I restore all sorts of stuff, mainly model cars. I get a lot of requests to restore for others.
My collection is mainly Corgi Toys from 1956 to 1970. About 90 percent of the collection is restored by me, including boxes. Once in a while I have an idea to make a model which never existed. I try to use scrap materials and change broken plastic suspension by stainless steel, broken glazings by my own moulds. The only things I buy are rubber tyres.
Subject ID: 62751
MoreI restore all sorts of stuff, mainly model cars. I get a lot of requests to restore for others.
My collection is mainly Corgi Toys from 1956 to 1970. About 90 percent of the collection is restored by me, including boxes. Once in a while I have an idea to make a model which never existed. I try to use scrap materials and change broken plastic suspension by stainless steel, broken glazings by my own moulds. The only things I buy are rubber tyres.
Subject ID: 62751
Subject ID: 62751
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Designed by an individual - a box for three Corgi Aston Martin DB4 models resembling the Corgi 'Gift Set' type.
Came in blue and red.
I got the idea by asking myself the question: How will Batman go home after work?
I cut up a Chipperfields horse transporter, placed a platform halfway the hight of the trailer. A restored Batmobile was placed on the platform. The transporter and batmobile got matching wheels. The next stage was how the car would be driven off, so long rails were made which click on the trailer's side, also holding the ramps in place. Then I choose the Aston DB5 to be the car Batman would go home with, dropping Robin off first, well, launching him......
Once the Batmobile is off, the spare wheel in the rear can be pulled out to release the platform. A second platform then lifts, and the DB5 can be driven off.
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Corgi did the Batmobile in 1966, followed by a Batboat. They were sold together later as Gift Set 3. The car was made of metal, and so was the trailer. However, the entire boat was plastic. A few years later a second type boat was done. None of these boats have a detailed interior or dome, nor do they have working gadgets. The material caused it to get damaged or break sooner or later.
This set has selfmade windows, steel suspension and the upper piece of the boat is METAL! The lower part is a heavy vacuum formed part. There is a real detailed dome unit and also the rocket launcher works. Of course the trailer and the car have matching wheels. I made four variations, two are still for sale.
Corgi did the Batmobile in 1966, followed by a Batboat. The pair were sold together as Gift Set 3. The car was made of metal, and so was the trailer. However, the entire boat was plastic. A few years later a second type boat was done. None of these boats have a detailed interior or dome, nor do they have working gadgets. The material caused it to get damaged or break sooner or later.
This set has selfmade windows, steel suspension and the upper piece of the boat is METAL! The lower part is a heavy vacuum formed part. There is a real detailed dome unit and also the rocket launcher works. Of course the trailer and the car have matching wheels.
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Corgi did the Batmobile in 1966, followed by a Batboat. The two together were also sold as Gift Set 3. The car was made of metal, and so was the trailer. However, the entire boat was plastic. A few years later a second type boat was done. None of these boats have a detailed interior or dome, nor do they have working gadgets. The material caused it to get damaged or break sooner or later.
This set has selfmade windows, steel suspension and the upper piece of the boat is METAL! The lower part is a heavy vacuum formed part. There is a real detailed dome unit and also the rocket launcher works. Of course the trailer and the car have matching wheels. I made four variations, two are still for sale.
The Corgi Cleemput bible has a chapter in the rear: 'What should have been'......but never materialized. There is a picture of a model which was supposed to be a Beatles car. It was made from a Superior ambulance. My version is in the 1964 style, because the Beatles then visited Blokker, Holland. Figures are resin, guitars made of wood, the complete platform moves up and down by rotating the spare wheel. The diorama box, made by a friend, finishes it off, and of course there is an envelop with secret instructions!
For this model Keesie used a Corgi Fiat Jolly, done by Corgi as nr 240 in 1963, and a later version as nr 242.
He transformed it into a Batmobile, with Batman and Robin, and as an extra passenger the masked Batdog in the rear. The Batmobile cockpit was made to fit, and the missile launcher really works! A friend of his came up with the name, and a self made box was added.
The red-white top version was produced from 1962 to 1966, the white-blue top version from 1966-1968. Both had nr 437, and an ingenious gadget: the rooflight is battery-operated from the base, and an interval switch on the rear axle made the light go on and off. Solid plastic tubes transported the light from the centre bulb to each of the four sides of the roof, so there were FIVE lights working at the same time! This tube system is called 'trans-o-lite' and was done on other models of that period also.
I restored this model in one of a kind blue with white top.
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This is an individual's Code 3 model, not in a colour scheme issued by Corgi.
Model fitted with rear window Venetian blind. It has an opening boot and detailed engine.
In a certain period several Corgi models were done with Venetian blinds. There were also periods with trans-o-lite, dog on the rear shelf, diamond headlights and other characteristics for specific periods.
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Available in four metallic colors: silver, champagne silver, cerise and bronze and early cerise models may have shaped wheels. All others have wire wheels.
Sting Ray Custom was reproduced by the Corgi Model Club.
Available in four metallic colors: silver, champagne silver, cerise and bronze and early cerise models may have shaped wheels. All others have wire wheels.
Sting Ray Custom was reproduced by the Corgi Model Club.
The second version of the Chevrolet Impala taxi.
The second version of the Chevrolet Impala taxi.
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