Shite in Miniature II

[bunglebus]

That Solido catalogue sent me down a rabbit hole looking at Bertone buggies for sale, which led me to

 

 

Wow. Lots of pennies but that's a lovely thing

[bunglebus]

Bought this

 

 

Received an open jiffy bag...

[andrew e]

924 LeMans?

I had the Bbuargo gold mustang kit (long gone!) and I still have an MC Granada boxed,  but if anyone has an olive green Tomica Porsche I’d be bloody interested, to match the wife’s.

 

[sierraman]

That Sbarro looks like I’ve done it after 6 pints at dinner. 

[sierraman]

Despite having no space for it I’m now trawling eBay for a cheap Camargue to restore. 

[155V6]

A few new things came this week

Tesco/Sainsbury's finds,the Dodge is available if anyone wants it

The accidental eBay purchase,this is a nice model,just not something I wanted.It's available for £13 posted,which is about half of what I paid 🙄

Then the one I was really looking forward to arrived from Canada

It's the base for the Matchbox Service Station which @Datsuncog got for me a few weeks ago on Tat Friday!

Pictures to follow when I've set it up.

[junkyarddog]

^^^^^Eddy is looking for the Dodge police car!

 

Real Eddy not smoll Eddy I hasten to add!

😂

[155V6]

A few pictures of the Service Station.The BP sign needed a new base,so I used the lid from a contact lens holder for now.I already had the ramp,bought a while back just in case.Somewhere in.my flat is the Matchbox sign for the roof of the building,but can I find it? 😂

And with a few cars added

I'm really pleased with this,I had one years ago,but it disappeared when I moved out of my Parent's house.

Thanks again DC !

[junkyarddog]

That garage is cool!!

Smoll eddy is extremely jealous, all he's got is his lockup 🤣

I found this down the market today.

Sweet Norev Renner!

 

[bunglebus]

I'm not entirely sure why I bought another Majorette DS ambulance, although it's pretty clean, if missing its flags.

I definitely knew what I was doing buying this Zylmex though 

[egg]

If anyone would like my novoexport Panhard, it's available for £18 posted (2nd class signed for) in the UK. Soz, I know that's a lot, but these are rarely cheap, and less than I paid!

[eddyramrod]

2 hours ago, junkyarddog said:

^^^^^Eddy is looking for the Dodge police car!

 

Real Eddy not smoll Eddy I hasten to add!

😂

Yes Real Eddy is!  And would be delighted to rehome it, PM me please!  Was it alone, or were there more?  I'd like a couple more if they're available...

[flat4alfa]

5 hours ago, sierraman said:

Despite having no space for it I’m now trawling eBay for a cheap Camargue to restore. 

You'll need almost 3 acres for a Bburago Camargue

Slight* exaggeration, but still

[flat4alfa]

Went to Cash Converters

Didn't get stabbed or catch fleas, but did get this Corgi Polo

It was £1

[flat4alfa]

This Corgi Manta was also £1

It's also the colour of the real life Manta owned when I was 18

[flat4alfa]

In the 50p section were these

[flat4alfa]

Deliveries over the past month have been sparse, which is healthy.

Dinky Corsair missing its bonnet but otherwise all there was a fiver.  Bidding seems to be keen on these, so was surprised to get it as I wasn't even trying

[flat4alfa]

Corgi Jeep FC was another £2 to make up the weight

[sierraman]

How dreadful would a brown Camargue be? I’ve lessened my conscience about desecrating one by painting it. 

[155V6]

9 hours ago, sierraman said:

Despite having no space for it I’m now trawling eBay for a cheap Camargue to restore. 

This one is for sale on a Facebook Banger Racing model page

[egg]

6 hours ago, junkyarddog said:

Sweet Norev Renner!

Nice find, the models with steering are always a bit rarer too. I like the little hole by the front wheels to insert a matchstick or what have you to keep the axle straight.

Model launched in 1961 according to my Norev bible.  Actually, looks like all ondines had the steering, luxury model I suppose!

[sierraman]

2 hours ago, 155V6 said:

This one is for sale on a Facebook Banger Racing model page

I’ve had a look, £10 buys a good one, I’d be doing a proper job on it so it would look factory.

[sheffcortinacentre]

Had the exact same matchbox service station.

[junkyarddog]

Another example of Smoll Eddy's wheel swapping exploits is this 70's skyline.

One of my favourite castings, but let down by the wheels.

Eddy generously offered to replace them with a set he had down the lock up.

Looks much better now Smoll Eddy!!

"I likes a bit of BDSM now and then M8"

Erm......don't you mean JDM Smoll Eddy?

"You have your hobbies and I have mine M8"

😯

 

[Datsuncog]

More superfun time in the post this morning... further additions to the exponentially growing Corgi 1/36 collection...

Mmm... It's the Mercedes Benz 240D with caravan, otherwise known as Gift Set 24 from the Corgi 1975 catalogue.

Now, all I really wanted was the Merc in blue, but for some reason the single vehicles listed in well-known online auctions were more expensive than this full car and caravan combo. Go figure.

I had a decent caravan before, but sold it on. Which was a pity, as this one has a busted tow hitch.

Strange that the caravan came with a numberplate, but the car never did.

Still, the Mercedes is in pretty good shape, all told. There's a few small marks on the paintwork, and a bit of wear to the chrome plated parts, but it's plenty good enough.

This happens to be a replacement for one I lost around 1990... well, I say lost. 

What happened was, my brother (in P1 at the time) announced one morning - while actually on his way out the door - that he had to bring something into school for the Blue Table.

(Dunno if that was something anyone else had to do in infants school - bring in a colour-themed item that would be grouped with others on a table for a week, and discussed at some point. I think.)

My mother, put on the spot rather, ran upstairs and grabbed the first blue thing she could find - my Corgi Mercedes 240D, which happened to be on my bedside table. Which then found itself on the Blue Table - and, almost immediately afterwards, found itself being stolen by a five-year-old delinquent called Lester.

I was raging: at the thieving little shite in my brother's class; at my mother for having lifted one of my favourite cars; at my brother for being gormless and not having remembered in advance to find something blue that wasn't mine.

Finally, thirty years later, I have my replacement.

Although, weirdly, in my memory this was a lighter shade of blue, and not metallic.

But that's okay.

Also, something that intrigued me in the listing for this one was the assurance that it "includes boot luggage". Now, I know that some earlier Corgis came with little plastic suitcases and the like, but I didn't think ones of this era came with such things. But hey, I'm all for accessories.

But on investigating...

Yeah, I'm not sure I'd call a block of wood jammed in the boot 'luggage'...

[sierraman]

The rule used to be never take anything to school you would mind losing. Some thieving twat nicked my Superkings Jaguar XJ6 Police Car at primary school.

We had a sort of concrete car track built into a bank, thinking back it was a big bank of screed with some roadways troweled into it, bridges made from timber and tunnels from drain trunking. I suppose we were lucky to have such a facility but on the other hand thinking back the latent light fingered nature of the wider community made it something you couldn’t actually enjoy. 

[bunglebus]

I took my Corgi East African Safari Beetle into school, it had a loose engine cover, some little shit nicked it and it found it in a bin later. Engine cover was of course AWOL.

[eddyramrod]

I took my Corgi Hillman Imp in; big mistake.  It went missing of course, and turned up later looking like the roof had been cut off by a lawnmower.

[sierraman]

Thinking on some wanker deliberately scraped the side of my Rover Sterling on the concrete causeway edge. I really did go to school with some contemptuous wankers thinking back. Fortunately karma had it’s way with the Rover, the kid that did it now works as an estate agent which goes some way toward the theory some people are actually born wankers. 

[flat4alfa]

One of my oldest friends became an Estate agent.  Ran his own agency in Swansea for a decade, then sold the business and retired age 47.   Now lives in a £2M house at Mumbles and potters about in a modern Ferrari that does his back in