It might interest you to know Dave, that nearly every part to that Copter is from a different toy, only the cockpit and Skids, and two of the 3 rotary Blades belonged together originally. They were all just bits i pulled out of Job Lots over the years. Anyway, you did a great job! It sat in my garage for a year or so, just waiting for an excuse to be sent (the purchase of the Space Ranger Commando glove and Boot) so it was really nice to see it finally get the Toy Polloi treatment it deserved! 👍
That landing gear was fit for the bin but just look at what you did , Excellent job Dave , there will always be haters but plenty of people who love your videos 🙏👍
What a fantastic job Dave, it's so satisfying watching you give an old broken toy life again. That well played with helicopter deserves a decent retirement in your collection. What a great display piece.
As with so many of your restorations the final outlook is so fantastic, what was once a badly crashed helicopter is now back to full working order. Always a pleasure to watch.
It really turned out perfectly Dave. I’m very impressed with the final results. It makes me sad that toys on this scale will likely never be a thing again… at least not to the degree they were with Action Man. It’s good you are preserving these memories for so many of us. Cheers!
I had a couple pieces of 50 year old Lego from my Dad (a 6x16 blue flat 3027 and a 3461 propeller) break when touched. I used a couple of bricks to form a bridge over the break and hold the pieces together. PVC weld worked wonderfully to secure the pieces back into one piece and they are holding wonderfully. Another option for the detail on the skids would be to go up 2 sizes. So take your 6mm tubes and a 8mm hollow tube should slide snuggly over the 6mm.
Another one down for the books For the Toy Polloi crew, and by crew I mean you Dave.😂 I thought part one was great. Now seeing part two and the completion of this awesome toy. Nothing short of Amazing. As always. The repairs you made to the landing skids are absolutely top notch by the way. I would have to say that and rebuilding the tail section. We're my favorite parts of this build.
I've managed to use polystyrene rod and lego studs in a built I was making this weekend! Made for an excellent cannon and fit perfectly snug on the toy tank I customized. A bit of chrome pen and it's perfect. Cheers, without your channel I would have never had the idea!
Ace fixes on this Action Man Helicopter, Dave! It's nearly impossible to find these in the States, so it's great that you have managed to conserve the one that you have! It's a beautiful, vintage piece for display!
This is wonderful work. I had the yellow G.I. Joe version as a kid. We bought it second hand but it was in pretty good shape. It was only missing the tail fins and the flight stick. We cobbled together a way to attach the rudder to my Sea Wolf to serve as a tail and used rubber bands to hold the rotor blades in place. It's a great toy and I had hours of fun with it back then.
Great video and restoration. I had the yellow variant of the helicopter which is the Gijoe version. I don't know what happened to it. I also had the black capture copter version and regret giving it away. I had a pretty good collection. Still have a few GiJoe/action man and some clothing and accessories l kept. I still have one of my favorite, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police uniform which is in almost perfect condition. Keep up the good work. Great channel. Cheers.
Christmas 74 was a good year for me I had the Scorpion Tank in one Huge box and this Helicopter in another... Later had the intruder capture black version which was cool with black cockpit visor.
The 'styrene wrap' works exceptionally well, if Plastic Weld is used. I did it years ago to replace the legs, and give the impression of telescoping sections on a large scale 'Thunderbird 2' model kit. You could have used Plastic Weld to fix the skid ends - LEGO is made from ABS, and Plastic Weld will fix that very strongly to styrene. It will certainly be a more permanent fix than CA (superglue), which weakens over time, and is also deliquescent - it absorbs moisture from the atmosphere. I use it very rarely, myself - it seems far less 'aggressive' than it used to. But that's just me. It's a great repair on a great toy. Thank you. 👍👍👍
Again and again you bring these broken, lost and forgotten toys back to life, rejuvenating them, or giving them a second lease on life as a display piece of historic value. You are a very real inspiration, Dave - teaching techniques that have enhanced my own collection, and now have caught the imaginations of my two nephews - both of whom love to spend time with their mad ol' Uncle and his toys - Thank you for that! :)
How can anyone within your 'toy community' object to work such as this. Anyone number of now grown up 1970s children will take lots of pleasure from this restoration.
The people complaining, are those that see toys as an investment, and not something to be opened, ever, let alone played with. These are the sort of people who still live with their parents, even though they might be pushing forty. The sort of people who find no joy in anything, and spend their time trolling those folk that they see as inferior, because they have differing ideas to their infinitesimally tiny mindset, and are therefore 'weird'. I'm pleased to be 'weird', and do whatever I like. I enjoy mending broken toys, always have done. I have never, ever, bought a toy because I hoped it would be worth anything. I buy them because I like them. And I open them, too. I have a few unopened figures - but they are duplicates, as I have opened the others. I never sell anything - I do, though, give them away to friends and my local charity shop. They are toys, not Ming vases or the Dead Sea Scrolls, and are made, in their hundreds of thousands, TO BE OPENED AND PLAYED WITH. Simple as that. If they get broken, I repair them. If they are catastrophically damaged, they go in the recycling. Yes, really.
Hey Dave I was just about to give up on utube for tonight, then your notice popped up😊 The copter looks great, so nice to see it live on as a display at Toy Polloi. Happy Weekend to you and MrsTP Take care
These two videos where you restore a vintage helicopter are amazing! Thank you so much for sharing your tips and overall process for doing this restoration. I'm sure it will be beneficial to both Action Man and G.I. Joe Adventure Team collectors since this vehicle exists in both lines and often needs repairs. Nicely done, sir!👍
little tip from a modeller Dave to get a good match paint your colour on a bit of acetate and put it over the bit you want to match .. don't know if you knew that so sorry if you do !!! brilliant job by the way !!! this takes me back i loved my action man !!!! take care ...Shaun.
You should make a anti-spill block for your paint and glue pots take a chunk of 2x4 and then drill into it about halfway through with a spade bit or something similar just a little bit bigger than the pots are
What I'm finding funny about buying toy bits is that many sellers don't seem to take into account that you can often buy more of the toy for the same price or cheaper than the single bit they are selling. 🤨 I sure hope my paint mixing turns out well, those subtle hue changes look challenging. It's kind of funny but it seems like a lot of new toys will need to be put in boiling water just to break in the joints. 😉 Looks great man. 😀
Hi , 👋 do you remember 4 years a go doing a podcast on a vintage talking action man and you had a problem with it, well I am fixing on right now , I looked on your podcast and saw there was a white cover on top of voice mechanism well underneath the white cover there is notch that keeps the the black band down when the cord retracts and makes the action man sound again, I comment on the podcast..
This is a really helpful video, so thank you for posting it. I'm 3/4 of the way through restoring my recent purchase - mine had a faulty rota which I had to sort out. Luckily, there's a team in my workplace who have access to 3D printers, so I've been able to have them sort out the landing gear, which was a bit beyond saving! I bought the Humbroi 30 paint but have seen since that they also do an 'army green 102'. I wonder if that might be a better fit?
Wouldn't plastic weld be more suitable to glue the skis with the Lego antennae inside rather than superglue? I'm also thinking that you could press the propeller blades down between two pieces of wood or something as rigid (leaving the raised parts out) so that they would get flatter and even more straight.
Not in this instance. I needed a really strong positive bond. And sometimes Lego doesn't fuse well with this old plastic with plastic weld. You learn as you go with this stuff. Cheers
Incredible transformation! I recall in other episodes you used a plastic treatment to bring a shine back to dull plastic, would something like that help this to be more flexible again? Or do you think that plastic is doomed to become brittle with age?
@@toypolloi it’s a bit sad to think that one day our childhood treasures may turn to dust, but it’s also a bit poetic. In any event, you’re doing great work to save these, and I hope you never stop doing it!
Hi Dave, Wolfpack are doing SAS Trooper and SAS Frogman outfits. I've managed to grab a couple of sets, if you're interested I can put them on some blue pants figures for you.
C = pi * D. So for a 2mm rod, 6.28318mm or so. But since the outer diameter is bigger by 1mm, the outer circumference will be bigger too. Bending the 1/2 mm sheet will compress the inner curve and stretch the outer one. So it is very difficult to calculate exactly.
I didn't measure it, sorry. I just grabbed a size that fitted from a box I have. Slightly smaller than the diameter of the part it needs to fit around.
But not giving it a 8 year old but take it raise uo squeeze the Trigger Msje the Props work and printed to be 8 again Then gently touch down pose Action Man standing next to it Maybe on the Radio Then put it back on the Shelf
It might interest you to know Dave, that nearly every part to that Copter is from a different toy, only the cockpit and Skids, and two of the 3 rotary Blades belonged together originally. They were all just bits i pulled out of Job Lots over the years. Anyway, you did a great job! It sat in my garage for a year or so, just waiting for an excuse to be sent (the purchase of the Space Ranger Commando glove and Boot) so it was really nice to see it finally get the Toy Polloi treatment it deserved! 👍
Thanks again for sending it over. It's turned into a really nice piece. Certainly very displayable, although still a bit fragile. Cheers
It's nice to see the Cordess Drill back again
You know it!
That landing gear was fit for the bin but just look at what you did , Excellent job Dave , there will always be haters but plenty of people who love your videos 🙏👍
Thanks 👍
What a fantastic job Dave, it's so satisfying watching you give an old broken toy life again. That well played with helicopter deserves a decent retirement in your collection. What a great display piece.
Thanks!
As with so many of your restorations the final outlook is so fantastic, what was once a badly crashed helicopter is now back to full working order. Always a pleasure to watch.
Thanks!
It really turned out perfectly Dave. I’m very impressed with the final results. It makes me sad that toys on this scale will likely never be a thing again… at least not to the degree they were with Action Man. It’s good you are preserving these memories for so many of us. Cheers!
Your repairs to the skids of this helicopter remind me of your repairs to the fan areas of the G.I. Joe Killer Whale. You do amazing work.
I had a couple pieces of 50 year old Lego from my Dad (a 6x16 blue flat 3027 and a 3461 propeller) break when touched. I used a couple of bricks to form a bridge over the break and hold the pieces together. PVC weld worked wonderfully to secure the pieces back into one piece and they are holding wonderfully.
Another option for the detail on the skids would be to go up 2 sizes. So take your 6mm tubes and a 8mm hollow tube should slide snuggly over the 6mm.
A masterful repair Dave! Well done!!
Thanks. This one was quite a project.
Very good outstanding work you did on that model I love it and keep up your great work and stay safe and well. Well Done sir.
Another one down for the books For the Toy Polloi crew, and by crew I mean you Dave.😂 I thought part one was great. Now seeing part two and the completion of this awesome toy. Nothing short of Amazing. As always. The repairs you made to the landing skids are absolutely top notch by the way. I would have to say that and rebuilding the tail section. We're my favorite parts of this build.
Glad you enjoyed it
I've managed to use polystyrene rod and lego studs in a built I was making this weekend! Made for an excellent cannon and fit perfectly snug on the toy tank I customized. A bit of chrome pen and it's perfect. Cheers, without your channel I would have never had the idea!
Great work, Dave.
It's a superb Action Man Helicopter for display or play! :)
Great job. This one looks particularly good. Thanks Dave.
Excellent job Dave. Really found these two chopper videos very very useful 👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻
Thanks. Glad you like them!
Top job, Dave! I have my original one and a second one to refurbish. Great ideas on replacing those broken or missing parts.
Thanks! 👍
Ace fixes on this Action Man Helicopter, Dave! It's nearly impossible to find these in the States, so it's great that you have managed to conserve the one that you have! It's a beautiful, vintage piece for display!
Excellent. Brilliant job Dave.
Invaluable info if I live long enough to repair mine along with the other million projects 😂😂
Fantastic fix. And another toy rescued.
Thanks 👍
Very nice job, I did similar repairs to my fist adventure team helicopter, especially the landing skids, looks fantastic, fun project!!
Excellent work, as usual.
I got one of these off my next door neighbour when I was a kid.
I ruined the action by getting string caught in it.
Dave, you are so creative! Really admire your abilities! Cheers!
Thank you! Cheers!
This is wonderful work. I had the yellow G.I. Joe version as a kid. We bought it second hand but it was in pretty good shape. It was only missing the tail fins and the flight stick. We cobbled together a way to attach the rudder to my Sea Wolf to serve as a tail and used rubber bands to hold the rotor blades in place. It's a great toy and I had hours of fun with it back then.
I had that action man helicopter 🚁 for Christmas. Saw it mom and dad's wardrobe when I discovered theres no father Christmas ⛄
Mind blowing!
Great video and restoration. I had the yellow variant of the helicopter which is the Gijoe version. I don't know what happened to it. I also had the black capture copter version and regret giving it away. I had a pretty good collection. Still have a few GiJoe/action man and some clothing and accessories l kept. I still have one of my favorite, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police uniform which is in almost perfect condition. Keep up the good work. Great channel. Cheers.
Christmas 74 was a good year for me I had the Scorpion Tank in one Huge box and this Helicopter in another...
Later had the intruder capture black version which was cool with black cockpit visor.
The 'styrene wrap' works exceptionally well, if Plastic Weld is used. I did it years ago to replace the legs, and give the impression of telescoping sections on a large scale 'Thunderbird 2' model kit.
You could have used Plastic Weld to fix the skid ends - LEGO is made from ABS, and Plastic Weld will fix that very strongly to styrene. It will certainly be a more permanent fix than CA (superglue), which weakens over time, and is also deliquescent - it absorbs moisture from the atmosphere. I use it very rarely, myself - it seems far less 'aggressive' than it used to. But that's just me. It's a great repair on a great toy. Thank you. 👍👍👍
Very nice work. I have one of these hanging up in my office (which desperately needs a dusting).
Dusting toys is a constant job!
@@toypolloi I’m usually too lazy, and call it patina 😂
🤣
Very gifted. Thanks.
Again and again you bring these broken, lost and forgotten toys back to life, rejuvenating them, or giving them a second lease on life as a display piece of historic value.
You are a very real inspiration, Dave - teaching techniques that have enhanced my own collection, and now have caught the imaginations of my two nephews - both of whom love to spend time with their mad ol' Uncle and his toys - Thank you for that! :)
That's great to hear. Glad the next generation is watching on. Cheers
How can anyone within your 'toy community' object to work such as this. Anyone number of now grown up 1970s children will take lots of pleasure from this restoration.
The people complaining, are those that see toys as an investment, and not something to be opened, ever, let alone played with. These are the sort of people who still live with their parents, even though they might be pushing forty. The sort of people who find no joy in anything, and spend their time trolling those folk that they see as inferior, because they have differing ideas to their infinitesimally tiny mindset, and are therefore 'weird'. I'm pleased to be 'weird', and do whatever I like. I enjoy mending broken toys, always have done. I have never, ever, bought a toy because I hoped it would be worth anything. I buy them because I like them. And I open them, too. I have a few unopened figures - but they are duplicates, as I have opened the others. I never sell anything - I do, though, give them away to friends and my local charity shop. They are toys, not Ming vases or the Dead Sea Scrolls, and are made, in their hundreds of thousands, TO BE OPENED AND PLAYED WITH. Simple as that. If they get broken, I repair them. If they are catastrophically damaged, they go in the recycling. Yes, really.
I had the GI Joe version when I was a kid, I believe mine was yellow.
Well Done!
Hey Dave
I was just about to give up on utube for tonight, then your notice popped up😊
The copter looks great, so nice to see it live on as a display at Toy Polloi.
Happy Weekend to you and MrsTP
Take care
Thanks 👍
Seeing this get finished shouldn't be so satisfying to a 49 yr old man like me 😅
I love seeing projects completed. So nothing wrong with that at all 👍
These two videos where you restore a vintage helicopter are amazing! Thank you so much for sharing your tips and overall process for doing this restoration. I'm sure it will be beneficial to both Action Man and G.I. Joe Adventure Team collectors since this vehicle exists in both lines and often needs repairs. Nicely done, sir!👍
Thanks. It's been an interesting project.
Great Jon as usual!
little tip from a modeller Dave to get a good match paint your colour on a bit of acetate and put it over the bit you want to match .. don't know if you knew that so sorry if you do !!! brilliant job by the way !!! this takes me back i loved my action man !!!! take care ...Shaun.
I tend to just paint a small amount on what I am painting to check. If it's not good I wipe it off. Cheers
Great job 👍
Thank you! Cheers!
@@toypolloi you're welcome 😊
You should make a anti-spill block for your paint and glue pots take a chunk of 2x4 and then drill into it about halfway through with a spade bit or something similar just a little bit bigger than the pots are
I had one of those, the blades were lethal.😂
Yeah, if you get is spinning fast enough they can give you quite a whack!
What I'm finding funny about buying toy bits is that many sellers don't seem to take into account that you can often buy more of the toy for the same price or cheaper than the single bit they are selling. 🤨
I sure hope my paint mixing turns out well, those subtle hue changes look challenging. It's kind of funny but it seems like a lot of new toys will need to be put in boiling water just to break in the joints. 😉
Looks great man. 😀
Yes, exactly what I do. I buy beaten and broken stuff until I have enough to complete one.
Hi , 👋 do you remember 4 years a go doing a podcast on a vintage talking action man and you had a problem with it, well I am fixing on right now , I looked on your podcast and saw there was a white cover on top of voice mechanism well underneath the white cover there is notch that keeps the the black band down when the cord retracts and makes the action man sound again, I comment on the podcast..
This is a really helpful video, so thank you for posting it. I'm 3/4 of the way through restoring my recent purchase - mine had a faulty rota which I had to sort out. Luckily, there's a team in my workplace who have access to 3D printers, so I've been able to have them sort out the landing gear, which was a bit beyond saving! I bought the Humbroi 30 paint but have seen since that they also do an 'army green 102'. I wonder if that might be a better fit?
Where you were worried about applying pressure to the old brittle plastic might warming it up a little be an option to make it a little more flexible?
It was a scary moment. But I felt there was enough flex there to get it in place. You could always try warming it up.
Wouldn't plastic weld be more suitable to glue the skis with the Lego antennae inside rather than superglue?
I'm also thinking that you could press the propeller blades down between two pieces of wood or something as rigid (leaving the raised parts out) so that they would get flatter and even more straight.
Not in this instance. I needed a really strong positive bond. And sometimes Lego doesn't fuse well with this old plastic with plastic weld. You learn as you go with this stuff. Cheers
Great stuff! Not tempted to paint the front of the skids?
Thanks. I try not to paint parts that weren't originally painted if I can. The slight discoloration just gives it age. Cheers
Incredible transformation! I recall in other episodes you used a plastic treatment to bring a shine back to dull plastic, would something like that help this to be more flexible again? Or do you think that plastic is doomed to become brittle with age?
Thanks. I think this sort of plastic is as good as it will get. It's old and plastic was never designed to last long.
@@toypolloi it’s a bit sad to think that one day our childhood treasures may turn to dust, but it’s also a bit poetic. In any event, you’re doing great work to save these, and I hope you never stop doing it!
Hi Dave, Wolfpack are doing SAS Trooper and SAS Frogman outfits. I've managed to grab a couple of sets, if you're interested I can put them on some blue pants figures for you.
Nice. I think I am out of space for more AM currently. I need a bigger toy room 🤣
C = pi * D. So for a 2mm rod, 6.28318mm or so. But since the outer diameter is bigger by 1mm, the outer circumference will be bigger too. Bending the 1/2 mm sheet will compress the inner curve and stretch the outer one. So it is very difficult to calculate exactly.
Thanks. I will continue to do it by eye 🤣 Maths is not a strong point for me.
If you don't mind me asking, what size O-ring did you use for the propeller?
I didn't measure it, sorry. I just grabbed a size that fitted from a box I have. Slightly smaller than the diameter of the part it needs to fit around.
@@toypolloi That's okay. I managed to find the right size at my local hardware store.
The white cover was facing the wrong way , so the notch didn't keep the black band down ..
Vintage. Action. Man. Heicopter. Review part. 2
Vintage. Action. Heicopter. Review part. 2
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I don't think there is a way to repair this and for it to be strong enough for rough play. It's amazing it has lasted this long as it is.
But not giving it a 8 year old but take it raise uo squeeze the Trigger Msje the Props work and printed to be 8 again
Then gently touch down pose Action Man standing next to it
Maybe on the Radio
Then put it back on the Shelf