About

Dinky Fans is a place to share your knowl­edge and learn more about the won­der­ful world of Dinky Toys. Whether you’re a sea­soned col­lec­tor, just start­ing out, or are sim­ply curi­ous about Dinky Toys, we hope you enjoy your vis­it.

Image: Dave Busfield


How to Get Notified of New Articles on DinkyFans

Would you like to receive an email when­ev­er a new arti­cle is pub­lished on Dinky­Fans? Here’s how to set it up in just a minute or two using a free ser­vice called Blogtrot­tr.

  1. Go to https://blogtrottr.com.
  2. In the box that says “Feed URL”, paste this address: https://dinkyfans.com/feed/dinkyfansrss
  3. In the “Email address” box, enter your email.
  4. In the “Sched­ule” selec­tor choose how often you’d like to be noti­fied (e.g. “As soon as pos­si­ble”, “2 hourly digest”, or “Dai­ly digest”).
  5. Click the “Feed Me” but­ton.
  6. Check your inbox for a con­fir­ma­tion email and click the link inside to acti­vate your sub­scrip­tion.

That’s it. From now on, you’ll get an email when new arti­cles appear on Dinky­Fans!


Contributions

Dinky Fans wel­comes arti­cles on Dinky Toys, pic­tures of your Dinky mod­els for inclu­sion in the Gallery and scans of your Dinky cat­a­logs for the Cat­a­logs sec­tion. Because Dinky Fans is a vol­un­teer effort, no com­pen­sa­tion can be pro­vid­ed for sub­mis­sions. Authors and image sources retain the copy­right to their work. Please email your con­tri­bu­tions to edi­tor [at] dinky­fans [dot] com.

Articles

Arti­cles should be sub­mit­ted as plain text files or Microsoft Word doc­u­ments and should con­tain ref­er­ences to includ­ed images, along with their cap­tions. Images should ide­al­ly be at least 1200 pix­els wide and have a res­o­lu­tion of 72 dpi. Images not pho­tographed by the author should be cred­it­ed to their source.

Please read one of the arti­cles to get an idea of the rec­om­mend­ed style.

Gallery

Close up images of mod­els you own that you’d like to share to the Gallery should be at least 1200 pix­els wide, well lit with min­i­mal shad­ows, and should show the front, top and left side of the mod­el. A sec­ondary image show­ing the mod­el’s rear, right side and top may be sub­mit­ted along with the pri­ma­ry image. Images should be in JPG or PNG for­mat and their file­names should include the mod­el num­ber.

Please see one of the mod­els in the Gallery to get an idea of a mod­el’s rec­om­mend­ed view.

Catalogs

Cat­a­log pages should be scanned at 300 dpi or high­er on a flatbed scan­ner and saved in JPG or PNG for­mat. Each image should prefer­ably be of a sin­gle page of the cat­a­log.


Acknowledgement

Dinky Fans is grate­ful for the efforts of these indi­vid­u­als and their desire to share infor­ma­tion about all things Dinky:

  • Bob Barnes
  • Charles Thorn­ton
  • Jacques Dujardin
  • Jacques Ham­mel
  • Jan Wern­er
  • Jonathan Angel
  • Jose Her­aud
  • Mark Simiele
  • Ravi Bhav­nani
  • Ter­ry Hard­grave

Spe­cial thanks to these Dinky fans who are sad­ly no longer with us:

  • Bill Nicolosi
  • Dave Bus­field
  • Michael Dun­can