A Spring visit with the Missus to the always-great Huddersfield Second Hand Market garnered three little nifty trinkets this morning.
For the grand total of £2.50, I picked up a fab Peggy Nesbit Mountie, a neat 007 badge (a particular film?) and a banged-up Corgi Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, which was one whole pound!
There were many beat-up but neat die-casts from our childhoods on offer: SHADO3, SPC, Lunar Battle Chariot, Lunar Bug and Astro 1 to name a few, but with a price tag of a tenner each I gave them short schrift.
At £1, Truly Scrumptious made my day as I was desperate for a new and cheap DIY project.
Old Chitty's condition was pretty sh*tty tho, but it still had its fold-our plastic wings, snake horn and lever. The steering wheel too!
Ian Fleming's 'other' famous car may just work out yet!
(Where did the original movie car end up?)
So, Saturday afternoon was spent in die-cast heaven, jazzing up a toy I adored as a kid.
I couldn't recall the plastic front and back wing attachments from my childhood, so I've not bothered making any.
Here's what I did come up with. Not perfect but hope you approve.
For fun here it is with the plastic Marx version I found at Doncaster car boot a few years back ( incomplete but I did get the inflatable wing rug!) and blogged at the time.
They're more or less the same size. Which do you prefer? Corgi or Marx?
Another good looking project. You always find such great models every time you go out.
ReplyDeleteThanks Paul. As long as it's cheap I'll bring it home!
DeleteExcellent project Woodsy! As much as I like Marx, I think Corgi did it better.
ReplyDeleteThanks Ed, yes, me too. Corgi nailed it in the 60's.
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