This is a very expensive toy to get here in the States. Prices are around $350+ and up for a complete one, not including the box! It's absolutely so amazing how cleaning up a toy and adding new stickers can dramatically improve a toy like this, but your fix for the bumper, grill, and replacing that extra smoke stack just really came together to make this (no doubt) a gem for your MASK display! I always think of the Thunderhawk and the Rhino as being the centerpieces of my collection, but if I had a Bulldog, I know it would be right there with both of those! I thoroughly enjoy it when you do MASK toys! Like you, I'm late to the MASK game, but I've really learned to love this toy line. I think that it's a genius line of toys in much the way that the Transformer toys were, so I really am excited to see you working and repairing these toys!
I love watching you fix these MASK toys. I wish Hasbro would reissue these, they bought Kenner a decade or two back and they've reissued other Kenner toys like the Kenner Star wars and Ghostbusters figures but so far they've been cagey about whether or not they'll do the same for MASK.
Wow, great result! I still remember that my best childhood friend used to have the Venom Leaders purple Plane. I loved to play with that when I visited him. Good times.
This is my favorite Mask toy, I Paid $12 for it back in the day… When I restored mine, I ordered a 3d printed chainsaw. I’m still in need of a middle though.
Plastic Weld does not like chromed plastic. Just remove a tiny bit of chrome vac-finish from the area you intend to cement. Most MASK toys are styrene and ABS, both of which Plastic Weld will work with. Lovely job with the stickers - and it reminded me of something - my brother and I very rarely put stickers on toys. Unless it was an essential marking, we never applied them, especially if one was the name of the toy. When I was older, I'd paint detail areas on toys, but the stickers were usually just thrown away with the packaging. I cringe at the thought nowadays, but if it was a toy from a TV show, or movie, we wanted it to look like it was on screen.
Another great rescue! I’ve recently fixed a Mego Terraphant vehicle. This has only happened as you have given me some confidence to give it a go from watching your videos - cheers Dave 👍
In case you're ever in the mood for a deep dive into new techniques, metal-plating plastic is actually less hassle than you think. Though airbrushing Alclad Chrome paints usually does a pretty decent job as well if you're only after the appearance.
ahhh always a pleasure to watch you work seeing the Bulldog reminds me of the Rihno mostly an idea i had take Primes trailer as a point of reference and create trailers for the two semi's work in progress
The good old days of toys where they use screws. Unlike nowadays, heavily relying on pins and many times they just glue the parts together. Hard to customize and repair.
I had no idea there were so many interesting vehicles I the Mask line. I am only familiar with the more common because my younger brother had them. And the decals really change the look of it.
Another banger Dave, what a restoration result that is!!! Looks transformed, and always bewitched watching you on photo shop. Mark is a top guy too, helped me out with so many parts when it comes to my MASK collection 👍👊
What a great job Dave, I envy your skill with styrene ! The Bulldog looks as good as new 👏. Matthew jumped around with excitement at hearing you call out his name 😂.
Another great repair job. Always good to see the old parts being repaired and made anew again. With these M.A.S.K. toys, have you ever considered the possibility of custom making some of your own? I'm sure I wouldn't be the only one who would watch a series like that.
Ever thought too if you needed a part. Can always get a complete then if needed one. Can Make mold castings for it too. I am just starting to make Casting now. For Parts I can replicate. I just got a tmnt Warrior metalhead Mikey. He is missing all of his accessories. But I got a complete metalhead. So I am casting those for my Warrior version In blue color.
I wonder if that was made during a transitional period for chromed plastic since early examples were that semi transparent off white underneath always. Modern chrome painting does that same thing of black material or painting on black first, metallic plastic sure is challenging to produce historically. Another fine sticker file, just recently directed someone to your excellent work. 🙂
while watching the series of mask restorations I came up with a question that's sort of related to the restoration of toys with scratches, especially in clear plastic. If you have an otherwise operable plastic part that has some scratches, for instance like of clear canopy would you think that buffing that plastic would serve any useful purpose to hide those scratches for display purposes?
I don't. I grabbed the figure on eBay for a reasonable price, with the Mask it was way more than I wanted to spend. I hope to fine it in time, but it's fine without it.
I customize transformers, I use mostly paint pens for my customizing as I find them more versatile and easy to use than brushing or spray painting etc. The only downfall is that there are very few good options for Chrome and I think the pen you use is probably the best one I've seen so far, I've watched your video 5 times and still can't quite catch the name of the brand and when I went to your tools link you didn't have that listed as one of the things you could buy so if someone could just tell me the brand name or even better where I can purchase one, I'd be very much appreciative. Great video and thanks in advance.
The smoke stack opposite to the one you replaced, did it need a repair. I watched this video on my phone and it looked like the smoke stacks in some way interacted with the rear tank treads. Because the parts are black and I was watching on my phone, it looked like one was shorter than the other. I could be mistaken.
I don't think they do. You have to manually rotate them down, same as you have to rotate out the tracks. Only some features on these toys are 'automatic'.
I know there are people selling my work on there. Sadly there is nothing I can do to stop it. eBay are zero help and won't do anything about it. All I can say is I don't sell on eBay so never buy anything of mine on there. Cheers
@@toypolloi Yea I can do that, will probably have to take it apart to get the piece free of the main body of the truck, I wouldn't want to gum up the smoke stacks movement.
I wish I knew where all my m.a.s.k. toys are and where can one find some m.a.s.k. toys to add once i can find them because i'm trying to make a model that looks like a m.a.s.k. vechile
