Shite in Miniature II

[Tenmil Socket]

Remember toy and hobby!

 

[flat4alfa]

1 hour ago, Split_Pin said:

The Land Rover is about 1/30 scale at a guess

It is very similar in size to the Lucky Toy Land Rover and that is also front friction drive

Both perhaps collaborated in their efforts to copy the smaller Corgi

Lucky Toys has removable rear deck canopy - it looks like that does too

Will dig out photo of mine, it’s somewhere in this thread. Somewhere.

[flat4alfa]

On 7/10/2019 at 8:02 PM, flat4alfa said:

Green one is all plastic by the legendary Lucky Toys of Hong Kong. White safari one by Britains and a proper die-cast. Oddly, the Lucky is more valuable...

Found

[Split_Pin]

22 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Found

I think the Jimson one is a bit bigger and quite different in details, namely mine has 2 protruding brackets at the back where the canopy hooks in. Mine also has a separate piece for the cab roof. 

[Split_Pin]

27 minutes ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Currently in York with mrs socket and had chance to pop into a couple of charity shops 

 

Crikey £50 even back then!! Even at the reduced price there's no way in the world I would ever have been allowed that!

[flat4alfa]

£50! When I was that age we had to eat coal

[flat4alfa]

4 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

I think the Jimson one is a bit bigger and quite different in details, namely mine has 2 protruding brackets at the back where the canopy hooks in.

Yes it’s clear now looking at them (virtually!) side by side

The FWD mechanism got me thinking there was a common match

[Tenmil Socket]

12 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

£50! When I was that age we had to eat coal

It’s complete but there’s a story to tell...

[Tenmil Socket]

17 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

Crikey £50 even back then!! Even at the reduced price there's no way in the world I would ever have been allowed that!

1981. Year I was born 

[quicksilver]

6 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

So then - today's trinkets!

First off, a few Stobart partwork and Oxford commercials, which I believe @quicksilver had requested a couple of weeks back?

Was pleased to see these had resurfaced, as they're quite nice despite a few issues like missing mirrors. At £5 for the Parcel Force artic and £3 each for the Unimog roadrailer and the Daf sweeper, they're probably a fair price - and they're nice enough that I'll keep them myself if they're no longer required!

 

Crikey, I assumed those had been sold when they didn't reappear last week, especially now I've found out how little they cost. Bargains and I'll be only too pleased to take them.

[RoadworkUK]

I was caught rather unawares when I discovered that Bburago now makes a 1/24 Capri Mk3. It isn't shit, either.

Better pics when an opportunity arises

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It's emphatically not a 1973 car, though...

[Amishtat]

28 minutes ago, Tenmil Socket said:

1981. Year I was born 

I was a year old.. Never seen that Golf before 

[bunglebus]

Missed out on the excellent Zylmex from Datsuncog earlier, but this big Brute was waiting for me when I got home

Along with this little Husky Citroen 

This is something I didn't know existed - Hot Wheels catalogue.  Can't really scan it as it's ring bound so I'll try and photograph it.

Lastly, a mystery. This is a Red Rider 

And this is a Big Banger

So what's this Red Rider doing with a Big Banger engine? This variation isn't shown on Christian Falkensteiner's fairly exhaustive list of Matchbox differences 

[Datsuncog]

3 hours ago, Tenmil Socket said:

It’s complete but there’s a story to tell...

Do tell!

Also... the Bank of England inflation calculator says £50 in 1981 is the equivalent of £193.10 in today's money.

Hell's teeth, that's a pricey toy. Even at half price.

2 hours ago, quicksilver said:

Crikey, I assumed those had been sold when they didn't reappear last week, especially now I've found out how little they cost. Bargains and I'll be only too pleased to take them.

Grand job, will pop them to the side for you!

It's baffling how he runs the show - there's stuff I've enquired about, and he tells me it's been sold, and then it shows up again three months later... seems he just grabs random boxes every week. By his own admission, he has no real interest in toy cars either. Sometimes, I suppose that sometimes manifests as ludicrous prices for very average toys; other times as very cheap prices

I'm weird though, as the whole lucky dip element is part of the Friday appeal to me, in many ways...

[Split_Pin]

30 minutes ago, RoadworkUK said:

I was caught rather unawares when I discovered that Bburago now makes a 1/24 Capri Mk3. It isn't shit, either.

Better pics when an opportunity arises

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It's emphatically not a 1973 car, though...

A Capri model hopefully at a sensible price. That looks great, I like the injection badge. I will look out for one.

[RoadworkUK]

5 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

A Capri model hopefully at a sensible price. That looks great, I like the injection badge. I will look out for one.

Yeah, not a giveaway; this was £17 to my door, but that's less than Vanguards money. To my eyes it's a more accurate model than the Norev 1:18, too. Shame the wheels look a bit more like Metro pepperpots than Capri ones, but hey ho

[Datsuncog]

I'd noticed some older Bburago 1/24 castings in TK Maxx only last week - way back in time I had a bestickered version of the Land Rover and a 1/18 Porsche, so this was a strange nostalgia trip.

That Capri looks very nice, though.

Seems that Bburago is having something of a resurgence - these 1/43 toys on an adjacent shelf looked pretty good and all.

Audi in Irish police livery was unexpected.

TK Maxx also had this demolition derby playtrack - which I have to say I coveted far more than I really ought to have done, for someone on the wrong side of 40.

I wonder if the cars use the same early 70s technology as the Matchbox Scorpions / Hot Wheels Sizzlers / Corgi Electro Rockets ranges?

Temptation gnaws at me...

[155V6]

14 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

I'd noticed some older Bburago 1/24 castings in TK Maxx only last week - way back in time I had a bestickered version of the Land Rover and a 1/18 Porsche, so this was a strange nostalgia trip.

That Capri looks very nice, though.

Seems that Bburago is having something of a resurgence - these 1/43 toys on an adjacent shelf looked pretty good and all.

Audi in Irish police livery was unexpected.

TK Maxx also had this demolition derby playtrack - which I have to say I coveted far more than I really ought to have done, for someone on the wrong side of 40.

I wonder if the cars use the same early 70s technology as the Matchbox Scorpions / Hot Wheels Sizzlers / Corgi Electro Rockets ranges?

Temptation gnaws at me...

Liking that Burago Tow Truck ?

[Datsuncog]

3 minutes ago, 155V6 said:

Liking that Burago Tow Truck ?

They had two different versions that I could see - a yellow truck loading a yellow Jeep Renegade, and a white one loading an Aston Martin or something of that nature.

Not mega-cheap at £8, but I may be back there over the weekend if your fancy is tickled...

[Split_Pin]

I noticed the amount of Bburago branded toys in TKMaxx yesterday. There was only one 'proper' 1/24 car though, the rest were rather generic looking items. I wonder if it's nothing more than a name now though? Some of their 1/36 cars are very crude looking.

Its nice to see some old castings still in production from their 1/24 range though.

£17 for the Capri is decent considering a Vanguards one is nearly £40 now. I think I might buy one online if I can, when next payday comes around.

[155V6]

45 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

They had two different versions that I could see - a yellow truck loading a yellow Jeep Renegade, and a white one loading an Aston Martin or something of that nature.

Not mega-cheap at £8, but I may be back there over the weekend if your fancy is tickled...

If you could pick one up,that would be great.Yellow would be preferred,but either would be fine ?

[155V6]

Having said that,found a picture of the white one online,& I prefer it.Either would still be great though ?

[flat4alfa]

3 hours ago, bunglebus said:

this big Brute was waiting for me when I got home

 

I could have sworn you already had one of those!

[flat4alfa]

4 hours ago, bunglebus said:

So what's this Red Rider doing with a Big Banger engine? This variation isn't shown on Christian Falkensteiner's fairly exhaustive list of Matchbox differences 

I knew of the ‘Brown Sugar’ and ‘Big Banger’ story: surplus ‘Pi-Eyed Piper’ bases being used on export (US) releases, but not engine errors or swaps.  You might be rich!

Example, on card

[bunglebus]

8 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

I could have sworn you already had one of those!

Maybe...not as good though

 

20190925_104340 by RS, on Flickr

 

[andy18s]

 

[bunglebus]

Long awaited Matchbox Jeep arrived with the windscreen intact

Seller didn't post it for a while so sent me a bonus Porsche 910

Not seen this version on the Majorette Beetle before, two holes in the rear window and glass moulded to make a roof light. The glazing is also warped as if it had a bulb in it at one time

Also suffering warped glazing is this Schuco MK1 Golf, also sadly missing the dashboard 

Staying with the orange theme is this Norvev Escort XR3

Finally a Corgi Mach 1 Mustang with one over painted wing - looks water based so hopefully will come off

[RoadworkUK]

Bburago Capri.

The wheels actually resemble the pressed steel jobs of the Capri LS more than they do the Capri Injection pepperpots, but, other than the slightly unconvincing rear lights (which are, at least, the right shape), it's rather well resolved on the whole, and the decals are particularly well captured.

1/24 is probably my least favourite scale, but the Norev 1/18 just looked so wrong to me that I couldn't do it. This isn't bad at all, proportionally.

Also a pleasingly eccentric subject for Bburago to tackle in 2020, but I'd expect these to sell by the bucketload among Ford lickers.

[andrew e]

I’ve had one of those Capris in my eBay watchlist a while, it looks better in the flesh (bar those carbuncle headlight washers), I wonder if the alloys might appear on an XR4 (Or Orion Ghia injection!) model in the near future?

[RoadworkUK]

31 minutes ago, andrew e said:

I wonder if the alloys might appear on an XR4 (Or Orion Ghia injection!) model in the near future?

One can only dream.