Shite in Miniature II

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22 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Black AMX is indeed a rarity, nice score!

If anyone is after one, or indeed either of the two hot wheels, I'm sure a deal could be done...

[jon.k]

Would anyone be interested in any of these? They’d be a couple of quid plus postage each (unless anyone can jump in and tell me that I’ve got something rare and precious in there!) 

 

 

 

[RoadworkUK]

21 hours ago, jon.k said:

Datsuncog and amishtat’s enthusiastic response to the models I posted inspired me to dig out some of my favourite toys. I do have others in better condition which I collected as I got older but these were some of the ones that got played with (not for sale!)

I have that Ferrari / Iveco racing car transporter (with the laughably out of scale 1:64 Formula 1 cars.) Sadly I had it on display on my bedroom windowsill for ages and the big Ferrari sticker on one side faded to bright white.

[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, jon.k said:

Would anyone be interested in any of these? They’d be a couple of quid plus postage each (unless anyone can jump in and tell me that I’ve got something rare and precious in there!) 

 

 

 

White Trabant is pretty cool - and is it an odd angle or is the Starsky and Hutch Torino a strange shape?

[flat4alfa]

1 hour ago, jon.k said:

Would anyone be interested in any of these? They’d be a couple of quid plus postage each

I'm trying not to buy any more as I've shelves full and the wife is having kittens over it all

But if I was, they would be 007 Aston ; Britains Police Discovery, Corgi yellow AA Range Rover ; Dinky yellow Bedford CF Van

[bunglebus]

Think I now have all the different body styles of Corgi VW T1. This and the Kombi could do with a re-paint. Maybe.

[flat4alfa]

2 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

White Trabant is pretty cool - and is it an odd angle or is the Starsky and Hutch Torino a strange shape?

Camera lies and half the white stripe has been eaten

[flat4alfa]

1 hour ago, jon.k said:

Would anyone be interested in any of these? They’d be a couple of quid plus postage each

Also, what is that?

[flat4alfa]

On 2/1/2021 at 7:04 PM, flat4alfa said:

CLICLAC  party. 

There was a point to all this, but I can't remember what it was

[Dunno how I mucked up the images, so deleted the post and reposted]

 

 

I remember now!

This is a Heller CLICLAC Land Rover 109 City Police

Dolly and Ken spotted this on Holiday in France. 

It surprised them, as for a French product primarily sold on the French market, the Police livery is....

...British Police !

Not the best model obviously, but all of them are after all just fit-the-box approx 1/32 click-together plastic kits, aimed at children banned from being near glue.

Oh yes, the point... (ahem) Heller did a good few different guises, with various extras to click home and then eventually loose in the darkest toy box recesses.

  

But not only that, did you know that AIRFIX bought a few and rejigged the ideas as a 'Junior' range also marketed as Clix ?  A sort of precursor for the current Quick Build range

 

If you see one cheap, pick it up and you'll find that these kits from the nineties - especially Black Widow - can be quite valuable now.  But don't offer it to me, I really don't want anymore, thanks!

[jon.k]

12 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Also, what is that?

It’s a made in China pull-back trabant with epic custom gold marker pen paint job, of course! 

 

Tempted?

[bunglebus]

I might be interested in this one and the white Trabby

 

[Spottedlaurel]

Not really shite subject material, but this one I finished on Sunday was painted with Ford Cayman Blue as seen on '90s Mondeos, Fiestas etc. Put it together as a quick simple build after I'd robbed its engine for a '67 Impala.

 

 

[flat4alfa]

32 minutes ago, jon.k said:

It’s a made in China pull-back trabant with epic custom gold marker pen paint job, of course! 

 

Tempted?

Unfortunately yes

[flat4alfa]

Got this Tonka a few weeks back in a job lot.  Clearly meant to be a Chevolet Monza so has to be late-seventies early eighties.

Never had any of these as a child, exaggerated toy styles like this were always a turn-off.  But still, being an old man now, thought it was worth some (re)discovery, from a mechanical perspective and also because of the Marina door handles.

It was filthy and seized.  So took it apart cleaned all the muck off and got it working.   There was half a Mars Bar of gunk in there.

You push it forward multiple times (it's very stiff) so it gathers energy in its flywheel, making a right din.  Then push the button on the top and it releases a clutch and it FLIES !!!  ...off towards the skirting board to chip another chunk out of it.  Hard.  I now know why most of the ones spotted on Tat Friday have bumper/grilles pieces missing.

Being tin-plate over plastic and a heavy flywheel inside, it does have some weight to it.  Ideal for throwing at lockdown-breaching neighbours having a disco

[RoadworkUK]

40 minutes ago, Spottedlaurel said:

Not really shite subject material, but this one I finished on Sunday was painted with Ford Cayman Blue as seen on '90s Mondeos, Fiestas etc. Put it together as a quick simple build after I'd robbed its engine for a '67 Impala.

You know, the C4 Corvette really is a staggeringly good looking car. I was tempted to actually buy one for ages, until – fortunately – I had an opportunity to sit in one and found that I literally do. not. fit.

[bunglebus]

33 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Got this Tonka a few weeks back in a job lot.  Clearly meant to be a Chevolet Monza so has to be late-seventies early eighties.

Looks like this chap

 

[Spottedlaurel]

4 minutes ago, RoadworkUK said:

You know, the C4 Corvette really is a staggeringly good looking car. I was tempted to actually buy one for ages, until – fortunately – I had an opportunity to sit in one and found that I literally do. not. fit.

Some years of Camaro and Firebird seemed to lose their way, but yes that generation of Corvette seemed to maintain its good looks throughout.

Strange that you didn't fit a car designed by/for Americans.

[flat4alfa]

On 2/1/2021 at 10:42 AM, flat4alfa said:

Maisto Smart City-Coupé (it says), in 1/33

The model is smart enough (pun intended).  What does smart though is the thin rear track, due to the mounting of a generic pull-back motor mechanism. 

Well no more.  The tramping, inset rear axle no longer makes me twitch...

....because it was taken to bits and introduced it to a replacement chassis which was near enough the right wheel base

So after some adaptions to the chassis and a few fiddles about to fit, taking all evening; it now looks like this

And does this

Will see about fitting a driver and seat tops later.  Perhaps a nob of glue on the door might be wise so driver doesn't go flying

[RoadworkUK]

16 minutes ago, Spottedlaurel said:

Strange that you didn't fit a car designed by/for Americans.

Yep. They've got bellies, I've got freakishly long shins. Genuinely can't fit my knee under the wheel.

[flat4alfa]

On 9/11/2020 at 4:48 PM, bunglebus said:

first of all a Tonka I did buy - mentioned recently IIRC with the friction motor, still working and making the awful noise. Another £2.00

Ohhh..... don't

It's a Pinto too.

[andrew e]

I had a yellow one as a kid - pretty patio proof, it had a fair bit of torque for rough surface propulsion, even if it was totally the wrong size fit my matchbox sized scrapyards.

[Datsuncog]

58 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Got this Tonka a few weeks back in a job lot.  Clearly meant to be a Chevolet Monza so has to be late-seventies early eighties.

Never had any of these as a child, exaggerated toy styles like this were always a turn-off.  But still, being an old man now, thought it was worth some (re)discovery, from a mechanical perspective and also because of the Marina door handles.

It was filthy and seized.  So took it apart cleaned all the muck off and got it working.   There was half a Mars Bar of gunk in there.

You push it forward multiple times (it's very stiff) so it gathers energy in its flywheel, making a right din.  Then push the button on the top and it releases a clutch and it FLIES !!!  ...off towards the skirting board to chip another chunk out of it.  Hard.  I now know most of the ones spotted on Tat Friday have bumper/grilles pieces missing.

Being tin-plate over plastic and a heavy flywheel inside, it does have some weight to it.  Ideal for throwing at lockdown-breaching neighbours having a disco

Good grief, there's a sudden rush of buried memories... I had one just like that. I've no idea what became of it, and I'm sure I haven't thought of it for 30 years+.

Never felt much of a connection with it, due to the cartoonish proportions, and of course I had no idea what it was meant to be based on (I was about three). 

But yes, the mechanism was fierce, that much I do recall!

[bunglebus]

39 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Ohhh..... don't

It's a Pinto too.

Tippex is now gone though thankfully 

[Split_Pin]

1 hour ago, Spottedlaurel said:

Not really shite subject material, but this one I finished on Sunday was painted with Ford Cayman Blue as seen on '90s Mondeos, Fiestas etc. Put it together as a quick simple build after I'd robbed its engine for a '67 Impala.

 

 

Agree on the C4 Corvette, that is lovely. I have a Maisto 1/18 open top version. 

I've always liked them since getting an Atari ST in 1987 which came with the game 'Test Drive'.

[Datsuncog]

2 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

did you know that AIRFIX bought a few and rejigged the ideas as a 'Junior' range also marketed as Clix ?  A sort of precursor for the current Quick Build range

 

If you see one cheap, pick it up and you'll find that these kits from the nineties - especially Black Widow - can be quite valuable now.  But don't offer it to me, I really don't want anymore, thanks!

Phoar, another Proustian rush for the evening - we used to have heaps of those kicking about upstairs in the model shop's stockroom.

No bugger wanted them, even discounted down to a pound. Too weird for the little kids, too kiddy for the grownups.

They're probably rare because half the production run is still in a dusty store in County Down...

[Datsuncog]

3 hours ago, jon.k said:

Would anyone be interested in any of these? They’d be a couple of quid plus postage each (unless anyone can jump in and tell me that I’ve got something rare and precious in there!)

Out of interest, what's the red Bburago-looking saloon with the racing stickers?

And would you know off the top of your head who makes the Renault R5 Turbo? Thought it was a Corgi at first, but it looks more 1/43 scale than 1/36... I'm more and more intrigued the more I look at it.

(You can tell where this is heading, can't you?)

[Split_Pin]

Bburago is a BMW 5 series. I have that one, decent representation of it but not as nice as the Matchbox.

[Datsuncog]

Aha, I thought there might be something Beemerish about that one... cool, just curious! Looked weirdly like a two-door saloon, just couldn't place it.

[jon.k]

Here you go!

[flat4alfa]

14 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

They're probably rare because half the production run is still in a dusty store in County Down...

Could you give them a ring and buy the dusty stock?  We might have a windfall there. 

Forget GameStop and the current silver rush.  Co. Down could* be the new Flagstaff