Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 2:59 pm Post subject: Diecast Collecting.
One of my main interests is the hobby of Diecast Models. I have an extensive collection of Dinky Toys, Corgi Toys, Vanguards, and many other manufacturers. My favourite scale is 1/43, and in this scale I have many British, European, and American cars.
I do not worry about them being 'Mint and Boxed', (MIB), if they are interesting and 'playworn', they find a place among my collection. Here are just a few of them. Hope you like them.
Super models Admin.
Have you one of the Ford Classic four door saloon 315.
We had one of these cars for 38 years and she was still in pristine condition when we had to part with her even though she was used every day.
She had more rub ups than I ever did.
We used to go to all the car shows and many youngsters used to come and ask us if we wanted to sell her.
When we did finally let her go my son had the number plate 31 BJU and has it put on any new car he buys. _________________ If you cant say something nice then dont say anything at all.
Sorry, Maywalk, the nearest I've got to that is a two-door Ford Capri, (the early Capri, not the later Mustang models). It has the same front end styling as the Classic though! _________________ http://sewardchronicles.ning.com/
If I can get my granddaughter to take a photo of it I will put it on here.
The boot was massive on the Classic. Never seen a car since with a boot that big.
We have not got a car now because hubby has osteo arthritis in his feet and legs which is why we had to part with Betsy (the car).
I could not drive. The only thing that I could drive was my hubby up the wall. _________________ If you cant say something nice then dont say anything at all.
Whilst i'm in the process of updating all the pics on here, I have included some of my latest Russian models. Most of them have been purchased directly from Russia.
you must have an awful lot admin. I don't understand about the hearse, was it originally an ambulance and you decided you wanted it changed? Is it just the paintwork that has been altered and is it an old model? _________________ Marie
Marieann, to date I have around 700 various Diecast models. I have to pack some of them away now due to running out of display space.
Yes, the hearse was originally an old 'playworn' Corgi Ambulance that I picked up at a bootsale for £1. It was, however complete with good wheels and tyres and fully glazed. Then my friend in America posted a picture on our Diecast Forum of a similar model that he had converted into a hearse, so I sent him an e.mail and he offered to convert my model for me.
He has made a really good job of it, and he returned it about a fortnight ago. The conversion took him about a month, between his other jobs. (He restores and sells model cars.) It's like the picture of the six-wheeled Morris Minor van in one of my earlier posts, that was also a conversion from two separate models. That particular one, (the pride of my collection), was hand built and featured in the Diecast Collector magazine last August. I remember seeing a photo of it and thinking, "Wow, that's great. Wish it was mine."
Well almost four months later, (in December) I was browsing through eBay (as I do quite often), and to my great suprise, there it was, up for sale by auction. So I kept track of it, (the auction ended on Christmas Morning), and it still had no bids on it . I logged in on Xmas Morning and it was still there with only a few minutes to run, it had a 'starting bid' of £9.99 so I placed a bid of £29.99 on it thinking that I'd have no chance of winning it .
When I logged back in after lunch, lo and behold! Mine had been the only bid, and I had won the auction and got the model for just over a tenner.!
Believe me, I was so pleased, it made my Xmas. I later exchanged messages with the seller who said that he was very disapointed that it had gone for so little, however he was pleased for me. I wrote back to him saying that he could rest assured that it was going to a good home with someone to look after it. _________________ http://sewardchronicles.ning.com/
Do you catalogue them admin 700 is a huge amount even though they aren't bulky. Do you recycle them every now and then the way I do with my china? Put one lot in a box and put another lot out for display. It would be lovely to have room to display everything. _________________ Marie
I know that I should catalogue them, Marie, but it's a very time-consuming piece of work to do so. Yes, I do 're-cycle' them from time to time, I also have a box of 'scrapyard' models that are beyond display status, some are complete but very playworn or damaged, and some are quite literally in bits. But I keep them 'just in case' someone needs a spare part.
I also have a few that I've attempted to 'restore', but I'm not very skilled at restoration work. My eyes are not really up to working with the small components, plus, I do not really have anywhere at home to use as a restoration bench. _________________ http://sewardchronicles.ning.com/
Cataloguing your collection is a nightmare I have started that many times but never seem to be able to catch up. At the moment, I think my buying is outstripping the cataloguing by a factor of about 2 to 1
All my models are scattered around the house, I couldn't bear ro have nay of them under cover anywhere The dusting can be a bit of a nightmare too, but only if you dust Just clean the cobwebs off the cranes now and then and all is hunky dory
Collecting models of earthmovers and diggers is a big help when it comes to dust lying around, it kind of gives them some ambience, you can leave tire and track marks in the dust so that every window sill and shelf looks like a building site
The green 1800 is just like one I owned when I was married, a brilliant car to drive. I also had an A40 when I was first in the forces, mine was battleship grey lower body with a Dulux Gloss Black roof (all my own work ) The A40 bit the dust one Sunday night in North Yorkshire as I was returning to camp down south, I don't know exactly what was wrong with it, but it seemed terminally broken I removed the number plates and pushed it off the old A1 into a field and hitch hiked backto camp, I never saw or heard anything about this car ever again
I do enjoy looking at these admin. I don't know one car from another. I really like the red one is it a jaguar or is that just the blue one.
Tony drove Routemasters he always told me that there was only London and the Northern General Transport had them. They did a limited number model of a Northern bus about twenty years ago for an anniversary and I bought him one. _________________ Marie
I remember seeing the Northern buses when I visited Newcastle as a kid, they were always in the Haymarket and Gallowgate bus stations. I do remember the Northern routemasters as well. My dad used to drive buses for Tynemouth and District, the first ones he drove were Guy Arabs and the last ones he was on were the brand new Leyland Atlanteans, the frist rear engined bus I ever saw
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I know that I should catalogue them, Marie, but it's a very time-consuming piece of work to do so. Yes, I do 're-cycle' them from time to time, I also have a box of 'scrapyard' models that are beyond display status, some are complete but very playworn or damaged, and some are quite literally in bits. But I keep them 'just in case' someone needs a spare part.
