Shite in Miniature II

[155V6]

4 hours ago, bunglebus said:

No joy finding a spare tyre for my Mustang, looks like Steve Flowers is going to extort 30p out of me for a new one. Tsk.

 

Let me have a look before you buy one 😉

[bunglebus]

On 09/06/2021 at 12:41, egg said:

I did buy another, and my problem is now as you describe mon ami! Nay bother, it was cheap. Might sell the window insert on ebay to save another...the circle of life...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Majorette-Citroen-Acadiane-door-spare-part-/265190288567?_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286

[Noel Tidybeard]

tim- the tx4s are fx4s!

the open metrobus do seem to fetch decent coin- i got a plain red one in the end which may be rare

[Noel Tidybeard]

On 10/06/2021 at 13:12, egg said:

Yea, thanks to folk on here, this happened...

you aren't the only one!

 

[Noel Tidybeard]

ummm

yes i got the grey one as well!

[Jon]

20 hours ago, bunglebus said:

All the VW stuff pictured and the Porsche are very tempting - what's the going rate to post stuff half way around the world? 

I could live with a cracked blister if it's the only one on the pegs

Apparently, for a Size 3 box (35cm x 26.5cm x 20cm) weighing 1kg would be $38.01 to send to the UK - or about £19. Not too shabby, I reckon! 

Happy to go personal shopping for you, if you'd like.  Those dimensions and weight should cram a fair few carded diecasts in the box...

[flat4alfa]

Anyone have one of these knocking about, any condition?

[bunglebus]

1 minute ago, flat4alfa said:

Anyone have one of these knocking about, any condition?

There was one on eBay recently

[Jon]

Not to sell but I reckon there's still one of those Britains Chevys in the toy cupboard in my old bedroom at my folks, as my brother had one. I've only the vaguest memories of all the gubbins on the back, so most was likely jettisoned of into the ether mere moments after the box was opened.

But until you posted the image, I'd totally forgotten these existed! Bit of a strange casting for Britains, though.

[flat4alfa]

Even more strange is the body is not a casting....  it's a plastic moulding.  The base is die-cast though.  

They tend to attract bigger sums on eBay than I want to go to as I may have ideas for it that mean removing the gubbins and a repaint etc...

[sierraman]

Anything Britains is going for big money at the moment. Not sure whether it’s blokes in their fifties who always wanted to be a farmer or what. Even broken items are still fetching the money. 

[flat4alfa]

Why the Chevrolet S-10 of that vintage?

You see, the 'Colt Seavers' GMC K-2500 colour scheme is etched on me since a child....

Not only because that GMC could survive* enormous jumps on film, but because at the time my Dad owned an Astra EXP in a similar scheme as the family car:

The Chevrolet S10 still had a very similar colour scheme in the range, named in the brochure as 'Special Two Tone', in this case 'Woodlands Brown' with 'Yukon Gold' as the 'secondary colour'.  This is a still from the 1988 film 'The Wizard' (anyone remember that? Jump to 1:00 in) :

Sounds obsessive doesn't it.  I blame Eddy, for getting me into film cars.

[eddyramrod]

I'll take that!

[sierraman]

Again I had the Buddy L ‘Fall Guy’ truck, it had been at my Grandmas when I was a kid. Completely forgot about it until I cleared the lift at my parents. Even though it was very well used it went for something mad like £15. 

Always wanted the all metal 1/16 size A Team van as a kid. Like Tonka they were toys that would survive the rough and tumble of kids putting their weight in them, chucking them about and leaving them in the rain. As a kid I had the Matchbox branded Tonka truck, went with us every time to the seaside, it was rusty as fuck. Even my dad painted some rust inhibitor on it. Imagine doing that with your kids these days! 

[bunglebus]

Brittains Chevy

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Britains-Farm-Chevrolet-Pickup-24-Inter-Servo-9573-1983-1-32-Rare-/265187041101?_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286

[sierraman]

Anything with the short lived Autoway series is worth big coin. Even if you see a ratty one in a box at a boot sale it’s worth picking up to punt on. Even the bloody animals fetch a decent price. I’d wager a real pig would be cheaper than a Britains one. 

[flat4alfa]

2 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Brittains Chevy

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Britains-Farm-Chevrolet-Pickup-24-Inter-Servo-9573-1983-1-32-Rare-/265187041101?_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286

Oh I know,...I'm on the watch and weep list too

[flat4alfa]

2 hours ago, sierraman said:

Again I had the Buddy L ‘Fall Guy’ truck, it had been at my Grandmas when I was a kid. Completely forgot about it until I cleared the lift at my parents.

Your parents lived in a proper sky scraper?!  Excellent 😎

[bunglebus]

I can confirm the rumours are true. Of this batch, they were about half and half headlights open or closed, and two of the open ones were LHD

 

[cms206]

1 hour ago, bunglebus said:

I can confirm the rumours are true. Of this batch, they were about half and half headlights open or closed, and two of the open ones were LHD

 

I checked mine the other day; I only need the closed light LHD to complete the four.

[eddyramrod]

I believe I mentioned earlier that there is work in progress here...

Dinky Atlas now has only the merest suggestion of the window frames that used to be along the sides.  Unfortunately I don't seem to have used quite enough filler, so that's something I need to rectify; no problem.

Corgi Hunter is coming along too.

Detail painting, new windscreen and reassembly required here.

And for the rest of these, just detail painting!

No idea how that one got rotated!

The pair above may be familiar from the black-and-white pics I posted in my Life Of Shite thread, with my dad before I was born.

300E was the Vanguards Rington's Tea version, which luckily came with yellow wheels.  It's going to represent the ex-Warrington Council van that my dad picked up with the best intentions in about 1971, but which never saw the road again.  One of the things he did while he was in the bodywork stage was paint the wheels, using a lemon yellow because he happened to have it in stock.  I suspect that was before he discovered the engine was terminal...  The van sat in our back garden for a couple of years until it was hauled away to become a dog kennel.  I still have the front number plate on my display, and somewhere the green logbook too: 1108 ED.

[bunglebus]

This is on my workbench. Slightly* sun faded 'Gulper. Yeah another one, lost count of how many I've had now.

I picked up some interesting colour paints today, one of which looks similar to the colour trial version that came to auction a while ago

[AndyW201]

Nothing much found today, did get these from B&M at a fair few pence less than the online sellers are knocking them out for,

I'm a sucker for the R30 Skyline. Normally I'd only go for the Factory Fresh versions, but this one was suitably free enough of pictures of dragons and shopping lists plastered down the sides, so I grabbed it.

And I've wanted this Golf for a while, I like the shade of green it comes in.

Need to hunt down the all black '88 Honda CRX that comes in this collection as well, that looks quite nice. There's also a Ford Focus 2 door coupé and a pink Scion coupé (Toyota GT86 lookalike) to make up the series but I'm not as keen on those two. Luckily I'm not that much of a completionist...

[bunglebus]

6 hours ago, AndyW201 said:

Need to hunt down the all black '88 Honda CRX that comes in this collection as well, that looks quite nice

There are stacks of these in my local Sainsbury's.

Actually I've got a complete set that I thought I'd try and sell on, but no-one has if you want all/any of them at cost?

[bunglebus]

Fiesta and Mondeo £5 each

 

[bunglebus]

Giant RC Merc with a few missing bits £2

 

[bunglebus]

Well despite being hot and busy, I didn't come back with much from the boot sale. Maybe I was distracted by the hay fever induced sneezing fit, maybe I'm getting fussy but there wasn't a lot I hadn't seen before, most of the interesting stuff was too expensive for me. If you wanted large plastic animals for your garden or old car magazines you'd have been in luck. Even saw a Scimitar owner's Manuel 

I did get this Lesney ambulance for 30p

And Tomica Pantera for a pound

Also this unknown Hong Kong tanker

Fairly tidy K-7 that's got some sort of disease inside

Incomplete K-9

Y THO?

Front half of Scammel Contractor

Taylor Jumbo Crane without the crane

Matchbox (?) trailer

And as usual, some of these

[bunglebus]

You didn't think I'd missed that Superfast track did you?

[Datsuncog]

3 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Fiesta and Mondeo £5 each

If the same seller's there next time you swing past the car boot sale, I'd be very interested in one of the (dealer-branded Minichamps?) Five-Pound Fiestas!

A friend bought a red 3-dr 'sad face' brand-new in May 2000, trading in his Mk3 Fiesta Popular which I'd helped him upgrade using Ghia bits from the scrapyard.

The new one gave nothing but bother, and wasn't a patch on the old one...

Yet I'd still like to have a 1/43 version to commemorate his folly.

Many thanks!

[bunglebus]

I hoped someone would reply while I was there, hopefully I'll see them next week.

I've turned down a few things lately, some of those Russian partworks, boxed Superkings etc, all for about a fiver each.

There was a mahoosive Tonka tractor/trailer this week but it was £25