Shite in Miniature II

[Rover414]

Probably a bit late, but if that Wallace Arnold decker is still there I'd have it.

[bunglebus]

Here's one of the more expensive purchases I alluded to earlier

Doesn't seem to have been played with going by the paint and base, but the stickers are all peeling. Hopefully a careful application of glue will improve things. I'm still going to do something with the body I have, I very much doubt replacement decals are available 

[Datsuncog]

7 hours ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Yes please @Datsuncog if your going...

Obtained! For tenpence.

8 hours ago, NorthernMonkey said:

These four, the Parrys, Shearings, Stagecoach and the one underneath (Blackpool transport?) would be greatly appreciated 🙂

 

 

 

Especially the Stagecoach midibus and the Shearings Plaxton as I’ve driven both of them 😂

The Parrys triple-axle was gone, I'm afraid, but I think  I managed to nab the others for you.

He was already packing up when I arrived over, so I had to guddle a bit through the boxes; they weren't where I last saw them. 

Pics later!

5 hours ago, Rover414 said:

Probably a bit late, but if that Wallace Arnold decker is still there I'd have it.

Not sure if it was still there or not - but I'll have a look next week for you!

7 hours ago, RoadworkUK said:

Crikey!

Is the Corgi yank Peter Pan coach a fiver? If so (and if it isn't just metal shards rattling around a tidy box) I'll leap at that.

Also the Oxford - London Plaxton Excalibur and Eastern National (Plaxton Pointer?) if I'm not way, way too late.

Ta!

7 hours ago, RoadworkUK said:

Yeah, I could stretch to the heights of fifteen quid, but only because I now have a sudden magpie "Shiny things" urge. A tenner would be far better, of course.

eBay going rate wobbles between £4 and £thaaasands.

Cheers.

 

Peter Pan picked up for a fiver, in the end - dusty and missing mirrors, but otherwise looks intact. Pics to come later! The other two OOCs also procured.

He also showed me another boxful that he hadn't put out this morning - so with any luck they may be there next Friday morning too, if there's any interest?

Unfortunately, I've now got to scoot back to work, but hopefully more japes to come later!

[NorthernMonkey]

Brilliant! Let me know how much I owe you when you get the chance including postage and I’ll fire over the funds.

I’ll have the Wallace Arnold coach next week as well please, if it’s there.

[flat4alfa]

39 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Here's one of the more expensive purchases I alluded to earlier

I bet it was!  Did Christmas come early?

[bunglebus]

12 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

I bet it was!  Did Christmas come early?

Christmas is now cancelled cos I can't afford it. One more special find due in the post any day

[flat4alfa]

4 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

One more special find due in the post any day

Oh goody goody a Friday guessing game!

Guess #1:  Corgi Mazda B1600 in Tarmac livery?

[eddyramrod]

#2: Corgi 1961 Oldsmobile in the very limited light beige?

[bunglebus]

8 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Oh goody goody a Friday guessing game!

Guess #1:  Corgi Mazda B1600 in Tarmac livery?

Nope. Been looking but there's only one missing a tailgate. Older than that too

[bunglebus]

6 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

#2: Corgi 1961 Oldsmobile in the very limited light beige?

Nope, did see one but decided it was too expensive. Let's just say it was a gift

[RoadworkUK]

1 hour ago, Datsuncog said:

Peter Pan picked up for a fiver, in the end - dusty and missing mirrors, but otherwise looks intact. Pics to come later! The other two OOCs also procured.

Excellent work! Thank you. Would be more than happy for the Eastern National to go to @Amishtat so he can spread the retro Essex bus love up Scotland way. If it had been an Eastern National Leyland National, though, I'd have been gripping onto it tenaciously.

Bill me accordingly and electroshekels will be twanged over. 

[Amishtat]

46 minutes ago, RoadworkUK said:

Excellent work! Thank you. Would be more than happy for the Eastern National to go to @Amishtat so he can spread the retro Essex bus love up Scotland way. If it had been an Eastern National Leyland National, though, I'd have been gripping onto it tenaciously.

Bill me accordingly and electroshekels will be twanged over. 

Only if you're sure? Thank you, that's very kind of you. 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

5 hours ago, bunglebus said:

If I win the lottery I'm buying every one I can find, then I'll be thinking of creative ways to destroy them. Once they're rare they might be worth something

You’re welcome.

[Datsuncog]

1 hour ago, RoadworkUK said:

Excellent work! Thank you. Would be more than happy for the Eastern National to go to @Amishtat so he can spread the retro Essex bus love up Scotland way. If it had been an Eastern National Leyland National, though, I'd have been gripping onto it tenaciously.

Bill me accordingly and electroshekels will be twanged over. 

Sure thing! Will fire up the spreadsheet later on and see how things stand; it's always good to spread the love!

[Split_Pin]

56 minutes ago, NorfolkNWeigh said:

 

I have just read that article, what a load of misguided tosh! It absolutely does not take me back to the 'heady days' of Swapmeets. I rarely saw any Lledos in my 20 years of monthly attendance at the local one because the traders knew even back then how worthless they were. Occasionally there would be a few trays of odd boxed ones under a table but that's it.

The owner says he paid between '£8 and £220' for each model.  I feel a tinge of sorrow that 3000 people saw him coming.

Who has ever owned Lledos here? I had a few given to me by relatives at Christmas. One in particular, which my mum and Gran, bless them, gave me was a model of some 1920s car in purple and gold decorated with the slogan "The Queen Mother - 90 Glorious Years".

I had some kind of 'vintage' van as a kid which was yellow and green and came with a plastic dog. Another was a Neoplan-esque bus which I got from the local Midland Bluebird travel centre in Linlithgow. Not even the local livery could save it from being a terrible model.

I still have a Leyland T45 truck which I only bought because there weren't many models of them, until BT Models released theirs.

The only LLedo I kept was the MK3 Transit Minibus in Variety Club livery because it's actually a good representation of the real thing and relevant to my time period.

[flat4alfa]

3 hours ago, NorfolkNWeigh said:

You’re welcome.

....from four pages back:

https://autoshite.com/topic/10758-shite-in-miniature-ii/?do=findComment&comment=2173894

☺️

[flat4alfa]

29 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

Who has ever owned Lledos here?

Was given a boxful.

Put the Model T Ford vans on eBay as a £4 job lot and they sold away!   ....after being listed over and over for two months.

[C1am]

I got some as part of an auction lot mentioned on here a few months back. Listed all 15 as a buy it now on a well known internet auction site for less than £3 and they still took two weeks to sell. 

Edit:  All in mint condition except for one which was missing a grille. 

[sierraman]

I liked the Lledo Marathon double decker bus but apart from that they were tosh. 

[flat4alfa]

LLEDO DAYS GONE FRIDAY FEST !

Today we have the ubiquitous, yet highly collectible, 1934 Dennis van.

Afficionados of the highly collectible Days Gone range should recognise this model immediately.

Yes, of course, it is the highly collectible model code DB16.

Please all stand up for Her Majesty while we proclaim the Lledo Days Gone range as MADE IN ENGLAND

As you were

[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, Split_Pin said:

Who has ever owned Lledos here?

Only when they came from a job lot that contained something else I wanted. Guess his business model worked at the time, although I suspect his target market was grandparents buying an "investment" for their children's children

[andrew e]

Don’t forget Yesteryears were dear and these significantly undercut them. It was a very lucrative business model and god alone knows why Lesney didn’t listen to Jack O’dell when he was staff? 

[Split_Pin]

There's no denying they were successful in light of the seemingly inexhaustible supply of them nowadays.

I wonder if LLedo were cynical when they thought of their target market.

[flat4alfa]

1 hour ago, Split_Pin said:

I wonder if LLedo were cynical when they thought of their target market.

Quote

[Johnson, Dana. 1998. Collector's Guide to Diecast Toys and Scale Models]  

Of the hundreds of Lledo variations appearing in the first six years of production, all were based on only thirty basic castings

Yes, I think susceptible folks were Lled(on) somewhat.

[flat4alfa]

Remember a few weeks back...

The DINKY last-gasp, run-out models?

For 99p each, got hold of WAR CHARIOT and one of the generic CONVOY trucks

  

Which meant I could dig out all I have left of my childhood Dinky Lunar Rover - one sole Astronaut.

Farmer Tom popped along to keep Astronaut Man company

He was even happier to find out the CONVOY truck was originally the Skip truck, despite missing its load, has a perfectly flat bed for modifications...    watch this space

[bunglebus]

I wasn't sure they actually made those last-ditch models, interesting find!

[Split_Pin]

If the lights were lower down on the bumper, those Convoy trucks would look a lot like a Quest 80.

[Datsuncog]

On 11/13/2020 at 1:44 PM, Datsuncog said:

Pics to come later!

Well, I did promise...

So, a quartet of public service lovelies for @NorthernMonkey:

Shearings Van Hool Alizee, and Optare Delta for Blackpool Blue Buses.

Stagecoach Mercedes-based Plaxton Beaver 2 and matching Dennis Dart, both from the 'Bus Operators Britain' range. The Merc is apparently modelled on a Manchester-based bus; the Dennis is curiously non-specific.

Will hit you up with a total by PM!

And a brace of buses from either side of the pond for @RoadworkUK:

Another from OOC Bus Operators Britain range, this time a Plaxton Excalibur for Oxford Citilink, plus Corgi's 1/50 model of an MCI 102 DL3 interstate cruiser, in Peter Pan lines '60th anniversary' graphics.

The big Corgi is huge, heavy and utterly filthy - but other than lacking mirrors and the limited edition collector's card, is actually alright.

The windows are almost, but not quite, opaque.

I remember seeing this one in the Corgi American Classics catalogue back in the mid-90s, but never in real life.

And yes, there does seem to be quite a variation in online pricing...

Yeah, that's quite a price spread... And I'd be interested to know how the seller of the £99 example managed to get 'GREAT PRICE' on their listing, when it costs more than the other three put together...

Still, a fiver for this one seems reasonable - even if a hazmat suit may be required!

Then, owing to some kindhearted interforum trading, another Dennis Dart - this time painted in Eastern National colours - for @Amishtat

And there's also this jolly badge for @Tenmil Socket - must be an 80s promo job, the sort I used to gleefully scoop up at motorshows.

Anyone have any clues as to exactly what era or promotion this might have come from?

Finally, there's these two that came with the badge:

HO scale drawbar trailer by Wiking - dunno if there's any interest in this, @andrew e maybe?

And also an early Matchbox King Size trailer, in reasonable fettle.

Any interest from any of our resident Superkings-lickers - could this help complete a towing rig for someone?

Both available gratis.

Phew! An unusually bus-heavy Tatday, but I think there's a few nicely priced examples in there which will soon be winging their way to pastures new... plus a few others for me to look out for next week, all being well.

Til next week, tat-fans!

[flat4alfa]

Back to the Dinky WAR CHARIOT(s).  Get ready for some excitable caps-lock overload.

Conceived for the 1978 catalogue / show flyers as (361) GALACTIC WAR CHARIOT: utilising the base of and figures from (355) LUNAR ROVER, the turbine engine of (102) JOE 90'S CAR and the missile & mechanism off (355) S.H.A.D.O 2. 

Between then and the 1979 catalogue, for whatever reason, it was renamed ZYGON WAR CHARIOT: main change being the figures from (226) FERRARI RACING CAR, and a later interrim change to the all-plastic missile mechanism from the stillborn (268) GALACTIC MARAUDER spacecraft instead.

Still interested?  Well, this is important* Binns Road & British history here.  However, I couldn't afford to book lovely Lucy Worsley to tell the story, so this is the best I can do outside of quoting DatsunCog's 'CogBook' (out in all good bookstores next Christmas, probably.).  Then for the 1979 Trade Catalogue, it became just WAR CHARIOT:  

Missing its spacemen, yet surprisingly this example still has what might* be one of the rarest missiles in the business?  It was a Meccano item.

Also unfortunately missing the top half of the engine.  Oh well, at the very least it's a good source of six genuine* Dinky wheels...

This was when (shock horror) production had been contracted to Polistil in Italy, alongside the  the (122) Volvo Estate & (243) Police Volvo.  Farmer Tom was so infuriated by this revelation, he had to flip it over to have a look:

However, it never hit the shops alongside the Volvos, it was (assumed) shipped to Hong Kong to be shrink-wrap packaged alongside the BIG CAT JAGUAR.  So, funnily enough, this example you see here might have been shipped to the UK in the very same box as @bunglebus's JAGUAR over the other page.  If so, hadn't the world got smaller.

Next Time:  Convoy Trucking.

[Split_Pin]

I didn't know the Dinky Volvo 265 was made by Polistil. That explains a lot.

I presume it was made exclusively for Dinky as the scale seems wrong for Polistil who were 1:64, 1:43 and 1:24/5