Post by Grandpabeast on Jun 22, 2018 15:25:04 GMT -7
Aw what tha hay..............I'll enter in my favorite bike in the world. I've always had an interest in these bikes and managed to acquire myself a holy grail kit at the time. These Bandai R75's where the only 1/48 scale kit out there and then came the Tamiya offering which is a much better kit. I managed to add some spark plug wires, an MP 40 machine gun laying in the side car seat from an accessory pack and an ammo belt draped across the top of the MG 42 machine gun on the cart. The cart machine gun and mount are from the Tamiya kit as the Bandai gun just plain out sucked. This was dumb luck with the gun because as I was building this one the Tamiya kit was released but I was already too far along with this one to quit so I got myself a decent looking machine gun to mount up from it anyhow. Any ways I thought I'd throw my hat in the ring with this one. I did manage to pick another Tamiya kit up to have a complete kit in the stash for later building.
The kit boxing:
Photos:
and now for the scale reference shot.
This is the only motorcycle that I have on the shelf.I built this around three years ago,it's airbrushed with auto air paint and clear coated with future.
This is a chopper that I picked up a few months ago. Had some time at the bench over the last few weeks and this one seemed to grab my attention. Finally got it done and saw the theme for this month's bracket race so I thought I'd debut it here. Orange Crush seemed like a fitting name!
20180517_121356 by John Keim, on Flickr
20180517_121357 by John Keim, on Flickr
20180517_121403 by John Keim, on Flickr
20180517_121432 by John Keim, on Flickr
20180517_121409 by John Keim, on Flickr
20180517_121428 by John Keim, on Flickr
20180517_121446 by John Keim, on Flickr