Tamiya Monkey Groupbuild

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May 1, 2022
Very crisp moulding and great detail!
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May 1, 2022
How am I going to paint this as smooth as silk??
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May 1, 2022
Drilled holes in the brake discs. 0.5mm in the smaller disc, 0.6mm in the larger
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May 1, 2022
It needs to be glued someday, why not today!
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May 1, 2022
Dry fit to check where mould lines need to be eradicated
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May 1, 2022
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July 3, 2022
All parts cleaned and skewered
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July 3, 2022
Ready to rock with the Mig parts.
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July 3, 2022
Still ready to rock after two weeks
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July 3, 2022
Alclad gloss black base
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July 3, 2022
Mr surfacer 1200 from a jar
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July 4, 2022
Paint it white
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July 4, 2022
Paint it black
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July 4, 2022
Paint it ruby
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July 4, 2022
Yum!
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July 7, 2022
Masking took some time
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July 7, 2022
Worth it!
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July 7, 2022
Alclad aluminium
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July 7, 2022
And some dark aluminium
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July 7, 2022
Details done with Vallejo Silver & yellow
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July 7, 2022
Details done with Vallejo silver, Ammo rubber & Revell red
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July 8, 2022
This isn’t supposed to be black!
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July 8, 2022
Stripped
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July 8, 2022
Repainted
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October 10, 2022
Gold bmf on the suspension
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October 10, 2022
Decal stripe
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October 10, 2022
Some more decals
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October 10, 2022
Added some Kristal Klear as lenses on the spedo and the Honda badges
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October 10, 2022
Sticky business!
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November 23, 2022
Sanded and polished
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November 25, 2022
Started on the final assembly. Phase 1!
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November 25, 2022
The rear fork didn’t want to fit over the frame. Some paint-shaving did the trick.
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November 25, 2022
Same here. The eye on the right should meet it’s counterpart inside the chrome ring. Some scraping of the paint was needed.
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November 25, 2022
In the end it worked out.
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November 25, 2022
Phase 1 complete. The rest will be done later.
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November 25, 2022

10 1 May 2022, 07:31

Martin Oostrom
Peter Hardy is right. Build a bike and it stays very quiet! Never had that experience before 🙁

1 May 2022, 18:23

David Fuller
Looking good to me so far!

1 May 2022, 20:10

Tom ...
👀

1 May 2022, 20:13

Spanjaard
I am in, of course. What will it be the color?

1 May 2022, 20:38

Martin Oostrom
Yeah! People in my zoo! welcome!
Are there any pitfalls David?
This is my main colour of choice SB30-0285 Porsche Rubystone Red, StreetBlisters Paints Matt, Lacquer, 30ml

1 May 2022, 20:46

Tom ...
Argh, Martin. Now look what you made me have to do... drill lots of little holes... 😠

Your holes look great. I'm going to have to do the same. Great thing about a group build is you get to steal ideas from everyone else! 😄

1 May 2022, 21:26

David Fuller
The only real issue I had with mine was that I had too much paint build up on the front struts where the lower triple mount attaches. I ended up having to scrape out a bunch of paint to get the parts to fit correctly. Very tight tolerances!

1 May 2022, 21:46

Kyle DeHart
Looking great Martin!

2 May 2022, 09:24

Martin Oostrom
Thanks David, I had to get rid of the Citroën on my bench and I had to Google 'lower triple mount'. Two chores done, so now it's full steam ahead to get my Monkey going

8 May 2022, 15:24

Martin Oostrom
And finally some progress. Sunday was primer day. Alclad blck base for the metals and Mr surfacer 1200 for the rest

3 July 2022, 12:36

Kyle DeHart
I made progress today as well! 😀 Work has been interfering with all of my builds. 👎 Looking good

4 July 2022, 01:21

Spanjaard
looking good Martin!

4 July 2022, 21:10

Kyle DeHart
I like the Ruby!

4 July 2022, 21:54

Martin Oostrom
Some more done today

7 July 2022, 20:24

Kyle DeHart
Ooh Martin. I like the treatment of the wheels. Looking awesome.

8 July 2022, 01:37

Martin Oostrom
Finally did some more work. Some detailing and decalling

10 October 2022, 13:37

Spanjaard
How many builds at the same time? And all of them looking good 🙂

10 October 2022, 15:25

Martin Oostrom
Mmm. Finished the Chevy, decalling the Monkey, painting the Mercury and sanding the Firebird and some prep on the group C. That's 5 rivers 😉

10 October 2022, 19:49

Tom ...
never thought to use bmf. looks great!

10 October 2022, 20:23

Spanjaard
LOL

10 October 2022, 22:45

Kyle DeHart
That looks excellent Martin

11 October 2022, 01:56

Martin Oostrom
A small update. All parts were clearcoated with 2k gloss I wet sanded and polished the tank and the …cover?

23 November 2022, 22:46

Spanjaard
they look good, looking forward final assembly 🙂

23 November 2022, 22:53

Kyle DeHart
Looking great!