Shite in Miniature II

[sierraman]

I had loads of micro machines but sold them the other year, they go for some good coin on fleabay. 

[bunglebus]

I'm not sure if these are Micro Machines or not, I didn't realise how small they were when I bought them, pics made them look more Matchbox size

 

VW Action 2018 015 by RS, on Flickr

20190524_115722 by RS, on Flickr

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Anyone want to add to their tat? 

This lot is available. Any offers considered before I list some of them individually on ebay.

Of particular note is the Superkings K6 pickup (canopy included), Lesney no5 Lotus Europa, Corgi Juniors RoyGo Rascal roller, Lesney no5 Aec bus, Majorette 1/32 jeep, Superkings Peugeot 305, Matchbox American market Model A Ford and Matchbox Rancho with intact drop-down tailgate!

 

 

 

 

[Datsuncog]

Right, some more weekend clearance stuff - apologies for greasing an already-slippery slope!

Pressed for time here, so pics only for now - I'll wax lyrical later, if circumstances permit.

Everything 50p or 3 for a quid!

Board 1: 1970s Superfast (and some later spin-offs):

1/1 - BMC 1800 Pininfarina; big wheels version, with the dashboard inexplicably missing.

1/2 - Racing Mini, with glazing damage but very straight axles. **SOLD!!!**

1/3 - Dodge Charger III concept, with shonky axles and glazing complete but needing a little fettling to get the canopy to lie flat.

1/4 - Volks Dragon minus its power plant; glazing intact, just dropped.

1/5 - Ford Group 6 racer, in pretty good shape

1/6 - another Ford Group B, in a different shade of green and wonky axles.

1/7 - Rolls Royce DHC; missing its windscreen and with the boot glued shut, but bumpers and front grille/lights are intact - wasn't someone after a front end for one of these the other week?

1/8 - Lotus Super Seven, also without glazing for the ultimate flies-in-the-teeth experience

1/9 - Rolamatics Turbo Fury, driver AWOL but the fans at the back still turn ok.

1/10- Dodge Challenger, in fairly good nick

1/ll -another Challenger in broadly similar condition; you can tell I have a weakness for these...

1/12 - Setra Airport Coach, once in British Airways colours but now it can be for whatever you want..

1/13 - AEC Merryweather Fire Engine; minus ladders but still not bad overall.

1/14 - Freeman Commuter; some glazing cracks and wonky axles, but far from a wreck.

1/15 - Rolamatics Police Patrol (Range Rover); later version with black base and blue light.

1/16 - Super GT Lotus Europa; made in China with later type wheels.

1/17 - Super GT Monteverdi Hai; made in England with earlier type wheels, good overall condition. **SOLD!!**

1/18 - Dodge Cattle Truck, early 80s twin-pack version in good shape.

 

More to follow!

[Datsuncog]

Board 2: Later 80s, 90s and 2000s Matchbox:

2/1 - Citroen 15CV Traction Avant, with barn-find salt patina for extra eBay kudos

2/2 - Pontiac Fiero with Superfast Laser Wheels **SOLD!!!**

2/3- Vauxhall Astra GTE in Sphere Drake rally livery **SOLD!!!**

2/4 - Mercedes Benz 190E; may have been stored near salt like the Big Citroen, but may respond well to a new coat of paint and tickle with a chrome pen.

2/5 - Audi Quattro **SOLD!!!**

2/6 - Ford Model A van, Kelloggs promo from the mid-80s

2/7 - Chevrolet School Bus, in mildly sinister 'Sheriff - Prisoner Transport' livery and plastic body

2/8 - GMC School Bus, in less scary Airport Shuttle guise, also with plastic body **SOLD!!!**

2/9 - Food Truck, 'Fun Sushi', also plastic

2/10 - Desert Thunder V16 truck, painted up as 'Alien Study Lab' (okaaaay) **SOLD!!!**

2/11 - Vantom 4x4, 'Arctic Expedition'

2/12 - Cliff Hanger, 4x4 buggy thing (tiny!)

2/13 - Sonora Shredder, desert rally type thing based on a Chevrolet stepside pickup?

2/14 - S.W.A.T. Truck, more than just a little sinister (honestly, what kind of play scenarios are kids coming up with these days?)

2/15 - No name on this one, but some sort of military armoured pick-up that looks like something from the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle programme - any ideas what?

2/16 - Another somewhat aggressive-looking vehicle that further blurs the boundaries betwixt police and military - all plastic, made for Burger King

2/17 - Pierce Dart Fire Tender; some of the silver plating has worn away, but a spot of Molotow chrome pen should sort it

2/18 - Battle Kings half-tracked APC in quite good overall nick (both rubber tracks and revolving turret soldier present; orange 'canvas' cover absent); an earlier 70s release in not-very-authentic metallic green.

 

More to come!

[sierraman]

I’ll add the mini, the super gt monterverdi hai and the silver airport shuttle please!

[Split_Pin]

3 hours ago, bunglebus said:

I'm not sure if these are Micro Machines or not, I didn't realise how small they were when I bought them, pics made them look more Matchbox size

 

VW Action 2018 015 by RS, on Flickr

20190524_115722 by RS, on Flickr

Yes these are MMs, post 1993 ones. VW ones quite desirable. It looks like 4 out of a 5 car set

 

[Datsuncog]

Board 3, then: Husky and Corgi Juniors:

3/1 - Husky VW T1 Conveyor Loader - be quick, surely a bargain at this money!

3/2 - Husky Buick Electra Police Car

3/3 - Bedford TK Skip Truck, complete with skip

3/4 - Another, incomplete, Bedford TK Skip Truck - free to anyone who wants it

3/5 - Ford F150 camper, missing a rather crucial bit of kit (Whizzwheels, not Rockets)

3/6 - Zetor Tractor

3/7 - Willys Jeep, with Whizzwheels but lacking a driver

3/8 - Ferrari 912S; again, Whizzwheels not Rockets

3/9 - GP Beach Buggy, without windsceen but with engine - not Rockets either, sorry!

3/10 - Mercedes Benz C111, with opening rear engine cover

3/11 - James Bond Lotus Esprit with optional underwater package **SOLD!!!**

3/12 - Pleb version of Esprit without underwater package (reverse engineered back into a road car by Corgi from the 007 version, after they lost the Bond franchise)

3/13 - Range Rover Vigilant, in slightly rarer playset-only Coastguard format

3/14 - Buick Regal Police Car development of the Kojak version, with red light rattling round inside as per usual

3/15 - Chevrolet Bel Air convertible with missing windscreen; one of the experimental Juniors models made in Singapore in the early 1980s

3/16 - Fiat X1/9 with opening engine cover still intact **SOLD!!!**

3/17 - Citroen Dyane, with yellow roof

3/18 - Pontiac Firebird, in less common plain red with diecast base - and rear spoiler still in place **SOLD!!!**

Still more to come!

[RoadworkUK]

5 hours ago, Amishtat said:

I loved Micro Machines.......Fuck knows where they went. 

Pretty sure this was part of the marketing ploy; "buy 'em, play with 'em, Hoover 'em up, buy some more"

I vividly remember getting a set on Christmas '89; that mirrored background to the box still feels impossibly exciting. All our relatives were around for Christmas dinner, and I remember playing with a pair of Micro Machines articulated trucks ( a Peterbuilt conventional and an International cabover, both of which had opening doors etc) while watching Crocodile Dundee on our Ferguson TX  22B5 telly.

[andy18s]

2,3,10 and 5 from board 2

11,16 and 18 from board 3 

For now......ta

[Datsuncog]

Board 4: 1980s and later smol Corgi, plus Welly, Majorette and some other orphans:

4/1 - Corgi Mercedes 500SL in metallic green, Made in England (with slightly saggy arse)

4/2 - Corgi Mercedes 500SL in white, Made in China (go on, hours of fun playing 'spot the difference' between the two)

4/3 - Corgi Ford Transit Mk2 Pickup

4/4 - Corgi Renault Trafic, missing its rear axle EASY FIX M9, JUST DUNT HAV TIME

4/5 - Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution, with pullback motor - and yes, it's branded Corgi

4/6  - Majorette Ford Cargo Skip Truck, minus load

4/7 - Majorette Range Rover Fire Department, with clumsy overpaint and minor suspension issues (just like the real thing)

4/8 - Majorette Saviem Crane Truck, without very much in the way of a crane

4/9 - Kinsmart Mini Cooper, with pull-back motor

4/10 - Majorette Renault Alpine A310, with (non functioning) pull-back motor

4/11 - Majorette Honda CB750 Police Motorbike, lacking its rider

4/12 - Tomica Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution Police Car, bit playworn but unusual

4/13 - Welly Hino (?) suction tanker, missing rear door

4/14 - No-name (but probably Welly) Mazda RX7 FC, actually quite a decent casting

4/15 - No-name (but probably Welly) S.WA.T. Police APC, ideal for quelling any Toytown riots

4/16 - No-name (likely Welly) Jeep CJ-5, missing a bumper corner but again nicely cast

4/17 - Welly VW New Beetle Cabrio - some damage to screen surround, but with neatly rendered alloys and rubber tyres, may be a worthwhile wheel donor for a few pennies?

4/18 - Welly Audi RS8, in a very reasonable state but again, picked up more because I thought someone on here might be able to use the wheels on a project car...

 

*STILL* more to come!

[blakey79]

Micro machines, I used to have a great collection of over 200, I've thinned the collection down now due to exorbitant prices I now collect hot wheels only. Give me a till later today and will get a few pictures of my current collection..

[Amishtat]

8 minutes ago, RoadworkUK said:

Pretty sure this was part of the marketing ploy; "buy 'em, play with 'em, Hoover 'em up, buy some more"

I vividly remember getting a set on Christmas '89; that mirrored background to the box still feels impossibly exciting. All our relatives were around for Christmas dinner, and I remember playing with a pair of Micro Machines articulated trucks ( a Peterbuilt conventional and an International cabover, both of which had opening doors etc) while watching Crocodile Dundee on our Ferguson TX  22B5 telly.

Yeah, I had them too and probably around the same time.. I think I'd lost interest in them by about 1990ish,the last ones I recall having were the Tucker and XR4ti with head/taillights, a remote control Mustang on a peculiar 4x4 base and a sort of tune up kit with different wheels, spoilers and shit in a box which opened up like a tool box. I'd totally forgotten about the mirror effect in the box though. 

[Datsuncog]

Board 5: yet more randomers, no-names and general scrat:

5/1 - No-name Jaguar XJS with comical proportions

5/2 - No-name Chevrolet Caprice Police Car, very likely a pirate of the Majorette version with shockingly bad build quality

5/3 - No-name 'Trans-Am' (eh?) with Kelloggs tampo printing - some sort of promotional toy?

5/4 - No-name Renault 17, with some kind of key-car mechanism - seemingly lifted from the Matchbox Superfast version

5/5 - Realtoy Audi RS4; chunky but decent **SOLD!!**

5/7 - Siku articulated low-loader trailer, some toybox dings but loading ramp intact

5/8 - Corgi Toys Farm Trailer, 60s/70s casting, sadly missing its hitch and rear tipper cover but still with functional hydraulics

5/10 - No-name Ford Transit Mk3 LWB, in breathtakingly inaccurate 'Vancouver City Police Force' tampo (or do you know better??)

5/11 - No-name Ford Econoline custom van, very much in the tradition of those Hong Kong Dinky types discussed a wee while back

5/12 - No-name SUV - not even sure what this is meant to represent; possibly based on a BMW X5. At least it's screwed together for quick and easy dismantling.

5/13 - Praline Scania tractor unit, plastic in HO scale I believe

5/14 - Bedford S-Type truck, all plastic with maker unclear but seems to be quite old and made in Hong Kong (A-post damage, sadly)

5/15 - Hot Wheels 'Crew Cruiser' Mack R-Series, fairly wacky but substantial and heavy with it

5/17 and 18 - Trailer and rear load insert from Matchbox Superkings Mercedes Unimog - to go as one item.

 

Last lot coming through shortly!

[RoadworkUK]

The Merkur must have passed me by, but looking on Google its proportions are disastrous, so not to worry.  I recall Indsiders, too, which had tiny weeny versions of themselves inside, but were a bit bigger than regular releases. And what were the ones that you could see inside called?

[Datsuncog]

Board 6 (finally): bigger scale stuff. Again, 50p to clear (or three for a pound):

6/1 - Matchbox Superkings Dodge Articulated Horse Box, with some squashage to the base (but not FUBAR'd, and all doors in place) **SOLD!!!**

6/2 - Matchbox Superkings Ford A-Series tractor unit; originally would have been found hauling a powerboat **SOLD!!!**

6/3 - Corgi Fantasy Tow Truck; complete with towing hook and in overall decent nick, though some staining to the paper decals

6/5 - Matchbox Superkings Bedford TM Skip Truck in Hales livery, minus skips

6/6 - Another Superkings TM Skip Truck, but in slightly better cosmetic shape

NB - more previously unnoticed Superkings variants, in the roof castings

6/7 - Corgi Juniors Articulated Transporter trailer, in overall good nick but the plastic drawbar has sheared off - probably glueable, but its days of pounding the motorways are finished. **SOLD!!!**

6/10 -Corgi Fighter Aircraft; there's no identifying marks on the casting and I know nothing about miltary aircraft, so I'll leave this on to the AS hivemind to identify. Missing one missile, and a few small chips here and there.

6/13 - Saico Mitsubishi Pajero Exceed SWB, in large 1/34 scale - missing the back bumper but nicely done otherwise **SOLD!!!**

6/14 - No-name Datsun 240Z Fire Chief car; highly stylised tinplate toy, still with functioning friction drive. Gotta be a bit of a rarity?

6/16 - Hongwell Mercedes 207D Breakdown Truck, in approx. 1/43 scale; diecast cab with plastic base and rear section, but sadly missing its boom

 

That's it for now. Yaaay!

[Datsuncog]

53 minutes ago, sierraman said:

I’ll add the mini, the super gt monterverdi hai and the silver airport shuttle please!

Sure thing! Will add those three to your box.

32 minutes ago, andy18s said:

2,3,10 and 5 from board 2

11,16 and 18 from board 3 

For now......ta

Okay, so that's the Fiero Laser Wheels, the Astra GTE, the Desert Truck and the Quattro from Matchbox, plus the 007 Lotus Esprit, Fiat X1/9 and the Pontiac Firebird by Corgi... not a bother, cheers!

[sierraman]

The Corgi artic trailer, the dodge horse box and the ford A series please mister. 

[andy18s]

12 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

Sure thing! Will add those three to your box.

Okay, so that's the Fiero Laser Wheels, the Astra GTE, the Desert Truck and the Quattro from Matchbox, plus the 007 Lotus Esprit, Fiat X1/9 and the Pontiac Firebird by Corgi... not a bother, cheers!

And the Pajero from the last board plz

Ta

[Datsuncog]

28 minutes ago, sierraman said:

The Corgi artic trailer, the dodge horse box and the ford A series please mister. 

Sure thing - it's the transporter trailer you're after, right?

Plastic hitch has broken but is still present - and could be glued back on if needed for display.

19 minutes ago, andy18s said:

And the Pajero from the last board plz

Ta

Can do - will get those moved from one box to t'other for you!

[Split_Pin]

2 hours ago, RoadworkUK said:

The Merkur must have passed me by, but looking on Google its proportions are disastrous, so not to worry.  I recall Indsiders, too, which had tiny weeny versions of themselves inside, but were a bit bigger than regular releases. And what were the ones that you could see inside called?

Private Eyes.

I had the Merkur with the lights, now long gone though. I do have it in pull-back version though. Absolutely useless as there is insufficient weight in the toy to give the tyres enough traction. Some might say it's overpowered!

[Amishtat]

2 hours ago, RoadworkUK said:

The Merkur must have passed me by, but looking on Google its proportions are disastrous, so not to worry.  I recall Indsiders, too, which had tiny weeny versions of themselves inside, but were a bit bigger than regular releases. And what were the ones that you could see inside called?

Insiders! Another one I'd forgotten about! Can't for the life of me remember what but I had one for sure. I also don't recall what they called the ones you mentioned with a sunroof and an interior when you held it up to the light but I had a couple of those too. 

Edit:Split_Pin beat me to it! 

[Volksy]

All this for a plastic model.. 

[andrew e]

That’s just ace! Next stop a Danny DeVito sound chip?

[sierraman]

4 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

Sure thing - it's the transporter trailer you're after, right?

Plastic hitch has broken but is still present - and could be glued back on if needed for display.

Can do - will get those moved from one box to t'other for you!

Yes that’s the one. I’m afraid it’s getting broken up to use the body at the back on a rigid lorry.

[Volksy]

4 hours ago, Volksy said:

All this for a plastic model.. 

IRA! ? 

[Amishtat]

I definitely* didn't spend the last hour down a Micro Machines rabbit hole. So many I'd forgotten having.. So fucking expensive.. 

[sutty2006]

6 hours ago, Amishtat said:

I definitely* didn't spend the last hour down a Micro Machines rabbit hole. So many I'd forgotten having.. So fucking expensive.. 

I’ve still got a box full of micro machines somewhere. Must hunt them out 

[Split_Pin]

Look in eBay America, they don't seem to be as expensive there, even accounting for postage. 

[antony denman]

On 8/13/2020 at 11:01 PM, junkyarddog said:

The standard Charger is surprisingly hard to find in any condition,the later version less so.

it was rough bought orange one in big collection off matchbox stuff next to nothing cause i wanted windscreen for my early dodge,restored it ,also put new tyres on it.