Shite in miniature

[Hudsonpie]

MrLobster....thanks mate just been looking ....nope fucking pictures are gone forever....I am so shat with compooters its untrue....great... means I've got to fanny about repeating the whole process, I wanted them so that when I come to finally start laying out the ground and positioning everything I would have something to refer to as the cars and trucks and buildings etc have to be in the right place to make best use of the space.... and my oldest is of school and my youngest would just love to get his hands on me models.....so I have to wait until they are out of the house.

Some pics of the just started garage and some of the yard shots can be seen on SPC forum in the diorama section....have a skip....which is where my PC nearly ended up.........

[VWPowered]

thats soo proper

[bigstraight6]

Superb modelling skills Mr Hudsonpie! that container workshop is ace...

[VWPowered]

well did what i could with what free materials i have

 

[Hudsonpie]

Did I spy a squashed K70 in the pile, also would love to see the pick-up in the upper left of the second pic...looks ace mate, love the lights on in the caravan....."perrywinkle blue......"......

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[Ratdat]

Blimey, check out these Airfix kits! I don't remember these at all!

 

[VWPowered]

ruddy nora they yours chap

[Ratdat]

ruddy nora they yours chap

No, I wish they were! They did a Victor estate too. Here's a pic from the catalogue I've just found on the internerd...

 

[Spottedlaurel]

I wonder if I've seen the Zodiac for sale somewhere once, seems familiar. But the FD estate is definitely a new one to me! I wonder if they build up anything like how the artwork suggests?...

[VWPowered]

be an awesome addition to any collection

[Hudsonpie]

I had the Cortina when I was a kid, but I cant remember much about it. Must be mega rare now as well. The older 1/32 kits fetch a bomb on EBAY.

[Mash]

ruddy nora they yours chap

No, I wish they were! They did a Victor estate too. Here's a pic from the catalogue I've just found on the internerd...

 

Unfortunately these kits are the reason these cars cannot be re-released like the Escort, Viva and Herald have been. This custom range used the same moulds but were modified with the arches and so on

 

They are extremely rare.

[VWPowered]

scrappage scheme for car model moulds

[brammy777]

Weird, some of the chinese Ebay sellers are currently selling some of the 2010 Vanguard range, but so far all the new toolings from 2009 bar one havent been on anything. Whats with that?

[morris_ital_lover]

Weird, some of the chinese Ebay sellers are currently selling some of the 2010 Vanguard range, but so far all the new toolings from 2009 bar one havent been on anything. Whats with that?

...either, Chinese are selling in advance I find this with model shops who list things as in stock and then say wait... wait... wait... sadly we're out of stock and will send you the items in one month or they've fallen off the back of a chinese truck before they got to the uk market!As for airfix cars if you want a list of the 1.32 ones... here it goes off the top of my head, bear in mind that most haven't been in production for about 30 years and as a result are very hard and expensive to come buy!Vauxhall VivaVauxhall Victor EstateFord CapriFord EscortFord CortinaFord ZodiacAustin MaxiMorris MarinaMorris Mini MinorMGBMG 1100Jag E-typeAustin-Healey Frogeye spriteTriumph TR4ATriumph HeraldAston Martin DB4 (.,.THE Bond One!)VW Beetle... infact just go here http://www.onethirtysecond.co.uk/resin/ ... t_main.phpThen a long list of 1/32 vintage cars but they are not my field.m0rris

[barrett]

i had no idea they did so many! It's a shame they didn't re-issue the whole lot, that site says there wasn't much interest in the tin-tops when they did the herald and escrote. I bet the escrote would fly off the shelves nowdays! i built the MG, TR4, Sprite, Aston (which was very crude and looked rubbish) e-type, 250LM and beetle when i was younger, iirc those were the only ones they re-issued. I'd love to have a crack at a maxi now, these simple kits can be made to look pretty smart with a bit of effort.

 

just seen over on OJC Mash has the maxi and Marina kits!

http://oldjapanesecar.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=1813&page=4

[Father Ted]

Oi - Mr Lobster - can you get a Zafira - B in silver from anywhere? I had an opel badged one in blue but one of my little shits, sorry, little darlings has broken it.

[morris_ital_lover]

Yeah they did loads, its not known exactly but.. many of the molds including the bona fide shite, victor/marina/maxi molds are missing presumed dead! But I'm going to make mine based on resin scalextric car shells and modified airfix ecort chassis!m0rris

[Tayne]

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[VWPowered]

i missed out on 2 of those the other day fer 1cent

[VWPowered]

did find these smart lttle trailers through

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Single-Axle-trail ... 4703QQcmdZ

 

[Mr Lobster]

Oi - Mr Lobster - can you get a Zafira - B in silver from anywhere? I had an opel badged one in blue but one of my little shits, sorry, little darlings has broken it.

Probably, yes. They are all Opel badged and I think an awful lot of them are VXRs. I'll have a look whats available and let you know.

[155V6]

I had the Airfix Cortina,it was built as a short circuit hot rod but is long gone now.I did find this Dinky Transit though which has some of the transfers from the Cortina.

[VWPowered]

proper shag wagon lol

 

anyone had problems with corgi, i ordered 2 mini's one was fine the other looked like the paint was extremely cracked and once out the box fell apart like eggshell

 

[brammy777]

Complain about that VWP!As a kid i do remember some of my corgi cars getting extreme metal fatigue and cracking apart.

[VWPowered]

already have nicely like

[VWPowered]

i dont normally restore/recommission but garage was gonna weight it in so gave it a new lease of life

 

 

and the plan with the mini's was one bust up one and one mint (were only £2 each)

 

[VWPowered]

i only have three 1/18 cars ones a tuning Zender Golf Mk5 (in Gulf Colours) a Michlin VW Split Van and this Mk1 Golf GTI, which as you can tell has been forgotten about and looks a proper barnfind

 

[Father Ted]

Oi - Mr Lobster - can you get a Zafira - B in silver from anywhere? I had an opel badged one in blue but one of my little shits, sorry, little darlings has broken it.

Probably, yes. They are all Opel badged and I think an awful lot of them are VXRs. I'll have a look whats available and let you know.

Arr - cheers for that - the blue one I have is a VXR Opel badged one as at the time it was the only B series Zafira I could find. Now with cracked bumper, missing aerial, wing mirror and fog lights, I have my suspicions it was number 2 child.....Just got 3 Royal Mail / Datapost liveried 1:63(ish) scale Metros by Corgi, quite iffy quality and the dies look very much like scaled down 1:43rd scale ones as the boot lid looks like it should open, but doesnt. Trying to get a while Longbridge MG Turbo variant in 1:63(ish) as all my dogs, sorry Metros, have been white.....