Finally Finished! Ultimate Tamiya Wild Willy 2 Detailed Build. RC Labor of Love That TOOK FOREVER

[@GhostRyderFPV]

For the last 2 weeks, I been meticulously putting together a Wild Wily body, painting every nook and cranny, adding LED light buckets, 3d printing a filler for the Jerry can. And then the end of your video struck me, I'll _never drive it_ with all these mods! Enter the pre-painted body from Tamiya, which arrived before I finished the one I'm building. Now I'm staring at my finished chassis, ready-set body, and the pile of original body parts and direly wanting to maiden it... must... hold... off... lol

[@ryanmclaren3899]

"I think they look better, or they look... different" is such a perfect distillation of how I felt making every single aesthetic decision in my entire life I can't stand it. 😘

[@tomellingham8627]

Really enjoyed learning about this one! Didn't realise Wild Willy 2 was so involving. It's a perfect RC for anyone into serious scale modeling. Dunno if I could try it though - I love painting hard bodied grasshoppers but this is a different kettle of rc fish altogether. Great that Charlie got a Cameo line.

[@branpresty]

Love the intros on this series, these are the videos that got me into the hobby as a kid…….spent hours in my local model shop just watching them in loop

[@cjv29er]

I love this Wild Willy 2 video series. Now I'll be getting my first ever Tamiya kit since the Mini 4WD of my youth.

[@RCBirds]

Great build and design Gavin. Seems as if Tamiya wants to remind, they're doing static models, too.

[@RCKickschannel]

Yep it really does have that feel about it.

[@RCACTIONAUSTRALIA]

Awesome Job Gavin

[@smellurfingerrcdejesus9176]

I think how you contrasting colors anodized it perfect not kissing butt what you did a excellent job Gavin see you have to have somebody to look up to you have to have a mentor mr. Wild Willy did a great show it was all yellow 💛

[@phillmartin3103]

Being a static model builder originally, I REALLY enjoyed building the body, detailing and weathering it. I chose to do an Australian ADF Camo scheme on Willy's overalls. DO makenthe effort on the roll bars. Oaint the in between parts the same as the body colour, and you can leave the foam black. And I do drive mine!

[@MikeLouie_TKD]

You are one CRAZY detailed person! Amazing job on the details, paint and look of it!

[@RCKickschannel]

Thanks. Still more to do but that will be off camera when I get some free time.

[@barrycheesemore2928]

You've done a great job of that Wild Willy 2 mate, well done!!

[@mattiasrc]

Nice build, looks great.

[@Bikergal800]

Came out well really nice

[@EMPTYPOCKETSRC]

Wild Willy2 puts a smile on your face. Great job.

[@prophetate]

absolutely awesome little rc :)

[@moonlight5050]

I had the first one back in the mid 80's....wish I'd kept it..!! I believe you can get a 4WD chassis which doesn't wheelie as much..? Looks great and brings back memories 👍👍😁

[@gabdemon]

Awesome job 👍

[@bowi73]

verry good looks real nice ,the first gen was my firts tamiya

[@bidibulle6795]

Stunning !! I love it, it reminds me so much of my childhood. I bought an avante comical last month, I had considered this one but I wanted the 4x4 for stability. You really make me want to take it now.....

[@RCKickschannel]

Just get the body and mod it to go on your Avante comical. It looks like an easy project

[@stephenwiddick4934]

Used plastic sheet to finish jerry can and strap. Glued front grill on mine so i could put headlights in. Ive seen wild willies in lots of colours and it always works .

[@stephenwiddick4934]

Ps. Filled in square hole on the floor

[@RCKickschannel]

Yep I was thinking about doing something about that gap in the floor. Did you see Ari’s Wild Willy 2 videos on the RC Retro channel. That blue works really well

[@stephenwiddick4934]

Just watched it, looks good. My one is pink with white accents and extra chrome chassis parts. Could send picci if I had an address to send it to.

[@highrollerdecorators8059]

Looks ace and them lights are a good touch like your style sir 😊👊

[@andyrobinsonrc2480]

Super detail work on this build, Patience of a saint as well . Looks fantastic and good to see it out for a run at the end ;)

[@RCKickschannel]

Thanks Andy 👍🏻👍🏻

[@edwardlove4300]

Nice to meet you Gavin. You did an outstanding job finishing up "Wild Willy". Thanks for the experience of watching your detailed artistic adventure. Best wishes, Edward in Osaka Japan

[@benhaywood2510]

You’ve done a smashing job on that, Gav. Top job!

[@jone7940]

Looks fantastic Gavin!

[@grrfy]

Looks brilliant!

[@merijn1975]

Great job Gavin!

[@mikeupton5406]

Gavin that's really a WELL finished character car. You might want to look into a d.i.y. paint booth.

[@massimolooman1445]

Very nice Gavin. Shapeways has the jerrycan backcover👌

[@RCKickschannel]

I’ll check it out

[@Mark-g4z2s]

Beautiful really

[@michaeldorich4485]

You did an outstanding job and you have so much more patience than I have. You should be proud of your work. The car looks great. You gave us a lot of insight to the build. Thank you.

[@George-cm8in]

great job Gav,yes the NOS bottle is supposed to be BLUE but anyways yours be mostly a shelf queen like mine is after so much work went into it......im pretty jealous you may just have made yours a touch better than what i did with mine .

[@liamRC5487]

Your patience is way above mine. Great series. For added detail, I use silver on my dashboard knobs then use translucent red orange yellow on top to look real. Translucent yellow over your headlight stickers will make them pop.👍👍👌

[@Vacheron16]

Great work Wild Willy looks amazing. Only thing NOS are always Sky Blue (x-14) or French Blue (TS-10) Classic look or moderne NOS look Metallic Blue (TS-19) Would look good on a pair or GYAR RC Sand Tires for that Retro 1982 look 👌

[@brendancox916]

Fantastic!!

[@paulmcnamara2908]

Nice job buddy had a city turbo once. And saw a Wild Willy in an episode of Knight Rider the other day!

[@alanpassmore2275]

I think you need a Wild Wendy 😁

[@traxxasfans]

The details you put into it look totally amazing

[@jason.bochniak]

Nice work mate, looks great!

[@TheTobyT]

🤩👍👏Amazing job!

[@PeteWylieRC]

Ooh your Willy looks lovely! 😁👍👍

[@deedoubleyatraining]

Gavin, that looks superb! I know the buzz when building/painting etc ‘do I don’t I, shall I put that on now or later….?’ The attention to detail on this one really does make it. Nice one, and thanks for the content 👍

[@IowaBudgetRCBashers]

Looks great Gav.. story about a willys jeep. My brothers buddy had one with 48” tires on it and he did mud truck shows with it. He drove it across one of our local rivers and the game warden busted him not for crossing tge river with it but for not having a boat registration on it 😂.. that truck was in several magazines in the 80’s and he always said Tamiya copied his truck to make the wild Willy, but the Willy came out a few years before that truck was ever built lol

[@RCKickschannel]

lol :)

[@Mindauxx]

Amazing work Gavin. I enjoyed every second of the series. As a long time scale modeller, I am amazed to see your journey along the modelling path. You are getting very good! When I built my willy (desert colored with desert camo driver) I used brush on all those parts, so I can avoid masking as much as I can after the initial basecoat. The flat coat afterwards hides all the brush strokes. For the drivers face, explore the Contrast paint from Citadel from Wargammer 40k, (guilimann flesh), the flesh comes to life after that product. It shades the flesh naturally, creating shadows and highlights. Also I used black Tamiya panel liner for putting shadowy wash around those small details and in the recesses, these makes them pop. Panel liner flows very well around the details, and you use whitespirit for cleanup if needed. I see you allready found the technique of drybrushing. Simply great work, Gav!

[@AddamsPlayground]

The hardest part is driving it after you put all that time and effort into painting it up really nice! The body is a challenge but it is a fun one to paint up. I almost painted the NOS bottle red too thinking it was a fire extinguisher but it stands out more in the recommended blue as a nitrous bottle. Great work and it looks great!

[@davidturner2365]

Looks cool 👍

[@mkendall8393]

If you think this was a challenge you should try a vintage wild Willy. The chassis build itself was multiple weekends.

[@Farney-gy1qo]

I miss my WW2. When I built it, I just slapped it together LoL. They're pretty quick out of the box, I modded it with Bearhawk wishbones and made it a Wide Willy.

[@yellomello71]

Good work. I like it. Mine became more a static model than a driveable RC. To much bodywork isnt the way for the WWII when you like to drive it. Have fun

[@RCKickschannel]

Yep, agree with you on that one.

[@niklas2378]

hi, just a tip: when you paint eyes on a figure dont make them a circle. make them a half moon from the top eyelid. makes the eyes look much more natural.. btw i have this and it will be my winter project. merry juletide (im norwegian)

[@RCKickschannel]

Thanks for the tip

[@rccrawlersmid-wales645]

Great work, love the details. Styrene sheet might be good for filling in the fuel can - it's easy to cut to shape and glue on, then you'd have a nice flat surface. 👍

[@paulus842000]

First! As usual another epic video and build❤

[@tm5123]

Turned out real nice man. Could be a good idea looking into some basics of miniature painting if you want to push the painting on driver figures, but keeping it neat( like you did) is always a perfect baseline.

[@roblowrie1969]

I'm not sure I'd want to take a car out and run it, after all that work!! I think it looks fantastic. Nice job. 😎👍🏻

[@BLThackrey]

The NOS bottle is blue , Gavin

[@RCKickschannel]

Someone didn’t watch the video

[@BLThackrey]

@@RCKickschannel Yes I did , but the nos bottle is supposed to be blue .. not red .. other wise you'd put out a fire with an explosion .

[@RCKickschannel]

@@BLThackrey Yes and in the video I call it a fire extinguisher a good few times until I fit the Nos sticker and comment on my mistake in realising it’s a NOS bottle and not a fire extinguisher after I’ve painted it red.

[@BLThackrey]

Wild willy would reuse a fire extinguisher , fill it with NOS ! still makes sense ,after all he'd use far more Nos than fire extinguishers .. I do love the job you have done . Did you know The comical Avante Includes the parts ( rails ) in the kit to build a 4x4 WW ?

[@Pablo668]

NIce work. I have an OG Wild Willy and I even managed to get it relatively cheap. I took it for that 'one gentle run' and er....rolled it. So it now has a scuff on the rollbar. I cheated in the end and bought a EXB body to use if I want to run it again. Good vid as always.

[@TrevorThePilot]

What's EXB please?

[@Pablo668]

@@TrevorThePilot expert built

[@n22pdf]

Great work Gavin.. well done looks very nice worth the effort 👍👍😃

[@Chunky246]

Looks really good. Only thing I would do different is matt finish the driver (but just gloss for the helmet).

[@RCKickschannel]

I tried that using flat clear but it didn’t do much. 100% agree so I might try and find some from the local car shop

[@colinfairbairn8136]

gav i got the alu oil shocks and alu wheely bar at back looks good painted my one in desert sand with green camo driver he was in green drab brown belts black boots green gloves deep green helmet with us army on sides and white star in front fuel tank in gun metal looks amazing scared to drive it hard for damage maybe change the wheels for the gold pumpkin ones anyway very nice build.

[@mattcobden7373]

Thanks for the discount code.. just ordered one from Rochester RC 👍 Any suggestions for where to buy the Axe/ Shovel and back of Jerry can in the UK? All I can find is based in the US and the shipping costs are crazy..

[@RCKickschannel]

Try a few 3D RC printing services www.shapeways.com/marketplace/tech/rc-cars?facet%5BpdcId%5D%5B%5D=633

[@duncanmcgregor7946]

Always fancied one of these as a kid….might treat myself. Another great vid Gavin 🙌 any upgrades you’d consider?

[@RCKickschannel]

It drives really well surprisingly. The only thing I would upgrade would be the shocks, apart from that possibly a better steering servo saver

[@dartvader8040]

Great video, thanks! 👉👌 For even fancier detailing I would highly recommend purchasing couple of Liquid Chrome paint pens by Molotow. They give rrrreally awesome chrome looks for scale model items, like bolts, knobs, rivets etc. I just painted a set of 1/10 wheel rims and even they look like "factory" chromed. Painted surfaces can take some reasonable mechanical wear and touching without getting dull. The Molotow's Chrome Spray (rattle can) is bit on the rubbish side thou... -Rami

[@ChaNnArD-mD]

That's one slippery willy.

[@prophetate]

Gavin, would the sand scorcher rear tyres fit on the willy 2 rims? They ought to be the same tyres as on the original willy right 🤷‍♂️🤔😊

[@RCKickschannel]

It would be a bit of work to make them work

[@prophetate]

@@RCKickschannel what kind of rims was it on the original Willy? 😊

[@NovaCaddoWolf]

I wish they made a Wild Willy that was 4 wheel drive, having a 2 wheel drive jeep seems like sacrilege. Still a nice model.

[@RCKickschannel]

Take a Wild Willy Body set and put it on an Avante comical chassis 👍🏻👍🏻

[@aut0bahn]

I see a lot of PS paint. Is that the right stuff for a hardbody? I would think it’s easily scuffed and scratched as opposed to a TS paint.

[@RCKickschannel]

I used PS and TS, it depends on what you are using it for and what you can get away with.

[@davejones4093]

PS paint on hard plastics, did it stick ok?

[@vigilante351]

Sooo much work but the end justifies the means. I have seen the driver online today, looked like $40 if you wanted to get a pro job. . FYI - NOS bottles are blue sorry to say :)

[@juliusdream2683]

It seems like the wild Willy is the father of the lunchbox and midnight pumpkin 🎃. I love the Willy and lunchbox I just never really dug the pumpkin it just doesn’t do it for me. Everyone is different and has they’re own opinion’s I know friends who love that old pickup truck look .

[@durbar546]

you need an airbrush i found it so much easier for things like drivers and other details

[@fredtedstedman]

bear in mind , clothing isn't shiny (unless you're into PVC !) give his clothes a coat of matt varnish to look like cloth .

[@michaellohn4262]

Realy nice one, but why not paint the body?!.... I think the Willy is the most fun Modell to build. i had 3 but sadly i thought i sbould sell one, now i miss it. It was paintet in a Military gray, muddy on the underside, Willy got an orange blue race suit.😢😢 i love this model. 👋🎅🌲

[@RCKickschannel]

I don’t know why, I was just happy with the look.

[@michaellohn4262]

@@RCKickschannel ja, u just explained it in the Video, no it looks realy good👍

[@MandaPii_]

As someone who also paints miniatures as well as RC stuff I am impressed by your over-the-top completely unnecessary masking technique to paint something that could more easily be painted with a brush.... A tip for getting rid of mould lines is to use the back of a hobby knife to scrape them off and then smooth it out with a file.

[@RCKickschannel]

Why thank you, I do try.

[@troyhodulik5542]

I had the original nearly 40 yrs ago! Gotta say, the WW2 motor placement is just NOT a good look. The original was a better location. The gigantic wheels and tires are also a miss in my opinion. I like the smaller tire/wheel combo with smaller sand rib treads. But, all-in-all, it's really cool that something like this is still around after a HALF CENTURY! Amazing!

[@techspeedrc]

Everyone I know has taken the easy way out and got a Willy figure painted by Rob Edwards.

[@brendancox916]

Probably because no one can paint a figure like him, and for what he sells them for.. amazing work and amazing person

[@NickT6630]

Very well done! A great looking model. If I was going to build this I would not use the spare wheel cover because its smaller than the actual wheels and I would put something else like another fuel can in its place. Thats just my opinion but great job!

[@madvente]

Awesome job!