flat4alfa Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 That Dinky Capri is so minty and valuable it should be a named item on your contents insurance ? Sudsprint 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorfolkNWeigh Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 1 hour ago, bunglebus said: Dug out the 1971 Dinky catalogue, there's some amazing stuff in this one Dinky 197101 by RS, on Flickr Dinky 197102 by RS, on Flickr Dinky 197103 by RS, on Flickr Dinky 197104 by RS, on Flickr Dinky 197105 by RS, on Flickr Dinky 197106 by RS, on Flickr Dinky 197107 by RS, on Flickr Dinky 197108 by RS, on Flickr Dinky 197109 by RS, on Flickr Dinky 197110 by RS, on Flickr Dinky 197111 by RS, on Flickr Dinky 197112 by RS, on Flickr Dinky 197113 by RS, on Flickr Dinky 197114 by RS, on Flickr Dinky 197115 by RS, on Flickr Dinky 197116 by RS, on Flickr Dinky 197117 by RS, on Flickr The Rolls-Royce with four opening doors, boot and bonnet plus the Mercury Cougar and Cadillac Eldorado are standouts for me I remember getting that Dinky catalogue from a little gift shop in Minehead, we were are on a holiday to Butlins and it rained all day everyday! Me and my one brother spent hours deciding what we were going to spend our holiday money on back at that same shop a couple of days later. I got the Monteverdi and my brother the Police Range Rover, I remember playing with them in the back of the Mk2 Cortina estate using the ribs in the bare steel floor as roads and eating chips in the pouring rain whilst my Mum and Dad argued in the front- sometimes I think I share too much on here! Anyway we also had the Jensen,Eldorado, Cougar , Cooper S Police Car and all the Captain Scarlett range, back at home. Datsuncog, bunglebus, Zie and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 I must have been a late developer if I’m 34 and still farting about with model cars. Dick Longbridge, bunglebus and eddyramrod 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 BREAKFAST THIS MORNING bunglebus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 OH, HANG ON... bunglebus and Dick Longbridge 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 OH I REMEMBER NOW... WHAT A NICE SURPRISE FROM POST LADY ? All were a Pound each apart from the Chevrolet Stocker which ran to £1.80, shocker Datsuncog, bunglebus, AndyW201 and 5 others 6 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenmil Socket Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 Wow - that Saab! flat4alfa 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sudsprint Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 2 hours ago, NorfolkNWeigh said: I remember getting that Dinky catalogue from a little gift shop in Minehead, we were are on a holiday to Butlins and it rained all day everyday! Me and my one brother spent hours deciding what we were going to spend our holiday money on back at that same shop a couple of days later. I got the Monteverdi and my brother the Police Range Rover, I remember playing with them in the back of the Mk2 Cortina estate using the ribs in the bare steel floor as roads and eating chips in the pouring rain whilst my Mum and Dad argued in the front- sometimes I think I share too much on here! Anyway we also had the Jensen,Eldorado, Cougar , Cooper S Police Car and all the Captain Scarlett range, back at home. That purple Dinky Eldorado was a thing of unmatched wonderousness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenmil Socket Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/660450617/ford-escort-mk1?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=ford+escort+model+car&ref=sr_gallery-1-1&organic_search_click=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sudsprint Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 The plain clothes Capri is also an automatic. Of course Dinky weren't the only one to upscale... AndyW201, hennabm, Datsuncog and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 There was the big Corgi '72 Lotus JPS on a stall at St Albans antique market last summer and I baulked at the £15 he wanted.... For one: I still have the 1/32ish Corgi one from when a boy, hooray! Two: also have the Scalextric 1/32 slot car.. Three: the Polistil 1/28 slot car too... Four: the Polistil 1/34 slot as well just to help the OCD along.... arghh! Could always do a Who Did It Worse comparison.... Sudsprint 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 My arrival was this mahoosive Zylmex K704 California "T". A few missing and broken bits (should have kept the engine out of the K53 Matchbox), but not exactly common so I had to have it 20200428_170150 by RS, on Flickr 20200428_170144 by RS, on Flickr 20200428_170202 by RS, on Flickr Datsuncog, AndyW201, flat4alfa and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skizzer Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 13 hours ago, bunglebus said: Dug out the 1971 Dinky catalogue, there's some amazing stuff in this one I was completely obsessed with that ‘71 Dinky catalogue. I took it everywhere with me: my mother would wheel me round the Co-op in my pushchair and wouldn’t hear a peep out of me as I endlessly re-studied every detail of it. I more or less learned to read from it, aged three. I learned ’mummy’ and ’daddy’ and ’nose is not toes’ and ‘“How about that?” said the Cat in the Hat’ the regular way - my mother was a progressive primary school teacher - but I was equally at home with such terms as Hawker Siddeley executive jet, Cadillac Superior ambulance and Pontiac Parisienne (although I rhymed it with Plastiscene). This made me deeply unpopular when I started school and pointed out that going back to cat/mat/sat was not what Skizzer Minor was here to do. I eventually accumulated about half a dozen actual models from it - the Range Rover, Mini, AEC petrol tanker (huge!), Ford D-series road sweeper, E-Type, Interceptor and Red Arrow bus. The best ones, the dream cars, were the ones like the Silver Shadow where everything opens. That catalogue shaped my life. It has a lot to answer for. RoadworkUK, Reluctant Adult, eddyramrod and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddyramrod Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 I was donated a D-series sweeper not long ago, from my brother-in-law - there's a photo of it somewhere upthread - and I have a much rougher one already, from a Tat Box somewhere. I also have the police Zodiac and several Accident Units, at least one of which I've had from new. And one which came from my brother-in-law, with the sweeper. Very kind of him! These hefty beasts were really Dinky's finest hour, satisfyingly heavy in the hand, with all the opening features. I never had the Silver Shadow though, much as I would have liked to. Skizzer and Datsuncog 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 I feel like the Corgi and Matchbox catalogues I have left so scan may be a disappointment after these - I do have a quartet of slightly more unusual ones too though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 After that Dinky Catalogue (which I have a good few of the centre pages - didn't know was 1974 one until now, thanks) just about any other catalogue loses the game. They really had it together didn't they! What a shame the production costings, blinkered management and militant staffing killed the company. I feel like I should cuddle a Dinky and think of what could have been... [I am currently fondling a Dinky Princes 2200 HL in white] eddyramrod 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoctorRetro Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 1 hour ago, flat4alfa said: After that Dinky Catalogue (which I have a good few of the centre pages - didn't know was 1974 one until now, thanks) just about any other catalogue loses the game. They really had it together didn't they! What a shame the production costings, blinkered management and militant staffing killed the company. I feel like I should cuddle a Dinky and think of what could have been... [I am currently fondling a Dinky Princes 2200 HL in white] 'Fondling a Dinky Princess' doesn't sound wrong at all... ? Sudsprint and Remspoor 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoctorRetro Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 Today I picked up a couple of F&F cars from Wilko, and a Ford Thunderbird from Poundland. Also messed about with the bumpers and glazing for the XR3state... AndyW201, warch, eddyramrod and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 I bought some of those F+F cars thinking they'd be good for customs or wheel swaps. So far all I've done is steal the wheels off the Impala for the Maisto 356 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 Neither of those ranges are in my local Wilko or Poundland... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 9 hours ago, TheDoctor said: 'Fondling a Dinky Princess' doesn't sound wrong at all... ? Wash your mind out! it was an innocent fondle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 4 hours ago, flat4alfa said: Wash your mind out! it was an innocent fondle Tell us more ....... flat4alfa 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 Here's a couple of weirdos - HW Peeping Bomb and Corgi Pininfarina Modulo Datsuncog and Dick Longbridge 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenmil Socket Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 @bunglebus what is the dry wipe marker method you mentioned for removing decals? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 2 hours ago, Tenmil Socket said: @bunglebus what is the dry wipe marker method you mentioned for removing decals? Colour over the tampo with the dry wipe pen, wipe it off. I was using paper towel but I'm sure any absorbent cloth would work. Takes a while and I was alternating between that and acetone. Be wary of getting it on the glass as it can stain it. Tenmil Socket 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
155V6 Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 Some bits from a small lot I got today.The Jag is made by Baravelli from Italy & is a new one on me.The Corgi bobsleigh is quite worn but is all there,a lot seem to be missing the plastic bumper. flat4alfa, bunglebus, Datsuncog and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 That yellow Turismo is awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 Weather was pretty rubbish today so I did no work on my die casts at all. But I did scan this... Zylmex1979-001 by RS, on Flickr Zylmex1979-002 by RS, on Flickr Zylmex1979-003 by RS, on Flickr Zylmex1979-004 by RS, on Flickr Zylmex1979-005 by RS, on Flickr Zylmex1979-006 by RS, on Flickr Zylmex1979-007 by RS, on Flickr Zylmex1979-008 by RS, on Flickr Zylmex1979-009 by RS, on Flickr Zylmex1979-010 by RS, on Flickr Zylmex1979-011 by RS, on Flickr Zylmex1979-012 by RS, on Flickr Zylmex1979-013 by RS, on Flickr Zylmex1979-014 by RS, on Flickr Zylmex1979-015 by RS, on Flickr Zylmex1979-016 by RS, on Flickr Zylmex1979-017 by RS, on Flickr Zylmex1979-018 by RS, on Flickr Zylmex1979-019 by RS, on Flickr Zylmex1979-020 by RS, on Flickr Zylmex1979-021 by RS, on Flickr Zylmex1979-022 by RS, on Flickr flat4alfa, 155V6, Sudsprint and 4 others 4 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 ...and this Zylmex1986-001- by RS, on Flickr Zylmex1986-002- by RS, on Flickr Zylmex1986-003- by RS, on Flickr Zylmex1986-004- by RS, on Flickr Zylmex1986-005- by RS, on Flickr Zylmex1986-006- by RS, on Flickr Zylmex1986-007- by RS, on Flickr Zylmex1986-008- by RS, on Flickr Zylmex1986-009- by RS, on Flickr Zylmex1986-010- by RS, on Flickr Zylmex1986-011- by RS, on Flickr Zylmex1986-012- by RS, on Flickr Zylmex1986-013- by RS, on Flickr Zylmex1986-014- by RS, on Flickr Zylmex1986-015- by RS, on Flickr Zylmex1986-016- by RS, on Flickr Zylmex1986-017- by RS, on Flickr Zylmex1986-018- by RS, on Flickr Zylmex1986-019- by RS, on Flickr Zylmex1986-020- by RS, on Flickr Zylmex1986-021- by RS, on Flickr Zylmex1986-022- by RS, on Flickr Zylmex1986-023- by RS, on Flickr Zylmex1986-024- by RS, on Flickr Zylmex1986-025- by RS, on Flickr Zylmex1986-026- by RS, on Flickr Zylmex1986-027- by RS, on Flickr Zylmex1986-028- by RS, on Flickr Zylmex1986-029- by RS, on Flickr Zylmex1986-030- by RS, on Flickr Zylmex1986-031- by RS, on Flickr Zylmex1986-032- by RS, on Flickr morrisoxide, flat4alfa, Datsuncog and 5 others 6 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spottedlaurel Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 5 hours ago, bunglebus said: Corgi Pininfarina Modulo There's a coincidence. Until last night this wouldn't have been familiar to me, but for bedtime reading I started an April 1970 issue of Car magazine and it was pictured in their coverage of the Geneva Motor Show. They said it "...looks different, which is about all that one can say in its favour." bunglebus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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