Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle

Hello all,
I'm reading on this forum for some time and decided to share my current build.
Its the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle from AMT for my kid who is a huge Monstertruck fan  Its a Christmas gift so I must hurry   


Whats in the box


I have some progress, the bodywork is almost done. Paint, decals and clear are on.


Start with the engine and chassis.


More updates soon   

Now that's different,   Oh Welcome here.

First up welcome to the forum. Always great to see new folks.

Secondly ...WOW what a neat truck. That paint came up a treat and the chassis is looking good too. Your kid is gunna love it

Well done.

Welcome!! That looks excellent. Very nice paint

Welcome here , nice looking build , great paint .

Cowabunga!

Thanks all for the welcome and the credits  

Judging by how well the body was painted this looks like it's going to be a awesome looking build will keep an eye on this one

Thanks, the paintwork was very time consuming. Its my first paint job with multiple colors and the (tooth) decals broke in pieces soon they touched the water but I was able to use them in pieces.

Too bad the effect on the shield is almost gone since the clear coat is on, but I'm happy with the result 

Nice job. My youngest bloke did the same truck and his decals did the same thing. Salvaged what we could and painted the teeth. Yours is a treat.

Thanks Deaf as!
Luckily I was able to use the pieces, there are some tiny edges where the pieces touch each other but I was able to fill this with paint.
Otherwise I probably tried making new decals because my brush skills are horrible  

I must say the quality off this kit is terrible compared to the Lindberg monstertruck I did, this one has sinkholes in every visible piece and molding edges about everywhere. But the bigger the challenge to create a nice model  

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 

Looking great, clean paint

Hey Dinky, we thought about getting new decals but my computer skills are rubbish, we stayed with the kit ones. Now that I know about this forum, someone here probably could have helped. I agree, it isn't a great kit but yours shows no sign of it - Great work !!

That is a super slick build mate, great job on the paint, and i've found, those bars never seem to go where they should, as easy as they should either.

Thanks guys  
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

More updates soon

Almost there..... no more time today, tomorrow some work on the body strap and then its time for the endpics  

nice work. hope you have enough time to finish it. let us know what he thinks.

And its done  
He will get it tomorrow morning, I will will share his reaction  
Pics are in the Showroom topic: https://ozautobuilders.forumotion.com/t7422-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtle#95509

It was worth to hurry, my son's reaction was great!