I come home from work all stressed out. I love sitting in my easy chair and watching your videos. I find them calming. I did a tire replacement and headlight replacement on a blue Tonka pickup. Then I stripped a mini Tonka. Now I’m looking at a Dinky Diamler ambulance.
Thanks very much glad I could help in the de stressing process I know that feeling, sounds like your having fun with your castings that's what it's all about . All the best Martin 👍
Quite a beautiful job Martin!!! Love the green with the black fenders and chassis and the grille came out great. Never see these here in the states so a definite treat to watch you breathe new life back into the old gal.
Absolutely brilliant resto, Martin. Very sharp lines and a great colour scheme. Im so glad you did yours first, now I have seen all the pit falls for when I do mine 👍🏻
I really like seeing how much trouble I have when I am working on a new thing: I never notice when I am having it! Nice preparation and lovely finish, Martin, and just enough additional detail and tidiness to bring the model to life again - as it thoroughly deserves. A fingernail of Vaseline in the mechanism makes it a bit less sticky. I was holding my breath on that masking tape removal at 31 minutes, though!
Thanks Fraser, it's always tricky when you do a casting you haven't done before especially on camera as well there's a lot of umming and arghring working out how it all comes apart 😀. Good tip with the vasolene.
Hi Martin, I must say i enjoy your video's. I had a friend who was an expat who moved to NZ. We had a little business buying and selling model railways, to support our hobby. I hope you don't mind me saying that the similarities between yourself and my friend., in the way you speak, and your mannerism are closely aligned, one could say you were brothers. My friend came from London originally. Any way i thought i would share that with you. Keep the good work up.
I really like this little model a lot, Martin! I especially enjoyed the engineering that went into the sliding door hatches in the back! I like the new green color that you added. It gives the truck a little pizzazz I think! You always do such fantastic work restoring these old vehicles, and I always love the stuff from the '50s--trucks, dozers, construction stuff, etc--so this was another one that was right up my alley! Love it!
Thanks loston, yes a colour change definitely had to be done on this one the sliding doors simple but effective but not a lot of tolerance if it is bang on its not working. All the best Martin.
another cracking restoration Martin, I love these Dinkys and you really did that one proud there's something very appealing about these old commercials love it 👍👍
Another great restoration Martin, a bit fidelity at times but you came out on top with this one 👍. A nicely done two tone paint job & detailing was top notch, you take care my friend see you on your next one. 👋😎🚗🚙🚒
Thanks Jeff, yes it had its tricky moments that's for sure but that's part of the fun when you get a casting you haven't done before a lot of head scratching 😂. All the best to you all
Thats brilliant! What a transformation.👏🏻👌🏻👍🏻 Fiddly blighter though.... In fact, I've got one thats not in bad nick that i was going to play with soon but i think ill put it away for a bit and study your movie a few more times. Anyhoo, yours is a little gem now ✨
Cheers my friend, it always looks tricky on video especially when you haven't done one before because your mindfully of the time on camera. The only tricky thing was the sliding doors there is very little tolerance, but the rest not to bad All the best Martin
A bit more work to that model, than it looks. I am glad you did this video. I have one that is not in bad shape other than the tailgate is a reproduction that is not painted and loosely wired on. Now I can fix it up proper.
Great video ol buddy, good choice of colors.I've got one in the lineup It's missing the twisty piece. Flowers is out of it. Shouldn't be too hard to make one. Cheers Don✌️😎
Nice one Don the dinky Bedford tipper has the same mech .the twist peice is OK to make its the gear cogs that would cause the problem I did try using the flat cog out of an old tin opener but it was a bit big . All the best Martin 👍
Great colour combo on the rubbish truck Martin another fantastic resto ..... just a thought Martin for that long kog maybe you could get one from the Slot Car clubs or hobby shop... ok thanks for the video👍
Hello Martin one of those was my first Dinky still got it. I shall restore it when I have the time Hope it’s as good as yours. Hope you and your family are keeping well regards Glyn
HEY MOM IT'S THE DUSTMEN. Hi mate I love it really good job. Painting the mud guards black was a good idea and the colour choice is a good one looks time period. Great advice about un masking my brother told me that years ago when we used to paint full size cars. I remember the old tin bins and the blokes throwing them over there shoulders. I saw some clean second hand plastic bins with the flip lid on them on ebey so I bought one to put my bands PA leads in and because it has wheels on you just take it out of the trailer and drag it in to the venue. The only trouble is on the first night I used it at the end of the night when I went to put the leads back in it, it was full of rubbish. The kitchen staff thought it was a rubbish bin. I can't imagine how they came to that conclusion.😂🤣😆 So now I have a big sign on it saying for band cables only. Catch you on the next one mate.👍🏻🚛
Ha ha ,classic 😂, with the bin . The masking I learnt the hard way it pretty much works all the time ,there wasn't so much stupid packaging back then for the bin men .not like now . All the best Martin 👍
Superb result as usual Martin, watching you from over here in western australia, have been subbed for a long while now, thought it was about time i gave you a comment. Keep it up mate your doing some great work, kind regards, Bob in oz.
Nice restore. I was thinking with that cogs which where's couldn't you nickel plated or zinc plated it and then file it back into shape, cheers Graham.
I have just purchased one of these and made the mistake of not checking if the rear door was present. Where did you source your rear door Martin? Great restoration and some nice tips to take on board.
hia martin you do some great vidios would be nice if you could add something differnt to the chanel like some dicast boats planes or other stuff if they did them as a toy would be a change to the car content anyways great vids
Cheers Neil, yes I can have a look at a few other things I do have a few boats ships and a couple of aircraft and iam looking at a diecast train as we speak . All the best Martin 👍
thanks for the comments you have lots of great vids just watching through them also thanks on the window glass cleaning tips. ye trains boats ships planes would be great to see some on most channels these days its just cars done be cool to see more anyways keep up great vids. il keep watching
Nice job , I probably would have spoken to the project in a special way,more than once.how many times have you stabbed yourself with that screwdriver ? Or is just me that does that.haha
Cheers Michael ,a few choice words were quietly spoken that's for shore ,as for the screw driver in the finger or hand a few times ,you would have thought I would have learnt my lesson but No . All the best Martin 👍
