Shite in Miniature II

[junkyarddog]

18 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

That's transformed it, what were the wheels originally fitted to? They look grand.

Modern matchbox wheels.

Think they are off some new fangled electric van.

[artdjones]

Just got given this.It's way too charming to restore.

[bunglebus]

3 hours ago, 155V6 said:

Hotwheels at Lidl from next Thursday,according to the leaflet.

They're in my local one today - I didn't go but Mrs sent a pic of three packs

[155V6]

12 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

They're in my local one today - I didn't go but Mrs sent a pic of three packs

These are single cars,for £1.49.

[bunglebus]

I've had a few arrivals/finds;

 

One of the later Dinkys, made in England but plastic base. Don't recall seeing the wheels before

 

20200709_144821 by RS, on Flickr

20200709_144829 by RS, on Flickr

20200709_144846 by RS, on Flickr

 

A while ago I bought a Zylmex Electra;

 

20200602_180801 by RS, on Flickr

 

Which is of course a DeTomasa Mangusta. I spotted this Dinky one;

 

20200709_144959 by RS, on Flickr

20200709_144940 by RS, on Flickr

20200709_144944 by RS, on Flickr

 

It came with another, earlier one which has much nicer wheels, so I may make a hybrid if I can find tyres

 

20200709_145021 by RS, on Flickr

 

Being somewhat jealous of the Doctor's Cadillac ambulance, I grabbed this one very cheaply - think they put it as BIN when it should have been the starting price. As mentioned last week, bits are available to fix it.

 

20200709_145103 by RS, on Flickr

20200709_145056 by RS, on Flickr

 

Talking of spares, I've never bought reproduction parts for my cars but I took a chance with a pair of number plates for the Zodiac, and they're great. Got the Saint decal for the Corgi Rockets P1800 I restored a while back too

 

20200709_145448 by RS, on Flickr

 

Lastly, my favourite charity shop re-opened, there were quite a few MC Toys pull back cars, but only one thing came home with me. Remember the comedy MC Toys Escort cabrio with the colour-coded roof?

 

20190807_120305 by RS, on Flickr

 

Well I'd been half-heartedly looking for the even funnier police version with the lights on the soft-top;

 

20200709_145127 by RS, on Flickr

20200709_145136 by RS, on Flickr

20200709_145142 by RS, on Flickr

 

However I got a surprise when I looked underneath;

 

20200709_145149 by RS, on Flickr

 

I knew MC used old Corgi castings but didn't realise this was one. black windows, lights on the roof and long rear suspension travel make me think there are some electronics hiding inside, further investigation required...

[bunglebus]

7 minutes ago, 155V6 said:

These are single cars,for £1.49.

Actually - the three packs are Aldi, not Lidl...

[flat4alfa]

7 hours ago, TheDoctor said:

Today has been a 'get electric stuff working' kind of day. 

Yay!

Funny you should post this today, as in my hand right now I have this gutted example picked up from Sunday's boot sale.  A fella was selling a number of his childhood toys, most dismantled over the years such as this one, with parts of them missing (at the moment, he'll seek them out and be back in fortnight, he said). 

Gave a couple of quid for this as it seemed straight enough to do something with....   Looking it up, Mr Flowers does the glass and headlights, but not the tail lights or interior. 

So, If those spares are out there please someone let me know asap, as this is an obvious choice for motorising into a slot car (or take a mould from), rather than cut about a complete example.  I do have a brake light circuit with flat LEDs spare too, which could be coaxed into the empty and flat tail light openings.

This Dinky Mercedes 250 SE  [W108] works out to be approx 1:42 

[flat4alfa]

4 hours ago, 155V6 said:

Hotwheels at Lidl from next Thursday,according to the leaflet.

They had some back in February.  But they were last year's range.  Perhaps they bought some boxes of surplus stock, I thought at the time

[flat4alfa]

From a box of bits

GUESS THE PART THURSDAY

[bunglebus]

Definitely some bits of one of these

 

20190824_110135 by RS, on Flickr  

 

And one of these

 

20191110_174503 by RS, on Flickr

 

Orange interior is out of a Matchbox VW camper

 

20190901_194601 by RS, on Flickr

[eddyramrod]

I'm also seeing the Opel Senator grille unit, Kojak Buick taillights, and I think the lone red seatback might be MGB/C GT?  Might be some more bits of Buick too, such as dash and rear bumper...

Meanwhile, have some photos.  My C3 parked with my current Volvo.

They are, of course, part of the "Cars I've owned" sub-collection.  The colours are not strictly accurate, but good enough.

[flat4alfa]

1 hour ago, bunglebus said:

Definitely some bits of one of these

And one of these

Orange interior is out of a Matchbox VW camper

Excellent, right first time.

I didn't know the camper interior was the VW one, cheers.

[flat4alfa]

1 hour ago, eddyramrod said:

I'm also seeing the Opel Senator grille unit, Kojak Buick taillights, and I think the lone red seatback might be MGB/C GT? 

Yes Senator; yes Buick Regal; no it seems the MGB are like the pattern below :

 

^ yes that is your old one  as it is currently.  Just need a door, tailgate glass and grille.

I thought it might be from the Corgi Herald Coupe or Elan, but no.

 

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Might be some more bits of Buick too, such as dash and rear bumper...

Dash is correct and great I can put that in the correct bag now! ?

Bumper isn't though, and it doesn't match Caprice or Gran Torino either...

[DoctorRetro]

1 hour ago, flat4alfa said:

From a box of bits

GUESS THE PART THURSDAY

I need some Rolls Royce bits!

 

[flat4alfa]

7 minutes ago, TheDoctor said:

I need some Rolls Royce bits!

Well, the grille/lights part is surplus as it's off the 1:36 Corgi

Which leads me to.....

[flat4alfa]

On 7/3/2020 at 2:16 AM, flat4alfa said:

That PINK has etched on me since childhood.  Why, oh why, did they do that...?  I'm sure it used to make me twitch and be girliephobic

Wasn't until recently that when gifted an old box of brokens and spares, an odd boot lid was in there and the pink paint gave it way....

Funny how things work out....   

Here is the offending boot lid, also found in same tin was the matching front bumper.

...and boot sale Sunday blokey had this as well.  And guess what - it's missing bootlid and bumper !

I can't quite remember what I paid for it, but I just had to have it to make the PINK BOOTLID live on

[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, flat4alfa said:

That brown dash is bugging me - Mini? Minor?

[flat4alfa]

Now fitted

DO NOT PAINT !

As I already have each of them in tidier/complete condition....

...and the base and interior are missing.... you can guess what I intend to do with it

[bunglebus]

Well the dash isn't Dinky Mini

Access is rather good as the door is missing - leading me to ask if anyone has a spare or a damaged car with a driver's door?

[flat4alfa]

41 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Well the dash isn't Dinky Mini

Nor is it Corgi Mini

[flat4alfa]

It's not Corgi Austin Mini-Van either

[andrew e]

I think the MC toys Escort Cabrio dates from 1984 and Dempsey & Makepeace, have a look here:

https://www.planetdiecast.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=60&id=77044&Itemid=18

[Christine]

Got a Ford D  series door ??  Will that do ?  ?

[Amishtat]

3 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

From a box of bits

GUESS THE PART THURSDAY

Seat back may be from a Corgi Mustang 

[flat4alfa]

2 hours ago, bunglebus said:

anyone has a spare or a damaged car with a driver's door?

Mike Flowers has them for 95p - might be a better bet than being stuck with spares cars, looking at you, all BEGGING to be rebuilt.  Playing on your mind, making you twitch, giving sleepless nights, etc  (or maybe that's just me!)

Example:

I got this from Eddy earlier-on this year

Got around taking apart, dipping, tidying body flaws, painting into primer (back when we had a summer) and made ready to determine what was needed

But, instead of doing what I was supposed to do (getting the individual parts),  I fired-up the search engine and ended up getting another job lot arrive a week or so ago, because it had these in

So in the end I've given myself THREE jobs to do instead:

1) transfer the good bumper section over to the orange one, meaning repeating the dipping/prepping/priming;

2) transfer the glazing over to the yellow one and dwell on what to do about the paint and surviving decals;

3) wonder what to do with the incomplete remains arghhhhh

 

Anyhow.  I'm compiling a Flowers order now anyway, if you want to jump on it as well

[flat4alfa]

36 minutes ago, Amishtat said:

Seat back may be from a Corgi Mustang 

I doesn't seem to be that, either

[Datsuncog]

A jolly nice package rocked up yesterday, courtesy of @dickvandiesel...

Does anyone know if Porsches ever raced with Polo Mint sponsorship? Just curious.

One of these is available, if anyone wishes to add it to their current or future tat box for nowt.

Matchbox Renner isn't bad nick overall - sticker is decent, and despite an a-post crack it looks better than the one I ruined with a paint pen,  when old enough to know better...

Still a really, really weird choice of car to model.

Somewhat down-at-heel Hot Wheels MX5 may become a custom one day (one day). In the meantime, here it is with my childhood blackwalls version, which is still in surprisingly good nick.

Oddly, the lettering has been flipped on the base - the logo has swapped from the top to the bottom, even though the lettering's otherwise the same.

I feel more charitably disposed towards Corgi Cameos since learning that they were expressly designed as pocket-money toys to encourage kids to develop an eye for classic vehicles. They were never meant to be all that accurate.

That still doesn't excuse those shysters advertising them as bona fide solid gold investments in the Sunday supplements to daft old bats, mind...

But here's the star of the show...

Yup, a very minty C425 Austin FX4 Taxi, in a nicely preserved early '80s box...

Shape is pretty much bob-on.

Now, I believe I have one of these elsewhere - or at least my brother does, since I bought it for him while on a school trip to London. But it was a 90s casting with black base and black interior, and nowhere as nice as this one.

I remembered the fold-down jump seats once I saw them again here...

...but I don't ever remember the sliding partition on the all-black version. Maybe only the Mettoy era models had it?

As a tiny detail which delights through its faithfulness to the real thing, this just can't be beat. I spent much longer than I'd care to admit just sliding this back and forth.

Great stuff, and all thanks to DVD for great packaging and speedy delivery! A+++++++, wud bye tat from agen.

[flat4alfa]

16 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

One of these is available, if anyone wishes to add it to their current or future tat box for nowt

?

 

I have spare R17 somewhere, will check if the shell is crack-free, if it helps

[155V6]

13 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

A jolly nice package rocked up yesterday, courtesy of @dickvandiesel...

Does anyone know if Porsches ever raced with Polo Mint sponsorship? Just curious.

One of these is available, if anyone wishes to add it to their current or future tat box for nowt.

Matchbox Renner isn't bad nick overall - sticker is decent, and despite an a-list crack it looks better than the one I ruined with a paint pen when I was old enough to know better...

Still a really, really weird choice of model.

Somewhat down-at-heel Hot Wheels MX5 may become a custom one day (one day). In the meantime, here it is with my childhood blackwalls version, which is still in surprisingly good nick.

Oddly, the lettering has been flipped on the base - the logo has swapped from the top to the bottom, even though the lettering's otherwise the same.

I feel more charitably disposed towards Corgi Cameos since learning that they were expressly designed as pocket-money toys to encourage kids to develop an eye for classic vehicles. They were never meant to be all that accurate.

That still doesn't excuse those shysters advertising them as bona fide solid gold investments in the Sunday supplements to daft old bats, mind...

But here's the star of the show...

Yup, a very minty C425 Austin FX4 Taxi, in a nicely preserved early '80s box...

Shape is pretty much bob-on.

Now, I believe I have one of these elsewhere - or at least my brother does, since I bought it for him while on a school trip to London. But it was a 90s casting with black base and black interior, and nowhere as nice as this one.

I remembered the fold-down jump seats once I saw them again here...

...but I don't ever remember the sliding partition on the all-black version. Maybe only the Mettoy era models had it?

As a tiny detail which delights through its faithfulness to the real thing, this just can't be beat. I spent much longer than I'd care to admit just sliding this back and forth.

Great stuff, and all thanks to DVD for great packaging and speedy delivery! A+++++++, wud bye tat from agen.

Have you still got a couple of odd things reserved for me?

If so,I'll add one of those Polo Porsches please.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

13 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

A jolly nice package rocked up yesterday, courtesy of @dickvandiesel...

Does anyone know if Porsches ever raced with Polo Mint sponsorship? Just curious.

One of these is available, if anyone wishes to add it to their current or future tat box for nowt.

Matchbox Renner isn't bad nick overall - sticker is decent, and despite an a-post crack it looks better than the one I ruined with a paint pen,  when old enough to know better...

Still a really, really weird choice of car to model.

Somewhat down-at-heel Hot Wheels MX5 may become a custom one day (one day). In the meantime, here it is with my childhood blackwalls version, which is still in surprisingly good nick.

Oddly, the lettering has been flipped on the base - the logo has swapped from the top to the bottom, even though the lettering's otherwise the same.

I feel more charitably disposed towards Corgi Cameos since learning that they were expressly designed as pocket-money toys to encourage kids to develop an eye for classic vehicles. They were never meant to be all that accurate.

That still doesn't excuse those shysters advertising them as bona fide solid gold investments in the Sunday supplements to daft old bats, mind...

But here's the star of the show...

Yup, a very minty C425 Austin FX4 Taxi, in a nicely preserved early '80s box...

Shape is pretty much bob-on.

Now, I believe I have one of these elsewhere - or at least my brother does, since I bought it for him while on a school trip to London. But it was a 90s casting with black base and black interior, and nowhere as nice as this one.

I remembered the fold-down jump seats once I saw them again here...

...but I don't ever remember the sliding partition on the all-black version. Maybe only the Mettoy era models had it?

As a tiny detail which delights through its faithfulness to the real thing, this just can't be beat. I spent much longer than I'd care to admit just sliding this back and forth.

Great stuff, and all thanks to DVD for great packaging and speedy delivery! A+++++++, wud bye tat from agen.

Glad they've gone to a good home chap. I bought that FX4 brand new when I was about ten. As you can probably tell, it's barely been out of the box!