Shite in Miniature II

[flat4alfa]

3 hours ago, bunglebus said:

I've been eyeing up those Polistil Rollers on eBay lately.

I have both.  They are quite shonky to my eye.

Will do photos so you can suppress the clickety-button urge.

[flat4alfa]

45 minutes ago, bicycle repairman said:

off down the out back,sprayed it gold if you look at the colour off the lid diffrent shade mr morgue must off mixed it lol but i quite like it,aussie gold 

Lucky the colour turned out more authentic!   Not only that, it represents the millionth Holden, a proper 1963 Holden EJ Special, in Cameo Gold with Kashmir White roof

Double-win

[bunglebus]

2 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

I have both.  They are quite shonky to my eye.

Will do photos so you can suppress the clickety-button urge.

I'm quite impressed with the 1:30 Silver Spoon

 

[flat4alfa]

Part of the Silver Shadow / Bentley T fleet in 1:43, together in a row

From left to right : POLISTIL ; ELIGOR ; SOLIDO ; DINKY ; CORGI

 

The Polistil Silver Cloud III Coupe is not a Shadow, so was not allowed to this party..   as, despite both Polistils being stamped 1:43, they got that one way-off as it's a good size up.  So will be photographed tomorrow perhaps with the Spot-On Bentley Continental as nearer the Spot-On scale.  And because Tat Wednesday.

[bunglebus]

Personally I think the Solido is the worst of the bunch, possibly not helped by the colour - and a colour coded grille? On a Rolls-Royce? Pretty sure that's treason. That and the bumpers make it look like one of those American fellows has customised it

[bunglebus]

Still no Matchbox 

[bunglebus]

This hobby gets out of hand easily. I was looking for something in the outhouse and decided to count my project and parts cars.

381.

I don't think I have enough years left to complete them!

[flat4alfa]

I daren't even start counting.

[flat4alfa]

On 9/24/2021 at 11:07 AM, flat4alfa said:

Lucky Toys 'Massivesome Onesome' has been fiddled with.  All 16cm of it.

Front axle would not move due to broken holder tabs.  Fixed* that with a bodge adaption that Roadkill would be proud of.  Axle now rotating.

Rear friction flywheel motor removed, oiled and now free-wheeling properly.  Reseated housing in base and axle now at proper riding height.  We have a runner!  Albeit quite growly.

Now to do a compare with the Matchbox 1-74 original

WHO DID IT WORSE?

Matchbox Gruesome Twosome, or the Lucky Toys no-idea-what-they-called-it-even-though-I-did-look

No idea if this design was ever based on a real concept, even in a drawn form, but it's still a classic Matchbox 1-75 from the 1970s

Good enough even, to be copied and scaled-up, to around what would be nearer 1:20 scale (if it existed)

The all-plastic Lucky might have just the one engine, bit it is a pretty decent homage to the die-cast original 

It makes up for the missing engine with EXTRA EXHAUST PIPES

Not only that, there is detail on the chassis of the cooling system pipes from an assumed radiator at the front.  I never knew friction flywheel motors needed water-cooling.  Now you know.

[bunglebus]

 

[bunglebus]

Wish I knew what was going on with this one, which I think is a copy as the Lucky logo is missing. What was the sticky-out bit on the window for?

 

[bunglebus]

On 23/09/2021 at 09:23, bunglebus said:

Quite liking this, I'll dig out an original for comparison. 

 

[sierraman]

Is the original a International Harvester? The new Field Car looks a bit more like seventies Bronco. 

Which the new Bronco from Ford looks bloody fantastic, everything the Defender could have been.

[bunglebus]

I don't think it's a licenced model, although it does look like a Scout

[flat4alfa]

[barrett]

Been a while since I've had anything to report because, you know, I don't collect toy cars. However I did manage to snag a cheap, early casting of the Politoys Export Ghia V280 in the right colour.

A close comparison with the later issue show the casting is actually slightly different - the early car has a metal dashboard as part of the main casting, the later issue has a separate plastic dashboard (which doesn't fit particularly well). The early one is definitely much cleaner and sharper, and of course the deep glossy paint and accurate wheels make it a much nicer thing to handle.

It's still pretty basic comapred to the M-series cars, but a nice piece and one I'm glad to have. It actually cost less than the silver version, despite being significantly harder to find.

[bunglebus]

It's been a while since I've done one of these, but the weather's a bit crap and we're all suffering from various degrees of cold symptoms - so I grabbed the 1973 Corgi catalogue out of the pile awaiting scanning. Definitely a good era for Corgi, and it was quite nice mentally ticking off the ones I have. However I don't recall laying eyes on the Mach 1 Mustang in white before - anyone else?

 

[155V6]

I really like the Whizzwheels versions of some of the older models.Some of the American cars were quite a few years old by 1973.

[bunglebus]

It's an interesting one - can't find any images of the white "59" Mustang, and the "Starfighter" dragster was renamed "Silver Streak" at launch. I thought the purple Rover 2000 was another one that wasn't made but they are out there. Also don't remember seeing the Camaro in blue with a raised roof, I think the later Whizzwheels cars must be less common than their earlier counterparts

[andrew e]

1973 was the year of corgis infamous Columbian toy fair disaster, with only the marching powder Unimog making the shelves.

[Bren]

Father christmas may / may not be bringing me a whizzwheels camaro.

[sierraman]

Picked this up the other day, £2 plus postage on t’ebay. One that had been elusive at car boots etc. 

[Bren]

1 hour ago, bunglebus said:

It's an interesting one - can't find any images of the white "59" Mustang, and the "Starfighter" dragster was renamed "Silver Streak" at launch. I thought the purple Rover 2000 was another one that wasn't made but they are out there. Also don't remember seeing the Camaro in blue with a raised roof, I think the later Whizzwheels cars must be less common than their earlier counterparts

I have the whizzwheels rover 2000 however don't ask me where it's paint went. Some of these had fairly short lives and as a result are expensive - compare the prices of whizzwheels rover 2000/camaro/ corvette to their earlier counterparts. You will pay a premium due to their rarity.

[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, sierraman said:

Picked this up the other day, £2 plus postage on t’ebay. One that had been elusive at car boots etc. 

The transporter or the transported? Should have a Capri on board

 

[sierraman]

I’ve got a Capri in the loft somewhere to go on it. The Xantia I picked up in the summer for 20p. 

Just trying to fill the gaps in the collection!

[Remspoor]

These are not die-cast and the scale is the same as N Gauge railway models. 1:160. They say that can be increased a little.

 

Maybe they make a model of that obscure vehicle you have been looking for.

https://railnscale.com/vehicles-cars/

 

[mitsisigma01]

Does anyone collect the dealer supplied BMW miniatures, in 2007 there seems to be quite a few... A 122 page catalogue with price list

[andrew e]

I really think for me that 1973 catalogue is peak Corgi for the smaller scale. Even with the whiz wheels everything seems so desirable 😎

[mitsisigma01]

Whose got a real bmw and which model, I'll see if they have a pic and number... and a 2007 price 👍

[sierraman]

8 hours ago, andrew e said:

I really think for me that 1973 catalogue is peak Corgi for the smaller scale. Even with the whiz wheels everything seems so desirable 😎

They were fantastic, a particular favourite it’s the Mercedes 350, so much more detailed that the Lesney. I think they were at a peak with the effort made but it was obviously starting to lose them money by the end of the decade.