Shite in Miniature II

[bunglebus]

I was going to give this to the Mrs for her birthday but I can't wait a month

It even has her poxy teddy bear wheels that she likes for some reason

[Datsuncog]

5 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

Gubbins are the same as in the Lucky-branded VW Beetle set

Pretty sure my brother had that same set, but with a red plastic Mercedes 190E with rally stickers instead of the Beetle.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Anyone want any of these? 3 for £1. 

Mystery Machine - plastic construction. One of the pins on the rear fold out section is missing but still works fine. 27cm long. Push down the front and it's motors across the floor! £2 

 

[Bren]

12 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

Gubbins are the same as in the Lucky-branded VW Beetle set

I remember having a lucky toys police cortina that was a decent replica.

[flat4alfa]

10 hours ago, Bren said:

I remember having a lucky toys police cortina that was a decent replica.

I know of the Cortina III in Police and Fire colours, this one is back here.  It's an 'unbranded clone' of the Lucky and minus stickerage.  And tyres.

Found this photo of a Cortina II in a similar but smaller set

Today, both plastic Cortinas loose are worth more than boxed Corgi/Matchbox diecast originals

(Except if you find one at a car boot half-broken and need to sell to me, obv)

[flat4alfa]

On 9/21/2020 at 10:03 PM, eddyramrod said:

To their left, a pair of Spectrum Patrol Cars from Captain Scarlet, then two Rolls Royces.  ~The blue one is Hudson, voiced by Gordon Jackson in Terrahawks; the pink one needs no introduction! 

Spotted a Bandai Hudson Rolls and thought, 'oohhh not got one of those', 'completes the collection etc', 'I wonder etc'.  So put it on watch

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/284421375395

FAILED.   I mean, how much?!?  Surely it's quite cheaply made rubbish really.

Any chance of a TAT Wednesday photocall of your one?  Might get it out of my system!

 

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HUDSON SPECIFICATIONS
HUDSON is an acronym for -
Heuristic Universal Driver with Sensory and Orbital Navigation
Has intelligence, and can speak in perfectly non-robotic voice.
Can be driven manually, but is perfectly capable of driving himself.
Is left hand drive, and has a 'perch' for Sergeant Major Zero.
Has electronic eyes on the dashboard, and under the front and rear bumpers.
HUDSON has the ability to change his colour ! to suit a mood, or to act as camouflage.
The Rolls Royce 'Silver Lady' retracts to be replaced by a fully functioning microzoid.

Tosh.

[eddyramrod]

HFM????  I just looked at that link.

Photos?  Well I have stuff to do but I expect I could squeeze in a studio session this afternoon.  Patience, young paduan, patience....

[eddyramrod]

 

23 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Found this photo of a Cortina II in a similar but smaller set

Today, both plastic Cortinas loose are worth more than boxed Corgi/Matchbox diecast originals

(Except if you find one at a car boot half-broken and need to sell to me, obv)

Or to me!  I've been looking for a four-door mk2 for decades, even going to the extent of converting an old Matchbox one and starting to hunt for an old Dinky or Vanguard for conversion purposes.

[egg]

Faz's diecasts has this set up on pre-order - £43!

[Bren]

1 hour ago, flat4alfa said:

I know of the Cortina III in Police and Fire colours, this one is back here.  It's an 'unbranded clone' of the Lucky and minus stickerage.  And tyres.

Found this photo of a Cortina II in a similar but smaller set

Today, both plastic Cortinas loose are worth more than boxed Corgi/Matchbox diecast originals

(Except if you find one at a car boot half-broken and need to sell to me, obv)

Mine was a mk 3 four door.

[Bren]

1 hour ago, flat4alfa said:

Spotted a Bandai Hudson Rolls and thought, 'oohhh not got one of those', 'completes the collection etc', 'I wonder etc'.  So put it on watch

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/284421375395

FAILED.   I mean, how much?!?  Surely it's quite cheaply made rubbish really.

Any chance of a TAT Wednesday photocall of your one?  Might get it out of my system!

 

Tosh.

Last spring I obtained a bandai terrahawks battlehawk. I won't say what it cost but it is the largest amount I have spunked on tat - it was mint but no box.

[sierraman]

18 minutes ago, egg said:

Faz's diecasts has this set up on pre-order - £43!

I think that’s where the appeal wanes somewhat for me. I like the common or garden ones you might find in Tesco or actually being played with and enjoyed. £43, I think they’re having a laugh tbh. 

[flat4alfa]

25 minutes ago, sierraman said:

 £43, I think they’re having a laugh tbh. 

Says pre-order, so might be the importer is a grey, wanting a big cut off each for the bother.  As far as I can tell, the set is for US market only.

HW Premium 4-car sets are $25 in Walmarts.  That's £18 and a few pence

[Amishtat]

2 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

I know of the Cortina III in Police and Fire colours, this one is back here.  It's an 'unbranded clone' of the Lucky and minus stickerage.  And tyres.

Found this photo of a Cortina II in a similar but smaller set

Today, both plastic Cortinas loose are worth more than boxed Corgi/Matchbox diecast originals

(Except if you find one at a car boot half-broken and need to sell to me, obv)

I did find one of the two door Mk3 Plodmobile at a boot sale either last year or the year before but it was so comprehensively broken (roof crushed levels of broken) it never entered my head to grab or even photograph it. Ah well.. 

[sierraman]

44 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Says pre-order, so might be the importer is a grey, wanting a big cut off each for the bother.  As far as I can tell, the set is for US market only.

HW Premium 4-car sets are $25 in Walmarts.  That's £18 and a few pence

In my parlance £18 probably buys a box of broken and battered tat which is much more up my street! 

[bunglebus]

New Matchbox multipacks. Other than the revamped Field Car, nothing too exciting in them

[Spottedlaurel]

On 8/31/2021 at 10:58 AM, flat4alfa said:

Gubbins are the same as in the Lucky-branded VW Beetle set

Hmmm, maybe it's just me, but are those petrol pumps very similar to those sold by Hobbies, which themselves seem to date back to the '70s?

https://www.hobbies.co.uk/model-garage-accessories-2-pumps-and-oil-cabinet

I bought some of the modern ones from a shop in Sheffield 15-odd years ago, but it transpires that Hobbies are based fairly local to me and may be worth a visit one day.

I have one of the older pumps here in the office at this very second (due to the house move), it dates back to when I was young. No clue as to the maker or country of origin.

[flat4alfa]

I was wrong about the Cortina III.  The genuine Lucky is a size up (~1:25) and four-door.

Apologies to all concerned. 

[flat4alfa]

1 hour ago, Amishtat said:

I did find one of the two door Mk3 Plodmobile at a boot sale either last year or the year before but it was so comprehensively broken (roof crushed levels of broken) it never entered my head to grab or even photograph it. Ah well.. 

Idea #232

[Amishtat]

That was my first thought but it was too bollocksed even for that. Imagine stamped or trodden on more than once, with large bits missing.. Even the intrepid Backdoor Doctor would have had his work cut out trying to make something of it. 

[flat4alfa]

Cut the front or back off and do a scale model BBQ surround for dioramas

It will be the envy of your scale model neighbours

[eddyramrod]

6 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

Spotted a Bandai Hudson Rolls and thought, 'oohhh not got one of those', 'completes the collection etc', 'I wonder etc'.  So put it on watch

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/284421375395

FAILED.   I mean, how much?!?  Surely it's quite cheaply made rubbish really.

Any chance of a TAT Wednesday photocall of your one?  Might get it out of my system!

 

Tosh.

As you asked...

Note there's been a slight change on the shelves.  I'll come back to that.  Now then, Hudson...

So that was Hudson; cheap and all-plastic, as you so correctly said before.  Meanwhile...

Remember there's a model on those shelves of The California Kid, from the Martin Sheen film of the same name?  Well...

Having the new Hot Wheels Plymouth lying around was just too tempting, as the Sheriff's car was exactly that!  Although it should have a star on each door, and on the hood; and should have push bars too.

 

That thing on the front wing is supposed to be a siren, but I've used a spare spotlight from a Corgi Hillman Hunter.  Looks the part!

[bunglebus]

New Hot Wheels found in Morrison's again. Unfortunately it looks like I got there after someone had kicked them around the shop, so the cards are damaged. Sounds like an excuse to open them

 

[sierraman]

4 hours ago, bunglebus said:

New Matchbox multipacks. Other than the revamped Field Car, nothing too exciting in them

No new single packs?

[bunglebus]

57 minutes ago, sierraman said:

No new single packs?

Nothing for months other than the UK carded ones which were castings we'd already seen. 

Woman in Entertainer said there are problems getting stuff from the East which is why all their stock of Hot Wheels is slightly older. 

Guess we're going to miss a load of Matchbox castings again too

[sierraman]

I can see Matchbox becoming USA only before long, we only get a tiny fraction of the models available there. 

[155V6]

Hotwheels Car Culture Exotics in Sainsbury's just now.Very nice,just not my cup of tea.

[bunglebus]

I keep getting trailers! @flat4alfakindly included some with some other bits that arrived this week, can anyone ID these and what they should be towed by/carry? I could Google it but where's the fun in that? Let's see how many of these you can inform me about;

This one I genuinely don't know - no markings on it anywhere, looks like early Lesney?

This is Lesney but beyond that I don't know

Majorette

Moving into King Size territory, this says CRANE 200 TON TRANSPORTER on the base

Superkings K-17

Superkings but no K- that I can see, just TRANSPORTER

This one struck me as a little odd as the markings are on the top of the trailer - K91 MOTOR CYCLE TRAILER

I definitely had one of these as a kid - I think I towed it behind a Unimog. K-35 FARM TRAILER

A very similar looking Corgi FARM TRAILER

Then there are a couple I got a few weeks back - again I don't know what they belong with, 

Corgi (Horley) Ltd 10T. GOOSE DUMPER

Finally (for now) Matchbox King Size NO 11 WHITLOCK TRAILER

Over to you....

[Split_Pin]

11 hours ago, egg said:

Faz's diecasts has this set up on pre-order - £43!

That is lovely but £43 man. 

I can see my priorities have shifted well over to 1/1 cars. 6 or 7 years ago I'd have paid double that for, say a 1/18 Roewe 750 but now I baulk even at £4.30 on a diecast.

As Tom says, I prefer the thrill of finding a Hotwheels I've been after for ages in Tesco or The Entertainer for £1.25 or whatever, opening it and studying it!

[AndyW201]

At the weekend, my username became even more out of date, when I brought home my new replacement for the Octavia, a Merc W203 C Class. So I had a hunt on ebay, to see if I could find a miniature version. Surely there might be a nice, reasonably priced 1/43 dealer model or two on there,

Luckily, good old Cararama came to the rescue. £7 mint and boxed, that's more like it squire!

Okay, so it's a different shade of blue to my real-life example and it's a pre facelift, but beggars can't be choosers...

For a model that's ever so slightly toy-like, it's not bad at all. The shape's not quite there though, I keep getting reminded of a Lexus. (Which IS the "Japanese Mercedes" tbf).

Obviously, as evidenced by the 'for 3 years and over' lettering on the box, one wouldn't expect a miniature three pointed emblem on the bonnet, but they've done a fair stab at a tampo printed grille and bonnet badge, which does look like one of the blanks that people put on when they've had the star pinched... At least the headlamps and bumper mounted foglamps are separately moulded.

Again, for the price point, the tail lights are pretty good, although the C320 logo seems a bit on the piss. (Sadly my real life version is a lowly 180 kompressor, much as I'd love a 320).

Surprisingly though, the wipers and door mirrors are done well here.

The shape of the seats are well caught too. Incidentally it's nice to see the toy like opening doors do actually include the top frames, unlike a lot of toys with their unrealistic pillarless doors.

Sadly all one colour like it's been moulded out of Caramac, bit the shape of the dash is well done , including the gear selector and steering wheel.

Wheels are a passable copy of AMG 5 spokes as commonly seen on late W209 CLKs.

Even the underside is pretty good for the price, with its separate exhaust!