Shite in Miniature II

[bunglebus]

Well I wouldn't mind the green Corgi Jag - I'd put the Dinky on separately and do little job lots of Matchbox/Hot Wheels/Chinese tat etc.

Good Luck with the Days Gone/Yesteryear type stuff, they're everywhere and not very sellable

[bezzabsa]

3 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Well I wouldn't mind the green Corgi Jag - I'd put the Dinky on separately and do little job lots of Matchbox/Hot Wheels/Chinese tat etc.

Good Luck with the Days Gone/Yesteryear type stuff, they're everywhere and not very sellable

Yh I'd noticed that about them...

as I said I had it for the Daf 6 wheeler, as its been painted in colours similar to my old truck...

I'd really like the unit to the trailer, and wouldn't mind taking the paint off the Green Lesney box truck with sliding doors, as its other wise in decent nik..also the 2cv, feels plastic but is almost 100%..

how much you feel like paying for those 3 then?? Combined post will be about £3.50 i think

[eddyramrod]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/c/648573586

This is the unit you need for your horse trailer.

[bunglebus]

20 minutes ago, bezzabsa said:

I'd really like the unit to the trailer

Lesney/Matchbox? Feel like I should recognise it but I don't

*edit* answered!

[bezzabsa]

43 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/c/648573586

This is the unit you need for your horse trailer.

Cheers , as I said new to all this...never really had them as a kid - spent all of my time outside getting muddy and bloody LOL

[bezzabsa]

just slung a bid on a cab..didn't really need another trailer...

also spotted some of what I have on Ebay for some nice prices...think I did well with my Job lot!!

[pilninggas]

Built this Tamiya CB750 up this afternoon.

Need to buy another Tamiya bike kit, as they are relatively straightforward and nicely detailed. Bought this off ebay a while back for less than a tenner.

Need to have a rummage and see if i have any aircraft kits that ive squirrel for a rainy day...

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Prices tweaked for these and couple of additional models added. They're going on ebay next time it's free listing, so let me know if any are of interest in the meantime. 

MB Lotus Europa £1.50

All vans £3 each  (Golden Eagle van sold to flat4alfa)

MB Ford Sierra XR4i £4

MB Superkings Ford Sierra XR4i £7.50 (sold to Norfolkingweigh)

MB Superkings K6/11 £4 (sold to flat4alfalfa)

 

[flat4alfa]

This weeked

47 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said:

They're going on ebay next time it's free listing, so let me know if any are of interest in the meantime. 

All vans £3 each 

MB Superkings K6/11 £4

It's free to list weekend, this weekend of weekends....

Gah!  So I'd better be quick and stop being indecisive and say YAY to Team Honda and Golden Eagle this time make it final!

[flat4alfa]

2 hours ago, bezzabsa said:

also spotted some of what I have on Ebay for some nice prices

Sure you know this, but look at sold values, not the speculators playing the relist after relist game, with stock that never sells

There is one fella on there that as far as I can tell has sold very little in the past 18 months.  It's got to the point where I have put in max price when searching - just to stop the groundhog

[flat4alfa]

8 hours ago, eddyramrod said:

Sean Connery and Jill St John in Las Vegas.  It's not the old Corgi casting, which came as a bit of a surprise; I have a couple to compare.  One is the Century of Cars issue which has joined my "car show."

Complete different castings aren't they?  I think Corgi was smaller than 1:36, but the DeAgostini(etc) set are smaller still at 1:48? 

I would like to see a side-by-side photo shoot if possible?  No need for alley way stunts on two wheel though!  Or the different pair of wheels that it left the same alley with!  Even as a child I couldn't believe they expected to get away with it

[00833827]

Mk3 golf 

[bunglebus]

Majorette MK2 Golf seems to be quite a difficult one to track down for some reason

[flat4alfa]

Can see why!  It looks more like an ibiza MkII that's been up the back of an HGV

[flat4alfa]

11 hours ago, bunglebus said:

I've got a couple of these Marx Mercury Cougars...

but this one was paired with a plastic version I've not seen before

base says F&F Mold & Die Works Inc Deyton Ohio Made in USA

Do like both of those

Surely it's Dayton?  It's a cereal box toy apparently

[eddyramrod]

On 2/20/2021 at 8:41 PM, flat4alfa said:

Complete different castings aren't they?  I think Corgi was smaller than 1:36, but the DeAgostini(etc) set are smaller still at 1:48? 

I would like to see a side-by-side photo shoot if possible?  No need for alley way stunts on two wheel though!  Or the different pair of wheels that it left the same alley with!  Even as a child I couldn't believe they expected to get away with it

I'll dig out all of them tomorrow and get a pic for comparison.  Don't know why I didn't think of it before!

[bezzabsa]

2 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

Sure you know this, but look at sold values, not the speculators playing the relist after relist game, with stock that never sells

There is one fella on there that as far as I can tell has sold very little in the past 18 months.  It's got to the point where I have put in max price when searching - just to stop the groundhog

yh clicked on completed and sold.....some right chancers out there....LOL

[bunglebus]

54 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Do like both of those

Surely it's Dayton?  It's a cereal box toy apparently

Seems to be, although I found a pic of a box of them.

I have a small problem. The Dinky Transit door is wrong. Looks like this is for the sliding door version, which I think we worked out has at least three different side doors fitted for different specs. You can see inside isn't the same as my early MK1.

Even the exterior handle is different to my sliding door van. This is it with the broken one off my MK2

Sliding door MK1

Late MK1

MK2

Pity, as the pic he showed was of a late MK1 with the right door. He's sending me another FOC which hopefully will be right.

[Datsuncog]

Damn, those Dinky Transits are a right old carry-on... second time lucky?

[flat4alfa]

My Mk1 Slider with spun wheels has a properly-fitting original door ...stamped TRANSIT B !

It is identical to the one you he sent you with same round recess...  except it does have the handle to the edge.  The handle missing its 'tip' and less proud overall, I think is a casting flaw from worn tooling, in your donor one

[flat4alfa]

Looked at my Transit MKII

Confirmed the door you do need isn't marked A or B.  My MKII wears same door as your broken one.

[flat4alfa]

On 10/9/2020 at 5:47 PM, flat4alfa said:

That reminds me...

Is the blind Transit ready for a new owner yet?

[AndyW201]

Had a little shift around again today, so the contents of 1/43 display unit had to come out for a clean. Any excuse for a fondle! (And making the most of half term as the kitchen table will be given over to home schooling again next week...)

Apologies, most of these will have been seen before,

Got one out of the loft that has been waiting to be added for a while. Like our own Eddy, I've got a (comparatively small and unimpressive) TV selection, with the Professionals Capris in silver and gold represnting both Bodie and Doyle's cars and a few Fords from the Sweeney.

 A while ago, I upgraded the Daytona yellow Consul that I got from our own Skizzer, with a set of GT type steel wheels from a donor I had. Not a popular move on here, and I too love the look of the standard Consul base on its plain wheels and hubcaps, but there was a reason. I wanted to create a replica of the Consul as driven by the character Ted Hammond in The Brothers. "Who?" you say. "In what?" you say.  Probably with good reason...

A massive favourite 'guilty pleasure' series of mine,  The Brothers was a BBC drama series, running from 1972-76, set loosely around a haulage firm. Largely forgotten about now, (mostly remembered by Dr Who fans for being the programme that shot Colin Baker to stardom) but in its day, it was one of the Beeb's most watched programmes.

The premise was : Robert Hammond, chairman and founder of Hammond Transport has died. The series starts at his funeral and will reading. Eldest son Edward (who left school and helped his father build up the business from nothing) expects to inherit the company lock, stock and barrel. The two younger sons (who enjoyed a more privileged upbringing after the company became successful, and have no interest whatsoever in the haulage business),  Brian (well paid accountant) and David (spoilt college graduate and wannabe playboy living on the parents' fortune) are expecting a nice fat lump sum. 

So it's big shocks all round when the company is split between the brothers and a fourth share for Jennifer, the company secretary and the old man's PA...  who as it turns out, had been putting the 'personal' into personal assistant and was having it away with the old man for twenty years and bore his daughter... So the series went on. Gradually, the new directors of the company had to learn to work together, survive things like a disastrous share issue leading to one of the bank mangers becoming another board member (cue Colin Baker in a fantastic turn as ruthless financial whizz kid and proto-yuppie Paul Merroney), taking over a struggling air freight company, and, in a bit of weirdness, Edward falling for Jennifer (his father's former mistress) and marrying her, thus his half sister becoming his step daughter...

I got into the series through reading about it on the TV Cream website thinking a 1970s drama about trucking would be right up my straße, but in truth, it is more about  family melodrama than the trucks but there are regular tantalising glimpses of Seddon 16:4s, Bedford TKs, Ford D series, etc and a couple of Ford press fleet Transco's in the later series. The writers had done their homework pretty well, lots of references to things like Chinese sixes, D800s, drivers hours, etc and marking things happening in the haulage industry;  things like the then-new tachographs coming in, the threat of nationalisation, moving into European and Middle Eastern operations. Indoor shots were done in a studio in Birmingham but there was plenty of outdoor filming in a real haulage depot in Greenwich, London.

Car wise, lots of period early 70s shite on display. Ted always saw himself as 'one of the lads' despite being a company director and the founders son. In the first couple of seasons, he had a Mk2 Cortina 1600E (switching from a G plater in series 1 to a J plater in series 2). In series 3, Ford's press fleet seems to have got a foot in the door, as Ted now has a shiny new Consul in Daytona yellow. Despite being a lowly model it has a plush sliding sunroof and a set of fetching GT style sport steel wheels. This and the WOO reg number point to it being a Ford press fleet car (especially as the BBC police series Softly Softly Task Force had a GT-wheel equipped Consul registered WOO 929L)

Hence the GT wheels on my Vanguards version, looks close enough.

As the series went on, Ted was forced to allow the company to be floated on the stock market. As mentioned, this didn't go down too well, and the issuing bank was left with a large share of the company. Ted's attitude afterwards was that if he was going to be the chairman of a public company, he was going to act the part. So for series 4, he started spending money on expensive suits and the Consul was given the elbow in favour of a Granada GXL, complete with a carphone!

Again, I have a very similar looking Vanguards version. Wrong grille, being a Consul, wrong interior colour and this has spotlights, but the Copper bronze paint, black vinyl roof and those wheels again, make it near enough.

I need to find a few more cheap Vanguards Granadas though, as the Copper GXL was followed by a denim blue GXL and, in the last series, a Miami blue Ghia with the Ronal alloys.

The other cars featured included Brian's doom blue Arrow Minx,

which lasted most of the show's run, being replaced by a gold Cortina 2000E in the last series. TW number plate so possibly Ford's press fleet at work again?

David, being an aspiring racing driver, had a fruity sounding MGB in BRG with painted wires and racing mirrors. He sold that after an off screen crash, and after a Scimitar GTE, ended up with one of the pre-production LOE registered Rover SD1s.

Jennifer had an extremely well kept MK1 Morris Mini for most of the series.

In the last series this was replaced by a nice new Maxi 1750HL

Plenty of diecasts available to replicate most of these I reckon...

[flat4alfa]

On 10/13/2020 at 1:51 AM, Datsuncog said:

Disassemblo Transito.

Red Mk1 second series has a door marked 'A' ...

[bunglebus]

26 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

The handle missing its 'tip' and less proud overall, I think is a casting flaw from worn tooling, in your donor one

I had a Google - the blue Kenwood van and the fire van seem to have the smaller recessed handle

 

[eddyramrod]

@AndyW201: excellent summary of The Brothers there!  I remember it well, because all through my early teens we tuned in religiously.  My grandad had been part of the founding of Longton Transport in the 30s in Stoke, and my mum always said the series was clearly based on the Longton story.  It was influential in me wanting to drive lorries for a  living, which I eventually did.

As it happens I have a Daytona Yellow Consul so I reckon that will now go in the film and TV cabinet as Ted's car.   Can't believe I didn't think of it before!

[NorfolkNWeigh]

5 hours ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Prices tweaked for these and couple of additional models added. They're going on ebay next time it's free listing, so let me know if any are of interest in the meantime. 

MB Lotus Europa £1.50

All vans £3 each  (Golden Eagle van sold to flat4alfa)

MB Ford Sierra XR4i £4

MB Superkings Ford Sierra XR4i £7.50

MB Superkings K6/11 £4 (sold to flat4alfalfa)

 

If I’m not too late, could I purchase that Superkings  XR4i, please?

[Dick Cheeseburger]

3 minutes ago, NorfolkNWeigh said:

If I’m not too late, could I purchase that Superkings  XR4i, please?

No worries, pm imcoming. 

[Datsuncog]

1 hour ago, flat4alfa said:

That reminds me...

Is the blind Transit ready for a new owner yet?

Nope! After thirty-odd years and multiple repaints, that one's the only one of my childhood Dinkys I've kept.. I'll be getting the necessary glazing and rear door replacement bits once things reopen, and I have paint selected for it too. There are plans!

[Spottedlaurel]

10 hours ago, AndyW201 said:

Had a little shift around again today, so the contents of 1/43 display unit had to come out for a clean. Any excuse for a fondle! (And making the most of half term as the kitchen table will be given over to home schooling again next week...)

Apologies, most of these will have been seen before................................

 

 A while ago, I upgraded the Daytona yellow Consul that I got from our own Skizzer, with a set of GT type steel wheels from a donor I had. Not a popular move on here, and I too love the look of the standard Consul base on its plain wheels and hubcaps, but there was a reason. I wanted to create a replica of the Consul as driven by the character Ted Hammond in The Brothers. "Who?" you say. "In what?" you say.  Probably with good reason...

Great to see them all. My own 1:43 collection is very small and completely random. If I started I'm not sure whether Id know where to stop.....

The Brothers is a completely new one to me, I would have been  just a touch too young for that - I enjoyed your summary of it. I have just found out about Public Eye and I'm watching old episodes of that, although the car content is limited in the ones I've seen so far.