Shite in Miniature II

13,446 · February 14

7 minutes ago, FakeConcern said:

That's lovely and a good price, I doubt it'll ever be worth less! The Great Book of Dinky just has a short entry about the Rolls stating the two colours and all the number plates. It looks as though yours is an early one from 67/68 with the E plate. Funny how they only updated it every two years so there's no F or H plates. The entry that's hard to read because of reflection just says "plastic box"

It looks from the entry above that your nice BROWN RR must be on false plates!

Interesting that. I have a sheet of dinky plates with INJ 72J, I also still have MTB 437E but they're being used on something else.

I bought a sheet of generic UK plates for 1/43s and used whatever was available and seemingly period-correct.

33,830 · February 14

The only Silver Shadow I'm after is a 1/24 Bburago one!

60,203 · February 14

1 minute ago, Lord Sterling said:

Interesting that. I have a sheet of dinky plates with INJ 72J,

I need that but square for the back of my Beetle, but that seems an impossible ask

27,192 · February 14

While I was looking for the Royce, I pulled out a few others it was living in a box with.
I think I’ve posted some of these before, but here’s a quick delve into the danthecapriman archives!

Leyland Atlantean with original box.

Dinky Pontiac with original box. What would that price be now?

Corgi Pennyburn trailer & tools. Box is a repro.

French Dinky Chrysler 180, repro box. Funny it mentions Triang.

Corgi Jag mkX in original box.

One for @sierraman as I know he loves these!
I only kept this one as it’s pristine and boxed.

Dinky Princess, original box and has cool cast wheels not the shitty plastic ones.

Totally clean and no wear on base.

Dinky Cadillac Eldorado.

Dinky Mercury Cougar. Slide out aerial works too.

Pair of Dinky Lincoln’s.

Dinky 1800.

Dinky Vauxhall 101.
I love this casting, definitely one of my favourites but not one you often see.

Another shot of the Dinky’s.

Id not seen some of these in ages.

33,830 · February 14

1 minute ago, Lord Sterling said:

Interesting that. I have a sheet of dinky plates with INJ 72J, I also still have MTB 437E but they're being used on something else.

I bought a sheet of generic UK plates for 1/43s and used whatever was available and seemingly period-correct.

If you have a printer, go onto one of those show plate makers websites that offer pre 2001 fonts, type in the plate pair you want, screenshot them, snip on paint, paste to word and copy them about 5 times in a range of sizes. Print out the page, cut out the plate that's the right size, laminate it both sides with sellotape and attach with PVA glue.

An inexhaustible supply of (almost) free scale plates!

Here's a 1/24 plate:

3,526 · February 14

15 minutes ago, FakeConcern said:

That's lovely and a good price, I doubt it'll ever be worth less! The Great Book of Dinky just has a short entry about the Rolls stating the two colours and all the number plates. It looks as though yours is an early one from 67/68 with the E plate. Funny how they only updated it every two years so there's no F or H plates. The entry that's hard to read because of reflection just says "plastic box"

It looks from the entry above that your nice BROWN RR must be on false plates!

Superb thanks for that, good to know it's early, I like early ones of any model for some reason.

Thanks to all who've commented too. Must admit I'm very chuffed with this & I agree Dan these are great toys, I mean who'd put an opening glovebox on kids toy, it's overkill but cool !

3,526 · February 14

10 minutes ago, danthecapriman said:

While I was looking for the Royce, I pulled out a few others it was living in a box with.
I think I’ve posted some of these before, but here’s a quick delve into the danthecapriman archives!

Leyland Atlantean with original box.

Dinky Pontiac with original box. What would that price be now?

Corgi Pennyburn trailer & tools. Box is a repro.

French Dinky Chrysler 180, repro box. Funny it mentions Triang.

Corgi Jag mkX in original box.

One for @sierraman as I know he loves these!
I only kept this one as it’s pristine and boxed.

Dinky Princess, original box and has cool cast wheels not the shitty plastic ones.

Totally clean and no wear on base.

Dinky Cadillac Eldorado.

Dinky Mercury Cougar. Slide out aerial works too.

Pair of Dinky Lincoln’s.

Dinky 1800.

Dinky Vauxhall 101.
I love this casting, definitely one of my favourites but not one you often.

Another shot of the Dinky’s.

Id not seen some of these in ages.

Bloody hell Dan, that lot has proper given me the horn.

27,192 · February 14

1 minute ago, ETCHY said:

Bloody hell Dan, that lot has proper given me the horn.

That’s the tip of the iceberg!

Theres absolutely shit loads in boxes here still, most aren’t boxed of course. It’s a shame we aren’t all local, could have piled the boxes in the car and all sat somewhere going through them!😆

6,071 · February 14

15 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Measure up and look on eBay for rhinestones, absolutely loads of choice in a multitude of colours for not a lot

Or alternatively you can buy a sheet of various sized self adhesive ‘jewels’ from the likes of Poundland.

13,446 · February 14

18 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

I need that but square for the back of my Beetle, but that seems an impossible ask

This is literally all I have. I'll keep a check out on eBay and see what there is.

12,268 · February 14

29 minutes ago, danthecapriman said:

While I was looking for the Royce, I pulled out a few others it was living in a box with.
I think I’ve posted some of these before, but here’s a quick delve into the danthecapriman archives!

Leyland Atlantean with original box.

Dinky Pontiac with original box. What would that price be now?

Corgi Pennyburn trailer & tools. Box is a repro.

French Dinky Chrysler 180, repro box. Funny it mentions Triang.

Corgi Jag mkX in original box.

One for @sierraman as I know he loves these!
I only kept this one as it’s pristine and boxed.

Dinky Princess, original box and has cool cast wheels not the shitty plastic ones.

Totally clean and no wear on base.

Dinky Cadillac Eldorado.

Dinky Mercury Cougar. Slide out aerial works too.

Pair of Dinky Lincoln’s.

Dinky 1800.

Dinky Vauxhall 101.
I love this casting, definitely one of my favourites but not one you often see.

Another shot of the Dinky’s.

Id not seen some of these in ages.

I've just come back for another look at those Dinkys, the Chrysler 180 is particularly nice, I don't think I've ever seen one. I never understood why the Victor FB is so tiny even if it is a good model.

Thanks Dan for sharing them with us.

13,446 · February 14

25 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

If you have a printer....

Well, technically, I do have a printer, but it doesn't work. It needs ink and a computer to connect to.

It is a great idea and I used to do something similar, some newspapers used to have adverts for cherished reg plates, I'd cut out what I wanted, laminate them with tape and stick them to the cars with a tiny slither of bluetack.

Of course, I was a kid when I did this. I much prefer buying them for a couple of quid, having them already to cut out and ready to stick on. Much faster, much nicer.

27,192 · February 14

15 minutes ago, FakeConcern said:

I've just come back for another look at those Dinkys, the Chrysler 180 is particularly nice, I don't think I've ever seen one. I never understood why the Victor FB is so tiny even if it is a good model.

Thanks Dan for sharing them with us.

I’m not sure how common or popular the 180 ever was. Maybe in Europe it sold more? It’s a really nice model though.

FB is a funny size. Lovely looking thing though. Another one (like the 101 too!) that they made a great job of but then barely used the casting.
The FB was only ever in yellow or the ambulance. The 101 only that trademark red or the same yellow as the FB. Why not do more colours with them!?

Ive got the Saab 96 too, which again barely saw much use.

28,761 · February 14

7/11 in pre-decimal money translates to 40p in decimal. Bargain!

27,192 · February 15

21 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

7/11 in pre-decimal money translates to 40p in decimal. Bargain!

Bloody hell! Shows you how much everything has gone up in the decades since.

27,192 · February 15

I just found this old advert for the Dinky 101 and 1800. May 1965 apparently.

Weird they got the colours listed, correct on the 1800 but was the 101 ever released in metallic golden bronze?? I’ve only ever known it in the red or pale yellow.

33,830 · February 15

I always thought my 1800 belonged to my dad as it is chipped and has no box. All the ones belonging to his younger brothers are in good condition and still have their boxes. However 1965 made him 17 at the time and he would have been working for a year and unlikely to still be playing with cars. Even my youngest Uncle would have been over 10 at that time so it would probably have been one of their last purchases. Strange that it isn't in great condition like the others.

22,865 · February 15

13 hours ago, danthecapriman said:

That’s the tip of the iceberg!

Theres absolutely shit loads in boxes here still, most aren’t boxed of course. It’s a shame we aren’t all local, could have piled the boxes in the car and all sat somewhere going through them!😆

Wow, plenty of diecast there which I'd never been aware of before. As you say, that Vauxhall casting is lovely - beautiful detail on it and scale of everything looks spot on.

February 15

On 13/02/2025 at 14:29, bunglebus said:

A tip off by @155V6 lead me to a job lot of frankly knackered Matchbox Land Rovers, of which the Graffic Traffic is the only one I was actually interested in.

Can you let me know if you were successful in cleaning that up please? I've got a few of them kicking around but my feeble attempts to salvage one of them has not reaped the reward that I was expecting.

27,192 · February 15

1 hour ago, Dick Cheeseburger said:

Wow, plenty of diecast there which I'd never been aware of before. As you say, that Vauxhall casting is lovely - beautiful detail on it and scale of everything looks spot on.

I’m not actually sure what scale it’s made to? Kind of looks 1:43ish but does anyone know? @flat4alfa?

60,203 · February 15

2 hours ago, MVX11V said:

Can you let me know if you were successful in cleaning that up please? I've got a few of them kicking around but my feeble attempts to salvage one of them has not reaped the reward that I was expecting.

You can't get the "graffics" off the paint (and sometimes the plastics) as the markers stain the paint. I've tried, believe me.

Only option is strip and repaint

I was working on the Land Rover the other night, oven cleaner got the marker off the bull bars but the windows had some deeper stains. In the end I sanded the glazing until it was faint enough not to matter, and polished back to a shine. I took the roof of one of the others and sanded/polished it back to a nice finish

I do have a problem with the Dakota Street pickup, the white roll bar in the bed is broken and stained, all the other Dakotas have a black plastic bar, I could paint it I suppose but that doesn't look quite right

February 15

Thanks for that. The rs200 i was having a go at started losing its actual paint so i wondered if someone had better luck. It's sitting in a box awaiting a repaint or I'll just move it on, I've a lot of smoll projects 😁 it doesn't cost the earth to buy them unused, just the waiting game.

60,203 · February 15

26 minutes ago, MVX11V said:

. It's sitting in a box awaiting a repaint or I'll just move it on, I've a lot of smoll projects

Well keep me in mind! Haven't got that one - there are more than I realised although I've not seen a comprehensive list of them yet

45,047 · February 15

Some more French French Dinkys

A trio of Peugeots

First is a 402 Taxi.

The is a representation of an early Dinky with metal wheels and tyres.

Next is a basic 403 in black. The silver details are far more crisp than the originals would have been.

No glass or interior.

Peugeot Van with Mazda Lamps sign writing.

It was a brand set up by General Electric well before those chaps in Japan started making cars. Again no glass or interior to be seen here.

This is one of the best from the models I won the other day.

Included in the box was a free road sign.

The blue is a bit of a dull colour for this. A pale metallic blue or green would look far better. Separate head lamps, moulded detail in the windscreen and number plates lift this to a better level than the earlier Dinky Toys. This era was peak French Dinky.

Detailing is great though.

And the paint has a deep shine.

Last we have the only Renault of the bunch, a Floride avec suspension et glaces.

No the bet colour to show off the lines of the car, maybe a dark red or gold would be better.

Nice detail on the back.

43,512 · February 15

From the shelves, this Jimson (Hong Kong) Vauxhall Victor FC 101 decided to show itself off. Danny the Zulu popped straight over for a nose.

He observed it has an opening thing :

AND A DAG !

Also the missing the rear bumper. He commented the Victor 101 has not been modelled by many firms, so that would limit A Who Did it Worse comparison. However the Dinky Victor 101 turned up in the nick of time: