Shite in Miniature II

[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

[AndyW201]

3 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Fiesta and Mondeo £5 each

 

Wah! Want! Minichamps dealer models too.

4 hours ago, bunglebus said:

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?

I'm going to have a scout over the other B&M first, as they're usually better for Hot Wheels. If no dice I'll give you a shout. I like the CRX, but don't know if I'll go for the Scion or Focus to complete the set as they don't do a lot for me. If it had been the MK2 Focus RS casting...

[andrew e]

Turned down? Maybe your CURED 😂

[Datsuncog]

29 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

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

No worries if not - annoyingly I was up and about before 8 this morning, but didn't think to check in to the thread until now.

Snooze/lose scenario, even though I wasn't even snoozing!!

Cheers for posting the pics up; I still haven't seen hide nor hair of any car boot sales round this way yet.

[Amishtat]

32 minutes ago, andrew e said:

Turned down? Maybe your CURED 😂

Reckon I am. Just on the way back from the boot sale now, total expenditure was the 50p entry fee. 

[bunglebus]

Who knew?

 

[flat4alfa]

6 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Giant RC Merc with a few missing bits £2

I think that's meant to be a gen-5 Cedric

I hope you bought that..!

[sierraman]

Some of you must have a lot of storage space for all this miniature Tat! 

[bunglebus]

34 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

I think that's meant to be a gen-5 Cedric

I hope you bought that..!

Honestly it's a Mercedes. They said everyone looks at it but no-one buys it. Missing rear bumper, battery cover as well as the obvious bits

[flat4alfa]

Well.

Wife had zero interest and wanted to get to garden centre to be fleeced on pots, so I was dropped off roadside and went into the now-run-by-Romanians BIG CAR BOOT, on foot.  They didn't like that...  I got accosted at the the gate by two annoyed yet mal-nourished people with teeth missing.  Not sure what has changed to car boot arrival etiquette, but what ever it is, I got it wrong and I wasn't welcome...

Anyhow, using a Jedi mind trick, I survived, and for the half-hour speed walk exercise in a rutted field, today's midday £7 achievement (including entrance fee) was this:

Another Buddy-L Plymouth Gran Fury to fiddle with the circuitry, perhaps lob in a motor and get going around a slot track like the last one @Burnside

Corgi ROCKETRON with tracks intact and working compass.  Something only ever saw in catalogues as a boy.  Box tick, because never had an Xploratron.

Lone-Star Ford Zodiac Estate was 50p.  Missing bonnet but not missing tailgate or doors and wheels not wobbly, good glass.

Matchbox SuperKings Jaguar XJ40 in Police livery, never had one of those so can keep the childhood XJ6 one company.

ERTL Chevy Fleetside 'Cooter's Garage' with track rod issues.  50p though.

Hurrah!  Finally ticked the Matchbox 'Laser Wheels' Mercury Police Car box.

Matchbox Kenworth Cab-Over in Pepsi-livery, to match up with one of the Pepsi-livery Chevy vans that are clogging the shelves and need to be sold-on.

50p Hot Wheels Red Line Maserati Mistral.  Yes, 50p.  Has its bonnet and doors and a couple of cracks in glazing but otherwise all there and has been attacked a bit by a silver paint pen.  No matter!  Never had one before and bidding goes daft on these.

Guisval Simca 1200.  Never seen one of those before...  Rear suspension has had a collapse.

Husky Studebaker Waggonnaire, lost its TV cameraman and has attacked glazing, but grabbed to make up the weight with seller while hoping he didn't realise the Mistral was in the same hand.

[bunglebus]

22 minutes ago, sierraman said:

Some of you must have a lot of storage space for all this miniature Tat! 

Thankfully yes, big loft as well as display cabinets. 

Unfortunately the loft is about the same temperature as death valley today, just been up there sorting out doubles and re-uniting these

 

[bunglebus]

4 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

today's midday £7 achievement (including entrance fee) was this:

That's a decent haul, much better than mine today! We have got a lazybones boot sale starting at 10 so I could go to that too, but having done a few miles around Boreham sneezing my head off I didn't feel like it

[bunglebus]

Happened to pull these two out of a box together while I was having a sort out. Pretty sure they are the same casting 

 

 

[junkyarddog]

Picked up this 1/43 Burago FSO Polonez today,anybody interested in a trade for either a Matchbox Dodge dragster, Mercury Cougar rat rod, or the wild cat Mustang,in complete but tatty condition?

[eddyramrod]

Bloody hell, I  didn't know about that!  Have to keep an eye peeled for one of those.

[flat4alfa]

4 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Honestly it's a Mercedes. They said everyone looks at it but no-one buys it. Missing rear bumper, battery cover as well as the obvious bits

The body shell with the two Keystonezu Kopszu hanging out of it is perfect to fit over a Tamiya or whatever RC chassis

if it is there next week....

[bunglebus]

23 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

The body shell with the two Keystonezu Kopszu hanging out of it is perfect to fit over a Tamiya or whatever RC chassis

if it is there next week....

There were two proper R/C shells ( the petrol powered type I guess) with the holes for locating pins in the roof. Can't remember what they were though!

[sheffcortinacentre]

10 hours ago, bunglebus said:

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

I had that set new in early 70's

[Datsuncog]

An arrival today that may be vaguely familiar to some...

Yup, it's that pricey (but fairly scarce) Corgi Tour De France Gift Set that I'd clocked on eBay last month.

Listed in the range catalogues between 1981 and 1984, a healthy 57,000 units of this set were shifted - but they were kinda fragile.

Complete and in decent enough nick, this set could probably benefit from a gentle clean.

This was the first iteration of Corgi's Peugeot 505 - the standard saloon version without the open sunroof would follow a month later, in March 1981.

Bikes consist of plastic frames with diecast wheels punched at the hubs to hold them in place - and they do unclip from the boot-mounted rack, but in a way which is perhaps incompatible with rough play.

I hadn't noticed before that the passenger seat has been swapped for a platform, for the giant team manager to stand on.

Riders are in pretty good fettle, all things considered.

Some of the sets shown in the catalogues have bikes with red frames, while others like this one are yellow.

Apparently this set was modelled on the real-life Team Raleigh of 1980, with Corgi design chief Marcel Van Cleemput and assistants travelling over to France to photograph Team Raleigh and their Peugeot support vehicle for several stages of that year's Tour.

It cost rather more than I'd have liked to pay,  but I've not seen another one come up for sale - and when pressure was applied to start coming up with birthday gift ideas, for some reason this sprang to mind...

Still, I'm rather pleased to have it in the collection. 

[andy18s]

4 for a tenner? With one green one missing it's tailgate 

[sierraman]

2 hours ago, andy18s said:

4 for a tenner? With one green one missing it's tailgate 

Look like the Bulgarian issue ones? 

[bunglebus]

Majorette at Asda - only the construction vehicles though

 

[DoctorRetro]

Hey miniturists, I'm looking for a Scalextric Metro for as cheap as possible to modify etc, doesn't need to run as will be making a static model.

 

Anyone?

[DoctorRetro]

17 hours ago, junkyarddog said:

Picked up this 1/43 Burago FSO Polonez today,anybody interested in a trade for either a Matchbox Dodge dragster, Mercury Cougar rat rod, or the wild cat Mustang,in complete but tatty condition?

That's epic!

[flat4alfa]

2 hours ago, DoctorRetro said:

Hey miniturists, I'm looking for a Scalextric Metro for as cheap as possible to modify etc, doesn't need to run as will be making a static model.

 

Anyone?

I was sure I sent you one months ago

[bunglebus]

2 hours ago, DoctorRetro said:

Hey miniturists, I'm looking for a Scalextric Metro for as cheap as possible to modify etc, doesn't need to run as will be making a static model.

 

Anyone?

 

20 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

I was sure I sent you one months ago

It's not in the box of oddments you gave me is it? @DoctorRetro

[flat4alfa]

Didn't I send you one with the Escort body shell?

[DoctorRetro]

1 hour ago, flat4alfa said:

Didn't I send you one with the Escort body shell?

Yes, that's how I made the escort estate!

1 hour ago, bunglebus said:

 

It's not in the box of oddments you gave me is it? @DoctorRetro

Bits of it maybe...

 

[andy18s]

8 hours ago, sierraman said:

Look like the Bulgarian issue ones? 

Yep,there's quite a few kicking around tbh...lol

[quicksilver]

On 6/11/2021 at 12:22 PM, Datsuncog said:

So then - home again, and now that some VERY CROSS PEOPLE have been placated (about real-life buses and coaches, ironically enough) - what came back with me?

Not a lot, really.

 

The open-top Sydney Tour bus will need a bit of love, as its months in the tub have done it no favours.

Ouch.

Argh.

Hopefully this is restorable/ repairable! If nothing else, it could probably be a parts donor for the £2 charged.

As an ABC model the engine detail is tremendous, with sundry opening bits which I would never have expected at this scale.

Will pop it in with your other stuff!

 

Yikes, that's had a tough time of it. Guess I'll have to claim it as shipping damage on the boat from Down Under, but still well worth 2 quid and I'm sure I can fix it. You're so right about the superb detailing on ABC models - I dismantled and repainted one of the closed-top versions about 20 years ago and it took ages thanks to all the intricate little parts, way ahead of Corgi and EFE's offerings of the time.