MPC's Monkee Mobile

[kpnuts]

Hi all thought I would drag this out of my stash and give it a go.

[chunkypeanutbutter]

Always loved the pipes on the Monkeemobile

[skymnky721]

Got to be one of the coolest Movie cars ,,nice on yours!

[Guest]

You should have molded the front and rear pans in place, put tied and sanded before paint, there are no seams on the real car.

[blueovl150]

You should have molded the front and rear pans in place, put tied and sanded before paint, there are no seams on the real car.

Can you still get the chassis in with both pans molded in place?

[Snake45]

Can you still get the chassis in with both pans molded in place?

If not, you can just cut and file on the chassis till you can. No great loss, it's a '60s MPC chassis and only one step up from a one-piece promo chassis.

[Guest]

Can you still get the chassis in with both pans molded in place?

Yes. I built mine that way.

[TFchronos]

Awesome car to build, looks great!

[kpnuts]

Hi all here is an update on yet another kit I seem to be unable to do a decent job of.





the decal is too big its supposed to fit inside the door and its supposed to say The Monkees not just Monkees, oh and its supposed to be yellow not gold.
none of the engine parts fit correctly there is no radiator or hoses for the engine.
if I cant build a decent model soon I think I will give up altogether.

[slusher]

You can only work with what you have Kenneth. Looks really good hang in there...

[kpnuts]

Thanks Carl

Hi here is tonights update, been collecting bits for the dio for it can you guess what these will be used for.

thought I had got over the engine problems but as you can see the chassis is where it should be but the engine must be at least 10 mm out I have to fit the blower on there, dont know how to get round this one whether to hack the chassis about or try and move the engine forward some how.

[slusher]

Is the top picture for Drums?? Taking a guess...

[kpnuts]

I should have put some extra bits there just to confuse you, drum kit it is.

[slusher]

I should have put some extra bits there just to confuse you, drum kit it is.

Cool idea for the drums...

[Guest]

To be honest, I wouldn't worry about the engine, you don't see it anyway. Just put the dummy blower on and call it good. Looking good so far.

[kpnuts]

I you're saying lee but it's really bad of mpc to get the engine placement that wrong I mean 10mm *24 that's 20mm short of 1/2 a metre it seems mpc don't care at all about accuracy not sure I would buy another of their kits.

[Tom Geiger]

Kenneth, you have a kit that was tooled back in the 1960s when the main audience was kids, not adults. The kits back then had much less detail than you'd find on new tooling today. There isn't a radiator in the kit since it would be up front in the nose and almost unseen. I don't see how the engine could be off that much. I've seen built examples of this kit where it looked fine.

[kpnuts]

Hi all here is todays offering.

[slusher]

Nice progress Kenneth, Drums look great..

[kpnuts]

Hi Guys nearly finished this maybe tomorrow.

[Draggon]

Nice job on that drum kit. Ya know, I think I like those "too big" decals.

[kpnuts]

Hi guys well i'm calling this finished.

[rsxse240]

Very cool man! I never realized just how customized the body was. Of course I never bothered looking very closely until now either.

[jrherald420]

That upright that looks like the vent window is only there to support the windshield frame. It should be cut off.

[Snake45]

That upright that looks like the vent window is only there to support the windshield frame. It should be cut off.

Hmmmmm, I'm not sure about that. Looks to me like it's deliberately molded in there as a vent window frame.

The original issue of the kit didn't have that. The entire windshield frame is non-stock on the original. It looks to me like they've altered the mold to a more stock-like windshield frame arrangement for some reason.

At any rate, I wouldn't worry about trying to cut that off and risk screwing up the paint at this point.