Shite in Miniature II

[bunglebus]

For once, overpaint doesn't matter on this locally sourced Dinky Kubelwagen

 

[flat4alfa]

They go for a fair wack, Dinky or Britains.  Always been outbid on even broken Britains

What does 'locally sourced' mean....  from Dunmow farmer's market on Tuesdays or is it Thaxted on Fridays? 😄

[AndyW201]

Probably been seen on here already, but after a local drought lasting months, I finally found some recent-ish Hot Wheels releases,

Really like this one, a nice companion to the also recently launched GMC Syclone in the mad-fast pick up stable.

Got a few of the standard bodied Continentals, this one is something else altogether!

I'm a big fan of the Stinger casting, and I think it looks fantastic in this colour.

Another nice recolour too, on the Prelude.

Safari... So goody! Was chuffed to get this one!

Still on the hunt for the '96 Impala and Mazda RX-3 though.

[bunglebus]

32 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

What does 'locally sourced' mean....  from Dunmow farmer's market on Tuesdays or is it Thaxted on Fridays? 😄

It means it was close enough to pop over and pick it up! Don't mind the Brittains one but at least the roof can't go missing off the Dinky.

Just realised there's a Corgi too

14 minutes ago, AndyW201 said:

Still on the hunt for the '96 Impala and Mazda RX-3 though.

Seen a few of those, Asda and B+M seem to be the best places while Entertainer is shut

[RoadworkUK]

19 hours ago, Volksy said:



 

Best Romancing The Stone diorama I ever saw.

[Tenmil Socket]

Update: RC Golf

It runs!

 

[Tenmil Socket]

5 minutes ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Update: RC Golf

It runs!

 

I can concentrate on this next. I’m thinking of adding LED’s for the head and tail lamps?

[flat4alfa]

[Datsuncog]

Sad but true.

But! We'll see what transpires after that... it's all a bit uncertain - Council says a fortnight, while the traders last week seemed to think that it's done for the year.

Time will tell!

Stay safe kids, and hopefully there'll be some tat boxes landing on doorsteps nationwide over the next few days, and that'll help soothe the pain.

[Datsuncog]

Despite everything, this Friday the gods of Tat do yet provide...

Via parcel, rather than a market find of course - but all thanks to @64A60 for this! It really is lovely.

One of those models I've had on my wantlist for literally decades now, so it's great to finally have one.

I had a great-aunt who owned a 100E way, way back in the 1960s. I'm not sure what happened to it, but I know she kept the gear stick as a poker for the fire, as I recall being fascinated by it as a kid.

Tat Parcels dispatched this afternoon for @RoadworkUK, @Noel Tidybeard,@BigMac,  and @eddyramrod - with any luck they should be with you early next week, thanks!

[bunglebus]

This is a bit of an oddball, and hopefully a treat for those of you who like Eastern stuff - 1985 Diapet catalogue - with a surprise inside, Catalogue is about 1mm too tall to fit in the scanner so had to do one page at a time

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What are those Majo-Kits doing in there? Yet another thing I hadn't been aware of before, quite an extensive range of buildings and street furniture to go with your 80s Majorette cars. Anyone seen them before?

 

[Split_Pin]

53 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

Despite everything, this Friday the gods of Tat do yet provide...

Via parcel, rather than a market find of course - but all thanks to @64A60 for this! It really is lovely.

One of those models I've had on my wantlist for literally decades now, so it's great to finally have one.

I had a great-aunt who owned a 100E way, way back in the 1960s. I'm not sure what happened to it, but I know she kept the gear stick as a poker for the fire, as I recall being fascinated by it as a kid.

Tat Parcels dispatched this afternoon for @RoadworkUK, @Noel Tidybeard,@BigMac,  and @eddyramrod - with any luck they should be with you early next week, thanks!

Hey did you manage to send mine?

[Split_Pin]

33 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

This is a bit of an oddball, and hopefully a treat for those of you who like Eastern stuff - 1985 Diapet catalogue - with a surprise inside, Catalogue is about 1mm too tall to fit in the scanner so had to do one page at a time

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What are those Majo-Kits doing in there? Yet another thing I hadn't been aware of before, quite an extensive range of buildings and street furniture to go with your 80s Majorette cars. Anyone seen them before?

 

Those look fantastic. I'd love the Cedric Taxi, the Japanese really got the hang of the Coke bottle look in the 1970s.

[Amishtat]

Toyota Clown and Cerica made me laugh 

[bunglebus]

I hadn't noticed that!

[RoadworkUK]

55 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

This is a bit of an oddball, and hopefully a treat for those of you who like Eastern stuff

Yeah, I now want every single one of those items.

The plant machinery and buses are just phhhhwwoooar.

[Datsuncog]

35 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

Hey did you manage to send mine?

Yes indeed, yours went to the Post Office on Monday - so I'd like to think it should be touching down very soon, since the other parcels posted at the same time arrived at their destinations yesterday...

I understand from the eBay thread that some mail sorting centres are having a bit of bother processing parcels at the minute, so fingers crossed you'll have yours by the morning!

[andrew e]

@bunglebus I had an actual selection of Majo-kits in the 80’s bought from Pitsea market as a kid! All long gone sadly 😢

[Tenmil Socket]

TAT received from @Datsuncog this week (thank you). The Golf is great! I also like the Zakspeed Mustang as I had one as a kid and I haven’t seen one since. Does anyone know where I can get spares for the Mercedes?

 

[Tenmil Socket]

I bought a job lot off of eBay purely for this Escort which looks like a casting of a model @bunglebus has but it says Rainbow on the base. 
 

[Tenmil Socket]

Here’s the remainder if anyone wants anything?

 

[Bren]

9 minutes ago, Tenmil Socket said:

I bought a job lot off of eBay purely for this Escort which looks like a casting of a model @bunglebus has but it says Rainbow on the base. 
 

It's the dempsey and makepeace escort. They also made a mk 2 granada.

[Bren]

Here's the giftset.

[Tenmil Socket]

Just now, Bren said:

Here's the giftset.

Cheers, never seen that before. 

[Datsuncog]

3 hours ago, Tenmil Socket said:

I bought a job lot off of eBay purely for this Escort which looks like a casting of a model @bunglebus has but it says Rainbow on the base. 
 

 

2 hours ago, Bren said:

It's the dempsey and makepeace escort. They also made a mk 2 granada.

Well scored, that looks in decent nick too. I can just about remember the car in the TV show...

Never seen the Rainbow version in real life, but I have an unfounded suspicion that the same casting was later appropriated and modified by MC Toy/ Maisto (ditto the Granada), and then later licenced to Corgi for their light and sound range...

It appeared in the gift set as shown above, and also as an individual model.

And they also did a bigger version with the top down and a friction motor...

...though you probably won't thank me for showing you that!

[bunglebus]

11 hours ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Here’s the remainder if anyone wants anything?

 

White 911, white Ferrari, red Mini and orange 911 look interesting - £how much?

[bunglebus]

8 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

Never seen the Rainbow version in real life, but I have an unfounded suspicion that the same casting was later appropriated and modified by MC Toy/ Maisto (ditto the Granada), and then later licenced to Corgi for their light and sound range...

I've not acquired that one either, people usually know what they are and price accordingly.

Quite strange to think Corgi ended up using Maisto cast-offs rather than the other way around!

I do have the Corgi

 

And MC Toys

 

Haven't yet found one with Maisto on the base, I reckon the Rainbow is the best looking of the lot (and doesn't have police lights on a soft top)

[sierraman]

Isn’t it funny how as a kid a lot of your memories are about your hobbies. I can remember playing on the table in a pub in Filey when I’d be really young with a red MC toys Escort like that. Same holiday we picked up a Bburago Fiat Regatta in the toy shop. Even at that age I was fascinated with oddities like the Regatta rather than Ferrari’s etc...

[HMC]

I had an mc toys escort too. It was part of a gift set which also had a mk2 Granada and  group c racer, 911 etc. I did think there was some sort of link between those castings and corgi or matchbox.

[bunglebus]

I've been slowly working on this Dinky Mini Traveller, it started like this

 

I don't know if I just have bad luck with Dinky castings, both this and the MK1 Escort I've tried to do about half a dozen times have the most awful marks that I can never seem to get rid of. I suspect the "restorer" who had a go at this one used a breeze block to rub it down. By some miracle most of the deep scars seem to have vanished under the Halfords paint. It's a 'mare to sand because of the raised "wood" areas. I have Steve Flowers glass to go in it, and the tyres have cleaned up. You can even read the base now! I need to find a brown permanent marker for the wood, which I think will be easier than trying to paint it, but for some reason brown Sharpies are 4X more than black.

Also need to paint all the silver bits in, so plenty of opportunity to bugger it up yet! Should look like this