Shite in Miniature II

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19 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Always!

Remind me of your address please.

In today's diecast desire but cannot afford an early Polistil Fiat 126 (in whichever scale)

Anyone got one?

[flat4alfa]

19 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Funny how things work out. Just recently I got this

Which came originally with this behind it - apparently they never released the Bulldozer on its own

I don't think I've found the trailer - yet

Wall-E thought he’d found one!

But not quite

[bunglebus]

On 10/08/2021 at 15:21, bunglebus said:

I did consider buying the trailer pictured here but I had no change and it was smashy bitch tits working in the shop who refused to take my £5 note, so I left it. Did work out what it was for at the time, 90s era anyway 

[sierraman]

The brown trailer goes with a Scania Bull nose, carried a digger.

[bunglebus]

K-117

[flat4alfa]

What about Wall-E's red trailer?  

Which set does it belong to?  (Asking for Wall-E)

[flat4alfa]

1972 TONKA TOYS US Brochure

[flat4alfa]

1977 Tonka Toys US Brochure

[flat4alfa]

1983 Tonka UK Dealer Brochure

[bunglebus]

They're really useful ^ as some don't have Tonka on the base - and I can put a name to some of mine too

[sierraman]

Looking at the ‘83 catalogue, had loads from them as a kid. Most of them I’d kept at my Grandmas, remember running them up and down the back path and between the plants. Also had a few of the Buddy L cars with the steering, by far and away my favourite was the ‘Fall Guy’ pick up.

[Split_Pin]

My Cousin's boy hasn't played with his cars for years so she wanted to see if there was any I wanted before the rest went to a charity shop.

I gave him some pocket money and he let me take these ones away (1st 2 rows)

I'm really pleased with them, especially the 2 Flying Customs, balck Matxhbox Beetle and the Matchbox TVR Tuscan.

[sierraman]

I really rate the new Matchboxes, my youngest is 5 and she loves them, she’s got my old Motorcity track and one of those foldable garage type things. That’s one of the reasons I like coming back to this thread, those warm memories of being 7 or 8 and having the cars out on the rug at our house waiting for Bernard Matthews Turkey Drummers for tea followed by Angel Delight, I had loads of broken Dinkies and Superkings that had been my uncles, I’d line them up like a breakers, until I was about 10 I wanted to be a scrapman. Thinking back even at that age they’d let you in the breakers with your parents, a trip to the scrapyard was like the best day out I could have possibly imagined. 

[bunglebus]

59 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

The Flying Customs Hare Splitter is the pick of the bunch there

[bunglebus]

57 minutes ago, sierraman said:

, a trip to the scrapyard was like the best day out I could have possibly imagined. 

Yeah, used to go with my dad and get bits for mum's Dolomite and for my own cars later, sometimes just for the fun of seeing what they had. Can't do that anymore, even if they let you in most stuff only stays a short while and gets fragged. No more finding rotten Anglias and A30s buried in the weeds at the back of the yard 

[eddyramrod]

Actually that's a thought... I've got two garages for displaying my cars, but never made a scrapyard.  Hmmm...

Meanwhile, here are some recent restos...

Remember this, all scuffed and pigeon-toed?  I'm quite pleased with how it's turned out, especially my axle-straightening.

Trans-o-Lite Commer now has a new home-made windscreen; not the best but perhaps better than I thought it would look.

Vanguards A35 van used to be the AS-hued police van; now it represents SCK 781, owned by my parents in 1973 (and subsequently a garden ornament for almost a decade!).  The black panels on the side are supposed to be the aftermarket windows it had (it also had a rear seat).  I don't think my skills are good enough to cut whole panels out of a 1/43 model!  I hated that little van.  We were a family of five at that point, and the little van was, well, little.  Far too cramped for a growing 14-year-old!

[barrett]

16 hours ago, egg said:

Remind me of your address please.

In today's diecast desire but cannot afford an early Polistil Fiat 126 (in whichever scale)

Anyone got one?

I have the 1:43 version. Here's a nice reasonably priced Mebetoys equivalent, which is actually the nicer model I think:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/114944383210

[Jon]

18 hours ago, egg said:

Remind me of your address please.

In today's diecast desire but cannot afford an early Polistil Fiat 126 (in whichever scale)

Anyone got one?

 

Rather like old car-ficionado @barrett, I too have a 1/43 126:

 

 

And here's its box, along with various detritus contained therein, some of which I'm aware doesn't relate to this toy model.

These photos were taken for @bramz7, who I believe now has a life outside of AS, although he did agree to buy the 126, along with a couple of other items.

 

Good job I managed to get a snap of it in Rome before it was allotted to the 'sold' box in the garage:

[Jon]

And on a personal note, apologies for my tardiness in frequenting these pages but I've been working away from home these past few months, which halted abruptly last Tuesday when we went into Level 4 lockdown, with 6 hours notice.

I'm not grumbling though, as I bloody love to be forced to go home and get stuff done! Might even dust off the camera and crack off a few needless photos of toy cars for the enjoyment* of 5 men on the internet I don't know. Or work on the countless things to be done with my largely non-roadworthy fleet. One of the two.

[sierraman]

Picked this lot up today for 50p each. The Dinky Standard has been painted but it’s a quaint old thing so I nabbed it. 

[155V6]

A few bits from this week

The Solido R4 Van came from a charity shop I tend to visit once a week,the woman said that there were more diecast out the back,but they hadn't been sorted out & I couldn't even have a look 🙁

The rest were all from one stall at the car boot this morning.

[eddyramrod]

2 hours ago, sierraman said:

Picked this lot up today for 50p each. The Dinky Standard has been painted but it’s a quaint old thing so I nabbed it. 

When you decide to move that Standard Atlas along, can I be first in the queue please?

[flat4alfa]

On 8/21/2021 at 10:48 PM, flat4alfa said:

1972 TONKA TOYS US Brochure

As a result of this ^

- two early-seventies Tonka POWERED SCRAMBLERS have met for the first time since the factory line.  Dolly popped over to take a look.

On the left: a tidy GROUND POUNDER (or as I had been calling it: The AMC Gremlin), achieved a year or so back from Tat Friday @Datsuncog's roving.

On the right: a less than good condition but complete QUICK GRIP (Ford Maverick), bought in a charity shop in Hitchin on Saturday.

Both motors are borked though, making me wonder what to do with them...  Discarding the comedy stunted length, width-wise they measure to around 1:33 scale.

The tin-plate bodies and bases do not reference the 'model names' seen in the catalogue, so you would never know as all that is stamped is MADE IN JAPAN ; PAT PENDING ; Tonka

For some reason the daft cartoonish charm of a period seventies muscle car is interesting?  More common today due to Pixar-related Cars and Hot Wheels range Tooned ; so Tonka were perhaps 50 years early?

Anyone else have one from the range?  Only really bothered about the (Ford Pinto) HUB HEATER.  You can keep SCAT MASTER though as Dolly finds that sort of thing urghhh awfully filthy.

[barrett]

@egg mine is pretty playworn, missing bumpers etc, but overall not bad. Would be happy to sell or trade for something if you're interested (if I can find it)

 

[flat4alfa]

Maluchs would sell well over on autoshite.pl

[bunglebus]

5 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

SCAT MASTER

Funny you should mention it

This was subject to a restoration several years ago

Plus my previous and Cog-sourced Track Blasters

 

[MarvinsMom]

some recent additions, all vintage matchbox.

first off an Albion Chieftain, carrying a load for Blue Circle.

not bad for a wagon from the late 1950s.

and then i have been able to add a Thames Trader with a cattle wagon trailer, complete with tail board. oddly, unlike the contemporary Bedford articulated wagon, and the Mack road-train thing which all seem to have lost one or more of the back doors off the trailers, these seem to appear more often or not in a complete condition.

also shown is the increase in size from Matchbox, from the first series of the  1/75 toys and the early major pack models, even though there is only 5 or so years between them going on sale.

thing is though, i am starting to run out of space again.

i guess the answers to that are either stop buying so much crap, or find another display cabinet. one of them is a good plan, the other, unacceptable........

[flat4alfa]

Check out the build quality of this 'NACORAL Made in Spain Zaragoza'

It's intended to be a 1907 Rolls Royce, according to the stamp underside.

All-plastic, bar its wonky axles 

Picked up in a charity shop in Brixham, mainly because nothing else diecast-ish in that High Street at all, despite trying multiple stores...  yes, things have got that bad.  Desperation.

[bunglebus]

A few new bits have turned up

Siku Mercedes ambulance with many opening bits

And a bunch of cars courtesy of @DoctorRetro

The tin snail is a Solido, Gamma is a Majorette, blue Fuego is Solido and the pinkish one a Norev - for reasons best known to the French modelled with the wipers up the screen. Espace ambulance is a Guisval and the commercial bits are Lone Star. Now I have something to tug my red fuel tanker around if I can find it

[flat4alfa]

The Lancia is a Lybra

Funnily enough, my own Fuego bust a wiper motor spindle all of 30 years ago.  It left the driver's wiper arm upright permanently.