Shite in Miniature II

[Amishtat]

On 3/18/2021 at 5:11 PM, flat4alfa said:

I just wanted to announce that I have just sold 12 DAYS GONE on eBay

The tide has turned!

That is all.

Newsflash over.

Knew I had some somewhere. Time to cash in the investment*? 

[bunglebus]

[sierraman]

7 hours ago, Amishtat said:

Knew I had some somewhere. Time to cash in the investment*? 

Mate you will be a millionaire off the back of those. About as good an investment as sticking your pension into Polly Peck.

[sierraman]

It always reminds me of seeing an old miner at a car boot I went to, he’d be there every week, trying in vain to get £2 back for the ‘collectors items’ he’d invested his pit pension into. It was a bit like some pyramid scheme the ‘Days Gone by’ Range, everyone was jumping on the antiques bandwagon and here was some ready made antiques, collectbthe lot and wait for your investment to mature in a few years time at Sotheby’s. 

[Bren]

Quite a few times at toy fairs I heard old cockers mention to stallholders they had days gone and how much would they be worth and would they be interested?

Quite a few times the stallholders said  "fuck all."

[Amishtat]

5 hours ago, sierraman said:

It always reminds me of seeing an old miner at a car boot I went to, he’d be there every week, trying in vain to get £2 back for the ‘collectors items’ he’d invested his pit pension into. It was a bit like some pyramid scheme the ‘Days Gone by’ Range, everyone was jumping on the antiques bandwagon and here was some ready made antiques, collectbthe lot and wait for your investment to mature in a few years time at Sotheby’s. 

There was a chap at the Colchester boot sale last year who had a lovely wall-mount cabinet (home-made, but nicely done) full of Days Gone week in, week out. I tried a few times to buy the cabinet on its own, but he just couldn't grasp that I didn't want the contents. In turn I couldn't get my head around why he wouldn't take a few quid rather than lugging it around until the end of time. 

[Amishtat]

Anyway it's my last day without responsible adult supervision, so I've been dragging more tat out of the garage and transferring it up to the loft whilst there's only me and a disinterested Dalmatian in the house. 

 

[Datsuncog]

^^^ Ohhhh, that MB Dinky Caddy in metallic red is a winner... one that's been on my watchlist for a while now.

Funny, I actually think there may be a minor resurgence due for Days Gone/MoY/Corgi Cameos stuff - I'm guessing the original Lledo DGs made in the 1980s were marketed to retirees nostalgic for the vehicles they remembered from their youth, in the 1920s and 30s. Although that generation has now pretty much passed on, I'm wondering if there may be a market from people now in their 30s who remember the 'old cars' in their grandparents' sideboard which they weren't allowed to touch... or is that just wishful thinking??

Agree that it was a bit of a scam to market them as 'collectors items', while alluding to the huge prices being fetched at auction at that time by certain rare pre-war Dinky toys - though I guess that was down to the advertising agency and marketing team at Lledo and Corgi seeking to maximise sales. With diecast toy vehicle sales in freefall during the late 70s/early 80s,  I suppose appealing to the adult collector/promotional market was one of the few sectors where any growth was possible.

I can recall seeing ads for a Corgi Cameos Chipperfields Circus set in Sunday supplements at the time which very heavily referenced the original 1960s Corgi Chipperfields line, and how they had proved 'excellent investments' - very sneaky. The '60s range were beautifully made and detailed models with unique castings and working features, while the '90s Cameos were just the usual grab-bag of mixed-scale castings with no glazing and generic wheels...

Four pick-up lorries, two buses, two closed vans, two wagons. Ten models, four castings. And at least one of the pick-ups looks to have fallen apart in the box.

Call me cynical, but... thirty years on, I ain't seeing Vectis Auctions headlines here.

[Amishtat]

That looks bloody awful.. To be fair the sixties Chipperfields stuff leaves me cold in a way I can't really explain , but at least they were nicely done as you say. 

Having spent a fair bit of the morning tidying up and packing away the kitchen table full of eighties Corgi I posted the other day, of course it's only now I find the others, including the Tat Wednesday Lotus,which conforms with the theories expounded last night. 

[UltraWomble]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/stcatherineshospice/m.html?item=363333907315&hash=item5498637373%3Ag%3ABpYAAOSw3UpgXIBP&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562

And others avail - our local hospice shop

 

[bunglebus]

Still can't find a pic of a red Lotus without Corgi under it. I don't know the release order but I guess that's the first one.

@flat4alfaput me onto a Matchbox K-6/11 with the engine, I then promptly forgot to bid on it. I got this one instead but the scoop is missing

I think it has the same one as the Cambuster, as it so happens there was one in the project box with missing stickers/exhausts but a complete engine - but I couldn't bring myself to take the scoop off, so instead I combined it with the Bazooka I got recently to make a Camzooka

And found a scoop in the spares box. It's not correct but is very similar to the Gus's Gulper style, so good enough

 

[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, Datsuncog said:

that MB Dinky Caddy in metallic red is a winner

I remember getting that one as a kid. Not sure if it's still in my collection but I think it is, not boxed/mint anymore though. Some of that range are really nice, '57 Chevy, '51 Beetle and Tucker Torpedo spring to mind

[Datsuncog]

43 minutes ago, UltraWomble said:

And others avail - our local hospice shop

Is that... a DY-2 Matchbox Dinky EmGeeBeeGeeTee from the late 1980s, retrofitted with original Dinky hubs?

Blimey.

Pontiac Parisienne looks nice, but like most of them seems to have seen a tickle with the old pot of Humbrol at some stage.

Not the worst I've seen, by a long shot - but do the prices seem based on original or restored condition...?

[Amishtat]

33 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

I remember getting that one as a kid. Not sure if it's still in my collection but I think it is, not boxed/mint anymore though. Some of that range are really nice, '57 Chevy, '51 Beetle and Tucker Torpedo spring to mind

Given that I've had that since I was ten, it's done well really.. There's a green Mustang and the blue MGB here too somewhere but I don't think they're boxed. Always fancied the Tucker and the Bentley Continental but not enough to actually bother finding one. 

[Amishtat]

46 minutes ago, UltraWomble said:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/stcatherineshospice/m.html?item=363333907315&hash=item5498637373%3Ag%3ABpYAAOSw3UpgXIBP&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562

And others avail - our local hospice shop

 

Forgive me if I'm being dumb, but are you offering these up? If so, can I bagsy the RCMP Parisienne please? 

[flat4alfa]

33 minutes ago, Amishtat said:

Forgive me if I'm being dumb, but are you offering these up? If so, can I bagsy the RCMP Parisienne please? 

No you'll have to outbid me on it because I was confused excited first   ☺️

[Amishtat]

Yes I see now, I didn't read the original post correctly. That and a bottle of red with/for lunch. Crack on good sir, I don't have an ebay account anyway. 

[flat4alfa]

2 minutes ago, Amishtat said:

I don't have an ebay account

Sometimes I wish I didn't...

[Amishtat]

2 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Sometimes I wish I didn't...

I just don't dare.. Hence my liking for boot sales,it's good old fashioned analogue tat-rummaging. Not at all coincidentally, there's one upcoming in Dumfries at the start of May. Weather permitting, I'll be there. (Very probably in some sort of shameful diecast frenzy..) 

[Amishtat]

Sod's law dictates that either:

A: It'll piss down. 

Or

B:It'll be wall to wall no-name Chinese wank.. 

Place your bets now! 

[flat4alfa]

DAYS GONE DUMFRIES TICKETS OUT NOW !

[UltraWomble]

1 hour ago, Amishtat said:

Forgive me if I'm being dumb, but are you offering these up? If so, can I bagsy the RCMP Parisienne please? 

Ah, no - sorry. Im on the mailing list for the local hospice shop, which I have been since my wife mistakenly gave away a painting of mine to them (because she didnt like it) that was worth £3 or £400  - I never did recover it but am hopeful it might resurface one day.

Anyway these are at the local shop - they eBay off things they think might make them a few bob.

46 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

No you'll have to outbid me on it because I was confused excited first   ☺️

Fight

Fight

Fight

 

 

[Amishtat]

You painted that? Nice work! 

And my apologies, I didn't read your first post properly.. 

[UltraWomble]

4 minutes ago, Amishtat said:

You painted that? Nice work! 

 

Not I - its a Rip Smith I got from Dismaland signed and numberd one of 4 and the only one done in green.

[flat4alfa]

19 minutes ago, UltraWomble said:

Fight

Fight

Fight

[RoadworkUK]

4 hours ago, Amishtat said:

 

I think I just ruptured my want gland

[Amishtat]

1 hour ago, RoadworkUK said:

I think I just ruptured my want gland

I thought you had one? I know someone on here posted pictures of one identical, thought it was you 

[RoadworkUK]

Not I; our friend Split_Pin, perchance.

[Amishtat]

It is rather nice.. Another I've had since I was about seven or eight, it's survived well barring a little age-related trauma to the box. This and the Sapphire Cosworth (Shabak? cba to go up to the loft and check) were on a shelf over my bed for years, now at 41 I think my favourite aspect of it is that they bothered making it RHD and badged as a Granada. I'm not particularly a Ford man but there's something I really like about both the model and the real thing. 

 

[RoadworkUK]

You know what, I just couldn't help myself. 

I'm not a man of untold wealth, but A) it's payday, B) I'm 40 in just under a month's time and it's time to live a little, and C), I've wanted one for ages and ages. 

So:

A purchase has been made

 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FORD-SCORPIO-1-25-scale-90s-diecast-model-car-die-cast-toy-miniature-bronze-b/203286416117?epid=2255308114&hash=item2f54d08af5:g:MgMAAOSwU39gM-6O

Yeah, it's the left-hook Scorpio variety, but it's the splendid beige over brown and consequently a dead match for the one in the "Ford 100% New Vehicle Preparation" video that I used to salivate over as a ten-year old.

Cheers Amishtat for being the catalyst to help get it out of my system!