Anybody still collecting Dinky Toys?

 

I spent my allowance at the local modeling and toy shop on military airplane kits and Dinky Toys when I was a kid. All my model airplanes are long gone in a final kid inspired battle in the back yard. Shot up with a BB gun while strung from my mother's trees in a final air combat fight.

 

The much sturdier English made metal Dinky Toys lived on. If you never throw anything away your childhood toys become collectible nostalgia.

SARGE,

Thanks for posting! I remember having these as a kid.

All the best,

Mike

I have a small collection of Dinky's, about half of them military models. Also have a small collection of tin jeep model from the early 1950's.

They were and still are great toys ! The question is what was the BB gun you used in the back yard battles ?

Thanks for the memories

 

Tony

If you want to know more about Dinky Toys models, I can recommend this database: http://www.talkmodeltoys.com/discus/messages/27668/27668.html?1405607954

 

You can search for specific models by their model number, which is on the baseplate. Your tank for example is the '152a (650)1937-1954 Light Tank': http://www.talkmodeltoys.com/discus/messages/27668/871.html?1402374735

Thanks for the kudos guys!

 

Tony, I had a Crosman pellet gun that was death on just about any target depending upon how many pumps of air you gave it. Plastic airplanes did not stand a chance.

 

earlymb, Thanks for the link. I have both the light tank and the medium tank. I have all the Dinky (made by Meccano) military models up until they starting putting in clear plastic windows in the 1950s. I also have a few of the Dinky Toy lead figures that sat in the trucks. However, my go to, similar scale, figures were the Swedish African Engineers (SAE) lead soldiers.

 

 

 

 

I had a bunch of Dinkys as a kid however, their current location is unknown and lost to childhood history.