Shite in Miniature II

[bunglebus]

8 minutes ago, Tenmil Socket said:

I’m sure @bunglebus could make a nice hot-rod?

Quite possibly. Still considering the fate of the tatty red one - no banger racing models though.

[Jon]

Hey @AndyW201, I went to my favourite model shop yesterday and picked up a boxed Vanguards Fiesta Supersport in black for a tenner yesterday (it seemd rude to leave it there at that price) and they had one of your Cavaliers boxed for a tenner, too. Sounds like it might be worth buying, to ship back to the UK for mini-tax.

Much of the distinctly British castings seem to sit on their shelves and steadily get reduced, which is how I managed to pick up the Astra SR for £4.50. In fact, they had another of those too and I'm sure it was on sale!

[AndyW201]

26 minutes ago, Jon said:

Hey @AndyW201, I went to my favourite model shop yesterday and picked up a boxed Vanguards Fiesta Supersport in black for a tenner yesterday (it seemd rude to leave it there at that price) and they had one of your Cavaliers boxed for a tenner, too. Sounds like it might be worth buying, to ship back to the UK for mini-tax

Wow! Mucho jealous! Definitely worth grabbing at that price, the Supersport is well sought-after. The Cavalier is also well worth grabbing at a tenner. 

[Amishtat]

11 hours ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Tenmil’s TAT Sale 

 

Dinky Paramedic £3

Above £2

Above £1

Above £1

Above £0

I’m happy to create a Socket Stash for you as there will be more to come (eventually).

Cheers

Ant

Corgi Thrushbuster Oldsmobile please! 

[Amishtat]

And is it Tat Friday again? 

[flat4alfa]

12 hours ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Tenmil’s TAT Sale 

 

Dinky Paramedic £3

Above £2

Above £1

Above £1

Above £0

I’m happy to create a Socket Stash for you as there will be more to come (eventually).

Cheers

Ant

Blown apart E-type please

[flat4alfa]

[Datsuncog]

Guess it looks like it...

£5 on the larger stuff this week, except the Dinky AEC Mammoth transporter, which is £10 - annoyingly, one of the ramps has been snapped.

"Couple of quid" on the smaller stuff - so likely £2.

Some worth it, some probably not.

£20 on this lot:

M-2 Motorway Set, with extension pack.

Both look complete.

Transformer is genuine Lesney, despite the name.

£20 also on this:

Complete, but probably one for nostalgia freaks only.

More Corgi and Dinky oddments in a box:

I'll presume a fiver here too.

Corgi Zephyr Farmham is a repaint, as is the Mini (can you tell?).

Dinky Rambler is sound, non-Golden Jacks Corgi Toronado suffering some bumper woes. Green Hornet 'Black Beauty' missing the grille, but otherwise not bad.

Dinky Packards still around; the more yellow one seems to be a repaint, and was originally the same peach shade as the other.

Zylmex F1 car to the left, Tri-ang to the right.

Big Tri-ang skip truck also present.

This battery-operated plastic hot rod was also up for grabs

Hmmm. National stereotypes included gratis.

Durham Industries - not a Japanese maker I'm familiar with.

Probably a fiver on this too.

The Charity Stall was back this week, but the only diecast item was a Corgi Police Horsebox - the one that would have been paired with the 1/36 Land Rover S3.

Stall was heaving, so I couldn't get near it.

One other oddments stall did have these, though:

Pricey enough at £3-£7; not sure there's a big market for Renault 6 manuals in Belfast these days...

So yeah, I s'pose that's it for this week... no buses, and no return of the 50p box.

I'll be here for another half hour, so if there's anything you can see that you can't live without, let me know before then...

[Amishtat]

Dinky Transporter please! 

[junkyarddog]

The matchbox motorway for £20 looks to be very good value.

I don't want it as I've already got one,but if I hadn't I'd be on it.

[bunglebus]

A couple of the £5 cars are just about worth it, Mini especially - but not for me this week ta

[andrew e]

Great stuff! LaFrance and is that a Volvo P1800 on the £5 table? Is so SOLD if there still there! Farnham Zephyr too if it needs a home please @Datsuncog

[eddyramrod]

Only the Dinky Rambler station wagon would interest me today, but not at a fiver, thanks.  I have one, it's not necessary.

[Datsuncog]

9 minutes ago, Amishtat said:

Dinky Transporter please! 

No worries - now with me.

7 minutes ago, andrew e said:

Great stuff! LaFrance and is that a Volvo P1800 on the £5 table? Is so SOLD if there still there! Farnham Zephyr too if it needs a home please @Datsuncog

La France was taken, I'm afraid - by The Nemesis, as it happens.

Volvo is missing most of its tyres and headlights, and has also been the subject of a particularly cack-handed repaint without much care about glazing, so it's probably restoration only...

Zephyr is still here too, but is also down a few tyres and has paint all over the glazing.

If you still fancy them, they're yours!

[andrew e]

Tim I will take them on for my one day restoration pile 😁

I hope he drops that heavyweight La France on his Adidas Gazelles 😂

[flat4alfa]

@Datsuncog

The daft dancing Mexicali Hot Rod rod for a fiver, yes please, if all four 'tyres' are on it

I haven't got a Green Hornet.  Can get the grille I'm sure.  If the glazing is not cracked/broken and no pillar cracks, I might say yes.

Although if he would take £8 for the pair even better 

[sierraman]

Is £2 the going rate for bashed and broken Matchbox these days? If so I’ve got a loft full I’ll get them whacked on eBay! 

 

[flat4alfa]

Nobody wants to pay the £3 parcel post though

[Datsuncog]

45 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

@Datsuncog

The daft dancing Mexicali Hot Rod rod for a fiver, yes please, if all four 'tyres' are on it

I haven't got a Green Hornet.  Can get the grille I'm sure.  If the glazing is not cracked/broken and no pillar cracks, I might say yes.

Although if he would take £8 for the pair even better 

Tyres are all still with the hot rod (though one had slipped backwards along the axle), but the roof-mounted battery cover appears to be missing.

Green Hornet car looked otherwise clean - no visible casting damage anyway, and the glazing had some toybox scuffs but no cracks. Driver figure and Green Hornet figure (firing from the open window at the back) also present.

I'll see if they're still available next week at target price - unfortunately I don't have the same luxury of time these days to hang around...

[sierraman]

1 minute ago, flat4alfa said:

Nobody wants to pay the £3 parcel post though

Probably worth doing a swapmeet though, you’ve not got to sell that many at £2 a throw to make it worth your time.

[Datsuncog]

5 minutes ago, sierraman said:

Is £2 the going rate for bashed and broken Matchbox these days? If so I’ve got a loft full I’ll get them whacked on eBay! 

Dunno about the going rate - but he always tends to price his stock based on what he paid for them, rather than going and checking what they're worth. Which is why, sometimes, there are decent bargains to be had.

If he's looking £2 for them, then he probably paid £1 each - and some are indeed completely trashed, but I'd say some of the Regular Wheels are worth £2 any day of the week.

Some leading-edge wear to the paint, but all of these 'uns still looked pretty glossy and 'bright'.

I guess if he sells through the good ones at £2, the less-than-ideal examples will likely end up in the 50p box eventually.

[andrew e]

All those 4  matchboxes going on 50 years old in lovely enjoyed condition for less  2 pints/packet of fags/fish supper. Remarkable value! I should have replaced my hookless crane, did you buy them @Datsuncog ?

[sierraman]

I think if he offered us a quid a piece on most of the battered stuff in the tray I’d be ecstatic!

[Datsuncog]

So I came away with these for @Amishtat and @andrew e:

Mono-ramped Dinky transporter really is huge.

Corgi Zephyr and P1800S look messy but should tidy up well - castings are undamaged, and glazing uncracked too. Will set those aside for you, dude.

I also found myself buying this ridiculous thing:

It's a Corgi Juniors 'Jerry's Banger', #1014, and one which was totally unfamiliar to me.

I'm aware of the early-80s Tom & Jerry cart version with the same name and a tipping plastic cannon (#E38B) made as part of Corgi's Cartoon range, but I'd no knowledge of an earlier, rollerskate casting.

Since it seemed in reasonable fettle, I thought I'd take a punt on it just in case it was some sort of wild rarity.

While it turns out that it is quite uncommon (produced for 1971 & 1972 only, and there's no picture of it in the Bill Manzke book), there's also a fair few of them on eBay at around a fiver with no takers, so I'm not likely to be making my fortune from it anytime soon.

If anybody fancies it, 50p takes it.

[bunglebus]

Junior's parents bought him the Dinky Beetle Action Kit for his birthday, but soon got fed up being pestered to help him build it, so sent him to see his slightly strange uncle, as he likes cars any is often found tinkering in his workshop. Uncle soon dismissed any ideas of Humbrol paint, and cracked open an aerosol after removing some casting lines and flashing from the body.

He also decided to detail some bits of chrome and the lights, as well as filling in the towel rail bumpers with a dab of paint to give the illusion of seeing through them. Uncle also mean to paint the running boards black but he forgot, and his hands aren't steady enough to paint the chrome strips.

in all seriousness, I really was going to do an authentic resto with Humbrol, dug out the white spirit to thin it then discovered the tin I thought I had was MIA anyway, and the detailing demon took over. I painted two deck lids as the original wouldn't stay shut, then forgot which was which anyway. Could well be the body that's worn rather than the lid for all I know. I should paint those running boards through...

[Datsuncog]

22 minutes ago, andrew e said:

All those 4  matchboxes going on 50 years old in lovely enjoyed condition for less  2 pints/packet of fags/fish supper. Remarkable value! I should have replaced my hookless crane, did you buy them @Datsuncog ?

Sorry, didn't buy any Lesney this week. I'll have a look next time for the crane though, it really was nice.

[Amishtat]

10 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

So I came away with these for @Amishtat and @andrew e:

Mono-ramped Dinky transporter really is huge.

Corgi Zephyr and P1800S look messy but should tidy up well - castings are undamaged, and glazing uncracked too. Will set those aside for you, dude.

I also found myself buying this ridiculous thing:

It's a Corgi Juniors 'Jerry's Banger', #1014, and one which was totally unfamiliar to me.

I'm aware of the early-80s Tom & Jerry cart version with the same name and a tipping plastic cannon (#E38B) made as part of Corgi's Cartoon range, but I'd no knowledge of an earlier, rollerskate casting.

Since it seemed in reasonable fettle, I thought I'd take a punt on it just in case it was some sort of wild rarity.

While it turns out that it is quite uncommon (produced for 1971 & 1972 only, and there's no picture of it in the Bill Manzke book), there's also a fair few of them on eBay at around a fiver with no takers, so I'm not likely to be making my fortune from it anytime soon.

If anybody fancies it, 50p takes it.

Hadn't appreciated just how big that is, but as ever thank you very much! I have three of the earlier Dinky Bedford transporter but had been hoping to come across something a little later. The missing ramp doesn't matter in the slightest, I can either make something or (and this is by far more likely) just not bother and display it at a forgiving angle. That's made my day. 

(Yes, sometimes I am that easy to please..) 

[flat4alfa]

11 minutes ago, Amishtat said:

The missing ramp doesn't matter in the slightest, I can either make something or...

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[Steve Flowers]  974 AEC Hoynor car transporter ramp  Each £1.35

 

[flat4alfa]

Gutted now, I should have been quicker.

In the catalogue they don't look as big as that!

[bunglebus]

Painting the running boards after assembly is not easy, but I'm not risking chipping it pulling it (literally) apart. Did the VW badge too