Restoration of a Dinky Toys Johnston Road Sweeper.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ธ.ค. 2023
- Hi everyone, here we are again, another year almost over so this time we are kicking off our Christmas Special with the restoration of a Dinky Toys Johnston Road sweeper based on the Ford D series truck which was very Kindly donated to my Channel by Mr David Williamson. It was a challenge but we made it eventually 😊👍
We finish off the video with a bit of animation, not brilliant, but a little bit of fun, the app I use has a habit of dropping the odd photo in totally the wrong sequence and I would also have liked to have spent more time on it, time I simply didn’t have, it already took a lot of hours just for the short bit I did, nevertheless I do hope you enjoy watching 👍😁
All that remains is for me to wish you all a very Happy Christmas,
All the very best,
Crapaud Nick🐸🐸🌲🌲🌲🥂🥂🍻 - บันเทิง
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Ahhhh,brilliant,i had one of these as a kid,and ironically i drove one for my local council till i was 26!
Hello Nick another great restoration thanks for all the great video s in 2023 hope you and your family are keeping well best wishes for Christmas and the new year regards Glyn
Thank you Glyn, you’re very welcome and thankyou for watching and commenting on my videos throughout the year, we’re all good here thanks, I hope you and your Family are well too, you all have a Happy New year, best wishes, Nick🐸🐸🥂🥂🎉🎉
Another brilliant Resto Nick, you have the ability my friend .Keep rolling out new resto in 2024. Just love your segment at the end.😋😋😋😋😋😋
Thank you Wally, glad you enjoyed it, all the best, Nick🐸🐸
I really enjoyed the Christmas show that was really nice thank you for that
Thank you Rick, glad you enjoyed it, it was my pleasure and many thanks for watching 👍🐸🐸🌲🌲
Great restoration as always, Nick! I’m glad you got it done in time to clear the snow off the road. The Christmas celebration was a hoot! I was laughing out loud. Love the Rovers, the milk truck and the 2 Dinky tank trucks especially. Thanks for sharing. Oh, and the sliding Santas are too funny! 😂
Thank you Alan, glad you enjoyed it lol😊👍🐸🐸
I like the way it looks
Happy new year! Loved the restoration. Thank you for sharing and inspiring
Thank you and you are welcome, glad you enjoyed the video, Happy New Year, all the best, Nick🐸🐸
Merry Christmas Nick to you and your family.
Thank you for your regular videos during the year.
Always enjoy your Restorations
Fay and Austin Greenough
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Thank you Austin, you’re very welcome and thank you for watching and commenting on my videos this past year. Happy New Year to you and your good lady, take care, all the very best, Nick🐸🐸🥂🥂🎉🎉
Thank you Nick for all the videos this year and Merry Christmas to you and your family. Take care.
Thank you my friend, you are welcome and thank you for watching my videos, I’m pleased you have enjoyed them, all the best to you and your Family, Happy New Year, Nick🐸🐸
Hello Nick. Well hard to believe another Christmas has arrived. Been a hectic year, hopefully next year not as much so. It's always nice to see all your hard work over the year at your annual Christmas parade. Merry Christmas to you an your family.
Cheers Robert.
Thank you Robert, this year has flown by, glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for watching, Happy New year to you and your Family, all the best, Nick🐸🐸
Hi Nick many thanks for your time and devotion over the last year and even though we don't always post a comment we greatly appreciate what you do. The end scene was just amazing and a few memories in there like the man with the beer bottle by the Castrol lorry ( I remember him). I see the red Commer van in the background, this was always one of my favourites. Best wishes for the coming week and all the best to you both for the following year from Ian b & family.
Thank you Ian and you are very welcome, many thanks for sticking with me and watching my videos throughout the year, it is very much appreciated, I’m pleased you enjoyed this video. A very Happy New Year to you and your Family, all the best, take care, Nick🐸🐸🎉🎉🥂🥂
Hey Nick, great restoration of the sweeper such a lot of fiddly bit great perseverance and patience the one I started is still in a box in bits. Love the film making at the end must of took you ages, thanks for another enjoyable video. Have a wonderful Christmas and New year looking forward to seeing more from you in 2024.
Another great resto and video you made a lot of people happy all year see you next year for some more resto wishing you and your wife a happy Christmas and New year all the best steve
Thank you Steve, glad you’ve enjoyed my videos and thank you for watching and commenting on them this past year👍😊 A very Happy New Year to you and your Family, take care, all the best, Nick🐸🐸🎉🎉🥂🥂
Merry Christmas to you and your family Nick, all the best for 2024 🎄🎅
Thank you Bill, and all the best to you and you Family for the New Year too, Nick🐸🐸🥂
Merry Cristmas, Nick! Great video. The strret sweeper looks good and the Christmas display was entertaining. Look out Nick Park!
Thank you my Friend, glad you enjoyed it lol👍😊 All the best for the New Year, Nick🐸🐸🥂🥂
Great job wishing you a wonderful Christmas
Thank you Peter, best wishes for the rest of the holidays 👍🌲🌲🐸🥂
A great restoration Nick as always.l enjoyed your Christmas video segment at the end, Merry Christmas to you too.
Thank you Malcolm, glad you enjoyed it, all the very best for the New Year, take care, Nick🐸🐸🥂🥂🎉🎉
Awesome Video cool lay out
Thank you👍😊🐸🐸
Fabulous restoration Nick Merry Christmas to you and your family cheers Michael
Thank you Michael and all the best to you and your Family for the coming New Year, take care, Nick🐸🐸🥂🥂🎉🎉
Great restoration Nick, liked the animation at the end and I like your hat too😃 Have a good one..
Thank you Kev, glad you enjoyed it, I bought the hat to wear at work but it was too tall to wear it in the truck lol🤦🏻♂😁 All the best, Nick🐸🐸
great restoration nick, cool hat mate
Thank you Brian, one of many Christmas hats lol👍🌲🌲🐸
Brilliant video nick Great restoration those doors are a problem I would say a design fault, great to see all the Christmas Village in action this year stunning. Have a great Christmas my friend
Thank you Martin, yes those doors always seem to be a pain, I have two or three of these sweepers and they are all the same🤦🏻♂☹ All the very best to you and your good lady for the New Year, take care, Nick🐸🐸🥂🥂🎉🎉
I wish I could show my o gage Lionel later out for this year
Ford D800 is the cab design.Both Matchbox and Dinky did some good D800 castings.I have a tipper that's been converted to a wreck truck!.Have a fab Xmas Nick,look forward to your years review.
Thank you Terry, I need to get on with the years review video when I get home from work today lol New Year will soon be soon us🤦🏻♂🤔😊 All the best, Nick🐸🐸
Excellent Nick on both parts of the video. 👍 Have a good new year .
Thank you Andy, you too, all the best, Nick🐸🐸🥂🥂🎉🎉
Great work as always and the animation was lovely. Have a Merry Christmas and all the best to you in the New Year!
Thank you my Friend glad you enjoyed it, Happy New Year to you and your Family, All the best, Nick🐸🐸
Great resto Nick it fought you a bit but you sorted it lovely job mate, like the end part of the video ,merry Christmas to you and the family hope its a good one mate
Thank you Paul, glad you enjoyed it👍😊 A very Happy New Year to you and your Family, take care, all the best, Nick🐸🐸🥂🥂🎉🎉
Good morning Nick and a very happy Christmas to you and your family. What a lovely video and a super resto. It looks lovely, and the details on the cab front look amazing! I've got one of these going way back to my childhood in the 70s. Its a little scuffed but I'm going to leave it as it is. The only thing I may do is replace the drive belt for the brushes. It came off years ago. Anyway, all the best mate, and a very happy and healthy 2024 when it comes 👍👍👍👍👍
Thank you Alan and I am pleased you enjoyed the video, I’m glad this model was bits and pieces as I have been wanting to do one of these for a while and I had bought a couple on eBay to do which turned out too good to touch when they arrived, it is cool that you have one from your childhood , I wish I hadn’t been so rough with the models I had as a kid, now I’m trying to make up for all the ones I broke back then lol. All the very best to you and your Family for the New Year, Nick🐸🐸🥂🥂
Nice restoration Nick, cool video on the end, must have taken a very long time to produce. Merry Christmas ✌️🧑🎄
Thank you my friend, glad you liked the end bit of the video, yes it took a week of evenings to make and with the restoration as well it took 11 hours to edit and save it lol🤦🏻♂🤔😊 All the very best for the coming New Year, take care, Nick🐸🐸🥂🥂🎉🎉
Nice restoration nick love the Christmas fair it must of taken you hours to do that. Merry Christmas and Happy New year to you and yours all the best luke
Thank you Luke, glad you enjoyed it, it took a week of evenings and the whole video with the restoration took 11 hours to put together lol, mind you, my old computer is getting a bit slow now, just like me lol but we got there in the end….just 😉😁 A very Happy New Year to you and your Family, take care, all the best, Nick🐸🐸🥂🥂🎉🎉
Thanks Nick for another nice video, I got my hands on one of those, it is like new, almost mint, no box tho but its ok. Merry Christmas and all the best to you and your family
Thank you Andy and you are welcome, glad you enjoyed the video, that’s cool to have a good model of this one, I have a couple of quite good ones which are too good to touch but they do have a few little chips to the paint work but good to display as they are 👍😊 All the best to you and your Family for the New Year, Nick🐸🐸
All the best for tomorrow and the rest of the holidays Nick, and thank you for sharing over the year. I learn so much from watching videos of refurbs and restos and even other people's Code3s - I certainly would not be where I think I am in this hobby without the likes of yourself and many others.
The sweeper is a complex thing with an awful lot of twiddly bits designed, I think, solely to let you damage finished paint! But I have found that touching up and a final coat of varnish after that, AND a good few days of curing, works a treat, if you can be patient!
Thank you Fraser, and you are welcome, thank you for your support, watching my videos and the donations you have made to me over the past year👍😊 I just knew the paint would chip on those doors despite my efforts of filing and sanding but these things are sent to try us, if I touch up I often just dab a bit of lacquer over that area with a brush which usually covers it up pretty well although you have to apply enough first time not to leave any brush marks! All the very Best for the New Year, take care, Nick🐸🐸🥂🥂
By crikey Nick you've done a great job on that road sweeper, it looks fantastic. I've got one in those colours, also another in all yellow. The Christmas Special at the end was absolutely fabulous, I don't know how you do it, you've missed your way there, you should've been a film producer. Looking forward to your next video, very best wishes to you and Monica for a Happy Christmas from Anne-Marie and me. 👍🎄🎅🦌🎁
P.S. We love your Christmas hat at the beginning of the video. 👍🤣🤣
Thank you Peter, glad you enjoyed it, I was flying by the seat of my pants again time wise with this one lol, would have liked to have spent a bit more time on it to make it a bit better, there were some random shots that appeared in the middle every now and then lol but never mind🤔😉 I bought the Christmas Hat for work but it was too tall when sitting in the cabs so I had to get another one so I thought I would wear it for the video lol. You and Anne-Marie Have a Happy New Year, all the best from me and Monica, all the best, Nick🐸🐸🥂🥂🎉🎉
Wow Nick a very nice Johnston road sweeper the Green on the back looks really nice a very nice job . Ive got one of the Ford D with no opening doors and Square headlights ive put double tyres on the back of it just stuck some tyres on the inside of the outer ones looks very good. As for the Christmas video it was out stand again CT transport are doing well they have some nice vehicles in their Fleet and they very busy.
All the best for the New year 🎉🎄👍
Ralph
Thank you Ralph, that’s a good idea to put double tyres on the back, they don’t quite look right with just the single wheels, glad you enjoyed the Christmas bit of the video, it took forever to make lol but yes, I think we might have to expand the old CT Transport Fleet a little more in 2024 lol. Have a Happy New Year, all the very best, Nick🐸🐸🥂🥂🎉🎉
You’ve done a good job of that bitsa sweeper ,,I’m restoring one of these myself at the moment but with a colour change to it
Cheers Kev, good luck with yours, look forward to seeing that one, all the best, Nick🐸🐸
@@crapaudnicksdiecastrenovat1739 thank you nick
Every body has the cold and flu symptoms all over the country big fellow. I don’t comment a lot on your videos but it’s always a pure tonic to watch them no matter when you make them. As usual a great restoration with your own iconic touch you have no idea how therapeutic it is to watch along. Hope you and your family have a wonderful Christmas and New Year Sir. Ps I remember in 1965 the news of the Ford Thames Trader coming to the end of production,but when I saw the replacement with the new Ford Custom Cab I was astonished it was simply years ahead of the old Trader LOL😂.
Thank you my friend and I am so pleased that you enjoy my videos, we’ve had a great Christmas thanks, I hope you have too and I wish you and your Family a very Happy New Year too, I remember my old boss saying how he loved the Fords, so long as they had a bed infront of them lol although he did have a d series box van in the fleet of Bedford TK’s! Take care, all the best, Nick🐸🐸🌲🌲
Lovely resto nick know exactly what you say about the doors I personally don't like opening doors on a model they never fit to make doors look better leave them open pal works everytime happy Christmas and new year🎉
Thank you Nigel, yes, the doors nearly always cause problems sometimes bonnets or boot lids too when it comes to opening them, it often chips the paint, I guess the original paint was thinner and baked on so it wasn’t so much of a problem when the models were new, the doors on these dinky Ford d trucks never seem to fit well🤦🏻♂☹ You and your Family have a Happy New Year, all the best, Nick🐸🐸