Conrad D. Conelrad Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 Another question, how do you pop out the glass on this super fast without snapping it? IMG_20180622_141415.jpg Oh God, riveted in glass. You've got to drill out that rivet super carefully without drilling through the roof or cracking the glass. egg and Junkman 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egg Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 eek, I haz the fears...! thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datsuncog Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 Oh God, riveted in glass. You've got to drill out that rivet super carefully without drilling through the roof or cracking the glass. I find a hex drill bit that fits into a pistol-grip cordless screwdriver quite handy for getting tricky stuff like that drilled out - low revs to shave off small amounts, and very responsive to hand pressure. Or indeed a Dremel type thing, which you may already have. But not the big Bosch hammer drill, no. Nice casting, the Zodiac Mk IV - I have a fairly decent Superfast example that lived on the dash of my Fiesta for years. Junkman, Conrad D. Conelrad, Skizzer and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conrad D. Conelrad Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 I use one of those hand crank drills so I can do it super super slow. Split_Pin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 I'd say a large drill bit on slow, you shouldn't need to go in far to pop the glass out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 I'd say a large drill bit on slow, you shouldn't need to go in far to make a mess of it. EFA egg and sierraman 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercrocker Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 This isn't really a recommendation but I have successfully de-glazed small scale stuff using a small bit of thin-wall steel tube heated up, it needs to be slightly bigger than the roof rivet in diameter. You risk cracking it but if its a fairly large roof it won't show outside the car. Re-glue around the rivet which of course remains in place. Junkman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
155V6 Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 Looks like one of my amazing restos from days gone by... 20180610_210959.jpg 20180610_211004.jpg 20180610_211008.jpg Hoping to remedy that soon by stripping and getting new bits to repair and repaint mine. Seems that Acme 3000 can do me a replacement glazing unit and tailgate from Ebay for not a huge amount. Pale blue paint in the doorframe of yours suggests it was a Kenwood liveried panel van rather than police, maybe? Dinky 407 Ford Transit - Kenwood.jpg Dinky really got their money out of that casting, modifying it substantially at least twice in line with Ford's own Transit facelifts - or was it a complete recast? Never had an early one to compare against...The 1st version is a bit smaller,the 2nd & 3rd are basically the same with the 3rd being updated. Datsuncog 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
155V6 Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 The mazda pick up was created as an incredible hulk toy. I got the matchbox car transporter when it came out. The cars were quickly removed - even the lower one once the tang above it had been removed.Pretty sure the plain one came 1st & the Hulk was a later issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amishtat Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 Thanks Datsuncog, I just assumed it was a police van because of the pale blue, but there's no trace of any roof adornment and I'd no idea there'd been a Kenwood-liveried one. It and the D-series came out of another box of broken crap I got at the auctions a couple of years ago. As did these:And some tramshite which seem to be white metal kits in varying states of completion. The rest of the box consists of a half-built white metal and brass locomotive kit, I'm guessing an LNER pacific mercrocker, Datsuncog and Junkman 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egg Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 Just drilled it out slowly, some damage, but visible bits ok. Could replace if I get enthusiastic. Can now strip the carcass anyway! I've just realised this one is meant to have a tyre under the bonnet... Thanks all. mercrocker, Junkman and Datsuncog 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artdjones Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 Thanks Datsuncog, I just assumed it was a police van because of the pale blue, but there's no trace of any roof adornment and I'd no idea there'd been a Kenwood-liveried one. It and the D-series came out of another box of broken crap I got at the auctions a couple of years ago. As did these: IMG_20180622_142444.jpg 15296744760746515589502084910047.jpgAnd some tramshite 15296746955075568645380560060147.jpgwhich seem to be white metal kits in varying states of completion. The rest of the box consists of a half-built white metal and brass locomotive kit, I'm guessing an LNER pacific 15296750540387936348872115579306.jpgLooks like a Peppercorn Class A1 or A2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artdjones Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 My kitchen table this evening.I sort of lost track of how many things I bought in the great sale - 11.Great value,though and all that I'd hoped for. Junkman, egg and Datsuncog 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amishtat Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 Looks like a Peppercorn Class A1 or A2.Thanks for that, I knew it wasn't a Gresley because of that step in the line if the footplate. If any of you want it and the trams get in touch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pillock Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 Smoll Pnappl Wgns arrived today, thanks DatsunCog! Now I can make my desk look like what Billy wishes his parking area would. Larger VW Sambacamper was also bought, need to get hold of some 1:43 OZ Alloys and work out what to make a scale rollcage from... It comes apart pleasingly easily for what I have in mind (just to check they're not massively rare before I go all Code 3 on its ass, are they) Datsuncog and RayMK 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amishtat Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 1/18 Rover 3500S by Cult. It's a proper beauty but hadn't realised how dusty it had got blakey79, Junkman, Skizzer and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egg Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 Oh look, a horsey-horse. Appropriate really, as my grandmother used to make the journey from Teynham to Canterbury by pony and trap when she was a lass in the 1920s! Junkman and mercrocker 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egg Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 IMG_20180622_114418.jpgSurprisingly unfucked Matchbox D-seriesA more fucked one here from box of dreams*. Cost of postage if anyone wants... Junkman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quicksilver Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 Smoll Pnappl Wgns arrived today, thanks DatsunCog! Now I can make my desk look like what Billy wishes his parking area would. Larger VW Sambacamper was also bought, need to get hold of some 1:43 OZ Alloys and work out what to make a scale rollcage from... It comes apart pleasingly easily for what I have in mind (just to check they're not massively rare before I go all Code 3 on its ass, are they)Be careful with the roll bar on that Golf cabrio, it's very fragile and both of mine are broken. Cabrio is Dub scene phail anyway as there's nowhere to fit a roof rack to transport your pineapples on (can you get 1/72 pineapples?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pillock Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 You simply pile the rear seat high with 1:72 radio flyers, oil cans, beer fridges sprayed with brown paint to look rusty and bikes you found in the 1:72 canal. The pineapple goes on top. Junkman and sheffcortinacentre 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egg Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 My grandad was a farm labourer for 60 years, so he clearly bought his kids much farm shite...(all broken) mercrocker and Junkman 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egg Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 mercrocker and Junkman 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercrocker Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 So you loik Faaarmshite....... Not much agricultural connection in my family other than the usual tendency to have more connection with the land the further back you go - my Great Grandfathers were shepherd and gamekeeper respectively - but I do like Dinky and Britains.... This was once our spare bed.... Vantman, Junkman, egg and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted June 23, 2018 Share Posted June 23, 2018 That is just beautiful. Needs MOAR Lanz Bulldog, though. mercrocker 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datsuncog Posted June 23, 2018 Share Posted June 23, 2018 IMG_20180622_163114781_HDR.jpg My kitchen table this evening.I sort of lost track of how many things I bought in the great sale - 11.Great value,though and all that I'd hoped for. That's fantastic, delighted they all got to you in one piece! Weird to see such familiar items in an unfamiliar setting, mind... I must have had that Chrysler taxi for over 25 years. Still, it's not like I'm running out of models anytime soon! Enjoy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datsuncog Posted June 23, 2018 Share Posted June 23, 2018 Smoll Pnappl Wgns arrived today, thanks DatsunCog! Now I can make my desk look like what Billy wishes his parking area would. Larger VW Sambacamper was also bought, need to get hold of some 1:43 OZ Alloys and work out what to make a scale rollcage from... It comes apart pleasingly easily for what I have in mind (just to check they're not massively rare before I go all Code 3 on its ass, are they) Yaay! Great stuff - they really are cracking models, those Cararama 1/72, though it's true they wouldn't last five minutes with yer average four-year-old. I doubt the VW Samba is all that rare; it came from either Poundland or Gamleys c.2005! Be great to see the finished product! Inspiration for the Cabby? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pillock Posted June 23, 2018 Share Posted June 23, 2018 I would say that Golf can get in the sea, but it looks like it's been there once already!I think the smaller ones are too nice to mess with, although I'm always interested how people do RHD conversions on models like these Datsuncog 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amishtat Posted June 23, 2018 Share Posted June 23, 2018 Slot car shite 59Impala, mercrocker, sheffcortinacentre and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3VOM Posted June 23, 2018 Share Posted June 23, 2018 IMG_20180623_100150.jpgIMG_20180623_100412.jpg15297449380791306707602217285737.jpg1529745145044245968630685298919.jpgSlot car shiteI'd swear those were sold in the UK in kit form by Rico or Ricoh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datsuncog Posted June 23, 2018 Share Posted June 23, 2018 VERY SMOL KOLLEKSHUN FOR VERY SMOL SHITE: Breakfast. Early start (for a lazy ganch like moi). The reason. The method. Nice morning for it, anyway. ^^ Two for joy. DESTINATION ACHIEVED. MUCH EXCITE. Are they open? Are they closed? Hell, even they don't seem to know. BOOM! Record time for KOLLEKSHUN? Precision minishite tools... Oh yes. Oh very yes. Ver' nice. The money shot(s). Come on, it's the doors that get you too, right? A much neater job than Dinky GB managed on the MkIV Zodiac, IMHO. Just as I imagined it, and drooled over it, thirty years ago. Is it as good as an original? No, of course not. It looks kinda 'bright', while the paintwork suffers from a few of the blemishes Atlas are (were?) known for. But is it in my cabinet? HELL YES!! I even evicted a Renault Fuego to make room for it. Many thanks to Junkman for giving me this stunning opportunity, and for his courteous updates and scrupulous posting and packing. Much satisfaction, 72/10, would highly recommend for all minishite acquisition purposes. Bonus opportunity to brush up my Dutch, too. I HAZ OVERJOY. EDIT: Paint blemishes are by no means a bad thing - it may make it a much easier decision to go for a repaint at some point... 155V6, junkyarddog, rml2345 and 12 others 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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