Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle (Ready picture page 2)

[Dinky]

I will build this one for my kid for Christmas for surprise. Will be difficult to keep it out of sight for him but I will do everything I can.
Will be build straight from the box, hard enough to be ready in time

Unboxed yesterday evening

Edited December 24, 2013 by Dinky

[lanesteele240]

I have this one and a dinosaur truck in the stash. Cant wait to see it come together

[Dinky]

Cool, would like to have the Dino also but they are very hard to find for normal price here in Holland.

I will have an update in the weekend.

The quality of this box is bad compared to the Lindberg trucks I build lately. There are so many sinkmarks in visible places and lot of stuff that must be long sanded before it looks normal.

[crazyrichard]

cool ! will make your kid very happy

[lanesteele240]

Dinky, i only gave 5 bucks each for both of the trucks at a local cheap shop. I went back to get two more of each the next day and they were all gone. They had like 10 of each left when i got mine.

The decals on the dino truck look to be a real challenge. Im going to make a tank track van monster truck out of it. Cant wait to start but i have other builds to finish

[Dinky]

Thats a great deal Gary

I have seen the Dino and the decals are real challenge indeed, seems the front one seems to be the most difficult even with Micro SOL and SET.

[slusher]

That will be a great gift. Very cool project also..

[Dinky]

Made a start today with the body, i'm not satisfied with the red part so this will be sanded and repainted this week.

When ready it will get some clear coat.

[Jantrix]

Awesome! Great paint work.

[Dinky]

Finally some time and the red parts now how I wanted it to be, I was a little enthusiast spraying the clear coat so I forgot the decals.

I will add them later and maybe give it a second layer gloss.

[crazyrichard]

awsome finish (again haha)

[Dinky]

Finally some time to work on the Ninja Turtle.

The tooth decals are on, lucky me.... soon they hit the water they broke in pieces but I was able to use them.
I gave the body one extra clear coat to protect the decals.

First experience with Alclad paint (blower and valve covers), very nice stuff but goes off very easy.

Some progress on the chassis

Tried one off the wheels with a red outside edge, I like it and im going to do the others also.

There are some molding holes in the rims but these will not be visible because the hub will come in front.

8 days until Christmas.......

[crazyrichard]

awsome , and like always super clean work !!

[BluePopsicle]

I want 4 of these! I would love to do each of the turtles.

[Dinky]

And some more progress, driver compartment ready and the front axle is on.

Test fit for the body.

Dryfit of the first wheel, I still had doubts but now I'm sure and I'm going to do the other wheels the same.

Now first some putty and paintwork before I can proceed with the chassis.

[Matt P]

This is coming along very nicely. keep up the good work.

[blackbeard]

coming along nicely love those ninja turtles

[Dinky]

Thanks guys

[BluePopsicle]

This is looking really nice. Good job.

[Davewilly]

Great paint on the body! Looks pretty cool!

[crazyrichard]

like always such clean building .. awsome..

Edited December 21, 2013 by crazyrichard

[Dinky]

Thanks Richard

Scoop is filled, painted and placed, after that I could finally add the rear part of the roll cage. Without that I couldn't install the rear shocks and the rear axle.

And another dry fit

The end is in sight and Christmas also

[Dinky]

Teaser

[Dinky]

Finished, the end pics are in the Under Glass topic: http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=83196

[heroncustom]

wow just wow u did a fantastic job im kinda jelous my daughters fav turtle is raph!! keep it up! and merry christmas!