Shite in Miniature II

[Datsuncog]

Further Hot Wheels discoveries at Tesco last night:

Long card packaging too, for maximum artwork display.

Can confirm that the Mercedes really is lovely. Even the cast-in headlight wipers are visible.

[bunglebus]

2 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

WHO DID IT WORSE?

The Simca 1100/1200.

That Guisval is the nicer to my mind, partly because we don't see many of the Spaniards over here. 

The Gulper from earlier on had its engine unceremoniously hoised out and stuck in the bare metal base I've been doing for my fake colour trial version. I did try leaving it exactly as it was under the paint but it was messing with my head, so all got cleaned up. Leaving the chrome to dry overnight before swapping the shells

 

[bunglebus]

Also I don't know if anyone else noticed (or cares probably), but the Lone Star E Type is different again. The tatty one has flared wheelarches and a body line joining them

The tidy red one has no flares but has the line

The blue one doesn't have either, just a slight crease where the sills roll under

 

[flat4alfa]

I think you should* paint the flared-arch chipped one in Gulper pink and fix it, hinged, onto the Gulper base

Then Gus will really have a race car looking like a gulper

[bunglebus]

The E Type could swallow a Gulper whole and have room for a 1:64 too I reckon

NOM NOM NOM

 

[flat4alfa]

Crikey!  I had no idea

Should've looked at the brickwork really

Must try harder

[bunglebus]

Talking of Gulpers (not that I often do), version 1.5 of the colour trial is done. I just couldn't live with the discoloured, tarnished finish I found under the black, even though it's closer to how the real thing is now - but this is how it would have looked when it was new

as a bonus I have a perfect base to plonk another body on. Maybe a Milligans Mill for a change

[egg]

Our local collectibles shop survived the pandemic (he said the gov loans got him through). So I put a fiver in his pocket for these 4. All should be saveable somehow...

[bicycle repairman]

22 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

face on mrs when buyanother car

[flat4alfa]

54 minutes ago, egg said:

Our local collectibles shop survived the pandemic (he said the gov loans got him through). So I put a fiver in his pocket for these 4. All should be saveable somehow...

Dag in the window

[egg]

19 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Dag in the window

indeed, just needs the overpainting removed from his wee nose.

[junkyarddog]

46 minutes ago, egg said:

indeed, just needs the overpainting removed from his wee nose.

Knowing dogs,it was probably sniffing at something unsavoury 🤣

[Bren]

I posted a few weeks ago that I had obtained the final matchbox 75 to fill my old shop display.

The following picture is for men of a certain age who would tremble with excitement at the thought of spaffing 30 pence on the latest superfast.

As I had different models of the same number quite a few didn't make the cut.

A few more matchbox readers' wives - 

Blister porn

Skybusters. When I was a toddler I was led to believe these were my favourite.

A few twin packs.

The boxes.

[bunglebus]

Wow. That's some serious dedication and/or cash to fill that up. I see pics like that on FB now and again but usually from collectors with seemingly endless funds to spend at Vectis

[Bren]

6 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Wow. That's some serious dedication and/or cash to fill that up. I see pics like that on FB now and again but usually from collectors with seemingly endless funds to spend at Vectis

I bought the boss mustang and the vauxhall guildsman in 1988 - I had just left school. So it's taken 33 years. They are all boxed but some of the boxes have flaps missing - I am not one of these who has to have perfect boxes. I do not buy them much myself nowadays due to expense and needing money for other things. I usually ask for them at christmas or birthdays.

[egg]

This one has cleaned up ok. 

[bunglebus]

26 minutes ago, Bren said:

I do not buy them much myself nowadays

Have you tried to recreate a particular year or just anything as long as it's the right number?

[sierraman]

Sometimes if I see a really tidy one I’ll pick it up if it’s less than a quid or so, I built a display from some ply and I put the better ones in there. That said most of my collection is battered as it’s pretty much all come from the car boot. I got right into the habit of trawling the car boots for them but lately I just don’t have the time so I just stick to finding the recent releases in Tesco and let the kids play with them and enjoy them. 

Part of the fun for me was when you could find all the good ones for 20p in a big box, everyone knows they’re worth a trillion quid now so the moments passed somewhat. Perhaps I should cash my old crocks in and repay my mortgage! 

[Bren]

48 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Have you tried to recreate a particular year or just anything as long as it's the right number?

I picked the ones I liked - usually the ones from childhood. I was hatched in the early 70's so it's superfast and corgi juniors I had most of. Special occasions would possibly see super kings / speed kings or the bigger corgi or dinky's as a gift. I think my favourite was the dinky eagle from space 1999 - I had a few of them - from memory they were around £3 which was quite expensive in 1976 / 77. My parents said when they first bought my cars thet were 12p.

Funny how you forget lots of things but you can always remember particular toys.

[bunglebus]

MUCH EXCITE has turned to SLIGHT DISAPPOINT. Scored a Graffic Traffic VW ambulance, hoping the overpaint was the removable.

Despite a scrub with a toothbrush and T-cut it's still stained a sickly yellow. Hmm

[flat4alfa]

3 hours ago, Bren said:

The slipper confirms you are not The Nemesis

So you are in the clear

[AndyW201]

I found a few more Hot Wheels. Local Morrisons store isn't doing too badly lately.

Always liked this Chevelle casting. Nice tampos, reminds me of an old school dragger. 

Like many others, I'm a big fan of this Dodge van, looks well in this colour.

I know, a bit OLLI. I wish they'd do this in a nice factory colour scheme with the "90" or "County" graphics like the old Matchbox version.

At last, managed to get the black Intergrowler.

Finally stopped dithering and got this too! Looks nice in all black and I like the miniature JDM printed sunstrip.

[Remspoor]

I have not seen anyone here writing about mini Hotwheels. In this vid. The "review" starts here  and ends at around 5:14

 

 

[flat4alfa]

 

[bicycle repairman]

here tony takeing to the back seat

[AndyW201]

Post lady has been too, while I was at work,

Not again!!!

Holy grail time here though! I've been after a Vanguards Mk3 Cav for a long while. Sadly, as they didn't produce many variants (two police, two BTCC and three road cars), when they come up for sale, they either get snapped up quickly or have comedy price tags. (£50-£55 anyone?). To think when Corgi had a Black Friday sale a few years ago, I could have got the red SRI version for a tenner... This came up on eBay with a 'reasonable' BIN price, so I was allowed to nab it as one of my Father's day pressies!

Shape wise, it looks right. Corgi did a good job of modelling the saloon. The right bits for this 4X4 Turbo version are there, like the deeper front and rear bumpers, side skirts and Turbo-only 16" Turbine alloys.

Nice detail on the front end. Nice headlights and grille/badge. Only gripe is with the painted on foglights. Nowadays they'd probably be separate units.

Nice rear end too. The late model lights and number plate surround, and badging are all spot on, and great tailpipes.

Main whinge is with the interior. Rear shelf speaker detail isn't too bad,

But the seats are bloody awful! Blocky and shapeless, even the headrests are the wrong shape. It's like Corgi really couldn't be arsed, especially compared with their Sapphire Cosworth and it's pleated leather effect Recaros. I did read that Corgi had the BTCC versions first and foremost in mind when they decided to do the Mk3 (which is why it ended up as a saloon) Maybe a large part of the development budget was used to make the detailed racing interior on those.

The dashboard's not as bad. After many thousands of miles driving Mk3s for a living, I definitely recognise that dash! IIRC it's a pretty good representation of the pre airbag sports wheel too.

I remember back in the day that these were one of 'the' wheels to have on a 5-stud Vauxhall. I remember a local 'Pharmaceutical distributor' years ago driving about in a Calibra Turbo with them on.

Interior disappointments aside, I'm still glad to have finally got a MK3. Though I wish Corgi would give their well used Escort and Cortina moulds a rest and give us another. A facelift SRi in Rioja red would be fantastic....

[bunglebus]

33 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

I have not seen anyone here writing about mini Hotwheels. In this vid. The "review" starts here  and ends at around 5:14

 

 

I saw that the other day, might grab a few if I see them. I prefer the slightly bigger but still miniature ones

[Remspoor]

1 minute ago, bunglebus said:

I saw that the other day, might grab a few if I see them. I prefer the slightly bigger but still miniature ones

Make a collection like the Little and large Dinkies which were discussed earlier.

[sierraman]

When are we likely to get the Matchbox Capri? Or in usual Mattel fashion have they only decided to import 6 of what’s likely to be their most popular model. 

[bunglebus]

8 minutes ago, sierraman said:

When are we likely to get the Matchbox Capri? Or in usual Mattel fashion have they only decided to import 6 of what’s likely to be their most popular model. 

We should have had it. It looks like we somehow skipped over the entire case, and even if we did get it, there was a solitary example in each box