"Believed" to be from Dinky, that's not much of a provenance.
It's finished in production metallic green, complete with stickers. A prototype model is carved in wood, maybe 150% larger than finished size and never painted.
Sure enough, reading the details gives it away. A reproduction of a Dinky catalogue with the green paint version is definitely post production.The early Dinky artwork for the box featured the correct white colour scheme. 65cm long? That's filming miniature size. Windscreen? It should be only an indication on a tooling pattern. A closer look at that on the photo...
Vertical contour lines on the curves? A dead giveaway of FDM 3D printing, not even well disguised. This is NOT a genuine article.
I'm surprised Vectis allowed this for sale without the most basic examination.
Oooh! I'd like that. But...
ReplyDeleteTwo red flags.
"Believed" to be from Dinky, that's not much of a provenance.
It's finished in production metallic green, complete with stickers.
A prototype model is carved in wood, maybe 150% larger than finished size and never painted.
Sure enough, reading the details gives it away. A reproduction of a Dinky catalogue with the green paint version is definitely post production.The early Dinky artwork for the box featured the correct white colour scheme.
65cm long? That's filming miniature size.
Windscreen? It should be only an indication on a tooling pattern.
A closer look at that on the photo...
Vertical contour lines on the curves? A dead giveaway of FDM 3D printing, not even well disguised.
This is NOT a genuine article.
I'm surprised Vectis allowed this for sale without the most basic examination.