Shite in Miniature II

[Tenmil Socket]

1 hour ago, bunglebus said:

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

FOC

[Sudsprint]

Not as easy as Dinky, but here is my take on the Corgi 1971/72 front cover..  

[bunglebus]

I don't have that one, so borrowed this from Google

[bunglebus]

Despite (mostly) not going on eBay, items continue to trickle in. A helpful hint for sellers, a taped-up carrier bag is the ideal packaging to protect carded diecasts. This one came with an ERTL farm implement of some sort and a MOY. I would give it the club hammer treatment but it's a 4.5 litre blower Bentley so I'll re-sell it.

another lot was obtained for this 

it came with various bits including a Corgi digger I've not seen before

Which turns out to be a Growler

And a different Corgi 

very early Lesney Horsebox seems to be missing an essential component 

I guess this is Lesney too but don't know what it's part of

finally, Corgi Daimler bus, don't remember them having happy* passengers inside

[Dick Cheeseburger]

3 hours ago, bunglebus said:

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

Looks great! What do you do about the drilled out rivets to hold the base on?

[bunglebus]

9 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Looks great! What do you do about the drilled out rivets to hold the base on?

Thanks - in this case the prior owner had pried the base over the rivet head, so a little bit of tidying and it'll be glued back on. Normally I'll drill them out with a 1.5 mm bit and tap with a 2mm, finally a tiny screw to hold the base on. Here's the Corvette I did a while ago

[ETCHY]

20 hours 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!

That really is a superb casting. It 100% captures the lines of the 100E.

[sierraman]

I never seem to have much luck with retapping the base, the post usually snaps. What screws do you use?

[flat4alfa]

17 hours ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Does anyone know where I can get spares for the Mercedes?

French Dinkies are covered

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516   Mercedes Benz 230SL
Clear Plastic Screen    £2.50
Plastic Canopy with Cream Hood Top    £4.30
Plastic Headlamps    £1.60
Bonnet    £0.95
Boot Lid    £0.95

http://model-supplies.co.uk/

 

[Datsuncog]

3 hours ago, HMC said:

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.

I was really confused as a kid by the MC Toys stuff, as the wheels looked to be the same as the 'crown' wheels fitted to many Matchbox of the era... I sorta prided myself on being able to tell who'd made unfamiliar toy cars just by looking at the wheels, and that messed things up big time... at a guess, MC/Maisto bought some wheel injection tooling from Universal Toys who were also based in Macao at that time, possibly when they were shifting production to China - or maybe it was just a straight copy.

The Corgi Light & Sound range were bought in from Maisto, and so came with the same Matchbox-style wheels.

A Corgi with Matchbox wheels?

Madness.

 

12 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

I guess this is Lesney too but don't know what it's part of

Think it used to be part of this:

Matchbox Majors M6 Scammell Low Loader.

[Tenmil Socket]

16 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

French Dinkies are covered

 

I’ve been through the list 3 times and cannot locate those parts?

[flat4alfa]

4 minutes ago, Tenmil Socket said:

I’ve been through the list 3 times and cannot locate those parts?

On this page 

Google search:

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dinky 516 site:http://model-supplies.co.uk/

 

[flat4alfa]

15 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

Think it used to be part of this:

Matchbox Majors M6 Scammell Low Loader.

I envisage an AS resurrection

Ken found this:

[Tenmil Socket]

Probably a few of you would like to see this pic...

FYI the Days Gone tyres fit the Dinky. It donated its steering wheel too.

I’m going to attempt to fabricate a windscreen from the Lego. 
If it looks OK then Mrs Socket might be losing a pair of earrings for the headlights 😆

[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, sierraman said:

I never seem to have much luck with retapping the base, the post usually snaps. What screws do you use?

Just 2mm dome heads off ebay, about 3mm thread length.

Actually I now tend to use countersink ones that look less like rivets but have a bigger head so don't pull through the base - Corvette has this type

You do have to take care to drill straight and not snap the bit or burst the post. Found a few that are just too thin to risk, or so short that you'd end up going right out the other side of the body. In that case the superglue comes out.

 

[bunglebus]

4 minutes ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Probably a few of you would like to see this pic...

FYI the Days Gone tyres fit the Dinky. It donated its steering wheel too.

I’m going to attempt to fabricate a windscreen from the Lego. 
If it looks OK then Mrs Socket might be losing a pair of earrings for the headlights 😆

Top tip! Rhinestones are cheap and come in lots of sizes, I have several sizes in stock as they're usually sold by the bagful

[sierraman]

22 minutes ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Probably a few of you would like to see this pic...

FYI the Days Gone tyres fit the Dinky. It donated its steering wheel too.

I’m going to attempt to fabricate a windscreen from the Lego. 
If it looks OK then Mrs Socket might be losing a pair of earrings for the headlights 😆

Can’t believe you’ve ruined that Lledo. They’re collectors items!!! 🤣

Seriously make sure you stamp on it repeatedly before it goes in the bin. 

[Tenmil Socket]

Would anyone like this?

 

[Tenmil Socket]

Opinions please. I’m going to paint the Golf the blue colour you can see. I’m unsure what colour to paint the mega front bumper?

[Spottedlaurel]

Very interesting to see all those Majo-Kit sets in the Diapet catalogue. I have just the one boxed set:

 

I also bought a random assortment from someone on here a few years ago. It's nice stuff.

Tomica's Hypercity  was like a modern rendition of it.

[Split_Pin]

Fancied another for my Japanese collection. £20 from Hobbycraft seemed ok as this one has an engine. I'll study it later!

Sorry for your necks, since my phone updated itself last week it's basically scrambled itself.

2 parcels came today too!

 

[bunglebus]

33 minutes ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Opinions please. I’m going to paint the Golf the blue colour you can see. I’m unsure what colour to paint the mega front bumper?

Boring answer is the same colour - or go for Gulf orange

[sierraman]

I think it was me with the Majokit. Think we got them from Trago Mills in Falmouth in about 1990.

[RoadworkUK]

4 hours ago, bunglebus said:

finally, Corgi Daimler bus, don't remember them having happy* passengers inside

UGH that's horrible. The bus of miniature lost souls. It's probably haunted.

I have that casting somewhere but with black opaque glazing in Corgi Juniors format.

 

[eddyramrod]

1 hour ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Would anyone like this?

 

Yes please!

[Tenmil Socket]

5 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

Yes please!

Ok no problem 👍🏻

[bunglebus]

21 minutes ago, RoadworkUK said:

UGH that's horrible. The bus of miniature lost souls. It's probably haunted.

You could be right, Hitler is on the top deck

So that must be Eva Braun with their illegitimate offspring

 

[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, Spottedlaurel said:

Very interesting to see all those Majo-Kit sets in the Diapet catalogue. I have just the one boxed set:

 

What's the blue one, bottom left in the 1st pic? Also I had a load of that cardboard road system as a nipper, who made it? (probably asked before and forgotten)

[Spottedlaurel]

1 hour ago, bunglebus said:

What's the blue one, bottom left in the 1st pic? Also I had a load of that cardboard road system as a nipper, who made it? (probably asked before and forgotten)

Blue car is a Polistil Datsun Violet, roughly 1:24 scale. There's a smaller version of it they did as well.

Cardboard road layout is either Roadmaker or Roadways - I have one of each, to replace the set I had as a kid. I liked the scale of it for Superfast/Juniors stuff.

When I was young I also had a thicker, narrower card roadway set, possibly made by TW. It was a bit narrow and the bends too tight, like the card road pieces that go with Hypercity.

By concidence, the only Roadmaker set I can find on eBay contains some of the pieces of the other set:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1970s-Tufty-Club-Roadmaker-1-60-Card-Model-Road-Track-For-Toy-Cars-VTG-Idea/353277597236

[Bren]

20 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

 

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!

For me the programme was memorable for the stunning Glynis Barber. Oh to be a teenager again.