Shite in Miniature II

[Remspoor]

15 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Ah yes, sorry, I should have measured the thickness too

My wife says thickness is all important 

I think you are confused. I think she said girth. Thickness is kinder ----dumb.

[AndyW201]

2 hours ago, Bren said:

What are the strut tops like?

I'm pleased to report that it sits square at all four corners so they can't have gone through yet.

It is a genuine GM dealer item anyway, so I'm sure my Network Q warranty will see me alright if there are any issues!

[bunglebus]

5 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

SATURDAY NAME THE BRAND PLEASE REQUEST

One on the left (the worn one) came from @Datsuncog a while back and sports a metal base.  Stamped 'Ambulance Van P346'

One on the right (tidier) came from @TheDoctor this week and sports a plastic base.  Stamped 'D123 Made in China'

Do the wheel styles given any pointers?  Thanks

Both Zylmex I believe - letter followed by numbers is their style, as are the wheels 

https://www.diecastgarage.org/node/30297

[bunglebus]

8 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

A donor is a donor, so no worries   - this is a 'standard chassis' resurrection idea, in different wacky colour.  By 'wacky' I mean off the shelf rattle can, not something eye-searing awful that will send us to further despair and pain.

In recent weeks, a best-I-could-manage-at-current-prices, Corgi Eldorado Rocket arrived in a job lot Rockets haul (had sleepless nights, yearning, yearning, *twitch*)

I hope that's ok.

That's way nicer than either of mine

[bunglebus]

Here's a little brain teaser for you - Matchbox Sand Cat only comes in orange and green/red right? So what's this?

Clue is on the base 

[RoadworkUK]

5 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

And here we have it

Excellent! Thank you Sir

[flat4alfa]

1 hour ago, RoadworkUK said:

Excellent! Thank you Sir

Just measured the thickness of Merc 600 tyre to be 4mm

@Lord Sterling

[flat4alfa]

1 hour ago, bunglebus said:

That's way nicer than either of mine

Poorly listed, but still had to pay well for it BIN as I bought his whole stock of Rockets to secure a worthwhile deal.....  ?

[eddyramrod]

I mentioned in an earlier post my recycled pallet "vice" and here it is:

Dinky Range Rover for scale.

And here are the next few for stripping...

Including a Dinky DB6 that I dismantled a long time ago, and miraculously kept together, so it's getting stripped.

And here are some of them in their baths.

Interesting little note: when you dismantle the Packard convertible (also a couple of others) the rear wheels will fall off the axle.  Why?  Because Dinky didn't bother peening-over the axle ends, knowing the body would come down the wheel and tyre beyond the centreline of the axle, and therefore hold the assembly together.  Just in case anyone else is doing the same model. 

[Skizzer]

8 hours ago, AndyW201 said:

Ooh! Nice packaging.

I couldn't resist this when it came on eBay at a tempting price. I blame all the Royale love on here lately!

Funnily enough I’ve just ordered a Monza from the same series from our own @Mr Lobster’s eBay shop.

Sadly they didn’t do the Monza in gold - or if they did they’re super rare. I went for green.

[sierraman]

2 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Here's a little brain teaser for you - Matchbox Sand Cat only comes in orange and green/red right? So what's this?

Clue is on the base 

It was part of Lesneys Giftware I reckon 

[bunglebus]

Correct

 

c6398b137293dc072392aadf494aa21f (1) by RS, on Flickr

 

There's another colour too

 

Vintage-Ashtray-Pottery-MATCHBOX-Speed-Kings-Sand by RS, on Flickr

[bunglebus]

That Sand Cat came with a really tidy companion

 

20200530_162951 by RS, on Flickr

 

I also scored a good condition K50-K3 with all its stickers intact, listed in with some Models of Yesteryear so I guess no-one else noticed it

 

20200530_162407 by RS, on Flickr

[Spottedlaurel]

Mrs SL needed to use the computer all day and didn't want any distractions, which gave me the perfect excuse to spend all day in the shed working on the Sunny Truck:

1:24 Hasegawa Nissan Sunny Truck kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

The paint had gone on pretty well and I was in two minds about whether to polish it, but I did and it was worthwhile. A new sheet of Bare Metal Foil will deal with the brightwork, it also makes for good masking tape.

1:24 Hasegawa Nissan Sunny Truck kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

Had a bit of a 'mare getting to this stage, the chassis just didn't want to click into place so I had to carry out a strategic bit of shaving.

1:24 Hasegawa Nissan Sunny Truck kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

1:24 Hasegawa Nissan Sunny Truck kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

Couldn't resist a mock-up, it'll spur me onto the final stages tomorrow. If I get it finished by the end of the day that means it will have been started and completed in the same month, haven't done that for ages.

[Datsuncog]

On 5/29/2020 at 10:07 PM, crad said:

this appears to be a mostly buying miniture shite thread but if its allowed and there is interest i will happily show my collection of smol cars aquired during my 20 years upon the earth. here's a teaser anyway, featuring my #1 dream car.

Do go on... always interested in some hot Trabbie action!

Never seen that MC Toy/Maisto/Edocar casting in yellow - good find.

[flat4alfa]

SUNDAY IDENTIFY COMPO

What is this supposed to be, and any idea who made it?   The rear lights have confused.  Thanks

[flat4alfa]

On 12/20/2019 at 12:03 PM, Datsuncog said:

The Fire Chief Car was another of those fantasy vehicles that made me irrationally furious as a child. I just couldn't work out what it was meant to be. The ventilation louvres in the bonnet and in the boot were maddening. Front engine? Rear engine? Both? Neither?? What are you trying to do to me, Matchbox? My rage ought to have cooled by now - but apparently not.

Remembered this post.... as it made me smile, remembering also being annoyed by the model when a boy, for similar reasons.  Didn't have one, never wanted one; it just didn't fit into those Observer's Books, which were my reference on life!

The Matchbox Fire Chief car.

Roll forward a few decades and having now reached an age thought (back then) to be really old, for some unexplainable reason am now interested; so recently got hold of the Superfast original and the Super GT re-release in some job-lots. 

'It's just a colour change' - or so I thought - but the bonnet (hood?) grilles and the rear deck grille have been made part of the casting.  So they spent money on it and retooled !   Original is stamped 1976; GT has 1985.  Not only that, the Hungarian 'Playmobil' firm copied it to plastic, with a front grille shroud added too.  So somewhere, out there, there was some love for it.

Looking inside shows it's a clear two-seater with a cover over whatever is supposed to be in that tall boot (trunk!), yet the bonnet (hood!) is long with air intakes to feed a banked-V engine.  There is a front grille too, with headlamps covered by protection grilles of their own.  My word!  

But I now like it.  Anyone got a spare unwanted original I could buy to modify?  Idea being to create a civilian 'fantasy twin-engined 1970s muscle car' - to allow it a place alongside the countless wacky customs from Hot Wheels etc?  'But why?' you ask.  Perhaps some sentimentality for the past, guilt at not accepting it at the time, and why not for the hell of it.  Underdogs need their own champions!

Were there any larger clones of this model?  Upscaled and friction motored, as Hong Kong's finest could be? 

[DoctorRetro]

8 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Remembered this post.... as it made me smile, remembering also being annoyed by the model when a boy, for similar reasons.  Didn't have one, never wanted one; it just didn't fit into those Observer's Books,which were my reference on life!

The Matchbox Fire Chief car.

Roll forward a few decades and now reached an age thought (back then) to be really old.  For some unexplainable reason am now interested, so recently got hold of the Superfast original and the Super GT re-release in some job lots. 

 'It's just a colour change' - or so I thought - but the bonnet (hood?) grilles and the rear deck grille have been made part of the body.  So they spent money on it and made it a retool !   Original is stamped 1978, GT has 1985.  Not only that, the Hungarian 'Playmobil' firm copied it to plastic, with a front grille shroud added too.  So somewhere, out there, there was some love for it.

Looking inside shows it's a clear two-seater with a cover over whatever is supposed to be in that tall boot (trunk!), yet the bonnet (hood!) is long with air intakes to feed a banked-V engine.  There is a front grille too.  My word!  

But I now like it.  Anyone got a spare unwanted original I could buy to modify?  Idea being to create a civilian 'fantasy twin-engined 1970s muscle car' - to allow it a place alongside the countless wacky customs from Hot Wheels etc?  'But why?' you ask.  Perhaps sentimentality for the past, guilt at not accepting it at the time, and why not for the hell of it.  Underdogs need their own champions!

Were there any larger clones of this model?  Upscaled and friction motored, as Hong Kong's finest could be? 

I have one you can have... 

 

Edit - I think mine is a Super GT, but offer still stands 

[flat4alfa]

1 minute ago, TheDoctor said:

I have one you can have... 

Great!  A proper original, not the GT casting?

[flat4alfa]

ah well! ?

[DoctorRetro]

[MarvinsMom]

1 hour ago, flat4alfa said:

SUNDAY IDENTIFY COMPO

What is this supposed to be, and any idea who made it?   The rear lights have confused.  Thanks

i'm going to say Landrover Discovery 3/4.

but them back lights are utterly wrong.

maybe its an unlicensed knockoff and the maker has done that to try and get away from copyright infringement?

[flat4alfa]

1 hour ago, MarvinsMom said:

i'm going to say Landrover Discovery 3/4.

but them back lights are utterly wrong.

maybe its an unlicensed knockoff and the maker has done that to try and get away from copyright infringement?

Thanks, yes I was going over pages and pages of LR content and thought I was going around the twist!  Will scan pages of Chinese LR Discovery ripoffs instead!

[bunglebus]

Rocket is restored.

 

20200531_151902 by RS, on Flickr

20200531_151905 by RS, on Flickr

20200531_151919 by RS, on Flickr

20200531_151855 by RS, on Flickr

20200531_151841 by RS, on Flickr

20200531_152049 by RS, on Flickr

20200425_105218 by RS, on Flickr

 

As it was a resto, I left the casting lines alone, just sanded and polished it before several thin coats of Tamiya X-26 orange. I don't think it's as dark as the original colour but I like it.

Rockets wheels seem to have always been black, these were the best ones I can find.

The body isn't perfect, it has a cracked pillar and small dent in the roof. I'm happy with it though.

[Split_Pin]

Lovely job on the Rocket, very nice indeed.

The Discovery is part of a cheap-ass combo with a caravan or something which are for sale in The Entertainer or similar low budget toy shop. The problem is that nowadays, in the UK there isn't much choice for these sorts of outfits.

All of the manufacturers, both UK and in Europe used to make some lovely sets like the Superkings Jaguar XJ and caravan (or was it Corgi) or the Majorette Renault 18 with the caravan and the aerofoil on its roof.

You just don't see that now, except for the aforementioned cheap tosh.

[Richard_FM]

Me & my brother had the fire chief car in the early 1980s.  A lot of die cast cars seemed to not be based on actual cars & many that were could end up a bit quirky.

An example was the Honda Accord with roof mounted wings & propeller module.

[crad]

here's some more of my shelf tat

a rather battered matchbox ovlov 760 , had this one since I was very small

majorette renault safrane, possibly as rare as the cars themselves were over here

matchbox rover sterling with epic rimz

siku vw passat mk3, my favourite shape- I have quite a few siku models from going over there a lot as a child as I have family over there, although this was found at a toy fair in the UK iirc. an excellent* colour choice as well

majorette escort mk5? fastback? coupe? 3 door? not sure what this shape is called. it appears to have been painted over by a previous owner judging by the lights and the fact that behind the doors there is yellow paint.

matchbox Honda Element, picked up in America as a child I think. I have a vague memory of being driven around in one of my dad's colleagues example when we were there once.

two corgi rockets, although without the thingy to lower and raise the ride height, and with rather battered paint. the Jag I've had for a very long time.

and a blingtastic majorette merc SL. an extremely tasteful* paintjob.

@Datsuncog the trabants are maisto castings. funny you should say that about the yellow one, I've had that probably 10 years longer than the other three!

 

[Amishtat]

Having a preliminary clear out and these are up for rehoming if there's any interest. The railway carriage is Majorette as well as the camper, but you probably all knew that anyway. Corgi Juniors cement mixer is annoyingly mint apart from the wanky axle. 

[Amishtat]

Also this, possibly of interest to flat4alfa. Plastic caricature of a 928, probably about 1:32 and made by Blue-box of Hong Kong according to the base. The black thing on the back pulls out a string which winds up the motor, or at least it did for a short period immediately after Christmas 1986. 

[bunglebus]

3 hours ago, crad said:

two corgi rockets, although without the thingy to lower and raise the ride height

? Am I missing something here about the ride height on Rockets?