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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.

 

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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.

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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.

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Looks like one of my amazing restos from days gone by... ;)

 

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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?

 

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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.
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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.
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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:post-26064-0-91296400-1529674459_thumb.jpgpost-26064-0-91657500-1529674634_thumb.jpg

And some tramshite

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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 post-26064-0-80241200-1529675207_thumb.jpg

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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.jpg

And some tramshite

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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 15296750540387936348872115579306.jpg

Looks like a Peppercorn Class A1 or A2.

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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)bf16633bc9e1d6c2bf9414b12febb0a4.jpg

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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)bf16633bc9e1d6c2bf9414b12febb0a4.jpg

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?)

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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....

 

 

 

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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!

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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)bf16633bc9e1d6c2bf9414b12febb0a4.jpg

 

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?

 

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VERY SMOL KOLLEKSHUN FOR VERY SMOL SHITE:

 

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Breakfast.

 

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Early start (for a lazy ganch like moi).

 

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The reason.

 

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The method.

 

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Nice morning for it, anyway. ^^ Two for joy.

 

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DESTINATION ACHIEVED. MUCH EXCITE.

 

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Are they open? Are they closed? Hell, even they don't seem to know.

 

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BOOM!

 

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Record time for KOLLEKSHUN?

 

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Precision minishite tools...

 

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Oh yes.

 

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Oh very yes.

 

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Ver' nice.

 

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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.

 

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Just as I imagined it, and drooled over it, thirty years ago.

 

 

Is it as good as an original? No, of course not.

 

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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?

 

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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.

 

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Bonus opportunity to brush up my Dutch, too.

 

I HAZ OVERJOY.

 

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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...

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