Shite in Miniature II

[Amishtat]

A couple more ghosts from the early 1980s for you now,again things I can't recall not having. 

[Amishtat]

I saw one of these at the Tat Wednesday car boot back in the summer and nearly bought it, glad I didn't now. I rediscovered the trailer a year or two ago but hadn't located the tractor unit until yesterday. 

[Smithy's Classic Mini]

Hello ladies and gentlemen, I am reasonably new and have garnered up the courage to say hello on the fourum. This seemed like an appropriate place to introduce myself as small models are a huge hobby/interest of mine.
Heres my little collection so far
 

[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, Split_Pin said:

I picked up what appears to be NOS 2018 Hotwheels at Tesco this afternoon. They haven't had a delivery of new ones, or any MB since before Covid hit in March.

I am quite pleased with this one.

 

That's a brand new release - was only available as a premium car before

[bunglebus]

36 minutes ago, Amishtat said:

Thank you all for your kind replies, and for understanding why a grown man might have such a strong emotional attachment to such ephemera as some old toy cars. Like quite a few of us on here I went through a destructive phase around the cusp of my teens which I now bitterly regret but the things I posted yesterday would never have come to harm even then. 

Think a lot of us did. I remember setting fire to my General Lee that I'd built from a kit, and putting a few Matchbox on the railway lines so they got squished. Both things I'd go nuts about if I caught my kids doing them.

[Split_Pin]

47 minutes ago, Smithy's Classic Mini said:

Hello ladies and gentlemen, I am reasonably new and have garnered up the courage to say hello on the fourum. This seemed like an appropriate place to introduce myself as small models are a huge hobby/interest of mine.
Heres my little collection so far
 

Hello and welcome. Vanguards are a very good place to start, lovely models and can still be found for a good price second hand.

[Split_Pin]

1 hour ago, Amishtat said:

A couple more ghosts from the early 1980s for you now,again things I can't recall not having. 

I think I mentioned before that I have the Range Rover version of the above although I recall it had a window box so might have been later. Probably around 1984. The plastic shell is definitely a rip of a Bburago, scaled up slightly.

[flat4alfa]

3 hours ago, Amishtat said:

That is lush

It’s not even a Stratos, it’s a Monte Carlo.  I wonder how it became mistranslated?  Perhaps because it was Scorpion in some markets namely the US ?  The letter S threw them?

Dunno, but I am wanting it !

[sierraman]

Going up the Tescos after tea, hopefully we’ll pick some Civic CVCCs etc. 

[DoctorRetro]

Speaking of @Amishtat's youthful destructive phase, I've begun work on the Bburago Land Rover.

It's my first project in a while where I feel like the end result will be semi decent - I hope! 

First thing was to get rid of some dubious marker pen on the front wing and wheels. Then I fashioned a front bumper out of a bit of plastic. 

I used the dry wipe marker trick and the wheels have come out amazing. 

 

There was a headlight missing sadly, but I have a cunning plan including slices of mini glue gun sticks for the lenses! 

I've ordered some plasticard for the rear door,that will be an interesting task. Im just glad Land Rovers are so flat and square.

[DoctorRetro]

That's about as good as I can get them... 

 

[Amishtat]

Nice work! That hasn't looked that good since about 1990..

[flat4alfa]

2 hours ago, TheDoctor said:

I've ordered some plasticard for the rear door,that will be an interesting task

Nothing can defeat the BACKDOOR DOCTOR.  It’s the rules.

[sierraman]

Visit to Tesco was a waste of time, still the same crap from beginning of the year. What a bizarre marketing strategy to limit your market to one retailer. So no CVCC for now! 

[bunglebus]

Great job on the LR headlights, might try that one

A trawl around the town's charity shops saw me come away with a solitary MC Toys Sierra, still with quality* assurance sticker on the base

[flat4alfa]

34 minutes ago, sierraman said:

So no CVCC for now! 

I do have a spare to send up to you if it helps

But it sounds like you’re enjoying the chase 

[flat4alfa]

On 9/18/2020 at 11:30 PM, flat4alfa said:

Update, just in !

BEDFORD SIDELINED DUE TO STRIKE AT PARTS FACTORY

FORD LTS resumes duties

Driver Tom not impressed with the glazing tint

But otherwise he loves the JAKE BRAKE on the Detroit 2-stroke.  You can still hear it in the next valley

Update just in!

Due to certain areas not following Covid rules, the Army have been called in 

All other trucks are on a lock down order while they get a proper wipe-down

Shocker.

[Lord Sterling]

Not exactly "shite" but more, why would you buy that?

A couple of examples of rather dreary Fiats in 1.24 form recently landed on my doorstep:

....aaaand why not? A Fiat Doblo and a Fiat 500L.

I've actually driven a child-sick Beige Fiat 500L 1.3 a few years ago. I even had it for the weekend. A real anti-climax when you've driven greats such as the Abarth 595 and such forth. But I bought this model because I couldn't believe that a model maker would want to make one, particularly in 1.24 scale. But they did!

[flat4alfa]

51 minutes ago, Lord Sterling said:

...aaaand why not? A Fiat Doblo and a Fiat 500L.

In stark contrast to your pair of Ladies doing Sainsbury’s chariots

Check out this perfected example of toxic masculinity 

Mercedes-Benz G63 6x6 AMG.  Just look at it.  In all of its 1/30ish splendor

Straight from the Men who do Tonka aisle of your local Prestige car emporium

A proper Sainsbury’s Doblo crusher

However the butch testosteronic image is dampened somewhat by the loud toyset alarm noise it emits when the doors are opened.

No maker on this one.  But we know who made it:  The God of Thunder.

[bunglebus]

Also available in 1:64

[bunglebus]

New Matchbox coming to a Tesco near you in 2025

 

 

[DoctorRetro]

1 hour ago, bunglebus said:

Also available in 1:64

Yup, I have the Jurassic World version complete with mid splashes. 

[Lord Sterling]

17 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

New Matchbox coming to a Tesco near you in 2025

 

Nice. I think I'll be on the look out for the new ECV Taxi (which looks like a great big matchbox car anyway) the Mr Bean Mini and Jeep Renegade as I drove many of those during my trade-plate career, mostly from Long Bennington.

[sierraman]

Exciting stuff, expect we’ll see those in Tesco sometime in 2023...

[Sudsprint]

Back to the 1960s and my unending quest to replace all the toy cars I wrote off. 

A pale blue Landcrab. This came as part of a gift set with a maroon Victor 101, gold 'Chinese eye' RR Cloud and a gold and white Mk1 Tincorner. Just need the Cortina now.

[andrew e]

Did I ever show you lot these Mira Fiesta’s in my stash? Feast your eyes! They are quite tidy litttle things, even though I reckon they could be zinc pest candidates.

 

[Dick Cheeseburger]

6 minutes ago, andrew e said:

Did I ever show you lot these Mira Fiesta’s in my stash? Feast your eyes! They are quite tidy litttle things, even though I reckon they could be zinc pest candidates.

 

Oh, they're lovely. If you wished to sell one...

[Sudsprint]

9 minutes ago, andrew e said:

Did I ever show you lot these Mira Fiesta’s in my stash? Feast your eyes! They are quite tidy litttle things, even though I reckon they could be zinc pest candidates.

 

I'm very partial to a Mk Fester in real life. These are lovely.

[sierraman]

I have one of those Mira Fiestas albeit a much later one with a plastic base. I think mine had adverts for fags on like loads of 80’s Spanish tat like Guisval and Mira had. 

[DoctorRetro]

My two Mk1 Fiestas. 

Pilen and Solido.