The original MPC "Pirates of the Caribbean" model kits (with "Snap-Action!) were my (pun intended) hands-down favorites when I was a kid. I built every one, and was (pleasantly) astonished when they reissued them, at which point I watched every minute of YOU building every one. Looks like I'll be doing the same now with the Haunted Mansion series! Thanks for the Nostalgia Rush!
I love these fun kits. They really bring out the kid in you Chris.😊. Thanks for all the great painting tips & techniques. The paint job came out awesome. Leave it to you to make a dungeon look like so much fun. 👍🏼😃
Yayyyyy! More zap-action stuff! Loved watching this one, Chris! Just FYI, the little guy on the coffin is one of the 3 hitchhiking ghosts on the actual Haunted Mansion ride.There are 4 kits in the Haunted Mansion series and the second one, GRAVE ROBBER"S REWARD, is set for August. I'm waiting for the reissue of PLAY IT AGAIN SAM, the organ player with a mummy that pops up out of the organ. Had the original in the 70s and it's a big kit like this one. These kits are a blast and watching you make 'em is always entertaining. Oh, and the last 2 Jolly Roger kits will be out in September! So you've got 3 more zap action kits to show us this year. Can't wait. Keep the glue flowing, bro!
I love watching these types of builds, washes, dry brushing, detail painting, etc in the morning, with a cup of coffee. My wife says it is my ASMR. Whatever it may be, you make simple models look fantastic. The comic like "moon dust" skin is silly and great! Considering the potential age of this kit, Polar Lights released a very buildable kit. See you at the next one!
I really hope they put out more of these kits. I have yet to do one, but I want to get the pirate ones and these and incorporate them all in a diorama. Great job.
The one featuring a graverobber about to regret not paying attention has been announced. There are two more in the original series after that, and they're my favorites; a goofy vampire freaking out in a graveyard, and a dude playing a huge organ loud enough to wake the dead. I hope they make the cut; the vampire one features loose flyaway parts and the organ kit is freakin' *huge* (and therefore expensive).
what I meant to say is that I mostly watch the ones that you do on the cars and trucks as you may noticed in in my comments . how ever I have watched alot of your videos off that subject and I like your presentation on all of your builds that I watch . I love the back stories too . I re watch them more than once to get how you detail them and you explain them real well easy to understand
Chris, I finally worked on my first Jolly Roger Pirates re-release thanks to you! The original 1970s Disney Pirates of the Caribbean model kits are going for $300 on eBay! It's great seeing these original Disney kits re-released (now without the Disney $$$ name of course), but virtually identical to the ones from over 40 years ago. The characters in this Haunted Mansion (Manor) kit are in the Haunted Mansion attraction, but are not arranged in this way on the ride. A viking-style helmet is worn by a singing female opera style ghost toward the end of the ride, along with the executioner. The skeleton in the coffin never gets out of the coffin in the attraction, BUT does strongly resemble the Phantom from the Disneyland Paris version of the ride. As already mentioned, the little green guy with the ball and chain sitting on the coffin is actually one of the 3 hitch hiking ghosts at the end of the ride, named "Gus" by the Disney fandom. In the ride video below, the Coffin scene is at 4:31; "Gus" is seen at 9:00 standing next to the Executioner, next to the "opera lady" wearing a viking helmet. "Gus" is seen again at 9:14 (small guy, on the far right);. th-cam.com/video/ZAnYRlNDM5A/w-d-xo.html
These kits are great, funny and very different from cars . Good show , nice build . Now build a Gasser PLEASE, an old school GASSER , thanks . Mike Espo .
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Hey Chris, Just caught this even though its over a year old. Time seems to disappear for old guys like us any how. I watch 1-2 videos a day to try to catch all your builds. You have a ton of different super professional detail tricks that make any kit come to life. I am glad you chose to use the ax for cutting the chain. 2 things if you could tell all, when you use the “army” wash colors, do you like to wipe off the high areas and allow the wash to shadow the valley of the surface? And, did you try and see if the coffin lid would snap open with the skeleton jumping up, or was it just to heavy for the action ? Was the lid suppose to fly open as part of the whole theme of the kit ? Does the cut open viking horn hat fit the fat ax wielding fat guy? Anyhow, SUPER NICE JOB ! You have inspired me to give one a try in over 50 years of modeling ! How did us “kids” grow to be so old, and still continue to thoroughly enjoy a such a great hobby ?
Missed this one. July now & I just watched the Grave Digger. I like doo hickies & thingamajigs. A change of pace. Love that drain grate. The base is sweet also. So the hole in the floor is for no purpose? Thanks for the assembly tips. They ought to sell that base separate for other projects. How often does one get to paint up an executioner? I call finger work "smudge technique". I use it every project. Nice color dispersion.
I had all four Haunted Mansion kits when I was about 12. I want to get them again. I love your attention to detail. When I was a kid I painted them much like they are on the box. If I wanted to paint the figures so they had that blue look of the figures in the actual haunted mansion graveyard, how would you recommend that I achieve that? Thanks!
Yo, Chris, Master of the Craft, you are a talented guy. I'm glad I found your channel. Very nice work (and cost effective using your tricks). Thanks for sharing...
I tried using windshield fluid and craft paints to make the stone wash but the result was not good at all as the wash had too much surface tension and tended to bead up. I did lay down a flat clear coat prior to applying the wash so maybe that was the problem? Are all windshield fluids basically the same? I purchased the cheapest one at my local Kroger's. BTW, thank you for creating such a great channel! Definitely inspires and motivates me to do more!
How do you think it would look if you added one/two recessed LED's under the base, powered by easily hidden battery pack, be a shame to not take advantage of the two detailed openings in the base.
It can IF you take the time to sand it and smooth the hinges out and make it do so, but the rubber band has a hard time popping it up with the skeleton so I left it alone.
The original MPC "Pirates of the Caribbean" model kits (with "Snap-Action!) were my (pun intended) hands-down favorites when I was a kid. I built every one, and was (pleasantly) astonished when they reissued them, at which point I watched every minute of YOU building every one. Looks like I'll be doing the same now with the Haunted Mansion series!
Thanks for the Nostalgia Rush!
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I love these fun kits. They really bring out the kid in you Chris.😊. Thanks for all the great painting tips & techniques. The paint job came out awesome. Leave it to you to make a dungeon look like so much fun. 👍🏼😃
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Absolutely loved this full assembly and paint, fantastic job well done, just ordered this I hope mine comes out as good as yours!
I have never done anything like this, but it looks fun and is very cool when finished. Super nice build.
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Yayyyyy! More zap-action stuff! Loved watching this one, Chris! Just FYI, the little guy on the coffin is one of the 3 hitchhiking ghosts on the actual Haunted Mansion ride.There are 4 kits in the Haunted Mansion series and the second one, GRAVE ROBBER"S REWARD, is set for August. I'm waiting for the reissue of PLAY IT AGAIN SAM, the organ player with a mummy that pops up out of the organ. Had the original in the 70s and it's a big kit like this one. These kits are a blast and watching you make 'em is always entertaining. Oh, and the last 2 Jolly Roger kits will be out in September! So you've got 3 more zap action kits to show us this year. Can't wait. Keep the glue flowing, bro!
Looking forward to all of them, love these kits!
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Thank you, I've been waiting to see how this would be done by your styrene artistic skills. Keep em coming. I learned a lot from your vids.
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Really great work, outstanding detail on the painting. 👍
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So refreshing to see you build something other than cars. The whole series is fantastic.
Yup, I try to break it up as often as I can with what's sent over. Thanks!
I liked the other kits that you did like this, and you did a great job on this one too. Thanks much.
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Granny is the first of a new book called
I love watching these types of builds, washes, dry brushing, detail painting, etc in the morning, with a cup of coffee. My wife says it is my ASMR. Whatever it may be, you make simple models look fantastic. The comic like "moon dust" skin is silly and great!
Considering the potential age of this kit, Polar Lights released a very buildable kit. See you at the next one!
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This is such a cute kit, my grandkids would love it, the stories they could make up. Terrific build again
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i have never saw these kits before!!! i have been building kits for a long time. GREAT JOB!!!
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Something different and unique. This looks fantastic - superb finish as usual, and we look forward to seeing the socks!
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My $90 weathering socks will be on the market soon!!
@@hpiguy Nice... far too cheap though!
You did a great job. I love the fact that this entire model glows-in-the-dark. 👽
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Great directions, tips, supply's used and fantastic video..I'm off to my hobby store and buying this kit !!
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You make everything look so easy
Nice job on the “respectable dungeon” Chris! Don’t know what’s scarier... Father Time all splayed on the coffin, or the pregnant guy with the axe 😆
Raykreations .hahahahaahh very good.
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Excellent detailing tips Chris!! Really appreciate your wonderful presentation and positive attitude!
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Geez Chris! How many old socks do you have? Your postive attitude is the only thing that tops your builds!
I cornered the sock market back in 1986.
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nice change of pace!
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I really hope they put out more of these kits. I have yet to do one, but I want to get the pirate ones and these and incorporate them all in a diorama. Great job.
The one featuring a graverobber about to regret not paying attention has been announced. There are two more in the original series after that, and they're my favorites; a goofy vampire freaking out in a graveyard, and a dude playing a huge organ loud enough to wake the dead. I hope they make the cut; the vampire one features loose flyaway parts and the organ kit is freakin' *huge* (and therefore expensive).
I'm looking forward to all of them, for sure!
Another Sweet build by Chris the Fun & Enjoyment Master! Keep digging them up! My Friend.
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Wow, fantastic. Great job!
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Very cool build! I like the cartoony look! Poor old guy can't catch a break from the living or the dead!
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what I meant to say is that I mostly watch the ones that you do on the cars and trucks as you may noticed in in my comments .
how ever I have watched alot of your videos off that subject and I like your presentation on all of your builds that I watch .
I love the back stories too .
I re watch them more than once to get how you detail them and you explain them real well easy to understand
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@@hpiguy you are very welcome
Very nice build an detailed odel kit.
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now that was a fun build of a cool kit
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Thanks for the review. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Cool review & build thanks for sharing
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Great job buddy. Can't wait to get this and the rest of the series.
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kool , neat one...I had the Dracula one , as a kid....that looks like a lot o fun
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Awesome, I had the organ player when i was a kid
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Was hesitant about watching this video boy am I glad I did...awesome job like always 👍👍👍
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I just got mine for xmas! So glad you built it.
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Chris, I finally worked on my first Jolly Roger Pirates re-release thanks to you! The original 1970s Disney Pirates of the Caribbean model kits are going for $300 on eBay! It's great seeing these original Disney kits re-released (now without the Disney $$$ name of course), but virtually identical to the ones from over 40 years ago. The characters in this Haunted Mansion (Manor) kit are in the Haunted Mansion attraction, but are not arranged in this way on the ride. A viking-style helmet is worn by a singing female opera style ghost toward the end of the ride, along with the executioner. The skeleton in the coffin never gets out of the coffin in the attraction, BUT does strongly resemble the Phantom from the Disneyland Paris version of the ride. As already mentioned, the little green guy with the ball and chain sitting on the coffin is actually one of the 3 hitch hiking ghosts at the end of the ride, named "Gus" by the Disney fandom. In the ride video below, the Coffin scene is at 4:31; "Gus" is seen at 9:00 standing next to the Executioner, next to the "opera lady" wearing a viking helmet. "Gus" is seen again at 9:14 (small guy, on the far right);. th-cam.com/video/ZAnYRlNDM5A/w-d-xo.html
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Hauntingly entertaining - Thanks...
You bet!
These kits are great, funny and very different from cars . Good show , nice build . Now build a Gasser PLEASE, an old school GASSER , thanks .
Mike Espo .
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Thanks!
Such a cool kit.
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Hey Chris, Just caught this even though its over a year old. Time seems to disappear for old guys like us any how.
I watch 1-2 videos a day to try to catch all your builds. You have a ton of different super professional detail tricks that make any kit come to life.
I am glad you chose to use the ax for cutting the chain. 2 things if you could tell all, when you use the “army” wash colors, do you like to wipe off the high areas and allow the wash to shadow the valley of the surface? And, did you try and see if the coffin lid would snap open with the skeleton jumping up, or was it just to heavy for the action ? Was the lid suppose to fly open as part of the whole theme of the kit ? Does the cut open viking horn hat fit the fat ax wielding fat guy?
Anyhow, SUPER NICE JOB ! You have inspired me to give one a try in over 50 years of modeling !
How did us “kids” grow to be so old, and still continue to thoroughly enjoy a such a great hobby ?
I loved the pirates kits when they came out - I would like to get these and the pirate kits again. Just have to find them now.
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They are available at lots of the mail order shops. Look them up on scalemates.
@@j.mcq.8418 Thanks
Hey man, used to build this kind of stuff, as a kid!
Thanks man, cool build... See ya next time.
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Awesome Work Chris & I KNOW IT'S Gonna Be HARD NOT To PLAY WITH THIS Kit, 😅😅😅LOL, thanks for Sharing n God Bless All.
Click click, play!!!
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Normally I wouldn't watch but I like your style in your videos and you knocked out of the park like Always
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Missed this one. July now & I just watched the Grave Digger. I like doo hickies & thingamajigs. A change of pace. Love that drain grate. The base is sweet also. So the hole in the floor is for no purpose? Thanks for the assembly tips. They ought to sell that base separate for other projects. How often does one get to paint up an executioner? I call finger work "smudge technique". I use it every project. Nice color dispersion.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Looks like a fun kit
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I had all four Haunted Mansion kits when I was about 12. I want to get them again. I love your attention to detail. When I was a kid I painted them much like they are on the box. If I wanted to paint the figures so they had that blue look of the figures in the actual haunted mansion graveyard, how would you recommend that I achieve that? Thanks!
I didn't know they were re-issuing these....we actually had one,back in the 70's when it still had the Haunted Mansion name on it.
Yup! These and the pirate kits, so cool!
Lol, Hanna Barbera, the color choice was perfect, great job
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Yo, Chris, Master of the Craft, you are a talented guy. I'm glad I found your channel. Very nice work (and cost effective using your tricks).
Thanks for sharing...
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You should stick some red LEDs down in that hole, that would probably look very cool.
Nice, post some pics on the workshop FB page when you do that. Green would look cool too!
I tried using windshield fluid and craft paints to make the stone wash but the result was not good at all as the wash had too much surface tension and tended to bead up. I did lay down a flat clear coat prior to applying the wash so maybe that was the problem? Are all windshield fluids basically the same? I purchased the cheapest one at my local Kroger's.
BTW, thank you for creating such a great channel! Definitely inspires and motivates me to do more!
I use the blue 98 cent per gallon stuff.
I added a link for the door problem. I hope you like it.
Thanks Mike!
How do you think it would look if you added one/two recessed LED's under the base, powered by easily hidden battery pack, be a shame to not take advantage of the two detailed openings in the base.
Lights would look great and be easy to add to your build.
But... I don't wanna build a respectable dungeon! I wanna build a clean freak's dungeon! XD
Another master piece!
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Cool
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I'm wondering how the sock feels about all this!?
We don't ask the sock. It has PTSD.
Does the coffin cover move when the skeleton pops up?
It can IF you take the time to sand it and smooth the hinges out and make it do so, but the rubber band has a hard time popping it up with the skeleton so I left it alone.
Fun build.
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These kits are brilliant I do try to get them in 🇬🇧
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Super cool
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What did one casket ask the other casket?
Is that you coffin?
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I need those where can I find them online?
What happened to the glow in the dark? It looks great but why cover all the coolness.
You are welcome to leave your kit painted, unpainted or any combination of the two. Enjoy!
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I am thinking about purchasing two of these model kits. I will paint one and not paint the other one and this allow it to glow in the dark.