Shite in Miniature II

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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.

[Tenmil Socket]

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[Sudsprint]

The plain clothes Capri is also an automatic.

Of course Dinky weren't the only one to upscale...

[flat4alfa]

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....

[bunglebus]

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

 

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[Skizzer]

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.

[eddyramrod]

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.

[bunglebus]

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 

[flat4alfa]

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]

[DoctorRetro]

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... ?

[DoctorRetro]

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... 

[bunglebus]

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

[flat4alfa]

Neither of those ranges are in my local Wilko or Poundland...

[flat4alfa]

9 hours ago, TheDoctor said:

'Fondling a Dinky Princess' doesn't sound wrong at all... ?

Wash your mind out!

it was an innocent fondle

[Remspoor]

4 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

Wash your mind out!

it was an innocent fondle

Tell us more .......

[bunglebus]

Here's a couple of weirdos - HW Peeping Bomb and Corgi Pininfarina Modulo

[Tenmil Socket]

@bunglebus what is the dry wipe marker method you mentioned for removing decals?

[bunglebus]

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.

[155V6]

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.

[bunglebus]

That yellow Turismo is awesome!

[bunglebus]

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

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[bunglebus]

...and this

 

Zylmex1986-001- by RS, on Flickr

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[Spottedlaurel]

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."

[big_al_granvia]

Been having a tidy and clean of my display cabinet

[flat4alfa]

Evening. Bit of wants list coming up, am hoping someone can help?

After a MB Galaxie good ‘glass’ and Superfast base for a Boss Galaxie project idea

[flat4alfa]

Glass for Corgi/Husky Jensen - stalled project since 1980s!

[flat4alfa]

Any base and glass for Corgi 280SL TCR slot car idea

[flat4alfa]

Glass and maybe lights for Commer Knocker Wheelie Truck project.  Thanks

[bunglebus]

Glass is one of the hardest bits to find in good nick. Steve Flowers is closed but I may have to order some from him when he re-opens. Seen people recreate it but you need a good one to copy it from and have some skills with resin etc. CBA.

[Tenmil Socket]

29 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Glass is one of the hardest bits to find in good nick. Steve Flowers is closed but I may have to order some from him when he re-opens. Seen people recreate it but you need a good one to copy it from and have some skills with resin etc. CBA.

I wonder if it would be possible to make a simple solid mould from balsa for example that fits neatly inside the shell. Remove and place a thin piece of perspex over it and gently heat with a hair dryer. Once cool it could be trimmed. A bit like vacuum forming...?