Shite in Miniature II

[Datsuncog]

16 hours ago, Tenmil Socket said:

@Datsuncog Is the QXR Mustang available?

Certainly is! Will pop that aside for you.

16 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

@Datsuncog Thanks for efforts earlier today

It was almost getting to two months succeeding in avoiding buying again, but today I fell back off the wagon

So enquiring on a couple more before you close the box:

Rockets Buggy

Fast & Furious Plymouth

Corgi Corvette Stingray

Road Dragster - which I had no time for all my miserable life but the Bunglebus reimagine effort last month has helped me see it in another light

Ah, dude... always happy to source tat for fellow-shiters, though I feel oddly culpable for any wagon de-boarding that's occurred of late... Do we need to sort out some sort of self-exclusion button for tat on here? An escrow service to hold stuff over for a defined period unless certain conditions are met? When the fun stops, stop?

I mean, the Friday market's good craic and all, but I'd hate to think of anyone's relationships being put under strain over the head of some grimy no-name Volvos and three-quarters of a Mustang... and I speak as someone who's been there, more than once, with my own collector tendencies...

If you're absolutely deffo sure, then I'll stick those aside in your name (though Bunglebus had already claimed the green Rockets beach buggy, I'm afraid!) - and happy to hold on to them for as long as needed!

17 hours ago, andy18s said:

So this appeared for sale near me

Definitely different

Cor, an Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser... Looks very nice, that... what's the scale on it?

[Datsuncog]

13 hours ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

Can I add the yellow Torino to my stash? Ta.

Can do!

[Datsuncog]

(Apologies for non-delivery of tat statuses last night - I'd forgotten the forum server was down and couldn't get on to see who wanted what!)

[bunglebus]

We're back! Got a few bits in the post;

First up, somewhat tatty Polistil Range Rover 

next, a New-Ray Corvette

Matchbox Dinky Mustang

Flower power Corgi Beetle

A new one on me, Hot Wheels Flip Outs police car - flipper sadly broken 

Found the Playart copy of the Corgi Mazda B1600

and because I was keen to get one, I bid on two - and won both

[andy18s]

4 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

 

Cor, an Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser... Looks very nice, that... what's the scale on it?

It's a Boss Models 1971 Vista Cruiser in 1/18,and new in the box apparently 

Seller is asking around £70 for it

[155V6]

Just for @Datsuncog,here's some pictures of an Alfa 155 I got many years ago when I used to buy anything 155 shaped

It's not actually a bad casting,maybe it's a base model with the black bumpers 😂

And a close up of the tampos,they reminded me of the VW Passat you bought yesterday

[bunglebus]

While I couldn't get on the forum last night I was Googling how many variations of the Mazda pickup there are, thinking I must have most of them now. I don't - if I really want them all I need;

Fire Chief 

The trailer for the Motorway Maintenance one

The white camper

Orange Hulk

Orange Block Construction 

This seemingly very rare Tarmac one

Trailer for the Seaspray

And two more Playarts

[Tenmil Socket]

I found these earlier in a curios shop. They had lots of over priced boxed tat.

 

[flat4alfa]

Uh-oh.  THE LABELS !!  😣

[flat4alfa]

6 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

I mean, the Friday market's good craic and all, but I'd hate to think of anyone's relationships being put under strain

Don't worry, she can get stuffed.

I'll just go hungry

[andrew e]

@bunglebus Is that trailer not the matchbox unimog one?

[Tenmil Socket]

12 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Uh-oh.  THE LABELS !!  😣

Tell me about it! 3.50 for both after bartering. They had loads of Yester Years for £10 😄

They also had things such as a Matchbox Porsche laser wheels boxed for 20!

There was a Dinky Hillman Imp for 15 but not sure on the prices on them. 

[bunglebus]

58 minutes ago, andrew e said:

@bunglebus Is that trailer not the matchbox unimog one?

How odd! It looked like it was against a box insert so thought it was original

[sierraman]

11 hours ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Tell me about it! 3.50 for both after bartering. They had loads of Yester Years for £10 😄

They also had things such as a Matchbox Porsche laser wheels boxed for 20!

There was a Dinky Hillman Imp for 15 but not sure on the prices on them. 

Do these people ever check out sold prices on eBay? 

[Sudsprint]

I saw you coming..

[Datsuncog]

Right, finally on top of my Tat Spreadsheet, I believe, after Friday's bonanza at the market!

PMs should have now been sent out to everyone who requested an update of what's in their personal tat box - and if you haven't received one and wanted one, please let me know!

As far as I can tell, all orders that have been paid for have now been sent and received, save for those who have specifically asked me to hold on to their box for further market events/tat disposal sales.

If there's anyone who wants a running total of where they are, do let me know - I've a coupla boxes that have been resting since last year, so if you've no desire for any more stuff, give me a shout...and if you don't fancy it anymore, then that's no problem at all, I'll just offer it out again on the thread. No worries.

Likewise, I know I have a few orders outstanding myself -  @Amishtat, I think you're holding a Dinky Porsche 356 and some Land Rovers for me from the Wednesday Tat fun? If you want me to square you up for those, let me know how best to get the funds over to you!

If there's anyone I haven't contacted today who's also holding stuff over for me, then I'm very very naughty (and sorry), so do hit me up with a message, as I've plainly forgotten all about it in the crazy whirlwind that is collecting manky diecast.

[155V6]

This morning's car boot finds

Miss_155 bought me the Daf ,I'd walked past it as everything else on the stall was really expensive,but she got it for £2.00.

The Corgi trailer behind was 40p,I didn't really need it,but I can't leave them behind when I see them 😀

[flat4alfa]

On 9/18/2020 at 6:16 PM, Amishtat said:

Maybe only dags with the red interior? Mine has dag. And cracked rear screen. 

That is not the case. It seems that the dag does like other colour interiors too

I also have a very similar crack!

(I might rephrase that)

[Split_Pin]

I did another car boot sale today and resisted some very tempting diecast tat.

After I got home, had a bath, a coffee and a wagon wheel we went to my parents house for tea as potential for lockdown in the future is high so it might be the last for a while.

Mum was going through some of my old toys that had reached the end of the family line as my son has now outgrown them. These were well loved by me and then my younger brother and are in really good condition. She had held onto things like a Fisher Price garage, Lego and some larger steel Tonka-Type toys including an interesting "Bronco" tank transporter for my 3 Cousin's children to play with and then my son. It's kind of sad that they've finally come to the end of their long time with my family as there is now nobody else to play with them. They will be cleaned up and sent to the local charity shop this week.

However there was one toy which I really loved and which I still have a use for now. So my mum suggested I take it back home and I didn't hesitate.

We've all seen this Corgi Juniors 'Multi Garage' before but as a wee lad I just loved how it looked realistic, down to the up and over door with the decorative diamond on the front. It came from Mothercare with 4 Juniors cars, a white Capri 3.0s, black Triumph TR7 ( my favourite as I used to walk past one with my mum in the way to the shops before she could drive), a Red Rover SD1 and a Hertz Chevy Van. Only the Capri is gone, swapped away in the late 1980s however I have since acquired a red and a yellow one. Any other car fitted too which I thought was great.

I didn't have time to reunite it with its old tenants tonight so instead I imagined the McGregor Road garages, Cumbernauld (1984)

Mr Millar's SD1 just fits in no more, he's glad about that as the Young Team would take too much of an interest in it. Just as well as it's a Bank car that came with his new area Inspectors role. Old Mrs Copeland has given up driving her 245 since Mr Copeland passed away 10 years previously but with just 16,500 miles she hopes that it will find a good home eventually. Ally 'Bucksy' McIntosh next door spends more time trying to soup up his 1.6L Capri than driving it and has not yet got it running right after fitting twin carbs which he bought from an advert in the back of 'Street Car' magazine. He and his brother John-Lad moved from Inverness 6 months ago and the latter chap got the lock up next door. His MK1 Escort hasn't fared well in the Highland climate and needs new floors and strut tops. He spends more time revving it and fitting wide arches than actually sorting it properly. 

He's bent the garage door already from failing to pump the brake pedal after changing the front brake pads to centralise them, meaning the car didn't stop in time when he was reversing it back into position.

A young lad of about 4 lives in number 7 at the end of the road and loves to cycle up on his 'Bullet' bike (which he's just learned to go without the stabilisers) and marvel as the lads work on their cars, tolerating his presence for just a little while. The wee lad turns his bike round for the next lap of the street and his kitchen foil tube 'big-bore' exhaust barks angrily at passers by.

Happy days!

 

[Datsuncog]

16 hours ago, Sudsprint said:

I saw you coming..

Ooh, I think I was in there only yesterday!

£8 for Models of Yesteryear? Yup, saw you coming...

£10 on a Dinky Packard, missing both screen and driver... mmm. Only slightly optimistic.

Now, if this Bburago Merc had its grille, then a tenner might be a fair price...

...but £15 for a Renault 5 with no back window leaves me cold again.

Lesneys beautifully* displayed... but unpriced.

Military stuff, £10 to £25...  not really my bag, to be fair.

Dodge Royale not too bad, but £25 is steep... VW Beetles at £30, though they can fetch good coin, admittedly...

Hang on, £165 for the tanker, and £200 for the transporter?

Naaaaaaah mate. Keep 'em.

This is why you shouldn't mix crack and antiques, kids...

16 hours ago, sierraman said:

Do these people ever check out sold prices on eBay? 

Yes, but they seem to only look at the top whack for mint/boxed stuff and then apply the same price to their old scuffed rubbish...

[sierraman]

About the only item I’ve ever regretted selling was my Corgi row of council garages. Think I might have to knock a replacement up from ply or something. 

[Noel Tidybeard]

before the maurice and tina corner incidents there may* have been some ferreting around the sierror section

yes, yes, i know i have a problem

[Split_Pin]

I would have loved that Mercedes Taxi but without the front grille it's pretty much useless as a display item. Unlike the grill-less Polistil Polo I got from DCs tat run just before lockdown, the Mercedes grille is probably too complicated a shape to replicate.

As anyone who has owned a Bburago or Polistil 1/24 knows, the metal body is indestructible but the body and interior fittings are very prone to falling off. 

I have a tolerance when it comes to these cars, a missing steering wheel, gearstick, rear light, spoiler, or hubcap is OK as you can't see these on display. Anything up front less so though.

[sierraman]

I guess if it was a couple of quid it’s worth it as an old curio but a tenner is a bit steep as it’s broken. 

[Split_Pin]

44 minutes ago, sierraman said:

I guess if it was a couple of quid it’s worth it as an old curio but a tenner is a bit steep as it’s broken. 

Speaking of curios, I want to try and visit the curiosity shop in Linlithgow again. He has lots of cars there and they are actually well priced. He's a Rover 75 fan too so I always have a blether.

[flat4alfa]

11 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

This is why you shouldn't mix crack and antiques, kids...

Very similar around here in the *affluent towns on the commuter belt, main examples being the locked glazed cupboards inside antique/retro halls at Hitchin/Berkhamsted/Welwyn, etc.

It's clear they are rented side-line areas of the store.  Nothing moves for many months but that's because it's a side-line for their day job.  Perhaps I should do the same with my collection?  What sells, sells; what doesn't, I take home and display for a while.  Rotation for the nation. 

I see the same in charity shops too.  Oxfam in Welwyn prices everything like it's a collector's and seller's market.  Where they get their values from I don't know .....ok yes I do, as they all respond with the same aloof, disdainful reasoning: "on eBay they go for".  It angers me (and others) because charity shops are no longer for the needy - the have became business models, run by affluent management employing sales consultants.  

Monday blues, sorry.

[Tenmil Socket]

14 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Very similar around here in the *affluent towns on the commuter belt, main examples being the locked glazed cupboards inside antique/retro halls at Hitchin/Berkhamsted/Welwyn, etc.

It's clear they are rented side-line areas of the store.  Nothing moves for many months but that's because it's a side-line for their day job.  Perhaps I should do the same with my collection?  What sells, sells; what doesn't I take home and display for a while.  Rotation for the nation. 

I see the same in charity shops too.  Oxfam in Welwyn prices everything like it's a collector's and seller's market.  Where they get their values from I don't know .....ok yes I do, as they all respond with the same disdainful reasoning: "on eBay they go for".  It angers me (and others) because charity shops are no longer for the needy - the have became business models, run by affluent management employing sales consultants.  

Monday blues, sorry.

I was in a charity shop on Saturday and spotted an old Corgi Lotus F1 car. I asked how much and the chap replied that a colleague said they should keep hold of it for now as it's probably worth some money. I shown him an eBay listing for one at 0.99p with no bids and he seemed quite surprised!

[Split_Pin]

Probably the same sort of person who thinks Lledos are 'Collectors pieces'.

[sierraman]

‘Keep your kids away from those mate they’re collectors items!’

Car boots have got the same way a bit as well, there’s always some 50 stone bloke in his 60’s who can’t make up his mind how much to charge for the battered crap he’s got in a box. He’ll examine the item thoroughly, then pull off a figure akin to a Chicago telephone number. I’ve never known a hobby that attracts such weird people. 

[Tenmil Socket]

I was just thinking that the chap mentioned he buys stuff off of people to sell on. I wonder how much he gave for the Yester Years (or Days Gone By, I can't remember)? It might be worth buying a load for £1 each and flogging them to him 😄