Shite in Miniature II

[sierraman]

A guys approached me on eBay already asking a BINon the Camaro and the Mustang, I've only had them on an hour! I've said I'll have a think...

[Split_Pin]

Ive got that Smiths Commando too. My big cousin Kenny LOVED Sq. Crisps as a boy so my Auntie got enough tokens to get me the lorry in double time, I was well chuffed.

[junkyarddog]

These are the only redlines I ever found,

all quite battered and playworn.

[andy18s]

Popped upon the blue

 

http://retrorides.proboards.com/thread/186875/morris-minor-model-vans-car

 

I am having a bit of a model car clear out so Going to start with these 8 Morris Minor Vans and 1 saloon all are in different livery's £25 the lot of 9 vans plus P&p Or Collection From E sussex

 

 

[sierraman]

These are the only redlines I ever found,

all quite battered and playworn.

Even the battered ones seem to be worth a couple of quid!

[Junkman]

Got this today.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[junkyarddog]

Made this one for my nephew,

a Hot wheels '69 Charger,General Lee.

 

 

OK,so the wheels are a bit crap,but he likes it

[Split_Pin]

Just secured a 1/18 swap tonight which I am quite excited about. My Autoart E46 BMW Btcc car for his Revell VW Corrado. Always wanted a Schabak 1/43 one since they came out at the start of the 90s so this is even better! Best thing is the chap is inly 10 mins up the road so he is coming round tomorrow night. Pics to follow.

[Bren]

Got this today -

 

 

Dinky pontiac parisienne. £13 including p&p from shitebay, could'nt get one from a toyfair for that.

 

Was going to give it a paintjob butI don't think it warrants it. True to its canadian roots it has malcolm the mountie at the wheel.

[Junkman]

Mine is rozzerfree.

 

[Split_Pin]

The retractable antennae are superb!

[eddyramrod]

Mine is rozzerfree.

 

Nah, that just means Dirty Harry is chasing the perp down an alley nearby!

[mercrocker]

Yeah, needs one of them red dome lights on the dash!

[Lukas]

I did not mention that before, but I may also have one or two model cars in my collection. 

 

 

 

 

That´s a part of my model-car-collection. Bad mobile-phone-pics, sorry for that. 

 

Lukas

[mercrocker]

No apology needed, Lukas, there's some nice stuff there.   I fancied gathering some of those Tomicas, especially the JDM stuff but have outgrown my allotted collection space already....

[Split_Pin]

Love the Tomica Models, always fancied collecting them.

[andy18s]

Latest addition to the growing collection include this minter

Plan was to pull it apart and build up as a 400 rep but it's immaculate. ..........

Time will tell,already have a bit of a scrap yard feel to the house

 

Does anyone have any scrap Auto Art hubs or axles kicking about?

I bought the P38 to build a rep of mine but the po cut all the hubs off,and fitted some shite chrome wheels with thin tube for axles..

 

Don't know why the phone has posted them pics sideways....never used to..

 

 

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[RoadworkUK]

I bought one of those Sunstar Asconas, an Irmscher I2000. It's triffic.

 

If I was really brave I'd slice it and dice it to make a MK1 Cavalier 2 door using the front end of this:

 

 

Less the quad headlamp conversion and ATS Cups.

[andy18s]

I bought one of those Sunstar Asconas, an Irmscher I2000. It's triffic.

 

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If I was really brave I'd slice it and dice it to make a MK1 Cavalier 2 door using the front end of this:

 

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Less the quad headlamp conversion and ATS Cups.

Hmmmm. I've got the flat 1pc headlights to do that from the silver Manta 400........lol

 

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[RoadworkUK]

Make one somewhat bodged hybrid out of three perfectly OK models!

 

*rushes off to get hacksaw and filler*

[Split_Pin]

Those Mantas are lovely. I stupidly let one fo for 15 quid, boxed a few years ago as I didn't know the value of them. Regret.

[Split_Pin]

Got this honey in a swap tonight, 1/18 Revell Corrado VR6. Thought it was unusually nice for a Revell but it was made in 2006 so its not as old as I thought. I love it!

[RoadworkUK]

That's lovely. Revell did some ridiculously good stuff in the last decade, much of which was re-branded as Universal Hobbies.

 

I have their Renault 5 Turbo II

 

 

And their Clio V6 to go with it.

 

[Noel Tidybeard]

thats a turbo1 the turbo2 is white pearl

i have the blue s1 and the white s2

never got round to getting the clitto.....(yet)

[Junkman]

I have these Revell 1/18s:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[RoadworkUK]

thats a turbo1 the turbo2 is white pearl

 

I concur. But I'm told Renault did make red ones.

[Split_Pin]

Seems that they made nice models diring the 00s. I had a few from the early 1990s such as a Honda NSX and Porsche 911 and they were good then compared to the other 'big two'. The latest example I had was a Manta which, not knowing its value, sold it for £15 about 3 years ago. It was quite a nice model but not quite high end. The Corrado is better but poor fitting doors let it down. However the paint finish and in particular the front lights and grille are excellently captured. I will look out for more stuff from them in future.

[Junkman]

There likely is no future. Apparently they abandoned the 1/18 diecast sector. it looks like their link to production in China broke up somehow.

The last 1/18 they launched was the Opel Commodore and that was made from composites instead of diecast metal, so it could be produced in Poland.

They did not explore this further since.

Some of their tooling has been used by other companies, e.g. Jadi, but for quite a while now these are dormant as well.

No 1/18 scale models were on their stand at the Nürnberg fair this year.

 

They made some interesting Anglo chod in the past, a Frogeye Healey, a Stag and a TR6 I think.

[Split_Pin]

I've got a Jadi Lotus Elise which I believe is simply a Revell but when I Googled it, Paragon models came up. Wonder if they will produce some Ex-Revell in future? As you have shown, they had some cracking releases over the years and the quality was good for the money. We need another decent midrange product as well as Solido. The Sunstar stuff I have is highly variable. The Mk3 Escort has a terrible cast and the MK2 was so crap I flogged it. They go for strong money too because Ford.

[Junkman]

With Sunstar, it's either feast or famine. Their Platinum Series yanks are simply superb. So is some of their stuff in 'lesser' series.

Then all of a sudden they turn out complete rubbish. There is no middle ground.

 

Norev provides excellent value for money, but sadly they have concentrated on big industry jobs for quite a while now.

Just serving a small number of big customers in lieu of a wide small customers base can badly backfire. This is essentially what

killed the US plastic kit industry in the 70s, which has not really recovered to this day.

 

With the OTTO folks now having been appointed by Dickie to manage the Solido brand, we could have golden times ahead.

 

In any case, I don't think there is a chance of not spending some loot I ran into on some 1/18 diecasts for as long as I live.

My bucket list outstrips my financial capabilities by not a narrow margin.

 

Plastic kits is a completely different story. Apart from the usual array of supercars nobody* cares* about, there have been remarkably

few true new releases for the past 40 years. Most 'new' kits you see are reissues of very old kits, many of them having been reissued

in one form or another several times.