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Episode: 3073
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Title: HPR3073: Matchbox and Diecast Restoration
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr3073/hpr3073.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-24 16:13:33
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 3,073 for Wednesday 13 May 2020.
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Today's show is entitled Matchbox and Dicast Restoration.
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It is hosted by Tony Hughes, aka Tony H1212,
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and is about three minutes long
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and carries a clean flag. The summer is
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a short episode about my new hobby restoring matchbox and other Dicast models.
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This episode of HPR is brought to you by archive.org.
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Support universal access to all knowledge
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by heading over to archive.org forward slash donate.
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Hello Hacker Public Radio fans. This is Tony Hughes from Blackpool in the UK.
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It's been a good while since I recorded one of these shows.
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And today for a change I haven't got to script.
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But I just thought I'd talk about something that we talked about on the new year show.
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As I look at my computer desk, I'm surrounded by matchbox model curve
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and the whole of my office and workshop is actually smothering models
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and modelling equipment at the moment.
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And we were talking about this briefly, new year's show.
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And I said, or Ken said, stop talking about that.
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That's a show, as he usually does.
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So I said at some stage I would record a show to my modelling there, matchbox cars.
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And this first episode is really just to talk about how I got in.
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I've been following one or two YouTube channel started last year.
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And one of the people I follow is a guy called Marty over in Australia
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and he does a YouTube charty's matchbox makeover.
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And I stumbled across this channel because I like watching these restaurants
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or tool old electrical equipment and also doing a YouTube channel.
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So I started to watch it and I thought, I never really got into matchbox as a kid.
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We didn't have enough of a lot of money and even though matchbox were at the budget end of the model cars,
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compared with Dinky and Corky for the bigger models,
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they were still pretty much price range, the pocket money that I used to get.
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So apart from one or two, I never really got into them.
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I've always loved them as little models because there's so much detailing.
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And I thought I'd send this guy in Australia a couple of models to risk because he was doing it.
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I found a couple of models on eBay and sent them off.
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But I kept one back thinking, have a go at this myself.
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And I did.
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And I'll put a picture of that model in the show now even though there aren't going to be many.
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And that was the first one that I'd go at.
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And it didn't turn out too bad, it wasn't perfect, but it didn't turn out.
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And that started getting me hooked.
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So I'm going to probably do a series of these little recordings,
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just going over some of the things that I do when I'm stripping a model and how I're stripping.
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For more information, these loads of YouTube channels out there.
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I'll put links to Marty's channel in the show now so that you can go and have a look if you want to.
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For now, I'm going to call this one a wrap and come back to the future date.
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So this is Tony Hughes for Accom public radio signing off for now.
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And see you again down the line.
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And by the way, in our difficult times at the moment, keep safe folks.
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And hopefully we all again to live events in the future.
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Bye.
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You've been listening to Accom public radio at Accom public radio.org.
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