Shite in Miniature II

[155V6]

4 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Bags the Ballade pretty please

It's an Acclaim 🤔

[Datsuncog]

It looks like a great selection, well bagged!

[flat4alfa]

4 minutes ago, 155V6 said:

It's an Acclaim 🤔

Could have sworn that's a LHD dashboard

[155V6]

13 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Could have sworn that's a LHD dashboard

It is,but it says on the base & the boot 🙃

[Lord Sterling]

4 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

sold!

Shit! Would you consider selling on? Even for a small profit to me? My Dad used to have a Mercedes transporter like that.

[eddyramrod]

23 hours ago, 155V6 said:

Just picked this lot up from a local-ish Facebook seller.I'll have a look through them tomorrow

Matchbox KS Jag!  There wouldn't be a pair, would there?  I'd take just one but if I can get two....

[Lord Sterling]

1 hour ago, 155V6 said:

Just picked this lot up from a local-ish Facebook seller.I'll have a look through them tomorrow

Red Jag please if it isn't already gone.

[flat4alfa]

15 minutes ago, 155V6 said:

It is,but it says on the base & the boot 🙃

Cut and shut.

[155V6]

21 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

Matchbox KS Jag!  There wouldn't be a pair, would there?  I'd take just one but if I can get two....

Only one I'm afraid,I'll message you tomorrow.

[155V6]

22 minutes ago, Lord Sterling said:

Red Jag please if it isn't already gone.

Sorry,Eddy just beat you to it.

[Lord Sterling]

😡 doesn't surprise me. Always the same with Jags on here.

[eddyramrod]

Sorry Mo!

[flat4alfa]

11 minutes ago, Lord Sterling said:

Shit! Would you consider selling on? Even for a small profit to me? My Dad used to have a Mercedes transporter like that.

Let me fondle it for a bit and then let you have it after?

I have a thing for those sixties MB commercials, although not quite the story you have!

[flat4alfa]

7 minutes ago, Lord Sterling said:

😡 doesn't surprise me. Always the same with Jags on here.

Oh no...   you got the 1:25 Bburago!   You did beat me to that one  😉

[bunglebus]

New arrivals in the form of some cheap job lots. Among less-interesting stuff, a couple more Probes. Adams, not Ford

GT70 isn't one I've had my mitts on before

Mercedes C111 has had a previous makeover

I've got all these public service Hot Wheels already, but couldn't resist for a quid. A Color Shifter taxi/police cruiser and two different Crack-Ups police cars - maybe it's time I re-painted one. These older colour changing cars often seem to show both paint schemes as they age

also included were these two Kidcos 

[flat4alfa]

Gold Probe looks lush

[andrew e]

Any plans for the GT70?

[flat4alfa]

2 hours ago, 155V6 said:

It's an Acclaim 🤔

We checked with Angus McClaim and both of his are RHD

So a home could well be found for a LHD one in red!  Bit of a dremmeling, and hey presto, badge-engineering to the rescue.  Once the box was ticked, the twitching would cease.

[Spottedlaurel]

Something I learned today....

I've had this nice example of the Dodge Charger III for a good few years now. A fairly typical flight of fancy of the era.

Today I discovered there was an AMT kit of this Funny Car version. Just found some interesting info and old articles about it here: http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,8604.0.html

[bunglebus]

48 minutes ago, andrew e said:

Any plans for the GT70?

Just going in the collection/in the display cabinet. Not one that seems to crop up too often for some reason

[Mr Laurence]

5 hours ago, bunglebus said:

There are no delays at the Army and Navy at all at the moment due to LoCkDoWn

Here's a suggestion for half a bus

This one actually got restored after spending many years atop a cruiser. They even managed to work out the chassis number after spending days looking through logbook records in Sweden or somewhere. Boat is also undergoing a resto back to original spec

Is there anywhere I can find out more about this? I’ve never seen that photo before and it sounds like a really interesting story

[flat4alfa]

The first pic is of a houseboat in Sausalito, California.  Apparently long-gone.  Taken on film, it must date to seventies/early eighties.

The second is a digital pic from Sep 2008.  The cut body top half was fitted to a houseboat in Gävle, Sweden.  If you look at the top and halfway along, there is a hold rail.  Shortly after, it was recovered and shipped to the UK to a collector, who then sold it on to a collector in Austria in Feb 2009.  It was a RHD body, as they were in Sweden back in 1953-55 when the rooflight 23-window body was current.

That's as far as I got to

[bunglebus]

I've got the magazine feature somewhere, quite a fascinating read.

Yep that is the same bus - but as it turns out not the one in the woods, as stated above that went to Austria 

[flat4alfa]

Crikey so there were two in the same colour

https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=712490

One with a roof flag holder and hand rails in woodland, another without either in a field.

[flat4alfa]

You know what this means?

@Datsuncog's beach find has to be saved

[MiniMort]

12 hours ago, eddyramrod said:

Matchbox KS Jag!  There wouldn't be a pair, would there?  I'd take just one but if I can get two....

I once spent a whole 80p on the other KS Jag in gold and brown from my local tip shop. But it was only when I got back home that I noticed the interior of it was filled with dirt. Never been sure how the hell to get it out of there

[bunglebus]

50 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Crikey so there were two in the same colour 

Sealing wax red/chestnut brown. Was a popular combo on the 23 window deluxe 

[bunglebus]

7 minutes ago, MiniMort said:

I once spent a whole 80p on the other KS Jag in gold and brown from my local tip shop. But it was only when I got back home that I noticed the interior of it was filled with dirt. Never been sure how the hell to get it out of there

Stick it in the sink with some hot soapy water for a while, then try and wash it out under the tap. I can usually get good results 

[MiniMort]

48 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Stick it in the sink with some hot soapy water for a while, then try and wash it out under the tap. I can usually get good results 

Thanks. I'll try that today. Results shall follow

[flat4alfa]

2 hours ago, MiniMort said:

I noticed the interior of it was filled with dirt. Never been sure how the hell to get it out of there

Cotton buds