but in those days they only represented a very small percentage of the buying public. We were, after all, a toy company selling toys for kids to parents and grandparents etc. The idea caught on and later some of our competitors followed suit."

So, after a number of prototypes were considered, Corgi's first 1/36 passenger cars appeared in June 1973: No.323 and No.324, two versions of the Ferrari Daytona, one of which was accurately decorated with the Corgi sponsorship decals of Anthony Bamford's Le Mans 24hr Race entry Daytona. Once again, it was the promise of bigger sponsor stickers that helped drive the change.

That same year, the Can-Am Porsche Audi 917-10 also appeared in 1/36 (with L&M and Goodyear sponsor decals).

Corgi weren't like Spot-On - they didn't subscribe to a constant scale for their entire range, and while many in their range were around the 1/43 range, others were a bit bigger or smaller. With the Lintoy contract to supply aircraft and many of their military vehicle models via Hong Kong, further scales were introduced to the Corgi range. The introduction of the big 1/18 F1 cars with take-off wheels also proved a hit, so it seemed that multiple scales was no barrier to sales.

From there on in, all brand-new castings of road cars would be modelled in 1/36 scale, starting with the Jaguar XJ12C and Citroen Dyane in December 1974. Some new commercial vehicles (like the Pathfinder Airport Crash Truck) would appear in 1/43, but the main range of Corgi cars had gone big and would stay big.

Confusingly, a number of legacy 1/43 cars remained in the main range for quite a long time, with decal and paint changes to keep things fresh. This led Corgi catalogues to have specific 1/36 scale pages for 1973, 74 and 75 while the older, smaller cars kept to their own scale group.

Later, as the bigger cars became more numerous, some rather incongruous group pictures appeared which blended the two scales. By 1979 though, the only 1/43 in the main range was the police Range Rover Vigilant, and that was gone by 1980. With the exception of some military vehicles, and the ever-present Routemaster bus, 1/36 was now the only scale in town.

Before long, Matchbox started to upscale their Superkings cars to match Corgi, and Dinky started doing the same, with their Princess appearing in the larger scale (and causing similar havoc with their catalogue group photos).

But it must have been mighty annoying for quite a while if you were a car loving kid in the 1970s! I only ever remember the larger 1980s models, so the small ones were no more than curios whenever I turned them up from time to time at jumble sales and so on.

But I felt quite relieved to finally understand why this scale change occurred. Hope this helps you too!!

Thank you for explaining that, in the mid-70s when my brothers and I were playing with cars, they used to get really pissed off with me when I would reject certain cars as being “ not allowed”

This would mean for example not ever having my Monteverdi and XJ-C ever appearing in the same game. Whenever we went to my Grandmas we would only take Dinkys or older  Corgis , as they were compatible with my Dad’s old 1950’s Dinkys and if we could get away with it my Grandad’s Models of Yesteryear off the top shelf.

Was Starsky’s Torino even bigger than 1/36 ? We had one and apart from It’s general lack of features and quality, I’m sure it was too big , hence usually staying in the toy box.

[flat4alfa]

17 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Had a couple of bits land on the mat today, Husky E-Type

I'd imagined Corgi kept this casting and modified it into a Whizzwheels/Rocket/Growler, but no

Struck me similarly about Matchbox

Very different casting details between generations

Granted, one is a fantasy custom

[flat4alfa]

16 minutes ago, NorfolkNWeigh said:

Was Starsky’s Torino even bigger than 1/36 ? We had one and apart from It’s general lack of features and quality, I’m sure it was too big , hence usually staying in the toy box.

I'll measure up and compare the Corgi with the Scalextric release.   Opportunity to dust down rather than get on with fixing the house that I should be doing....

[NorfolkNWeigh]

5 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Struck me similarly about Matchbox

Very different casting details between generations

Granted, one is a fantasy custom

I suppose the modellers had an excuse for shonkiness  depending on which version they We’re replicating.

[flat4alfa]

I never have quite seen what the fuss is about the S3.  It still looks sleek and fantastic when on the road and moving.

The wheelbase had to be stretched to accomodate the V12 engine.  So really, the commentators were comparing a 'Sports Car' to a 'Grand Tourer', which is what the S3 is.  Built for a comfort cruising market, focus being the US market.  Either way, I'd love to own both of them and treat them as for different occasions  ?

I had the Dinky S2+2 as a boy.  I still wonder what happened to it..

[flat4alfa]

43 minutes ago, NorfolkNWeigh said:

Was Starsky’s Torino even bigger than 1/36 ? We had one and apart from It’s general lack of features and quality, I’m sure it was too big , hence usually staying in the toy box.

In the left corner:  Hornby's Scalextric Ford Grand Torino slot car 

In the right: Corgi's Ford Gran Torino

Scale calculation (length and breadth only) for the 1975/76 Ford Gran Torino 2-door coupe:

So Corgi were spot on!

Cor, what a bloater in real life..

[Spottedlaurel]

Same thing struck me about the Corgi version, it does look huge compared to other 1:36 stuff.

[155V6]

Just found these in Morrison's,would have liked the Super version of the Audi but still very happy

[quicksilver]

On 5/15/2020 at 3:48 PM, Datsuncog said:

Anyone remember this dude?

Generally more likely to be encountered alongside these other two, for context...

That's right, it's Statto - better known to his mum as Angus Loughran - a fixture on ITV's Fantasy Football League show during the mid-90s.

This was one of the slightly less cruel nicknames I was saddled with by my erstwhile peers while at school, whenever FFL was at its peak.

Now, not being all that much into sports I never actually watched the show, but I'm told there was a resemblance.

Don't really see it, myself.

Still, better having "STATTO!" bellowed at me across the playground by a bunch of fifth-formers than "SPECKY WANKER!", I'm sure you'll agree.

 

But! This is all rather a long-winded lead-in to the fact that I do quite like a spreadsheet - and with the unavoidable drop-off in Market Tat availability, over the last few weeks I've been doing a bit of number crunching.

Between the time I started chronicling my Friday browsing at St George's in January 2019, and the final market attended before everything shut down in March 2020, there were a nice round 50 Market Tat 'events', if you will. Although I had a running total of who wanted what, I hadn't bothered to actually jot down what each Market Tat day had bestowed.

So, being unable to move forward in the current global climate, I instead trawled backwards through the SiM thread, and made up a new spreadsheet to see how it all panned out over the past fifteen months...

And here, for your statistical pleasure, is the Ultimate Tat Breakdown for the past year-and-a-bit:

Overall number of models purchased: 504

Overall amount of cash expended on Friday Tat: £719
(Not to be divulged to MrsDC)

Averaged weekly spend: £14.38

Averaged number of tat items purchased per week: 10.08

Averaged cost per Tiny Tat item: £1.37

Number of Tiny Tat items still in my possession : 169 (33.53%)

 

You'll be unsurprised to learn that the overwhelming majority of the models came from the Nostalgic Collectables stall run by Millar, aka Market Blokey.

Home of the semi-legendary 50p Tat Box, a whopping 84.52% of all the market tat purchases came from this particular stall.

And with vistas like this to welcome me on a dark Friday morn, that's not really surprising.

The still somewhat mysterious Charity Stall accounted for 11.31% of the remaining purchases...

Although mostly a bit rubbish, this has still managed to serve up some absolute diecast gold from time to time - which is why it remained an unmissable stop on my market perambulations...

...even if it does mostly sell past-date biscuits, Bulgarian dog food and other frankly horrible items.

Meanwhile, generalised tat stalls like Alan's Emporium and Giffer Alley account for less than 1% each of the overall Tat Quotient, with only very occasional stuff worth having, nestling amongst yellowed Danielle Steele paperbacks and tarnished silverware.

 

So yeah... I'm probably not alone in craving the sensuous rush of rooting through abjectly filthy toy cars piled up in a split banana box; the visceral thrill of spotting something particularly unusual from afar (and then flattening a load of pensioners in my haste to narrow the distance between me and it); the feeling of vague remorse as I realise I've bought yet another Superfast Dodge Challenger...

Ah. Good times.

It's been quite nice trawling through the various write-ups, too - at risk of banging my own drum somewhat, even in retrospect the Tatman escapade was quite amusing.

 So what's been especially good?

I really got a kick out of finding these two last February.

This was kinda the start of reappraising my old Corgi toys - and finding a whole lot of new ones.

 

This was also a top find, the very same week.

And this was a bit of a bargain, too.

Remember this one? Finest East German toymaking.

While others ranged from the sublime...

to the faintly ridiculous.

It's been a fair mix of newer stuff, and older stuff - again, both decent original stuff at fairly keen prices:

Caddy was clean and quite a bit under online prices;

NSU may live to light up the road another day, too.

I do love a Grifo.

Seller's remorse already on this Hunter.

Magnificent Corgi Major.

Also plenty of fairly hilarious restoration jobs, such as this charmingly UHU & hair encrusted Plymouth Sports Suburban.

The smol stuff has helped me reappraise my antipathy towards 70s Superfast fantasy vehicles, and also helped me find better examples of toys I trashed through enthusiastic play when I was little.

While tickling some nostalgia nodes as well, with stuff I only ever saw in the catalogues.

It's also pushed me to explore the early Superkings, which I've gained a new-found liking for.

This manky £1 Scammell wrecker scrubbed up extraordinarily well, too.

Might have to look out for a Guy Transporter of my own and all, one day.

And I'm still cock-a-hoop at this unexpected discovery on the last market day, too. Glad I didn't hurry on past.

So yeah... hopefully the Tat Tap will be turned on once more, at some stage, and our diecast cups shall overfloweth again.

If anyone's any Tat Stall memories they'd like to share, do crack on!

Cheers to all for making this thread what it is.

An excellent Tat Friday Retrospective and let's hope those days will return before too long. The absolute standout for me is that Lone Star Foden S24, far better than it has any right to be for the pittance Market Blokey charged. At the last show I went to before lockdown there was one that still had its body but was otherwise in similar condition. How much? £20, so needless to say it went home again with the seller.

Must confess I'd forgotten about that 3-wheeled Tower National until it appeared in that screenshot. It's safely stored away and its time will come one day.

[Datsuncog]

2 hours ago, Spottedlaurel said:

Same thing struck me about the Corgi version, it does look huge compared to other 1:36 stuff.

The Chevrolet Caprice is pretty huge too - remember getting the stock car version and being impressed by the overall size. Even now, my Corgitronics fire chief version has to sit at a slightly different angle on my 'Corgi shelf' as it's just so damn long. Guess that's septics for ya...

[Split_Pin]

It's been well over 20 years since I tarted up an old diecast, although I did convert a bus into a breakdown wagon and repaint it in 2001.

This old Majorette Simca that I bought a couple of years ago at one of my rare Swapmeet visits was beyond my tolerance of acceptable paint wear and I had vowed to make this one of my Lockdown projects. 

From start to finish it took me about 2 hours. I didn't separate anything as I still seemed to have my ability to delicately mask the part off. There was so little paint left on it that I scraped the remnants off with a Stanley blade and smoothed everything off with steel wool.

The colour is Rover 75 JBH, otherwise known as as Wedgewood blue (one of several shades).

From start to finish it took me about 2 hours .

The bumpers are still rough with play wear but I did the best I could do without taking it apart. Plus my takeaway Pizza was in its way and I wanted to clock off on time!

 

[bunglebus]

6 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

I don't think you've showed that one?

Like this?

Exactly like that!

 

20190523_172153 by RS, on Flickr

[bunglebus]

6 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

 

I love it, like they're at a drive in movie about my cars 

[Spottedlaurel]

That Simca/Chrysler looks excellent, nice work. Colour suits it well. There's a point where a playworn example has a bit of charm, and it can be more acceptable if it's your own playing that caused it, but that was well in need of attention.

I made good progress on one of my small projects today:

1:24 Tamiya Audi Quattro kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

1:24 Tamiya Audi Quattro kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

1:24 Tamiya Audi Quattro kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

1:24 Tamiya Audi Quattro kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

1:24 Tamiya Audi Quattro kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

1:24 Tamiya Audi Quattro kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

Started in April, finished in May - one of my quickest for a long time.

Celsior, Skyline and BMW reshell projects also moving along nicely, so much so that I'm now planning the next 'proper' build:

Closest I'm going to get to my 2dr 1200, I'll be painting it the very same colour. If I was sufficiently skilled I'd scratch-build a saloon rear end, but I'm not.....