LET ZYGONS BE ZYGONS

Over the summer I acquired two Dinky space planes.

Bill kindly gave me the Battle Cruiser and I picked up the Marauder at a vintage toy shop in Otley.

A touch-up, a new blister and nose ( not the best I know and not really needed)  and the mission is on!

I like these Dinky space planes: chunky, tactile and they look great. The indirect Gerry Anderson connections to the Battle Cruiser - apropos his Starcruiser - helps too! 

Zygon Marauder top, Space Battle Cruiser below.

Since Kevin kindly gave me the Trident Starfighter last year, pictured below,  I'm just short of the Zygon Patroller now from the planes. I've never actually seen it in the flesh.

For some reason they always make me think of the 2000AD comic.

Do you like these Dinky space vehicles? Do you think they sold well at the time?

ZYGON MARAUDER AND FRIENDS

My haul from a vintage toy shop was meagre but most welcome. I got everything for £13.

LtoR: Dinky Zygon Marauder - a fixer upper; unknown white Action Man boots; Action Man dynamite; Action Man Man Utd football shirt and unknown plastic sword and scabbard.

What do you think?

Is That The Coastguard?

 With a home-made mast and a white pen touch-up my Car Boot Gerry Anderson Dinky Amphibious Coastguard is now on duty patrolling the MoonBase moat.

Pilotless, the only figure I could find of the right size was a Napoleon Solo donated by Bill B.

He's on tenterhooks, it's a bad case of THRUSH! 

Have you got one?

Call the Coastguard

 I picked up these two for three squid on Sunday's sale.

The Dinky Amphibious Coastguard is in great nick, just missing it's mast and the missiles and pilot. 

I've finagled a new mast from the bits box and have left the glue to dry before a coat of paint.

Hmmm, which pilot to use?

LARGER PLASTIC CARS: TERRANOVA47's AUSTIN CABS

Here is a Dinky Austin FX3 Taxi with a larger Empire Made, Fairylite copy.

Terranova47

USA

The New Knights: Starfighter and Batmobile Restored

 Finished two more classics restorations, which were great fun to do. Not pristine, but cabinet-ready.

With my trusty Sharpie, black seems to patch up really well on die-casts. A coat of varnish and a few kitchen drawer replacement parts and these two old codgers have a new lease of life.

See what you think.

Trident Starfighter kindly donated by Kevin.

Batmobile, car boot special.

Together on a night mission

RINKY DINKY

 Just been looking at some old Meccano magazines from the mid-1960's. The Dinky ads on the back pages are great! See what you think.

DINKY KLINGON

That carded Spacex2 Lunar Orbiter that I got recently was part of a batch of stuff that was, largely, wrecked junk. 

There were a small number of things worth keeping, one was this Dinky Klingon Battle Cruiser. It needed a bit of repair, but it's a nice enough toy.

Deflector screens activated.

Kevin

UK

FRANK HORNBY HERITAGE CENTRE

Just seen a TV clip about the Frank Hornby Heritage Centre in Maghull outside Liverpool, UK. Trying to google it and find a website I was taken to Bootle Leisure Centre where there's no mention of it. Its not easy finding the founder of Meccano, Hornby and Dinky!

Anyway, this is what its meant to look like in the Heritage Centre. They have the very first boxed set, Make and Know, from where the name Meccano came from.

There's also Frank Hornby's house down the road in Southport with a blue plaque.

Has anyone been to these commemorative places to the great Frank Hornby? 

ONE THAT GOT AWAY: THE ELDORADO

 

I adored the Dinky Cadillac Eldorado as a kid but never had one.

I often find myself drooling over its purple sleekness and sharp lines online.

Do you have a Dinky that got away?

SUPER DINKY BATTLE CAR

 

I was looking at this online spare part chassis of a Dinky Battle Cruiser? and thought, hmmm, that looks awfully like .... Supercar!

Could Gerry Anderson's Supercar have influenced this Dinky?

or am I seeing things?

WILL OSBORNE'S CORGI AND DINKY SHOP COUNTER DISPLAYS

Courtesy of Will Osborne

UK

Have you got any die-cast or toy counter displays readers?

ROB'S DINKY MEMORIES

Some recent posts by Scoop featuring reboots of classic Anderson-themed Dinky Toys got me to thinking about some of the Dinky Toys I had as a kid. A lot of them were imported into the U.S., and I found pix on ebay of a few of my favorites, as follows:

Nash Rambler Fire Chief Car in glorious red!

Simca Taxi, red roof, black body, and Whitewalls!

BOAC bus, blue, with that iconic white roof!

Air France Caravelle jet, blue & white box.

Good gosh I loved those toys...

Rob C

USA