Shite in Miniature II

11,811 · August 12, 2020

Ah i think its a v70 phase 3 ...i want the phase 2 .....carry on doc ...?

9,215 · August 12, 2020

2 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

The Porsche 917 Langheck (long-tail) was a real thing, not a prototype

[subeditor] Amishtat was using the word "prototype" in the sense of "basis for the model", in the same way that a photo of a rake of railway carriages might be a prototype for a OO diorama. [/subeditor]

25,875 · August 12, 2020

1 hour ago, flat4alfa said:

Anyone breaking one of these?

I painted mine up, then promptly melted the glazing in paint stripper. The previous owner had painted over the windows you see.

I'll have a rummage,

Not promising anything though.

Got to try and sneak it past Smoll Eddy!

43,474 · August 12, 2020

47 minutes ago, RoadworkUK said:

[subeditor] Amishtat was using the word "prototype" in the sense of "basis for the model", in the same way that a photo of a rake of railway carriages might be a prototype for a OO diorama. [/subeditor]

Ok, The Porsche 917 Langheck (long-tail) was the prototype for the model

15,149 · August 12, 2020

2 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

I thought he was the Back Door Doctor? Nobody told me he had changed jobs.

I was chuckling away to myself about this and my girlfriend said to me 'what's tickled your balls?'

Needless to say, I didn't manage to stop laughing for a little while... ?

25,875 · August 12, 2020

"Wotcha reckon M8?"

7,972 · August 12, 2020

The last of Tat Wednesday while my dinner cooks. Not quite my usual fare but they're nice weighty things and the vendor was willing to come to a deal, although I wouldn't exactly say they were a bargain. Perhaps I've just been spoiled with a run of less-than-a-tenner tat recently. Missing tyres on the Bedford, which is a little annoying. Don't think I've come across the Corgi Karrier before.

43,474 · August 12, 2020

1 hour ago, junkyarddog said:

"Wotcha reckon M8?"

GR8 Mr Eddy, sir.

Perfick save!

43,474 · August 12, 2020

28 minutes ago, Amishtat said:

Don't think I've come across the Corgi Karrier before.

Me either. Lucozade livery is great

Must be a rarity?

August 13, 2020

here another one arrived weds zodiac with working lights the joy,wont take much stripping and needs tyres,aston asent any wheels but got knackered one to rob,queens roller got out put light in zodiac,going to order one with the tyres,go in quee in the rest off my tat to be retored

60,038 · August 13, 2020

17 minutes ago, antony denman said:

So that Zodiac is a Spot-On? Didn't know they made any with working lights, nice find.

They seem to command too much money on eBay so I only have one that I found years ago

40,658 · August 13, 2020

I’m mid resto on a later Spot On Zodiac, waiting for Steve Flowers to reopen need the doors and the glazing.

28,752 · August 13, 2020

If you need doors, surely it's a Zephyr not a Zodiac?

33,771 · August 13, 2020

I finished the model of my own car today.

It started out as a smoke grey GSi that I had already lowered about 20 years ago and fitted it with BMW E46 wheels. The latter aren't anywhere near the same as the Speedlines on my Corsa but the colour is right at least.

60,038 · August 13, 2020

Coming along nicely, other than getting carried away and painting it before trying to make the floor etc.

Rollcage is I think from a Hot Wheels Mini and fits perfectly, driver is out of the 4 engine dragster and seat from the spares box.

Got a steering column/wheel to fit then I'll paint the chassis and floor and assemble it all

42,536 · August 13, 2020

Mail call today...

Whoohoo, it's the Superkings K-14 Scammell Freight Liner from a few Wednesdays back, courtesy of Bunglebus Bootsale Enterprises Inc.

Bonus cat-themed packaging for extra points.

But stay, there's another bubble-wrapped nugget within...

Oh! It's a rubber-wheeled Husky version of the Ford D-Series, same as the one I was recently bemoaning selling on.

A super-early example too, with the spun alloy hubs rather than the later cast items.

Cheers dude, very pleased with this! Goes well with the tat-box trailer and its later Whizzwheels counterpart.

And that's not all today brought...

After a dental appointment in Belfast this morning, I stopped off to get my much-loved Tuffa yard boots soled and heeled (all that lockdown walking took its toll). Because the heel bar was quiet, the owner told me they'd be ready in an hour, rather than the next-week pick-up I was expecting. So I had an hour to mooch around.

I half-considered going over to Smithfield to have another poke in the model shop there, only the last time I was there I emeged feeling quite pissed off from the patronising tone and general arseiness of the proprietor... so much so that I threw the head up and didn't buy the Vanguards Subaru Legacy Turbo I'd specifically gone in there to get.

The pull was strong, and the thought of the Subaru appealing... but I stomped off in the opposite direction, and instead went to marvel at how HMV reckons £40 for an LP is now somehow acceptable.

BUT on the way back from HMV, for no particular reason, I sauntered into Cash Converters... and oh look...

...it's exactly the same model I wanted, but for 2/3 of the price. The box is a tiny bit worn, but that's not a bother. The car is minty fresh.

I believe the real-life Legacy used the same 2.0 turbocharged EJ boxer engine as does my Forester XT, so that's kinda nice.

It was also the sole Vanguards model in there; all their other diecast amounted to no more than a load of unwanted Days Gone promotionals (Model T Fordzzzzzz) plus some dusty Franklin Mint yank stuff 'reduced' at £40 a pop.

Serendipidous, hey?

43,474 · August 13, 2020

49 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

...it's exactly the same model I wanted, but for 2/3 of the price.

It was also the sole Vanguards model in there

Serendipidous, hey?

60,038 · August 13, 2020

1 hour ago, Datsuncog said:

Oh! It's a rubber-wheeled Husky version of the Ford D-Series, same as the one I was recently bemoaning selling on.

A super-early example too, with the spun alloy hubs rather than the later cast items.

Cheers dude, very pleased with this! Goes well with the tat-box trailer and its later Whizzwheels counterpart.

No worries. I wasn't really thinking about getting rid of it but I'm not hugely into commercials and I figured you do a lot for the rest of us tat hoarders. Now you can stop complaining...

...talking of complaints, I'm getting swamped with job lot orphans and cars I'm never going to customise - so, does anyone want this lot for £10 posted? The bigger of the two groups are all either broken or have missing parts, all the new looking ones and several of the others in that same group have been taken apart and their wheels removed.

The other group are generally complete but just don't interest me.

There's also this Matchbox/Dinky MGB and Oxford Jensen interceptor - £1 each + postage

In happier news, a few tired but sound Matchbox got to me today;

Plus this boxed Zylmex - box was already squished and it was bubble wrapped and boxed to the extreme, makes a change from jiffy bags!

I decided I'd like to mess about with the large Corgi Corniche - this one has lost its V8 but I do have a few engine donors about...

43,474 · August 13, 2020

On 8/6/2020 at 8:32 PM, Dick Van Diesel said:

You complete bastards. All of these were purchased within the last two weeks. I don't need them. I don't have room for them.

I could find a home for one of those

25,875 · August 13, 2020

"Wots this un m8?"

It's a messed with Dodge dragster Smoll Eddy.

And after,

"Not another one M8!"

Yes......That makes 10 pink ones and one white Orange peel version.

"You need yer bumps feelin' M8"

:mrgreen:

43,474 · August 13, 2020

28 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

.talking of complaints, I'm getting swamped with job lot orphans and cars I'm never going to customise - so, does anyone want this lot for £10 posted? The bigger of the two groups are all either broken or have missing parts, all the new looking ones and several of the others in that same group have been taken apart and their wheels removed.

Is the glass and base ok on the Diplomat?

I have this

43,474 · August 13, 2020

55 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

I decided I'd like to mess about with the large Corgi Corniche - this one has lost its V8 but I do have a few engine donors about...

Looking forward to 'Cornichebuster' !

14,164 · August 13, 2020

Haven't looked through all of their listings yet, but the seller of this lot appears to have some interesting stuff: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/JOB-LOT-OF-MATCHBOX-SUPERKINGS-TRUCK-LORRY-TRAILER-DIECAST-MODELS-3/303644515394

14,164 · August 13, 2020

Phwoar!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LARGE-VINTAGE-PLASTIC-MATCHBOX-MODELS-LIGHT-PLASTIC-ROTATING-SHOP-DISPLAY-STAND/303634153866

60,038 · August 13, 2020

1 hour ago, flat4alfa said:

Is the glass and base ok on the Diplomat?

I have this

Base should clean up but the glass isn't great

28,752 · August 13, 2020

1 hour ago, bunglebus said:

No worries. I wasn't really thinking about getting rid of it but I'm not hugely into commercials and I figured you do a lot for the rest of us tat hoarders. Now you can stop complaining...

...talking of complaints, I'm getting swamped with job lot orphans and cars I'm never going to customise - so, does anyone want this lot for £10 posted? The bigger of the two groups are all either broken or have missing parts, all the new looking ones and several of the others in that same group have been taken apart and their wheels removed.

The other group are generally complete but just don't interest me.

There's also this Matchbox/Dinky MGB and Oxford Jensen interceptor - £1 each + postage

In happier news, a few tired but sound Matchbox got to me today;

Plus this boxed Zylmex - box was already squished and it was bubble wrapped and boxed to the extreme, makes a change from jiffy bags!

I decided I'd like to mess about with the large Corgi Corniche - this one has lost its V8 but I do have a few engine donors about...

If the Jensen is 1/43 I would love that, and the MGB please. No hurry (in case anything else turns up).

60,038 · August 13, 2020

3 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

If the Jensen is 1/43 I would love that, and the MGB please. No hurry (in case anything else turns up).

It is indeed 1:43 - and £40 new!

https://www.awesomediecast.com/oxford-diecast-1-43-jensen-interceptor-mkl-regal-red/

43,474 · August 13, 2020

24 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Base should clean up but the glass isn't great

Oh that's worth a save

Especially as Mike Flowers is back open

Quote

36C/D Opel Diplomat
(fits Regular & Superfast wheel models)

Bonnet 0.45
Clear Plastic Window Unit 2.10

9,215 · August 13, 2020

1 hour ago, Spottedlaurel said:

Haven't looked through all of their listings yet, but the seller of this lot appears to have some interesting stuff: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/JOB-LOT-OF-MATCHBOX-SUPERKINGS-TRUCK-LORRY-TRAILER-DIECAST-MODELS-3/303644515394

One of these days I'll track down the missing cargo for that Aircraft Transporter.

60,038 · August 13, 2020

They're not far from me, poss collection to save postage costs...

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