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On 6/4/2021 at 9:07 PM, andrew e said:

So the best bit? £9.98 each for the Fords, everything Schabak goes 50% off in the basket, so  @bunglebus I owe you a pint, except I’m skint now 😂

https://www.fazsdiecast.co.uk/search?q=Schabak

Flipping love 'em. Sorely tempted to grab a Granny saloon and Transit, but I'm on a bit of a decluttering high right now, and, it seems, in the marital good books to an extent — and doing a 180 on that would probably get me exectued.

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On 6/4/2021 at 4:53 PM, bunglebus said:

I got the next Corgi. Very nice it is too

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Good interior detail 

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Skidplate is a lovely touch too

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I'm hoping one of the next ones will be something I own, so I can compare old and new

It's a cracking little model, that.

My second Corgi Club Mini touched down the other day; I feel a bit bad punting it on via eBay, but it appears that I have a habit to feed...

The next model in the range is apparently the Volvo P1800, as used in the original TV version of 'The Saint'. I just got an email this evening to tell me it's on the way.

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I did have a ropey original version of this one sourced at a jumble sale - and because I was ten at the time, I repainted it with Tipp-Ex and fitted Lego tyres to replace the missing originals.

It looked about as good as you might imagine from the description.

Looking forward to receiving this one - though there seems to be a bit of uproar on the Corgi Club Facebook page about the decision to make the bonnet decal look artificially aged...

 

On 6/4/2021 at 10:50 PM, Split_Pin said:

Poundland had acquired a large stash of those Mustangs a few years ago. I got one, they're really nice if not quite my thing.

I seem to recall there was a glut of those because Greenlight rejected a batch and Poundland bought them all up... I acquired a fair few, but punted them all on as they didn't really fit with the collection. Nice models, though.

 

12 hours ago, bunglebus said:

That oversprayed RO80 from the other week cleaned up nicely

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Fantastic work! The Husky Ro80 is a lovely looking little thing - well saved!

I'm assuming a full strip-down and repaint was required, and it didn't just happen to look like that under the primer after a quick rub with a hankie?

 

10 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Also finished up the pearl over blue Corgi Mini Bus, with the Gerry Anderson vibe as others have mentioned.

I always felt the seating arrangement was wrong, it looks more people carrier size to me, so this has a scratch built interior including inner arches, seats out of several Minis and dashboard out of the spares box - silver for that space age vibe. Pink inserts in the seats go well with the pink pearl which really pops in the sun. Doesn't photograph well though. Lots of lowering and wheels off a pull-back car

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Another cracker - that's a total transformation, and those wheels look stunning on it. Definitely rocking the retro futurist Captain Scarlet vibe now.

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16 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

Fantastic work! The Husky Ro80 is a lovely looking little thing - well saved!

I'm assuming a full strip-down and repaint was required, and it didn't just happen to look like that under the primer after a quick rub with a hankie?

 

Another cracker - that's a total transformation, and those wheels look stunning on it. Definitely rocking the retro futurist Captain Scarlet vibe now.

I did try cleaning the grey paint off the RO80 but the original blue was quite chipped underneath. It was a really easy resto though, just stripped and repainted it, no nasty casting lines to deal with. Hardest part was refitting the axles under the wire suspension without damaging anything.

I do like the Mini Bus now, it's a bit of a marmite casting but I thought I could improve it a bit

 

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Here a couple of MGBGTTEEGEEBEEGEEEMs:

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One is a Matchbox 1.43 and the other a Hongwell 1.43. I must say, apart from the grille and wheels, there is really a lot that seperates them. In fact, the Hongwell has cheaper wheels, a bit more plastic chrome, a cheap looking numberplate and er...thats it... its nicer than I thought it was going to be and thus stays outside on display with with GT.

A Smart 1.18 idea?

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Now this is a really nicely detailed Smart. The body panels are actually plastic and removable of you wanted to change the colour. Non of this stripping back paint and re-painting (yaaa boo 😛 😂

The interior isn't overly detailed but its nice all the same and definitely fits in with the rest of the car. Its a nice unusual 1.18 that I am happy to have added to the fleet.

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8 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Also finished up the pearl over blue Corgi Mini Bus, with the Gerry Anderson vibe as others have mentioned.

I always felt the seating arrangement was wrong, it looks more people carrier size to me, so this has a scratch built interior including inner arches, seats out of several Minis and dashboard out of the spares box - silver for that space age vibe. Pink inserts in the seats go well with the pink pearl which really pops in the sun. Doesn't photograph well though. Lots of lowering and wheels off a pull-back car

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That is FANTASTIC. Love the attention to detail. The finish looks spot-on too. You could sell them!

Have you got build photos? I'm intrigued how you put the interior together and what sort of paint you used for the pearl finish.

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50 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Have you got build photos? I'm intrigued how you put the interior together and what sort of paint you used for the pearl finish.

I didn't take many of the interior but I might pull it apart and take some. I'm no Sideways King 75 (check him out on YouTube), it's really just bits of flat plastic cut to shape with uprights to support the glass, some plastic wheels I cut up to make wheel arches, seats out of broken Minis and a spare dashboard. You can sort of see the early stages of it here

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The paint is just metallic blue with some pearl over the top, found that in QD for £2.50 a can, got pink, purple and white. I can see it getting used again!

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Boot sale was busy but didn't find huge amounts of stuff - partly as I seem to have acquired my own nemesis, twice he was looking in the boxes I wanted to check out, and had a bag full of goodies already.

Still, got one past him when he looked up to ask how much the cars were, and I swiped something out of "his" box while he wasn't looking. 

There were bargains to be had of course

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The seller with the 2CV door was where I first encountered my foe rooting through a box of cars. When he'd finished I had a look and most were pretty beaten up and broken. I pulled out a dozen or so in acceptable condition or worth restoring, and asked how much. "Paand each or six for a fiivaa". Yeah no. Put all but two back. He had the better stuff on the table, asked about a pretty decent Starsky and Hutch Torino - £10. No ta.

Full report of what I did find shortly

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The last few weeks seem to have been quite commercial-heavy, grabbed three different era Matchbox trailers

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A couple of DAFs

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And a pair of Scammels

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Another Scammel but a dumper

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And another dumper - these fantasy casting didn't used to appeal but they're growing on me. I really like the ratchet mechanism operated by pushing the fuel tank in, that raises the bed in stages on a cam

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Another fantasy casting but from Corgi, High Speed Van was too tidy to leave behind

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I'm pleased with this - there's a seller I've mentioned before with some nice stuff but overpriced, he had this trailer that goes behind the Mod Tractor for £4 last week. Different seller sold me this...

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...and a pretty decent Gus's Gulper for £4

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Cossie is a big battered but hopefully will make a good donor, or could be repaired with a tatty XR3i for the glass and dash

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This was something I've not seen before - Sunnyside. Looking on Google there should be a grille over the pull-back motor

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A couple of Lintoy dragsters

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Back shortly with the smaller stuff

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Pleased with this very tidy Datsun 128X for £1

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One of the two I bought out of the expensive tat box, Hot Wheels Army funny car

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Cosmobile was only 20p

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As was the police Astra GTE

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This is what I snatched while my fellow tat-gatherer wasn't looking

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Bora is nowhere near as tidy as last week's one

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Finally, the other car I couldn't leave from the expensive tat box. I had to clean out some disgusting white ooze from the bed, but I didn't have a Baja Bouncer in my stash

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On 6/6/2021 at 12:15 PM, bunglebus said:

This was something I've not seen before - Sunnyside. Looking on Google there should be a grille over the pull-back motor

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I've got one of those somewhere, although smaller Corgi Juniors I think.  There was also a Guisval 1/64 effort too.   Been wanting to find one out of the Superior Racers series for a while, not only because 1/36-ish, but they did four concepts rarely modelled, if at all.  But not found any, so have been able to keep off the slippery slope.

And why?  Because the four concepts were real things.  Here is the Ferrari PF Modulo in its proper colour scheme, with our dearest Gabriella sporting an suitably matching outfit

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The others to collect* are the 1978 Dōmu Zero ; Michelotti's 1971 Matra Laser ; Bertone's 1976 Alfa Romeo Navajo

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Gabriella warned that you can have too much PULL BACK ACTION

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10 hours ago, bunglebus said:

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A Scammel but a dumper

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And another dumper - these fantasy casting didn't used to appeal but they're growing on me. I really like the ratchet mechanism operated by pushing the fuel tank in, that raises the bed in stages on a cam

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Guess what you're in luck

I have the matching Fantasy Tank Tranporter cab here, along with BasicKings wheel version of the Scammell Contractor. And the Corgi J PV Modulo

To go into the box of hopeful bulk swap for the Dinky Jaguar XJC body shell thingy 😗

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14 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

Been wanting to find one out of the Superior Racers series for a while, not only because 1/38-ish, but they did four concepts rarely modelled, if at all.  But not found any, so have been able to keep off the slippery slope.

The others to collect* are the 1978 Dōmu Zero ; Michelotti's 1971 Matra Laser ; Bertone's 1976 Alfa Romeo Navajo

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Gabriella warned that you can have too much PULL BACK ACTION

Ah, interesting.

That might explain the provenance behind this odd littleTat Stall refugee from all the way back in March 2019.

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Long gone now, of course,  but I'll keep a look-out for any others that might pop up in future.

EDIT: Just noticed that the SS-908 'Trans-Am Pontiac' from the same range appeared to have been in the same tray too - just to the bottom left of the pic.

Here's the pair of them, a week or two earlier. Also looks to be a black Trans-Am in the mix too.

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Ah, the good ol' days...

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9 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

Fantasy Tank Tranporter

Ah that's what it belongs to - I was going to have a Google of the three trailers last night. 

I'm not hugely into lorries and the like, just can't leave old stuff behind when I spot it for £cheap

Anyone know what the regular wheels and Superkings ones were part of?

*edit* Superkings K-92A Helicopter Transporter

K-92A Helicopter Transporter - Harveys Matchbox

And the King Size is this

Ford Dyson Low Loader w/ Case Bulldozer k-17 Matchbox Lesney King Size made  in England 1960's Die Cast Toy Collection. | Toy car, Matchbox cars,  Cool toys

And I bought this last week!

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i made an enqiry with Corgi as to whether they were oing only 60's stuff for the club

i got a reply:

Hello Rob,

 

Thank you for your email and interest Corgi Collection.

 

We are aiming to introduce approximately 30 models for the series, but we are yet to finalise numbers as this is a brand new collection!

 

Please find below a list of the some of the models that will be part of this collection,

 

Mini Monte Carlo with roof rack

Volvo P1800 Saint Car Roger Moore
Porsche Carrera 6 – in rare dark blue livery

Lotus Climax F1 Car

Landrover Breakdown

Mustang Fastback Coupe – Competition in White / Red livery

Ghia Racer with separate De Tomaso Chassis

Bentley Continental
Ford Thunderbird open top with suspension 

Jaguar 4.3 litre E Type

Mercedes 300 SL

Mini Traveller Surfing Roofrack

James Bond Aston Martin DB5

Cadillac Superior Ambulance 

Batmobile

Oldsmobile Sheriff Car

Triumph Herald Hard Top in blue / white two tone livery

VW Beetle East African Safari

Ford Thunderbird – Bermuda Taxi

Citroen DS Rally Car

Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Customised Racer in Yellow

Public Address Vehicle

Man from UNCLE Thrust Buster Oldsmobile ’88

James Bond Toyota in white

Beetle German Police Car

Chevrolet Corvette Stingray

Marcos with opening doors

Buick Riveria

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Studebaker Golden Hawke in blue livery

 

I hope that this information is helpful.

 

With kind regards

 

Rachel – Blue14 Brand

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1 hour ago, Noel Tidybeard said:

i made an enqiry with Corgi as to whether they were oing only 60's stuff for the club

i got a reply:

Hello Rob,

Thank you for your email and interest Corgi Collection.

We are aiming to introduce approximately 30 models for the series, but we are yet to finalise numbers as this is a brand new collection!

Please find below a list of the some of the models that will be part of this collection,

Mini Monte Carlo with roof rack

Volvo P1800 Saint Car Roger Moore
Porsche Carrera 6 – in rare dark blue livery

Lotus Climax F1 Car

Landrover Breakdown

Mustang Fastback Coupe – Competition in White / Red livery

Ghia Racer with separate De Tomaso Chassis

Bentley Continental
Ford Thunderbird open top with suspension 

Jaguar 4.3 litre E Type

Mercedes 300 SL

Mini Traveller Surfing Roofrack

James Bond Aston Martin DB5

Cadillac Superior Ambulance 

Batmobile

Oldsmobile Sheriff Car

Triumph Herald Hard Top in blue / white two tone livery

VW Beetle East African Safari

Ford Thunderbird – Bermuda Taxi

Citroen DS Rally Car

Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Customised Racer in Yellow

Public Address Vehicle

Man from UNCLE Thrust Buster Oldsmobile ’88

James Bond Toyota in white

Beetle German Police Car

Chevrolet Corvette Stingray

Marcos with opening doors

Buick Riveria

MGA

Studebaker Golden Hawke in blue livery

 I hope that this information is helpful.

 With kind regards

 Rachel – Blue14 Brand

That's interesting - some really nice models planned, although there's maybe a few cop-outs with the same casting offered up twice, with different paint and decals (Stingray, Thunderbird, Olds 88, Beetle, possibly Land Rover).

Going back to the Facebook group, Blue14 Brand seemed to have put the Batmobile on some of their early promotional ads, only to later retract it because it appears that Corgi no longer holds the necessary licence to produce it. I wonder if they managed to get that sorted out?

Cheers for the info!

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9 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

a few cop-outs with the same casting offered up twice, with different paint and decals (Beetle)

Personally I'm quite pleased to see both versions of the VW reproduced, although they're the same casting there are enough differences for it to be worth it. Quite a few parts in those with opening boot/bonnet and working steering. I bet they don't do left and RHD though!

I've seen on FB someone comparing an original Mini to the current release, new one is slightly longer so they're not a copy of the original castings

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9 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

That might explain the provenance behind this odd littleTat Stall refugee from all the way back in March 2019.

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Long gone now, of course,  but I'll keep a look-out for any others that might pop up in future.

After some wasted life digging about, it seems they were re-released/rebranded by Polistil too.  Something along the lines of Rindei by Polistil.

This is the Alfa Navajo, stamped just SS-905

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With panel gaps to die for, they have opening things

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This is the 'Rindei by Polistil' effort

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13 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

I've seen on FB someone comparing an original Mini to the current release, new one is slightly longer so they're not a copy of the original castings

That's right; they're all apparently completely new castings which are very similar, though not identical, to the originals.

I'm sure the original Mini tooling was long since worked to death after punting out a million or so examples, in addition to being messed about with for conversion to Whizzwheels in the early 70s, while doubtless modern diecast production moulds allow better, faster, more reliable manufacture.

It seems the decision to fake-age the waterslide transfers on both the Monte Carlo Mini and The Saint's Volvo has been a bit controversial, though - the marketing firm behind it says that there was a lot of debate on whether the new Corgis should look like excellent examples of the original production run, or if they ought to look like brand-new items.

I'd sooner they resembled the toys as they would have appeared new from the toyshop in 1966, rather than how they'd look if they appeared with a reserve of £££ at auction today - but it seems that's not the majority view.

They really are lovely little replicas, though - and I'm quite excited at the thought of the East African Safari Beetle, especially if it's complete with charging rhino...

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