Shite in Miniature II

[DoctorRetro]

15 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Can't believe you took it on. Think I'd have taken great pleasure in modifying it with my club hammer

[AndyW201]

Delivery!

Another one I've been hunting for a while, but never got round to buying. There was a guy on eBay thinning out his collection, with an absolute shitload of Minichamps Fords, all in as new condition with a tenner start bid, which is what I got this for. It really is as new too, even the fragile cardboard outer box is unmarked.

One of the most controversial Fords made (a spiritual successor to the MK4 Zephyr/Zodiac perhaps?), I've always had a soft spot for the last gen Scorpio. Beneath the frog face was a really quite capable and comfortable barge. 

(That frog face is well represented on this model. Minichamps really were at the top of the tree in the mid '90s.)

I've wanted a model Scorp for a while. Back in the early 2000s, my brother had one. Pete has always been a bit of a shiter, in his way. (His first car was a sandglow Allegro 1500 Special...) The Scorp was a 2.5 turbodiesel in Executive trim, which was a bit of a misnomer because Executive was the bottom of the range, with cloth trim, keep fit rear windows and steel wheels with trims. It was a nice thing to travel in though, and despite being a bit 1990s-turbo-laggy, could sure pick up it's skirt and move for a big barge. It stayed for a while, before being replaced with a Rover 75.

Unfortunately, I've not been able to find this model in Aubergine purple to replicate N479 CJN, so I've gone for Tourmaline green instead, my other favourite Ford colour from the period. The beige interior is a further bonus. (I love Tourmaline with beige, back in my minicabbing days, I once drove a Mondeo in the same colour combo.)

I just love the arse end on these, and the rear lights are done really well on this.

Again, being a Minichamps model, the interior detail is fab, even has wood and brightwork on the rear door fittings (though I'm not sure why a Ghia has got keep fit rear windows...)

The dashboard is great, green characters and orange needles on the clocks, the correct design '90s Ford radio and just the right shade of orange I-cant-believe-its-real-wood that Ford plastered over its Ghia models at the time.

 

[AndyW201]

1 hour ago, bunglebus said:

I don't know what's more exciting, Entertainer re-stocking

Or coming home to these two

Don't know why the police version of the Zylmex Transit usually commands such a premium, but I grabbed this when it came up cheap

Lucky sod, I'm still on the hunt for the black Datsun wagon and Impala SS...

[bunglebus]

I like that shape Scorp, well from the back anyway. I always wondered if a mk3 front could be persuaded to fit

[bunglebus]

Just now, AndyW201 said:

Lucky sod, I'm still on the hunt for the black Datsun wagon and Impala SS...

They had two of the SS but it didn't fit with the 3 for two offer unfortunately 

[RoadworkUK]

I have the (rather boring by comparison) black estate version of the Scorp, and had forgotten that I really need the saloon to go with it.

Operation eBay commences. Again.

[AndyW201]

 Second delivery of today,

I was a bit gutted when the big display of Atlas police cars captured by Monsieur Cog on a recent Tat Friday lacked a MK3 Cortina. It seems these are quite hard to get hold of compared to the rest of the Atlas police collection. A mate with a model shop reckons these and the MK1 Granada are popular with the banger boys for banger conversions without paying the high prices of the pukka Vanguards versions.

I had seen pics of this version before and though it looked like a cheap, not very well finished version, but in the flesh, it's pretty good. The GT four headlamp grille is done well, and the shell is as crisp and well finished as the blue Vanguards 1600L version I have

This one was fairly cheap, as just like the Atlas police cars in Market Blokey's stall, it came with the plinth only, and with bits missing (searchlights), which is fine for what I want it for, they'd be going anyway! At least important stuff like mirrors, bumpers, lights etc are intact.

Neat GT badging at the rear. This is one of the reasons I've been hunting this particular model...

...along with this. Tombstone seats!!!     The MK3 2000GT has so far only been made in police form. All the Vanguards GT police cars have so far been made with base spec seats and wheels, quite rightly so, because that's how the various forces ordered them. For some reason though, this Atlas version has had the civilian GT spec high back seats made.

Nice to see the higher spec centre console too, with extra gauges and the sporty spec steering wheel with the faux-drilled spokes (which Corgi fit in all the mk 3s regardless of spec, facelift or pre facelift....)

So I'm going to (hopefully) modify this to civilian GT spec and make this the MK3 version I've been waiting for Corgi to make for years. I've seen somebody do one of these and apparently all the police Tampos can be removed with nail varnish remover. I'll try this first, if not I'll have to bite the bullet and paint it. (I do think a GT in Daytona yellow, Vista orange or Le Mans green would be cool). K&R replicas do a nice set of 1/43 white metal slotmags too, I think a set of those will find their way on this, to replace the base spec steels.

 

[Amishtat]

Yes! Orange with slotmags is going to look amazing.. Deviating from the thread but not long after I passed my test (1998) there were two Mk. 3 GTs for sale locally, one orange, one yellow. The orange one was on the Heybridge road into Maldon and was ambitiously priced at £325ono..It sat there for the thick end of a year, the handwritten For Sale tag yellowing and drooping lower on the screen each time I passed. Still wonder what happened in the end but I'd imagine it involved a paint job, no windows and a hiab, they weren't worth shit back then. 

[bunglebus]

12 minutes ago, AndyW201 said:

K&R replicas do a nice set of 1/43 white metal slotmags too, I think a set of those will find their way on this, to replace the base spec steels.

I've seen them on eBay. The finish looks bloody awful, which is a shame

Can't zoom in on the slot mags but they make these too

[AndyW201]

12 minutes ago, Amishtat said:

Yes! Orange with slotmags is going to look amazing.. Deviating from the thread but not long after I passed my test (1998) there were two Mk. 3 GTs for sale locally, one orange, one yellow. The orange one was on the Heybridge road into Maldon and was ambitiously priced at £325ono..It sat there for the thick end of a year, the handwritten For Sale tag yellowing and drooping lower on the screen each time I passed. Still wonder what happened in the end but I'd imagine it involved a paint job, no windows and a hiab, they weren't worth shit back then.

I still can't believe that in 1995 I bought a Daytona yellow MK1 Escort. Rock solid, recent wings and doors, Ziebarted from new, 1600 Ghia MK2 engine and interior, 4-2-1 manifold with Swift big bore, RS 4 spokes. Needed a brake servo and a weekend's fettling to get it MOT'd. Price - £250. Reason, it had four doors...

[AndyW201]

11 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

I've seen them on eBay. The finish looks bloody awful, which is a shame

Can't zoom in on the slot mags but they make these too

Aye, mind you the rubbish photos they use on eBay doesn't help. The RS Turbo rims may be of some use with a little package I've been advised could be arriving this month...

[eddyramrod]

In 1985 I bought a mk3 Cortina for £40.

It was a 1972 four-door 2000GT.

In Daytona Yellow, on dartboards.

Ex Lancashire Constabulary!

(The Vanguards Lancashire Jam Butty car is UTF 382L, mine was 367.)

If only we could have seen forward.................

Naturally I have the Lancashire model; bought, appropriately, in a model shop in Morecambe some years ago.

[AndyW201]

2 hours ago, eddyramrod said:

In 1985 I bought a mk3 Cortina for £40.

It was a 1972 four-door 2000GT.

In Daytona Yellow, on dartboards.

Ex Lancashire Constabulary!

(The Vanguards Lancashire Jam Butty car is UTF 382L, mine was 367.)

If only we could have seen forward.................

Naturally I have the Lancashire model; bought, appropriately, in a model shop in Morecambe some years ago.

I liked how on the Vanguards Lancs  Constabulary models, they feature the deleted markings on the rear wing, as on the real cars, under the fuel filler, allegedly to avoid the markings getting damaged by fuel spillages...

[andy18s]

Any idea on the price of the very incomplete Eagle?

Ta

[Datsuncog]

4 hours ago, andy18s said:

Any idea on the price of the very incomplete Eagle?

Ta

Not sure exactly, but Charity Stall Bloke does seem (mostly) more realistic in his pricing, so I'd like to think not much more than a coupla quid...

It's a sloppy repaint too, but does seem to be the white version rather than the metallic green or metallic blue versions.

If it's still there next week, I'll see what I can do - have had a few more requests from other denizens of this page for his fine wares (plus I really ought to get the Corgi Raygo Rascal roadroller), so with a bit of luck I may be able to pick it up for not very much... watch this space, as they say!

[bunglebus]

Having an eyeball to decide which wheels to put under the two XJCs I have. 

These look pretty good

Think the rear ones off the F1 car might be taking the p*ss a bit!

here you can appreciate the difference in scale

[bunglebus]

So, 1977. Silver Jubilee, Star Wars, Elvis died...and I emerged into an unsuspecting world.

Here's what Corgi had to offer

 

[Remspoor]

I was going to add this to the YouTube thread, but maybe it is too specialised.

Found this channel TheWorstYouTubeChannelEver.

Yes that is what it is called. However, it has morphed into a Die-cast car channel. No restorations just the collection of one man.

 

[AndyW201]

Spotted on a Facebook group, any interest to the Stahlberg fanciers on here?

 

[AndyW201]

On the same site, 

@bunglebus, any good as a wheel donor? Think he might want more than an actual quid though....

 

[bunglebus]

18 minutes ago, AndyW201 said:

On the same site, 

@bunglebus, any good as a wheel donor? Think he might want more than an actual quid though....

 

What's the full name of the group please?

Guessing it's this one - membership pending!

[AndyW201]

4 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

What's the full name of the group please?

Guessing it's this one - membership pending!

That's the one, rolls off the tongue nicely doesn't it?

[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, AndyW201 said:

On the same site, 

@bunglebus,

£10+ postage, more than they can go for on eBay.  As ever, I have a plan though 

[DoctorRetro]

21 hours ago, bunglebus said:

I've seen them on eBay. The finish looks bloody awful, which is a shame

Can't zoom in on the slot mags but they make these too

I've got a set of those slot mags, they aren't too bad. No idea why I bought them.... 

[Split_Pin]

2 hours ago, AndyW201 said:

Spotted on a Facebook group, any interest to the Stahlberg fanciers on here?

 

Thats cheap but that Nathan Pinder is only about 17 and a grade a chanty-wrastler.

I wouldn't give him a penny

[155V6]

5 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

Thats cheap but that Nathan Pinder is only about 17 and a grade a chanty-wrastler.

I wouldn't give him a penny

Thanks for the warning 😉,I was looking at some other things he was selling.

[sierraman]

A chanty wrastler? 

[Split_Pin]

34 minutes ago, sierraman said:

A chanty wrastler? 

Scots dialect for a useless, dishonest idiot.

He's well known in the pages.

Also avoid Shaun/Shaugn Lomax who backs him up from time to time. He's ubiquitous on the diecast pages. 

I was a member of several diecast Facebook pages years ago but I got scammed by someone who claimed they didn't have PayPal and gave me Shaun's details instead.

They are all best avoided IMO as there's no comeback. You've either got eBay where there's some protection or here where there is an element of 'trusted shiter', especially on this thread where we all seem to be on the same page, forgive the pun.

[quicksilver]

7 hours ago, bunglebus said:

So, 1977. Silver Jubilee, Star Wars, Elvis died...and I emerged into an unsuspecting world.

Here's what Corgi had to offer

 

Corgi sure did make some peculiar choices of towcar for the trailer sets. Pulling a boat with an X1/9 or a Dyane seems more than a bit optimistic.

[eddyramrod]

Even a Buick Regal would be a more appropriate towing car!