Oxford Diecast - 2013 Toyfair announcements

[guest311]

my preordered panorama's arrived from Liverpool last week.

[bluedepot]

ok cheers h

i'm guessing that some of these coaches survived into the 80s though, with operators for school use etc. etc???

cheers

tim

[BernardTPM]

I saw lots when I visited the Isle of Man in 1981, but it was a little bit of a time warp place. Yes, they would have been well down the pecking order by that date, though their successors, the Panorama Elites ('68-'74) were still quite common.
I quite fancy doing a Bedford VAL conversion 

[B757-236GT]

I went to school on a Minerva Travel Panorama Elite in 1997! It was needless to say it was the last operator and probably the perfect thing for a school run!

Richard

[Michael Hendle]

 

B.O.A.C used them between Victoria Air Terminal in Buckingham Palace Rd to Terminal 3,
Some of them had B.O.A.C  Cunard on the side of them.

Mike

[davieb]

Hi all 

Picked one up today

I have to say it's a great looking model 







Sorry if the pics are a little blurred but I have other things on my mind at the moment

dave 

[BernardTPM]

Looks good, but they've forgotten to paint the wider pillar in between the chrome strips: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/Dons_Tour_Brochure_photo_1970.jpg. (Should be white on a National Express coach.)

[Adam1701D]

Looks lovely - hope to see a Green Line version soon.

Such an improvement over the chunky double-deckers - no need for the Glue'n'Glaze. 

[H]

Looks good, but they've forgotten to paint the wider pillar in between the chrome strips

Yep, I noticed that on my ones (and that the roof isn't fitted very well on one of the two) so it looks like they've all been missed. I'm going to have to get the paint and brushes out.



H.

[BernardTPM]

Ah, same with the back pillar too - but overall it looks really good. Is the bottom half diecast?

[H]

The rear corner pillars are filled with silver paint. The bottom half and roof are diecast metal with the centre window section being a clear plastic moulding. The wheels are nice mouldings but as always with Oxford cars the axle is too long (or they are not sufficiently fitted on) so that the wheels (on one side or the other) stick out too far.

H.

[BernardTPM]

I had a suspicion it was a 'sandwich'. Matchbox used the same basic construction method about 25 years ago for their 'Ikarus' coach http://www.modellauto.hu/ikarus/ik300_a.htm#sthash.mFKUDesF.dpbs. I did consider getting one just for the side windows to help build a modern Duple; while the width and height were much too long, the curved windows and length were about right for a 12m 320. I didn't bother in the end because it was set up for LH drive with the driver's sliding window detail moulded into the glazing on the wrong side for British use (would have been OK if they'd just printed it!).

[woodbury22uk]

4 N items for release this month.

http://www.oxforddiecast.co.uk/shop/showcat.asp?cat=58&jump=3

Not sure about the LMS removals van. Could be a model of a model.

[Michael Hendle]

Hi
I have bought 2 of the Western National Bristol buses as they are ideal for my North Cornwall Route

Mike

[woodbury22uk]

Three N pre-production models are shown on this page - Bristol Lodekka "Bristol" and two Eddie Stobart Scania articulated trucks with curtain-side trailers. Sorry if the Fiesta and the Stobart Rail Scania machinery transporter got anybody's hopes up!

http://tinyurl.com/q49f5l4