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Take a look here ...
http://bricksetforum.com/discussion/17570/monochrome-minifigures-how-to-start-collecting/p1
I have started piecing monochromies together myself slowly. but am too much of a purist to wipe parts myself.
It's taken me nearly 2 years of gradually finding the parts
https://www.flickr.com/photos/schlectus/sets/72157649595215137
Not my work, the original poster must have put a lot of effort into this spreadsheet. It has links that do lookups in bricklink to find the parts
I already had most of the torsos and had to place over 20 BL orders this week to pick up most of the ones not in my collection. I am building a couple of spare copies, too. Afraid to total the cost to date! And there are many more colors than are shown in the wonderful photo above! Good Luck!!!
Wiping microfigs is not so hard. Use a piece of kitchen roll with a little brasso or dilute acetone and wrap it round a wooden lolly stick. Then rub the microfig on the stick.
What is the consensus if say, one of the SDCC figures had translucent purple hands - an exclusive piece. Is it worth 'discarding' the rest of that figure for the hands?
Just picked up #41111 for the yellow bike, it also contains a lime green headpiece as a balloon.
At least if it didn't need wiping you could put it back together in the future. Wiping expensive parts must be tough - or are they worth more after, as they become monochrome gold.
The medium blue hands from Watto have been the worst, but it looks like that shortage will soon be resolved.
It has been fun collecting many of the blank parts not in my collection, but some of these are just too pricey or too rare or nonexistent. I have to admit that seeing the first photos on here of a monochrome collection really made me salivate to own them!
There is a bit of a Zen aura around the monochromes....maybe going back to a time before figs were printed. A simpler time in minifigville for sure. Peace!
I keep my monochrome minifigs in an colorworld where each minifigs "power" is proportional to the area of the bricks of the same color... Fluctuates over time.
The reason I liked it so much was because it came out the year before minifigs (1977), and there were 5 solid stud red (plain) heads, and 4 black ones....
There were only 4 colors... yellow (early Minifig "stiffs"), red, black and trans-clear, although 2 BL stores claim to have them in white.
Among the ones in sets back in the 1970s... the red ones were the most rare.
I have always collected pastel heads to serve as flower planters for my pastel houses. Too bad I didn't pick up all the matching arms, legs, hands and torsos!
When you say "don't match"... do you mean color, attachment fitting, or something else??
By the way... the last usage of the the solid stud head with Minifig "stiffs" was the 1980-83 1592 Town Square set (known in UK and Dutch versions).... it had a black statue made of those parts....
Also... thanks @legogal !!
I'm curious to know if those 2 Bricklink sellers actually have solid stud white heads for sale? One is a zero sales seller, so that makes it doubtful, but the other is not. Usually when you order something of an exotic color for that part... it turns out not to be the right part.