Vintage M.A.S.K. Thunderhawk Wing Tips and Tires - Toy Polloi

This is the second part of my Kenner M.A.S.K. Thunderhawk restoration. There are a couple of bits that are always missing from the Thunderhawk, the wing tips get lost and the tires (tyres for us in the UK) degrade and fall off. So that's what I am going to be sorting out today.
Watch the first part of this restoration here: • Vintage M.A.S.K. Thund...
Watch the how I made the replacement stickers here: • Vintage M.A.S.K. Thund...
Get the tires I used here: www.aliexpress.com/item/40002...
0:00 Intro
2:53 Deep clean ready for repairs
11:46 Scratch building wing guns
26:37 Painting the new guns
31:36 Replacement tires
36:37 The finished Thunderhawk
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[@DavidSmith-vw5eg]

You’re going to have a whole army of these here soon

[@chrisburns2309]

I really really like the music you have when you are spray painting those pieces white. You shoul use that tune alot more.👍

[@blaketarpley8174]

You made racing slick tires!!

[@MyMike305]

Man I am convinced that toy polloi can build a 3 bedroom 2 car garage with a pool out of styrene

[@toypolloi]

Is that like giving monkeys typewriters 🤣 I'm only good at 1/12th scale or smaller 😋

[@batangbatugan]

These vintage toys can really benefit from 3D printing technology. I know I'll be bringing up the whole genuine vintage parts vs custom reproductions debate but at the end of the day, we just want a fixed, working toy for our display, or a beloved childhood treasure given a new lease of life.

[@BanthaPooDoo64]

Another ACE toy repair ,vintage toys getting a 2nd chance at longer shelf time , instead of heading to a waste can

[@ActionPopCast]

Oh wow.... 👏👏 that is absolutely amazing. You took a starved street mutt and turned it into a pedigree show dog. Top work Dave

[@JomasterTheSecond]

I'm still always quite impressed whenever you scratchbuild stuff! Must take a lot of time and patience to get the parts down, honestly.

[@actionfigureplus]

Always loved this piece as well!

[@BLUEMONKEYTOYS]

Who needs a 3D printer when you can just old school scratch build the parts you need out of polystyrene. WOW! Most impressive work my friend. Excellent job👍👏👏👏👏

[@toypolloi]

Exactly. You don't need expensive equipment to fix toys like this. Some styrene sheets and a bit of thinking and you can make something that really works.

[@Tim-57]

Hey Dave I enjoy watching you create pieces for toys. Looking out of my window here in Manitoba Canada, those tires would not be of any use...haha I hope Yous enjoy your weekend.

[@TheDing1701]

Betcha those hot tires smelled lovely! LOL

[@toypolloi]

They did!

[@briansadler7270]

Never fail to amaze Dave. Your design, and fabrication skills are on point. I little suggestion on the tires though. I've built my share of plastic model car kits. I use a battery operated drill with a socket attachment 19mm socket usually works pretty well. What ever the tires fit on nice and tight. Use some course sand paper. Runn the drill, and the rubber comes off pretty quick. Pluss it keeps them round. If I'm recreating street tires. I heat up a file with a torch, hot but not to hot, roll the tire across it, and it sorta simulates tire tread. Hase to be a really heavy toothed file though. An amazing job as always either way. You've helped me so many times with these toys. Just thought I would share that with you. Hope it helps out some time.

[@christophschreder2203]

Toy Polloi to you the best

[@KevinArcade87]

Awesome repair!

[@toypolloi]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@joshsteele]

Lovely sink.

[@toypolloi]

Thank you 💦

[@davidJones-mx7yw]

Dave should make it then mass 3d print and sell these parts he makes

[@starscream8163]

Amazing work on creating wing parts and the Mirror Chrome was great too.

[@toypolloi]

Thanks 👍

[@benstutley2904]

Excellent Six Million Dollar Man class rebuilding Dave- we knew you could rebuild him! - also, I actually experienced vicarious sneezing with that high speed sanding Dude! Rather you than I -p'chew! Great vid, fantastic work, all the best Bud! :)

[@Dustin2112]

One of the best!

[@JoseMedina-hs9st]

Good job

[@toypolloi]

Thanks

[@JavierTorres-fs5sy]

You are amazing!

[@daverage4729]

Whenever Dave says something like 'Its a little rough' or 'Not as perfect as the original', I'm always reminded of Doc Brown from the 'Back To The Future' movies when he says 'Excuse the crudeness of the model' despite its incredible detail. Lol!!!

[@user-neo71665]

Scale model car supply shops have tires in all kinds of scales and styles. 1:24 and 1:25 are 2 real common sizes and tons of aftermarket parts for them. There is a giant worldwide community of people that build and mod model cars.

[@impossiblepie]

Toy Polloi is the goat!

[@toypolloi]

Is 'goat' a good thing?

[@impossiblepie]

@@toypolloi Greatest Of All Time !!

[@toypolloi]

Oh, thanks!

[@DeepVeinZombosis]

Absolutely spectacular restoration

[@TheRetroTinker]

What an amazing transformation! Well done!!

[@toypolloi]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@Nicopelli77]

Awesome job that Thunder Hawk.

[@toypolloi]

Thanks 👍 This was a fun project.

[@Scopay73]

That is amazing!

[@toypolloi]

Thank you!

[@eltenda]

Awesome as usual!

[@toypolloi]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@thetworoos]

Fantastic. I really like when you make parts from styrene, the results are just incredible! I keep waiting for you to make an entire toy from scratch! 😂

[@toypolloi]

Thank you very much!

[@jaspal666]

Just halfway thru this video… You’d be a Wizard with a 3D printer!

[@jaspal666]

Edit: while I will advise for a 3D printer… your work with the poly is pretty good. Esp after paint. 😂

[@jorgeherrera8481]

I love your restorations my friend! Hey, will you make a Dustin Gator restoration as well? It's my favourite character of MASK😋 Big hug from Spain!

[@toypolloi]

Thanks. The Gator is one I'd like to work on in future. I'll grab one that looks a good candidate for a restoration.

[@depechetoad8343]

As you have the original part, I would love to see you experiment with creating your own silicone molds and "casting" your own replacement part. The same concept could be used for tires as well. Just a thought.

[@RandiRain]

You need to figure a way to chuck those tires on a drill and just go to town with some sandpaper.

[@sithcarebear1]

You really made that beater shine, Dave. I am still baffled as to why the car had glue all over it though…🤔

[@toypolloi]

Thanks. Same here with the glue. Not sure why that would have been done.

[@cimmerian100]

Kids often do unusual things with their toys! :D

[@anathema7687]

I think someone tried to reglue the stickers to the toy which would explain why it has PVA all over it, it probably didn’t adhere to the smooth surface of the car well and they all dropped off and went to the bottom of the toy box where they were ruined or lost.

[@BanthaPooDoo64]

Lol Toy Polloi is burning rubber to get this car to the finish line

[@cheapeatsasia]

Love the video! Where did you buy the tires?

[@toypolloi]

All details are in the description.

[@erickavery1]

Incredible work sir. Question: If I was cleaning a toy with electronics (Exo Squad specifically) would it be safe to do as you do and scrub it with a toothbrush and water but of course not submerge it?

[@toypolloi]

Thanks. And yes if you go carefully whe you clean it should be fine.

[@erickavery1]

@@toypolloi thank you sir you are a gentleman and a scholar.

[@brianbuchmeier]

Is this a re-upload? Some of it seemed so familiar, specifically the bit with the tires

[@toypolloi]

I have a click bait version of this video on Toy Polloi two. That video has no speaking and no explanation of what I am doing and has more views than this one 😔 KZbin at it's best.

[@brianbuchmeier]

@@toypolloi Ah, that's why it didn't show up in my watch history under MASK lol. You gotta do what you gotta do to get those views. Awesome work BTW

[@steammachine3061]

I just finished watching this guy testing chrome paints. He used your preffered paint of choice. But a supprising one he did find was metallic powders used in the nail polish industry that he seemed to preffer over your mirror paint kzbin.info/www/bejne/pJrRoXWrr7OGrrM might be worth a look as it may work out cheaper. Although I imagine the nail powder alternative will need a protective top coat.

[@kaylemathewcomendador6964]

So no one is making reproduction MASK tires? I guess that’s a side effect of it not being as big of a franchise compared to GI Joe or Transformers. But your custom ones still look great.

[@toypolloi]

Not that I know of. If anyone is please let me know as I would happily share them with other toy collectors.

[@skjain2]

Loved the process. On the matter of reducing tire tread, I wonder if you could have used a shaving process like this:kzbin.info/www/bejne/onW9gWCclKijiM0 . For something this small, using sandpaper instead of the blade would work, I think. Thoughts?

[@willman85]

Why are you sing lighter fluid? Surely there's better products out there you can use?

[@toypolloi]

It works great, cheap to buy and easy to get.