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RSSierra wrote:Lastly a Sixties Police Controlled crossing:

Is this the one I missed out on recently on TM??

Ian

G'day Ian

Yes, it is sorry. I saw you had bid early on and was surprised you didn't show up on the last lot of bids on the bid history.

Picked up the other pre-war train yesterday too from Nigel in Chch, seemingly non original axles and potentially over painted too. But no fatigue, so fingers crossed I can remove the non original paint. Pics to come

Cheers

Dave

RSSierra wrote:G'day Ian

Yes, it is sorry. I saw you had bid early on and was surprised you didn't show up on the last lot of bids on the bid history.

Picked up the other pre-war train yesterday too from Nigel in Chch, seemingly non original axles and potentially over painted too. But no fatigue, so fingers crossed I can remove the non original paint. Pics to come

Cheers

Dave

Yeah - family issues got in the way and I never got back towards the end of its run.... looked at Nigel's piece also but decided the new bathroom had to come first - or was that the wife's decision...

Ian

Pre War British Railcar another good recent find on our local auction site, it's hard to tell what colour this originally was as there have been so many coats of paint on the lower portion.











Original Rollers though, I may just strip this one back and repaint it.

Next a dirt cheap 956 Turntable Fire Escape, low cost due to the corrosion on the Ladder. Still has original string, box and instructions though.







Half an hour with a wire wheel in the dremel and here we have a rather presentable ladder.



Unimog Snow Plough, another model that I have been after for a long while which always seems to go for silly money.





25Y Jeep in Blue with yellow hubs, shame about the bumper but an unusual and hard to find colour scheme joins the collection.





Finally another 966 Marrel Multi Bucket. I already had the ribbed bin and this had the smooth sided bin. Until posting these pictures I hadn't noticed the variation in the painting of the front lights!

A New Zealand Model its entire life, An original seller sticker on the box end has a 5 digit phone number, that was some time ago as minimum 7 digit numbers apply now and we only have 4 million people.







Cheers

Dave

Nice additions Dave but I'm puzzled by the #25y Jeep, certainly an uncommon colour in that medium Blue then with Yellow wheels, Hmm, different, have only seen Black before now but what puzzles me is the spare on the rear of the body, are these not normally the same colour as the road wheels, or do I not know as much about Dinky as I thought I did...

GHOSTHUNTER.

Hi Ghosty

My One is actually a 25j, the images for the model all show the spare on the rear in the body colour.

The 25y has the thicker screen surround and the spare on the side in the colour of the rest of the hubs.

Cheers

Dave

Thank's Dave, I am perfectly happy with that answer...

Ghosty.

Love the railcar - please post photos if you do repaint it

Hi Ewan

Progress shots below, The paint was easily removed with a wire wheel in a dremel, I'm still considering whether I chemical strip it to get rid of all the paint around the windows. The paint was extremely thick in places and was covering some pretty impressive casting detail for a pre war model.

I've decided on Cream and French Blue as the colour scheme. I've also located some crimped axles which will replace the copper wire which was used as axles previously.





Along with today's sole arrival a Purple Mk1 Capri Facelift





And with its counterparts already in my collection.

Fantastic, I had the very same coloured Capri and it got a lot of play time with me, because despite being fitted with the Dinky 'Speedwheels', they managed to keep the wheel and tyre combination looking very accurate and I loved the way the model ran on those wheels with soft rubber tyres, a great model and thank's for showing it here to bring back some fine memories for me.

GHOSTHUNTER.