Ecclesley's Rolls Royce and Bentley code 3 thread Posted by Ecclesley - 31 Oct 2013 11:42 And maybe some Jaguars too... As I will be posting my Rolls Royce and Bentley resto/code 3/mods on a regular basis, why not make it an ongoing thread. (If that is allowed?) Today I show you my next restored (it was a real wreck) Dinky Phantom V. I drew my inspiration regarding the colour, from a nice looking Silver Wraith. Well not exactly the same colour but in the spirit of it. Re: Quiralu Rolls Royce Posted by Corky - 30 Sep 2014 15:21 Good idea, nice result. 1 / 11
Congratulations! Posted by DaveF - 30 Sep 2014 17:28 A fascinating post - and an excellent conversion Gerrit! You always come up with the goods. Dave. Posted by TheRollerman - 30 Sep 2014 18:29 That particular model from "Matchbox" has made a near perfect match for the chosen subject, but does show why not many commercially available models are released in the colour Black, it hides all the detail! If anyone is interested, the "Matchbox" model chosen by Gerrit (hope you don'y mind me now refering to you as such, instead of my usual way with "Ecclesley"), is based on chassis number 1721 with Hooper coachwork, but Lesney made it as a Landaulette instead of the closed body of the real car. I believe this was due to them not being able to cast a one-piece body successfully and had to use some 'Artistic Lisence' but in this case it has actually helped with the final model Gerrit has achieved and very good it is as well, do Seven more and the whole fleet of Delhi cars can be shown together as models, great stuff. Rollerman. Posted by TheRollerman - 30 Sep 2014 18:30 2 / 11
That particular model from "Matchbox" has made a near perfect match for the chosen subject, but does show why not many commercially available models are released in the colour Black, it hides all the detail! If anyone is interested, the "Matchbox" model chosen by Gerrit (hope you don'y mind me now refering to you as such, instead of my usual way with "Ecclesley"), is based on chassis number 1721 with Hooper coachwork, but Lesney made it as a Landaulette instead of the closed body of the real car. I believe this was due to them not being able to cast a one-piece body successfully and had to use some 'Artistic Lisence' but in this case it has actually helped with the final model Gerrit has achieved and very good it is as well, do Seven more and the whole fleet of Delhi cars can be shown together as models, great stuff. Rollerman. Re: Quiralu Rolls Royce Posted by DINKYBOY - 01 Oct 2014 01:10 Ecclesley, Well done. "IT LOOKS FACTORY TO ME" 3 / 11
dinkyboy Posted by Ecclesley - 01 Oct 2014 05:35 TheRollerman wrote: That particular model from "Matchbox" has made a near perfect match for the chosen subject, but does show why not many commercially available models are released in the colour Black, it hides all the detail! If anyone is interested, the "Matchbox" model chosen by Gerrit (hope you don'y mind me now refering to you as such, instead of my usual way with "Ecclesley"), is based on chassis number 1721 with Hooper coachwork, but Lesney made it as a Landaulette instead of the closed body of the real car. I believe this was due to them not being able to cast a one-piece body successfully and had to use some 'Artistic Lisence' but in this case it has actually helped with the final model Gerrit has achieved and very good it is as well, do Seven more and the whole fleet of Delhi cars can be shown together as models, great stuff. Rollerman. Well Rollerman, you can call me Gerrit all day long, and then some. That name sounds familiar to me and I am used to it since my birth 4 / 11
You are right, the colour black does not always give a very presentable picture. I did some fiddling around to give it an antique look; more in line with the 1911 photo techniques. Posted by GunnerJim - 01 Oct 2014 05:59 The Pearl of the East and the line up of Rolls awaiting for their pickup at Delhi Durbar snip-its of history adds to the thoroughness reproduction for this vehicle made during that time of King George V and Queen Mary rule over India. Posted by Ecclesley - 07 Oct 2014 07:06 This 1929 Rolls Royce Phantom I hearse, chassis # 85OR, is part of the movie "The Big Job", produced in 1965. 5 / 11
I made my code appropriately the3bonnet Rolls Royce of a Corgi Phantom Rolls IRoyce. hearse on the basis of a Yesteryear Y36. The coffin, Funny not for enough sale! a similar code 3 object was sold on Ebay last weekend, it fetched almost 40 quid. Mine is Posted by RoutemasterNL - 07 Oct 2014 13:37 Very well executed Gerrit. How did you manage to get the silver window outlines so straight and clean? Posted by Ecclesley - 07 Oct 2014 13:54 RoutemasterNL wrote: Very well executed Gerrit. How did you manage to get the silver window outlines so straight and clean? 6 / 11
Thanks Theo, I did hardly touch those lines, they are already there ex-factory. Only did some spot corrections. The coach is made of 3 separate parts, the bonnet, the upper cabin section and the lower cabin section. So, no need to spray the upper part. Quite an easy job really, except taking this car apart, which is a nightmare. Posted by Corky - 09 Oct 2014 07:45 Ecclesley wrote: Mine is not for sale! 7 / 11
What a pitty it is not! Isn't it? How do they say?... "It looks factory to me". Posted by 143-09 Oct 2014 09:19 I have now gone through the 35 pages of these posts and found it all very interesting. I am keen to at least try and do some of the code 3 Royal vehicles for my collection. I just hope they are as good as Gerrit's outstanding work. Bob Posted by CorgiCrossEyed - 09 Oct 2014 09:37 8 / 11
Terrific work. Curious to know if you pondered the idea of concealing the rear door lines. May be biased but yours is better than the one sold on Ebay. www.ebay.co.uk/itm/034-matchbox-models-o...rksid=p2047675.l2557 Posted by Ecclesley - 09 Oct 2014 11:23 Thanks Bob, I am curious how your code 3 Royal Rolls Royces turn out. Also many thanks CCE, In fact I was thinking about concealing those rear door lines when I had finished the model, so I left it as it was. 9 / 11
The Ebay model seller should at least have painted the wheels, to let it look more hearse-ish. Well I liked doing this one, another one might follow, and who knows how that is going to turn out. In the mean time I found this code 3 Dinky 150 Silver Wraith ice cream car on Ebay. A combination of an Oxford Diecast (Bedford) ice cream van, mated to a Dinky 150 front. Isn't that cute, I just love this creativity, it gives me inspiration. The Rolls Royce of Ice Cream (should be very smooth). 10 / 11
Posted by Ecclesley - 21 Oct 2014 08:54 It is only a mock-up, a try out. I was tinkering with the idea to create a Silver Ghost Tourer on the basis of a Yesteryear RR chassis with a Daimler coach and the bonnet from a RR firetruck. The real life, these Tourers have a higher, tapering bonnet i.s.o. of the low straight version, we normally see on early Ghosts. In this mock up, the bonnet is just a sniff too high, but I will correct that before putting it into production. 11 / 11