Shite in miniature

[Mr Lobster]

Bloody hell Lobster, you've got an SVX and a Piazza in!

ALL UR FUTURE PURCHASES R BELONG TO US

 

(I've got a C4 in as well )

[Formula Autos]

Shite Central for model cars:

 

http://digbysmodels.co.uk/

 

They seem to specialise in hoovering up models from continental partworks, so the 1:43 offerings are usually from IXO or Norev.

 

The van section is absolutely rammed with French commercial vehicles. Vive le shite!

[Mr Lobster]

The French are big time into partwork stuff - a lot of what they ^ have is the Mythique R4 series and the Citroen H Collection. We've just ordered a load of other assorted French vans - Citroen U23 petrol tankers, R4s, Peugeot J5s which are due to land in the next week or two.

 

A lot of people reckoned that we wouldn't be getting much partwork stuff coming into the UK this year but if anything its gone completely the other way and theres been boatloads of it. I've got a load of assorted cars that are pretty cheap that arrived yesterday - R5, Facel Vega, 205 GTi, Porsche 928, BMW 3 series that I think I'll be dragging to Retro Show rather than sticking on eBay as I really can't face sorting through it all

[Mr Lobster]

Shite Central for model cars:

 

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/LobsterDiecast

 

 

EFA

 

[VWPowered]

scored all this lot fr a tenner

 

turns out a boxed carbine on ebay goes for between £100/135, sadly i didnt know this until the girls broke the front end off

 

what the girls got mostly Britians, good quality stuff and afew majorettes, i actually quite like this stuff

 

 

and my little collection of trucks

 

Green Unit with Green and Yellow Trailer - Majorette Saviem

Red Unit with Blue Trailer - Guiloy Barreirs 42/38T

Silver Unit - Superkings Ford LTS (Tarmac trailer belong to this unit)

Red Unit - Majorette Scania

Red Hydraulic Excavator by Matchbx dated 1970

 

 

also scored this International Tractor that does some interesting wheel camber angles ;D

 

[VWPowered]

Hilti Special Edition 1/43 Ford Anglia (says Thames on bonnet )

 

ebay special less than a fiver with the postage included there are more of this model at double the price without the postage

 

[morris_ital_lover]

Don't worry its correct, ertainly some if not all of the anglebox vans were named thames, leading to a situation like today where there is a large van and a car based van running around with the same name (thames/thames and transit/transit connect)!

 

m0rris

 

p.s. nice cheap find there!

[Spottedlaurel]

You did well with the Britains stuff there! I have some from when I was young and I now try and add odd bits for the children's farmyard. They're pretty good with it, but sometimes I'm selective about what comes out when they have friends round...

 

I also have the IH tractor, and the red Majorette tractor unit. Don't know if it came with other trailers, but mine has a boat on a low loader. Had that one since I was 9-10, bought in France.

[VWPowered]

they are loving the tractors

 

didnt know that about anglia's, not a bad van

[Richard]

Don't worry its correct, ertainly some if not all of the anglebox vans were named thames, leading to a situation like today where there is a large van and a car based van running around with the same name (thames/thames and transit/transit connect)!

 

m0rris

 

p.s. nice cheap find there!

They were planning to use the name Consul for their medium-sized cars too, the first Cortinas had a Consul badge on the front.

[VWPowered]

my 2nd car was a cortina Mk1 that had consul on the bonnet

[Guest]

There were some quite interesting deals on 1:43 models at the Le Mans Classic.

 

I'd been after an Ebbro Dome Zero for ages, and found one for the equivalent of £11. I followed this up with a Spark Suzuki Cappuccino, and a Mazda 787B, both around the £14 mark. Way cheaper than eBay if you walked around for a bit.

 

I also got a pair of Michelin T shirts that are too tight. But that's because I'm a fat bastard.

[VWPowered]

just yankee scrap today

 

Ford Thunderbird by Solido

Chrysler Windsor by Solido

Truck has no model or make, but presumed Majorette as i has a couple similar...

 

[Burnside]

just yankee scrap today

 

Ford Thunderbird by Solido

Chrysler Windsor by Solido

Truck has no model or make, but presumed Majorette as i has a couple similar...

 

 

The truck is definitely a Majorette! as i used to have the same truck as a kid.

Originally it came with a Honda F1 car and trailer/ workshop.

[cms206]

I've bought real cars for less in the past, but these seriously had me at trouser crisis time...

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1-18-CITROEN-BX-19-GTI-1984-OTTO-MOBILE-OTTOMOBILE-/120602458445?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_186

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Otto-Mobile-Renault-Fuego-Turbo-Red-Color-LE1500-1-18-/200505681790?pt=Diecast_Vehicles

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1-18-RENAULT-11-TURBO-1985-azul-OTTO-MOBILE-OTTOMOBILE-/120559222413?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_186

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Otto-Mobile-Renault-R-15-GTL-Green-Met-LE-1500-1-18-/200503760516?pt=Diecast_Vehicles

 

All very aspensive... they do a 405 as well in the same scale... mmmmmm...

[eddyramrod]

Stand by for a BUNCH of pics!

 

A few clues there about my collection, shipped all the way to Cyprus with us! I have approx 1200 in assorted scales, ranging from parts donors to mint-boxed, and from OO/HO to 1/18. I love police cars, as mentioned elsewhere; ditto American cars; and as you can see from my workbench, I'm not afraid of a little work to make something into something else.

[VWPowered]

wow lovely collection that

 

got this from the vide-grenier on sunday

 

 

fer 2e would of been rude not too

[MrRegieRitmo]

 

what's to the right of the Trotter van, some kind of Saab??

[eddyramrod]

Well spotted. Yes, you're looking at part of the film/TV collection. This is the Bburago Saab 900, painted black to represent the Saab used by Leslie Grantham in the short-lived early-90s series The Paradise Club.

[Tayne]

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[eddyramrod]

Of course, the legendary SLE 71R, a repaint of the Matchbox KS Mk2.

[Tayne]

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[eddyramrod]

There is a Vanishing Point Challenger, but it's in the pic above, in front of Rubber Duck's truck. I think what you're looking at is the white Charger, as used in one episode of Dukes by the great Cale Yarborough.

 

The H2 is for CSI Miami, our hero the great Horatio drives one!

[Negative Creep]

Where did you buy those glass cabinets?

[mnde]

http://www.liveauctioneers.com/catalog/912/page4

 

This auction site is full of OMG

 

I want the GS models!! and the Rancho!

 

Mark.

[Guest]

I've bought real cars for less in the past, but these seriously had me at trouser crisis time...

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1-18-CITROEN-BX-19-GTI-1984-OTTO-MOBILE-OTTOMOBILE-/120602458445?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_186

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Otto-Mobile-Renault-Fuego-Turbo-Red-Color-LE1500-1-18-/200505681790?pt=Diecast_Vehicles

 

 

 

All very aspensive... they do a 405 as well in the same scale... mmmmmm...

 

Chrikey. That Mi 16 is giving me the horn. NO. I have nowhere to keep it, and I'd have to buy a cabinet......

 

Edit: Oh God. They do a 306 GTI 6 (or 'S') as well.........

[Mr Lobster]

Get it. The Otto stuff is seriously good. Really is. And very limited edition as well. They've done an R11 which is giving me the eye.

[Mr Lobster]

Fuggin 'ell, I've just noticed they did this -

 

 

Probably just as well that they have sold out...

[Lord Sterling]

Fuggin 'ell, I've just noticed they did this -

 

 

Probably just as well that they have sold out...

 

Theres an Orange pov-spec model aswell as a 1/18.

 

Why do all these good cars have to come out when I've no fuggin money!

[Tayne]

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