<p>Now for the last one I need for this series of truck. The Bedford Dinky Toys van. Again I am using a 480 Kodak Van as these seem to go for less money than the Dinky Toys and Ovaltine vans.</p>
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Here is what I got on the mail back in August of 2019
$24.27 US delivered.

Some furniture stripper and some scrubbing and bead blasting and it turned out to be a pretty good casting.

You saw the base plates in the 481 Ovaltine van resto. Now for some primer.

I press all the bumps in the casting, caused by the heat during the blasting, down with a round dental tool You can see the bumps or bubbles in the last set of photos on the rear doors of the van. Hard to see here but they are gone now.
Now some paint for the top half. After all this is another 2 tone.

Then we mask it off.

I do the interior too as you can see in the windows. No need to do all the inside masking, just around the front windows and doors.

Under the masking tape above in the last picture I have painted it the same color as the outside. I used a brush but you won't be able to tell later as you have to look in the windows to see it.

The it is paint the darker lower half of the van.

This turned out pretty good. Just a few touch-ups needed on the outside.

Tomorrow I will do the touch-ups and the details. The Ovaltine van should be assembled tomorrow too.

Jim, excellent work as always.
I bought a Bedford Dinky Toys recently, too. Price was 11 Euros plus PP from UK.

I need it as a colour reference for a Bedford Pallet Jekta Van awaiting restoration.

The Bedford Dinky Toys is #9 Orange/Yellow for the lower half and #17 Yellow/Orange for the upper half.
The 930 Bedford Pallet-Jecta is #17 Yellow/Orange lower half. and #13 Primrose for the upper half
These are Steve Flowers colors and I have personally matched them from the unfaded colors inside the toys when I restored them.
They are slightly different.

I am not sure where you live but if your in the UK Steve Flowers will be at these two events later this month and January 2020.
NEC Toy Fair – Hall 18, NEC, Birmingham, B40 1NT Friday 27th December 2019
Coventry Toy Fair – The Connexion, Ryton on Dunsmore, CV8 3FL - Sunday 19th January 2020

The colors look great on this last one, to complete your collection.

I live in the southwest of Germany, quite a distance to England..