Shite in Miniature II

[Split_Pin]

I've got that Heavy Breakdown truck. It was my cousins and I must have been given it nearly 40 years ago now. Never been a fan of the fantasy cab, I really wish they had chosen something relatable such as the Foden pictured or even something like a Scammell Contractor.

[Split_Pin]

Just to round off Estate weekend, I have a 1/87 Wiking Capri that's been rather well converted into an estate. By the time I get to it the weekend will be done so you'll just have to take my word for it for now!

[sheffcortinacentre]

12 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Yeah unless we get nice weather and I can take pics in the garden I have to use the lunar surface, or whatever T-shirt is handy at the time. 

Still, they seem to run well even with no atmosphere

Some get the car show treatment though

But most get a plain background, that coke bottle shape doesn't need any garnish

 

Lol at the general mayhem.

[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

Lol at the general mayhem.

That thing was a lot of work in 1:64 (ish)!

It's much easier to make a car look good than bad

The not quite to scale scoop still bugs me though

[Spottedlaurel]

6 hours ago, bunglebus said:

It's much easier to make a car look good than bad

I imagine that to be true, I haven't yet had the bravery to try. Les Dawson's piano playing comes to mind.

I have a number of kits that would look much better built as tatty, weathered clunkers. However, it took me so long to get half-decent paint finishes that I haven't got the heart to deliberately make them look rough.

Going back a page or two to your comment about giving the hearse a pro-street look, I have that in mind to do on something else at some point, as I have a couple of Monogram pro-stock cars in the parts box.

In the meantime, the hearse got finished:

 

Good to see it on the shelf in one piece after 25+ years, even if takes up a lot of space and necessitated quite a bit of reorganisation.

The little Honda also saw some paint. I used a can of Tamiya Coral Green that must be over 20 years old - it didn't spray brilliantly but I think I can do something with it, even if it needs some clearcoat.

 

And I did a bit more on the Impala. The engine swap was easy enough, but getting the front glass in place looks like it's going to cause some fitment issues as it clashes with the interior side panels and dashboard top.

[bunglebus]

That hearse is so good! The first pic especially looks totally convincing.

[Split_Pin]

Loving the hearse! 

[flat4alfa]

That massive lawn needs a bigger shed on it!  😄

[flat4alfa]

15 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

It seems that the Big Tipper main casting was utilised again for K-14 Heavy Breakdown Truck

I was wrong

So that makes it three different castings after all

[Datsuncog]

Just realising I never quite finished the last of the French Tat Box items... there was also this impressive lump in there.

De Agostini on the (upside down) box, and IXO on the base.

It's HUGE.

I hadn't twigged until last year that Corgi Classics made their cars and vans in 1/43 scale, but their buses and trucks in 1/50 scale (which is embarrassing, as I used to sell 'em).

So a proper 1/43 truck is quite a thing to behold.

Vanguards Rover SD1 for comparison, there.

The cab and chassis are diecast, while the loadbed and canopy are plastic - though pretty well done, it's true.

It's stated to be a Volvo F88 on the base, but the badge on the grille says it's a F89 Turbo, which was a more powerful development of the F88. Either way, with build dates between 1965 and 1977, either version would have been a pretty rare sight on the road by the time I was old enough to become mildly obsessed with Sam Peckinpah's film Convoy and start to tell the difference between trucks (and the F89 was never sold in the UK anyway, since the canted-over 12-litre engine occupied what would become the driver's footwell on a RHD conversion).

While this style of rigid two-axle truck towing a drawbar trailer was always more common in continental Europe, it's still a delightful model to have.

Detail is pretty impressive, I think.

Especially for only €13.90.

Also, a web images search will bring you up what appears to be the real-life Swedish example this model is based on, with a few minor cosmetic changes.

Ten-ten til we do it again, good buddies...

[barrett]

Thanks to @Datsuncog I now have one third more Ami 6 berlines than I did last week.

[bezzabsa]

That plod SD1 is gorgeous.. and looking at the Mondeo estate - trying to work out who ripped who off, as My carine E estate looks very similar!!

 

[flat4alfa]

On 10/24/2020 at 8:33 PM, flat4alfa said:

Post lady came ...and then there were three

 @C1am

Three times the trouble, not very serious

@andrew e

[flat4alfa]

On 6/21/2020 at 6:02 PM, flat4alfa said:

Sunday Lotus garden meets in the sunshine could be the new thing!

JPS 7P on the Team Car livery with the authentic* wheels;  MS 1969 on Wings Flying Club.  

 

So who can post a sunny garden shot of the others ? 

@andrew e

[Datsuncog]

17 hours ago, bunglebus said:

There's a red one that hasn't lost it's spoiler on eBay. Same base

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rare-Vintage-made-in-Hong-Kong-332-Porsche-911-Turbo-Martini-1-37/313277073688?hash=item48f0c4c918:g:WSAAAOSwv7peeH4o

Just like the Buddy L Chevy Nova that showed up a few weeks back, here's another example of some tat I completely forgot I ever had. Boom. Memories.

I owned one of these in red, and although I believe it arrived with me new in the early/mid '80s, I never really took to it. The pull-back motor was good and strong, but to me 1/43 was an odd scale - too big to get involved in play scenarios involving my Superfast-sized cars, yet ludicrously small alongside my Superkings and Corgi 1/36 items. Consequently, it just lived in my basket of toy cars, getting more bashed about but without ever being played with much.

My memories are of it missing the spoiler and one headlight lens, while annoying me because the front air intake and blanked-off rear windows looked 'wrong' to my understanding of what a Porsche 911 should be.

Like the Buddy L, no idea what became of it in the end. I think a door sheared off, leaving a sharp edge and it was possibly binned as dangerous.

I'm pretty sure it didn't have any maker's name on it, since I also owned a Zylmex Chevrolet Monza and that was kinda special to me because it was the only car I had by that maker.

Ahhh, jumpers for goalposts...

[bunglebus]

I am an idiot. Got so excited at the prospect of converting a Mini Ha Ha to have a normal roof and windows, I got busy with the JB Weld before stripping the paint, so of course when I did strip it, the filler fell out because it was stuck to paint not metal

Ah well take two...

[bunglebus]

However I was cheered up by the arrival of postie man groaning under the weight of several job lots of tat for me. Most exciting of which contained this

Which means I am two thirds complete in my Polistil Porsche quartet

 

I suspect the 1:64 will be the hardest to find, as I got sniped on an orange one recently

[bunglebus]

Other vehicles of interest include this Lledo Transit. Despite being a Tetley giveaway, this is actually quite a nicely done casting. I have three of these if there are any fans of Ford's minibus that want one, although the other two are much tattier

If this was a bit tattier it would go in the project box, but the detail is really good on this Franklin Mint Mercury

Arriving a day too late for the wagon weekend is this Corgi Mercedes ambulance

Base detail is rather pleasing with the propshaft clearly molded

There were some old Hot Wheels hiding among the job lots, including the Race Bait 308

Some really is rubbish, although this MC Toys 911 might just be salvageable

Several Porsches were damaged in what I suspect was a battery leak incident, annoyingly this unusual version of the Matchbox 911 was the other

A little brain teaser - what VAN is this from Corgi?

I really like the Vantastic, and although the Super GT wasn't its greatest incarnation, this was was too clean to turn down

Not had the Matchbox School bus in my mits before

I think @Datsuncogwas talking about these a while ago, they really do feel cheap and nasty compared to their older Superfast brothers

These are pretty common but I always wonder why they didn't make more of this casting, loads of these are still in use as campers so it seems like a missed opportunity

Talking of VW vans, this no make LT is so bad is actually rather endearing

There were loads more but mostly terribly Chinese crap with chrome plastic bases of generic "an car"

[bunglebus]

@stuboy

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dinky-Ford-Capri-Number-238-Door-Cards-/114701081527?_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49292

[jon.k]

I will stop clogging up the thread with my wares soon, I promise. Would anyone like this lot I’ve got left? £4 plus postage? 

[RoadworkUK]

3 hours ago, bunglebus said:

A little brain teaser - what VAN is this from Corgi?

Renner Trafic?

(if it is, take a look to see if it has the minibus interior. I have the van and minibus version and both have four rows of seats.)

[bunglebus]

I've already stuck it in the loft while I was unearthing the Polistil Porsches.

It wouldn't surprise me if it has a minibus interior, can't see Corgi bothering to make different ones if they can't be arsed to put anything more than VAN on the base.

[eddyramrod]

Marital disharmony reigns, as increasingly usual.  A parcel arrived from Mr Bunglebus of this parish, containing these:

Three in, the other end of the five-out parcel I sent him.   Naturally "she" went apeshit on my ass, threatening the very existence of the collection that has sustained me for over sixty years.  She totally failed to see that it represented a fleet reduction of two units.

However... the sharper-eyed among you will already have noticed the green one.

Yes, the green Corgi Mustang, a model I've never owned in the fifty-ish years since its release.  I'm showing it here with the Century of Cars version, since that was the closest to hand; they appear to be the same casting.

Much less information on the base of the younger issue, but it's still clearly the same thing.  So to Bunglebus: thank you good sir.

[Jon]

Re: @Datsuncog and his estate car dilemma, I think that the most favourable marque that modelled wagons over saloons was Siku. Indeed, on some occasions they'd do both!

A case in point was the W124 Mercedes, of which I had to find a photo of both castings together, to help remember that I had both in my childhood stash:

EDIT: the photos I found can't be uploaded, so here's a link:

https://www.swiftysgarage.org/siku-mercedes-e-class-w124-t62354.html

 

The theme continued with the W210:

 

 

And there seemed to be a trend from transgressing from the saloons to the estates, in later castings:

 

 

The 2 photos above from the collection of someone who clearly owns a silver paint pen, is from this attached article, which may be of interest:

https://twolanedesktop.blogspot.com/2018/01/siku-audi-and-volkswagen-sedans-and.html

 

My surmising is that Siku was casting these mini German cars as saloons, since that was what the manufacturers were churning out. Then the 1980's happened and all of a sudden, estate models appeared that previously never existed - such as the Audi 100 and W124 Benz. So Siku presumably liked the idea of casting something entirely new, to entice the kiddies.

 

On a more direct answer to your query, here's a couple of examples of castings I own, which were sold purely as wagons and not other variants:

 

And a bonus non-Siku:

 

 

[bunglebus]

Is that last a Tomica?

[bunglebus]

12 minutes ago, Jon said:

the photos I found can't be uploaded

 

[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, eddyramrod said:

the green Corgi Mustang, a model I've never owned in the fifty-ish years since its release.  I'm showing it here with the Century of Cars version, since that was the closest to hand; they appear to be the same casting

I always thought they were different, although that wouldn't make financial sense if the mould still existed. I'm sure I've seen a different version with a rear spoiler though

[bunglebus]

Here it is

Er...

[eddyramrod]

Is that first pic the little Johnny Lightning?

[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, eddyramrod said:

Is that first pic the little Johnny Lightning?

Comes up as a Corgi, there's a 65 Convertible with the same wheels - looks like it may be 1:64 though, wasn't clear from the image I found