Shite in Miniature II

[sierraman]

The buying frenzy continues, Corgi Matra Rancho purchased for £2.01. Is it me if have 80’s Corgi prices calmed down lately? 

[bunglebus]

Well what a bag full I came home with. I went in Poundland, B&M, Home Bargains, Sainsbury's and Tesco and the only place that had anything new was Entertainer, a table and several racks full of brand new releases. I'm still not sure I grabbed everything I needed wanted...

This being one - phoned a friend and he requested this, I was sure I had it but it's just similar to an old release

Paint is very 80's...

I don't know why I like Head Gasket, but I do

 

Nice to see the RX7 in a simple paint scheme

Audi is class

Mooneyes and Gulf in this case, excellent!

I got two of these so I can put more accurate wheels on one

Another one I bought a spare of, as I want to replicate the Roadkill one

 

[eddyramrod]

I've been to the lockup today, and dug this out.  I knew it was there.  I've had it literally as long as I can remember!  I can't believe it's survived in such good shape, because I wasn't the best at looking after my toys.  It's a big bugger, probably about 1/12 scale.

Looks a bit grubby, right?

Hmm, perhaps filthy is more accurate!

It's cleaned up quite nicely considering I was just using cold water and an old washing-up sponge.  Needs a bit of "detailing" but rather more wholesome than it was, that's for sure.  It's NOT going to be for sale, ever, while I'm alive.

[bunglebus]

What brand is it, can't quite make it out. Nice though

[eddyramrod]

It's an Eldon, made in the USA.  There is more, obviously, but I didn't have my specs with me.  I'll make the effort to note down what it says and release the information, but it won't be tonight.

[bunglebus]

Never heard of them - a few for sale on line for £not a bargain. Reminds of my Topper tow truck, similarly large

 

[andrew e]

Quite a splurge on HW! My daughter bought me the El Camino for Father’s Day - it’s  pleasantly odd and surprisingly HUGE. 

[Datsuncog]

My replacement set of triangular bits arrived earlier on, marginally faster than I'd expected.

Hopefully I'll be able to free some recent arrivals from their plastic bases tomorrow and have a proper look at them without hideously chewing the screw head to the point of inoperability.

I'll just have to put these somewhere safe this time, and not get them lost/ thrown out/ whatever it was happened to the previous ones.

Oh, and the set requested by @bunglebus has been safely put to one side!

[sierraman]

Whilst down my recent Corgi 1/36 rabbit hole I ended up looking for a HCB Angus Firestreak, though a lot seem to fall into the catagory of broken and expensive or working and very expensive. What I did notice was that they looked to be made out of tin plate which would have been an exception for a Corgi at the time? 

[flat4alfa]

Tinplate?

I have one here.  It has only ever been die-cast AFAIK

[flat4alfa]

Is it

[bunglebus]

Could be.. 

Guiloy Cornus. I have a better one so might get a nice paint and detail

 

[eddyramrod]

On 6/29/2021 at 11:42 PM, eddyramrod said:

It's an Eldon, made in the USA.  There is more, obviously, but I didn't have my specs with me.  I'll make the effort to note down what it says and release the information, but it won't be tonight.

OK, so the information reads as follows:

ELDON

HAWTHORNE

MADE IN USA

(C) 1963 ELDON INDUSTRIES INC

and elsewhere on the chassis:

1009-11

And that's all there is.  The copyright date means I would be at least 4 when I got it, so maybe I haven't had it quite "as long as I can remember" but it's certainly been with me 55 years or more.  MrsR saw it this morning and her first thought was "sell."  Not going to happen!  Sometimes your childhood memories are worth more than just money, although that doesn't explain why I've been selling off my toys for two and a half years here!

[flat4alfa]

6 hours ago, sierraman said:

Whilst down my recent Corgi 1/36 rabbit hole I ended up looking for a HCB Angus Firestreak, though a lot seem to fall into the catagory of broken and expensive or working and very expensive. What I did notice was that they looked to be made out of tin plate which would have been an exception for a Corgi at the time? 

This is the one here

Can confirm its die-cast credentials.  It weighs almost 400g !

So much so, the rear wheels have a negative camber, probably due to the weight...

It's in pretty good condition, though the search light has escaped

I was going to sell this one...

..it's working, but the siren pitch is too high and too fast, so something is dicky in the electronics.  I haven't taken it to bits to check each component.  Might do a video of its hilarity though.

[Datsuncog]

I picked up a pretty good Corgi HCB Angus Firestreak at a Scout jumble sale c.1989. It cost me £2 - pretty much all the money I had on me at the time - and it was missing the rear battery cover, but otherwise in reasonable nick. The lights and siren worked well too, with a 9V battery clipped in place. And it was massively heavy.

I made the mistake of bringing it in to school as part of a show-and-tell about electricity. One of the other kids later crawled under the desk and nicked it out of my schoolbag, before activating the siren 'for a laugh', and getting it confiscated by the teacher.

It then managed to roll off the teacher's desk onto the floor, and something broke inside. The switch went from being very positive to loose and sloppy; the lights didn't flash, and the siren sounded high-pitched and 'slurred' somehow.

Raging.

I think the weird thing is that it felt like a properly old toy when I got it, and I really liked it for that reason - but it could only have been ten years old, and likely less.

I'd genuinely have bother distinguishing a toy made in 2011 with a toy made today, for sure.

[Heidel_Kakao]

I haz a Salamander, if only it was full size......

[bunglebus]

Wot no freebies? 

As ever, a lovely thing though

Wotcher

 

[flat4alfa]

Yes I was expecting the figures 

But I've since learned they come with the Porsche...

 

[Datsuncog]

I was a bit confused about that one too - the bumf said that the garage figures would come with 'the third model', but apparently the Walls Anglia doesn't count cos it was an introductory offer.

So Mini = #1; Saint Volvo = #2; Porsche Carrera 6 = #3, according to their logic.

I believe #4 is going to be the Lotus Climax racer, then #5 the Land Rover breakdown truck.

The Land Rover's the one I really want; normally they seem to either be mint and £££, or cheap cos they're broken (like my childhood example, unfortunately lost on a beach c.1991).

After that one, I may reassess my commitment to the range...

[bunglebus]

I grabbed a couple of bargain job lots off an ebay seller, they turned up today along with a couple of bits from the never ending sale thread. These are probably the more interesting ones

I've not seen this Mercedes before, bit of an ugly one

I assumed everyone just referred to this as a Vectra/Cavalier, but that's what the base says

this was one of my main targets

grey Quattro joins my red one

very nice Toyman Challenger 

Rancho and 205 from @C1am

[bunglebus]

Then there was another box - main target being this presumably quite late Whizzwheels Beetle

along with it was this K-111, I collected the whole set of the adventure 2000 vehicles a while back then got bored and sold them. Shame, it's a good one with no broken bits. Think this was a Battle King anyway

[sierraman]

Battle kings were a funny one, I’ve got most of them with the exception of the DAF Ambulance, despite war and battle being a popular subject for kids in the seventies, they don’t have much following at all now. But they’re still more popular than Seakings which with the exception of the miniature port set you could get, have absolutely no following whatsoever apart from followers of oddball Seventies tat like a myself.

[bunglebus]

Finally for tonight, there's this. I completed it yesterday and was hoping for some sun to show it in but that's not happening. Sand Cat with some funky paint, a bit of detail and wheels from..?

I did take some pictures in nicer weather  while I was painting it. First, Azure blue

Then some sparkles

Then some purple pearl

Even on the base

You might be able to make out I made some spacers from biro refills to get the wheels where I wanted

It was a bit of a fiddle as the glass was broken at the top of the screen, so some careful gluing with Krystal Klear was required

 

[andrew e]

Wheels from an Adams dragster?

[flat4alfa]

22 minutes ago, andrew e said:

Wheels from an Adams dragster?

Beat me to it

[bunglebus]

Yes - same as the Organ Grinder except slightly bigger front tyres. That dragster gave one of its engines to the Wild Honey I customised and I still have three left, so it didn't die in vain

[Datsuncog]

Late entrant for Tat Wednesday - a parcel arrived earlier courtesy of @Amishtat:

I love finding out what's available in other areas via local papers.

Very well packed!

Aaaaand... this was as far as I got before I was summoned away on domestic duties, annoyingly.

I did get the bubble-wrap off later on, but too late for decent pics.

Still, if you fancy some more 'what is it?' larks, you could try guessing what's inside!

Answers in the morning...

[bunglebus]

4 kilos of Colombian marching powder?

[bunglebus]

Two of them look like pickups, have you found a pair of Corgi B1600s, one in Surfsider livery and one in Block Construction, that you're kindly donating to me? Maybe one's a yellow Playart? I don't mind either way

[Amishtat]

2 hours ago, bunglebus said:

4 kilos of Colombian marching powder?

Possibly you overestimate my income bracket.. (And narcotic of choice)