Another Monkeemobile surfaces!

[TonyW]

After seeing Snakes restoration of his Monkeemobile further down the page, I got into gear and hit my own build. It's been stalled for ages so here's the excuse needed to do something about that!

It's a three footer to be honest.  : 

 Little things just would not come together as I would have liked. The finish is brush painted Humbrol enamel and although it has a terrific shine and no brush marks, it does have a few bits of dust here and there. Enamel won't polish out like Cellulose, so that's it for the colour. The decals are damaged. They look OK, but no more than that. The top and interior have been painted more than once. The original car had a tan top and interior, although I remember it a white as a kid. The  original cars had various colour changes over the years along with different tires and Monkee scripts on the doors. I ended up picking what looked best to me, rather than a historically accurate scheme. I added redbands to the original Goodyears as I like the look a lot. Mine are a bitoversized as I'm still getting the hang of using paint pens for this job. I've found pictures of the car with redbands, buebands and white letter Goodyears on the internet. Any would have looked good on the model.
My kit was salvaged from a beat to death boxed model advertized on ebay a few years back, it was unbuilt but missing a few parts. There was only one exhaust pipe, out of eight, for instance. I built mine out of ally tube, flared by shoving the sharp end of my needle nose pliers into the pipe and twisting it around until the desired flare happened. They are slightly oversized but an improvement of the crude kit parts. I like them. About half the chrome plate was missing, from the engine parts as well as the Cragars. A Molotov pen sorted that out in short order.

I've been a bit harsh with myself on this one. It should have turned out better. There's always the next kit though.
Not to worry, it looks good to me placed alongside an original unbuilt Airfix issue, complete with Press Release letter and photo from the time. Just don't get too close, that's all.   

Tony.

Edited May 9, 2017 by TonyW

[Snake45]

So GTX6970 inspires me, and I inspire you. Big wheel keep on turnin'....  Maybe we should have a whole Show Your Monkeemobile thread soon.

Very cool!

I believe you about the Humbrol paint. I painted a Grumman F8F Bearcat with their glossy sea blue a few decades and it rivals any airbrush job I've ever done. Have never achieved that again with ANY paint. There's no inbetween on Humbrol--it either comes out magnificent, or it's complete garbage.

Can I just barely make out the Dean Jeffries Custom badge on the front fender? So this one is also an original issue? Nicely done, at any rate!

[TonyW]

Well spotted! It is an original, complete with Jeffries crest on the front fender. It's been hit with my Molotow pen although I've drawn the line at painting in any detail!

The Humbrol red used came from an old tin, one of the grey stripe ones. Old Humbrol seems to flow really well and the gloss has to be seen to be believed. I used a new brush, stirred the paint for ages and put the freshly painted car body inside a polythene cake container. It still attracted dust though  One day I might get lucky.

[gtx6970]

I built mine over the winter. 

Been wanting to do It for years. 

 

Once it got going I couldn't stop. 

Now that its done....ita one of my favorites in the case.

 

[THarrison351]

Yours looks good from here. I need to finish the one I started years ago too.