Shite in Miniature II

[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]

  On 23/08/2021 at 13:40, flat4alfa said:

SCAT MASTER

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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.

[bunglebus]

You have to laugh. New Hot Wheels 5 pack out with yet another MK1 Escort. Mate jumps the gun and pays £15 for one off eBay. An hour later i walk into Smyths and buy one for £6.99

 

[bunglebus]

Closer look at the cars

 

[bunglebus]

Went back to the charity shop to double check I hadn't missed the skip from the Skip Truck to no avail - but I did find this at the bottom of the basket 

Took a while to work out what it belongs to

[flat4alfa]

[flat4alfa]

  On 02/05/2021 at 10:48, bunglebus said:

One of two large Lone Star scores, I saw some kid holding this but he put it back, snatched it immediately

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I think I now know what the heap in an antique shop cabinet was

Didn't fancy it a £4

[flat4alfa]

Whilst wandering about Hitchin on Saturday, spotted this for £280 in one of the cabinets 

£280 might seem a lot, but Hitchin property has exploded in value in the past 18 months and any mid-terrace two-up two-downs are for £450k+. 

So if the property goes up, so do the toys...

What I also do know is when we dithered buying a property there 10 years ago, we made a major mistake.

[sierraman]

Christ the yuppies have gentrified the local diecast market!

[bunglebus]

  On 24/08/2021 at 17:27, flat4alfa said:

I think I now know what the heap in an antique shop cabinet was

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Mortal remains. Maybe Lone Star were trying to muscle in on Tonka territory? 

Also very similar to this Qualitoys by Corgi I acquired recently 

 

[flat4alfa]

  On 26/05/2021 at 16:26, flat4alfa said:

A Cub and a Qualitoy

Interesting, but worthless.

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Quality qualitoy

[flat4alfa]

[bunglebus]

Just drove past the Wednesday boot sale that @Amishtatused to frequent. Unfortunately I'm on a mission and can't stop.

Cookie Monster bus in Asda

 

[flat4alfa]

A pairing that will no doubt be unrepeatable

From the same Hitchin charity shop precinct on Saturday:  A TALBOT and an ALFA 

Solido Talbot Tagora on the left

Rio 1914 ALFA 40/60 HP Aerodinamica, on the right

With very different arses

Both of them do have opening things in common

But very little else

 

The ALFA had 6,082cc and (with this body) you could reach 86mph whilst wearing a big hat

 

The Talbot had 2664cc and you could reach 121mph, without a hat.  But it did have the benefit of brakes on the front wheels as well.

[Amishtat]

  On 25/08/2021 at 09:54, bunglebus said:

Just drove past the Wednesday boot sale that @Amishtatused to frequent. Unfortunately I'm on a mission and can't stop.

Cookie Monster bus in Asda

 

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There genuinely isn't much I miss about my old life, but Wednesday mornings at that boot sale is one of those things. (Disposable income and Andreea's thighs in over-tight shorts being two of the others, just off the top of my head. But I digress..) That was where your Lone Star finds at the top of this page originated, it pleases me to see they're still doing slow laps of Essex 

[bunglebus]

Today's arrival is this 1:33 scale Guisval MK3 Escort. Pretty sure it's missing a pair of spotlights, but so were a lot of XR3s in the 80s

[andrew e]

That’s terrible - I love it 😂

[flat4alfa]

  On 25/08/2021 at 16:59, bunglebus said:

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The best Moskvich Aleko impression, ever

[sierraman]

Found someone selling what seems like their old toys on Gumtree, it was as a job lot of around a hundred cars plus a load of crap old annuals, a metric shitload of board games, a big trak and various other shit. I’ve made an offer for the diecast, I don’t want the other stuff as it would just be a PITA to sell on. 

[TheOtherStu]

First of all, I'm aware this isn't really shite. But I also don't have any other forums that I'm in that have a diecast thread.

I didn't realise quite how much some of these things go for.  Who knew!

I have one of these. Won it in a raffle along with a Toyota hat (Bear in mind, I have an MR2, so was very happy with the hat). It's 1:43 apparently.

I thought it was just some cheesy car in a box, promotional thing from Toyota.

Didn't realise these sell for between £60 and £70 and will go up in value, because they're no longer produced. Worth much more than the hat 🤣

[warch]

  On 26/08/2021 at 10:15, TheOtherStu said:

Won it in a raffle along with a Toyota hat (Bear in mind, I have an MR2, so was very happy with the hat). It's 1:43 apparently.

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Do you have a very small head?

[flat4alfa]

  On 26/08/2021 at 07:35, sierraman said:

Found someone selling what seems like their old toys on Gumtree, it was as a job lot of around a hundred cars plus a load of crap old annuals, a metric shitload of board games, a big trak and various other shit. I’ve made an offer for the diecast, I don’t want the other stuff as it would just be a PITA to sell on. 

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You do want a Big Trak

Sold prices

[sierraman]

  On 26/08/2021 at 11:25, flat4alfa said:

You do want a Big Trak

Sold prices

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If he would be a laugh to mess about with and ridicule it’s ‘state of the art technology’ but they wanted £250 for all the whole shebang, which in all honesty I couldn’t see much mileage in getting that back, given the cars were about a quarter of the whole haul I made an offer on the cars alone. There was some tidy stuff in there, regular wheels, loads of sixties Corgi and above all a Spot on Multipla. But at £250 I’d have been left with a load of shit I definitely didn’t want plus I’d have probably about made the money back so hardly worthwhile.

Plus explaining to the wife I’d dropped £250 on old crap, simply couldn’t face that. 

[flat4alfa]

Ah well, now you say the asking price...  no

[sierraman]

  On 26/08/2021 at 11:49, flat4alfa said:

Ah well, now you say the asking price...  no

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There were a just over a hundred cars but realistically I’m not going to bust someone’s balls whose selling their childhood collection off. If they were asking a ton or so then there would be a drink in it lets say for the cars but I did say I was happy to make an offer for the cars alone and left it with them. Perhaps I should have just gone ‘best price 2nite m8 swop 4 hot wheels’. But I’m not a twat like that so.