Shite in Miniature II

[Split_Pin]

1 hour ago, bunglebus said:

This is why I love Matchbox, you just don't get this level of detail in 1:64 anymore. Even if the mould was clearly getting worn by the time this Superfast was made

That's grand to see the detail up close as some of it is too small to see clearly (for me anyway). The 1600TL badge is great as it's the right font. Something only Majorette and Matchbox got right in the 1970s.

[flat4alfa]

2 hours ago, MarvinsMom said:

damn right DO NOT CLICK.......

i've thrown better things away!! bloody Old School Ford Scene Tax even applies  to slot cars!!

They aren't even slot cars

They are just built models.  Glue-bombs, at that.

[flat4alfa]

59 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

The 1600TL badge is great as it's the right font. Something only Majorette and Matchbox got right in the 1970s.

Even better, that model dates from 1967

(Despite the number plate being of a 1965 car)

[Datsuncog]

Right then, where were we...

I may have got somewhat carried away.

Individual pics - including which are staying and which are going - to follow!

[flat4alfa]

Deora II if possible.  I need some surf boards for my Deora I

[flat4alfa]

Cor look at that 1930s plastic Alfa !

[Datsuncog]

First up, requests: a pair of Corgi Metrobuses, for @Noel Tidybeard:

Since the anniversary bus is celebrating 75 years of Bradford & Leeds Trolleybuses, I'll guess it's a 1986 issue. Oddly, this one's made in China - while the Strathclyde one is stamped Made In England.

Bonus points for the half-arsed semi-opening front doors.

They're also filthy, but maybe that accurately reflects bus operators of the 1980s?

Will add them in with your others, dude!

 

Also, this hot ticket claimed by @bunglebus

If this is representative of the Corvair's track, no wonder Ralph Nader reckoned they were unsafe at any speed...

I know virtually nothing about Lone Star, but while this isn't as flash as the Corgi version with the opening engine cover, it's not a bad rendering at all. Unsure whether the number plates are original or someone's added them.

I'm also not sure if it's a repaint or what - someone looks to have been busy with glue or something, as it's blobbed all over the base and round the front bumper.

At least, I hope it's glue...

Will set that one aside, too!

[Noel Tidybeard]

ta muchly

[Datsuncog]

I also bagged this for myself from the tat stall:

I think I might have had one just like this when I was very small - I definitely had the Datapost racing Metro - but it may have met its end in the jaws of Cog Sr's big bench vice during my short-lived but endlessly regretted 'toy scrapyard' phase, c.1986.

I wasn't actively looking for a Metro for my Corgi 1/36 collection - I'd sold a nicely beige MG Turbo version on here a while back, and also a playworn plain blue example - but this is in as nice a condition as I could hope to find, so for a fiver, I went for it.

Interior's a bit shockingly white, but the opening doors and boot give it a nice bit of added interest.

The shape of Corgi's Metro never looked quite right, since the design team were left to make their model from whatever limited info BL would give them on their hush-hush 'New Mini' project.

Really though, it's just a little bit deep in the sill, probably to give the shell casting more rigidity (though as I recall, my Datapost version cracked at the A-posts so it probably could have done with more strengthening).

My grandfather - always an Austin man, apart from a solitary foray into a Marina coupe - owned one just like this in the early 90s, so it's going to be staying put.

[Amishtat]

I had one just like that, also a mid blue one and one in a strange pale green. Did it have turbo on the bottom of the doors or is my memory at fault? 

[Datsuncog]

6 minutes ago, Amishtat said:

I had one just like that, also a mid blue one and one in a strange pale green. Did it have turbo on the bottom of the doors or is my memory at fault? 

Sounds just like my Turbo - massive black tide mark with TURBO lettering, so you remember correctly! Only the boot still claimed it was an Austin, as I recall.

I'd thought it was beige but there was a greenish tint, right enough...

Not sure who got mine in the end! I'd 'enhanced' it with the dreaded silver pen, and every time I looked at it I just felt annoyed with myself... so it had to go.

[sierraman]

Ooof is that a KW Dart in there?

[Amishtat]

Yeah, a beigeish green I suppose you could call it.. Another one that seems to have been lost to the sands of time, it's really started to dawn on me that there's only a couple of places left to look before having to declare most of my favourite childhood Corgis lost. I keep a eye open at the boot sale for possible replacements (chiefly Red Sierra and blue Acclaim) but no luck so far, despite the other pleasures it's thrown up. 

[bunglebus]

Too slow asking for the Deora - I was going to steal the surfboards for my Beach Bomb!

 

Hot Wheels info updated up there somewhere ^^^

[Datsuncog]

40 minutes ago, sierraman said:

Ooof is that a KW Dart in there?

It is indeed - a duplicate KW Dart, too... (though both have issues).

[flat4alfa]

24 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Too slow asking for the Deora - I was going to steal the surfboards for my Beach Bomb!

If you have Beach Bomb you have already won at life and don't need anything else!

[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, flat4alfa said:

If you have a Beach Bomb you have already won at life and don't need anything else!

I actually had two...sold one to fund the hobby. Makes me sick when I see pics of about 12 minty ones all with their surfboards in someone's collection, either got too much money or the luck of the devil.

 

Mattel 013 by RS, on Flickr

Mattel 002 by RS, on Flickr

 

Although the green one looks nicer, the glass was broken - I decided if I'm ever brave enough to restore it, paint is easier to rectify

[Dick Cheeseburger]

2 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

I also bagged this for myself from the tat stall:

I think I might have had one just like this when I was very small - I definitely had the Datapost racing Metro - but it may have met its end in the jaws of Cog Sr's big bench vice during my short-lived but endlessly regretted 'toy scrapyard' phase, c.1986.

I wasn't actively looking for a Metro for my Corgi 1/36 collection - I'd sold a nicely beige MG Turbo version on here a while back, and also a playworn plain blue example - but this is in as nice a condition as I could hope to find, so for a fiver, I went for it.

Interior's a bit shockingly white, but the opening doors and boot give it a nice bit of added interest.

The shape of Corgi's Metro never looked quite right, since the design team were left to make their model from whatever limited info BL would give them on their hush-hush 'New Mini' project.

Really though, it's just a little bit deep in the sill, probably to give the shell casting more rigidity (though as I recall, my Datapost version cracked at the A-posts so it probably could have done with more strengthening).

My grandfather - always an Austin man, apart from a solitary foray into a Marina coupe - owned one just like this in the early 90s, so it's going to be staying put.

Love it! I spotted it in your photos of the seller's stall - wonder where the box is? It looks way too clean to have been stored in any other way for almost four decades. 

[bunglebus]

To my amazement, I have just learnt that Budgie VWs are available again, made from the original moulds. Purchase likely!

 

https://www.budgiemodels.com/

[Datsuncog]

57 minutes ago, Dick Van Diesel said:

Love it! I spotted it in your photos of the seller's stall - wonder where the box is? It looks way too clean to have been stored in any other way for almost four decades. 

It really is lovely, an absolute timewarp! Other than the lack of box, it's like new. Not a mark on it, no dust or anything... might be worth my while keeping an eye out for an empty box...

[Split_Pin]

Those 1/36 Metros are ace, they are almost a caricature of the real car's dumpy proportions.

I like the oversized badging on the back and the fact that it's an early 'miniMetro' which I think only went up to 1982.

I had a boxed red one in with that jingoistic 'British Car to Beat the World' decoration and also an unboxed blue one. 

For some reason I picked up another unboxed red one at a Swapmeet which is the only one left of the 3.

[flat4alfa]

5 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

What's going on, on that roof?

[flat4alfa]

7 hours ago, bunglebus said:

god I'm a sad fucker

This book you're writing, when is it out?

Will @Datsuncog be writing the preface for you?

It'll be great ?

[Dick Cheeseburger]

On 7/25/2020 at 11:46 PM, TheDoctor said:

Sorted the missing rear lights on the Ertl Celica by printing some off from a photo onto self adhesive photo paper. Worked out OK... 

Finally dug mine out as promised. As with the majority of my collection, I've owned this since the 80s. Mine's a Polistil version - don't know if yours has the same markings? 

Your back lights look spot on!

 

[sheffcortinacentre]

Always wanted that matchbox ramp how much? Got a pic of the SUT coach? Remember those being around in the late ,70's when I was a kid.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

While I was digging through my boxes of cars for the Celica above, I found a few other unusual models. I've got two of these tinplate models. They were at my gran's place when I was a kid and I always used to play with them. When she passed on, I was given them. They're British made, around 30cm long and were elderly and well used back in the 80s. Does anyone have any ideas of manufacturer or date? I'd love to know a bit more about them.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

I bought this Mk1 Golf when I was at uni in the late 90s. It was as is and dirt cheap. The lights still work and I guess it would have been some sort of remote control setup with some sort of jockey wheel. There's a speaker in the roof as well. It's got pretty decent detail for a plastic model - the BBS bodykit and alloys are pretty faithful to the originals. No ideas on manufacturer. Again, any ideas appreciated. 

[flat4alfa]

Looks great.  It is a Mk1 Golf

Roof mic grille makes it sonic-controlled 

There is similarity to the decals on this Nikko in 1:12

[Dick Cheeseburger]

This one's a bit of a laugh. I was given it as a present by my first ever 'girlfriend' when I was in infant school. Looking back on it, I should have worked a bit harder with the relationship as she clearly was a woman with taste. It's a Hong Kong special and is a proper quirky thing. Check out the nose - room for a few straight eights under there! Looks like the plastic is aging a fair bit now, but it's safe enough and tucked away from the light normally. 

[Dick Cheeseburger]

3 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Looks great.  It is a Mk1 Golf

Doh! Edited. I've owned a number of mk1s and mk2s so should know by now. I'll blame it on the ale.