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Starting to look like a bike.

Have fun, Mike. Enjoy the museum. Enjoy the time with your dad more.

Mike please take plenty of pictures at Pensacola museum. I've been wanting to go there for a long while.

MC that's a very unusual and fun addition to the GB!

Here's an update on the WWII BMW with Sidecar. I've been working on suassemblies, cleaning up seam lines and pin marks, etc, etc. It's proving to a very relaxing build, or maybe it's my mindset, but either way I'm enjoying the ride. Most of the parts are in ziplocs sorted by step #s, here's a few progress photos.

This will be it for a little while. I'm leaving for Florida so that my Dad & I can go to the Naval Air Museum at Pensacola NAS - I've been looking forward to this for a Long Time!

Keep up all the good work, I'll be lurking.

Mike

Thanks guys. The closer I zoom the camera the more distorted things looked. The boom boom sticks do actually face forward and not at the ground LOL

thats easy...the boom boom sticks are at the front...lol

awesome looking Batmobilia.I've got the 1:25 Moebius Suicide Squad Batmobile in my stash.

Cool...and quick build.  A figure would help me figure out which end is which!

Looks good Steve.

Yes, 50 parts are more than I'd expected.

And you had to paint. I don't think I could get 50 parts nipped from the sprues and cleaned up over a weekend.

Greg, most of it was flat black with a little silver here and there. The part number is 920....wait a minute......the part count is 50. Quite a lot for such a small kit.

Holy lightening, Batman! That was fast!

Did you have to paint anything, Steve? Do you know hte part count?

Greg and Keavdog thank you.

I'm done with the Bat-Pod, I told you not to blink.

This was a cool fun little kit. I wouldn't mind building the larger version. The frame is very dellicate and there are several more parts installed than it looks. The kit is mostly OOB and the only thing I did was drill out the 40mm cannon barrels, trimed the flash suppressors to add some extra detail abd sand the tires. I would highy recomend this kit for something fun and different.

My phone camera distorts the images and makes things look out of alinement.

Batpod!  Cool.  Looking forward to that.  Looks good 

Hey look, Steve has started!

Your Batpod should be fun to watch come together.

keavdog

Metallics look fantastic 

 

They sure do. Those plate to the right of the cylinder head looks like real.

I thought I already posted this last week.

This is where the Bat-Pod is at after 11 hours. This is a neat little kit, far more complex than it looks. Lots of fun.

I started the Bat-Pod this morning. I don't know anything about bikes so I picked something that I still don't know anything about. 

I started by spraying most of the parts black, Duh! and a little silver.

Don't blink or you'll miss this little build.

Metallics look fantastic 

Set up for quick throttle response.

Safferscale, rear end looks good regardless of trouble you may have had. Still like that seat.

Mike, looking forward to watching the German bike go together. Sidecars are neat. I understand they are tricky to drive.

GM, thanks for your ideas and concern. You are right about tubing going flat during bending. I'm still kicking around the Milliput.

At the moment, Volkswagen is causing me less troubles than Harley Davidson.

Greg

 

 

keavdog

Wow that red motor is wild!

Greg, maybe using a thicker piece of sprue and bending would work.  Or patch up the kit piece and maybe use a piece of a plastic straw to join to the lower part?

 

 

 

 

The kit is 1/8 so that would be a hefty bit of sprue, but hey, I'm going to look.

A straw.....now that might just work!

Thanks for the ideas, John. I'll keep you advised.

 

0.25" is a big number, too big to use solder and difficult with aluminum rod.

I kind of like the milliput idea.

For smaller diameter, I've even used pasta.

Sorry that I can't be more helpful, will ponder on it.

Looks like it is going together nicely there bud

Got the rear end attached (with a bit of swearing).

20181111_192958 by Tobie Engelbrecht, on Flickr

20181111_192940 by Tobie Engelbrecht, on Flickr

OK, enough lurking. There's some great work being done here! My kit finally arrived about a month ago, after the dust settled on the demise of Hobbico.

The progress to date consists of sorting out the parts into subassemblies, scraping, sanding and general clean-up, and a bit of glue and spot prime. I'm enjoying the build - it's a pretty well done kit, especially considering how long it's been around.  I'll follow up with some WIP photos later in the week.

Mike

Steve, you are too kind. Thank you.

Doing the Bat Pod in a weekend, yikes! Looking fwd to that.

mrmike

Hi Greg;

I've got lots of old sprue. What diameter do you need? You can bend it by getting it hot in near boiling water instead of a candle.

Mike

 

Mike, you are very kind. The diameter is irregular and is between .150" and .250". I've found my inventory of Plastruct and have some styrene rod and tube that just might work, so for now thanks a million to you kind sir, I'll let you know if I need to take you up on your offer.

I've never tried the hot water trick, and I'd have gone for boiling, not just short of boiling, so you might have just saved me!

Again, thanks.

Too bad about the pipe Greg, I don't have any sugestions but I'm sure other more experanced members can help, listen to Keavdog, he always has good suggestions.

I haven't been around much on this thread, I've had other things going on (new job and hosting other GB for some) but Greg I've got to say your bike is very impressive sir. Just like all the other projects I've watched you do. You do outstanding work.

I'll be starting on the Bat-Pod during the Thanksgiving holiday. I will also be entering it in Lewbuds Weekend GB so it should go fast (don't blink)

Hi Greg;

I've got lots of old sprue. What diameter do you need? You can bend it by getting it hot in near boiling water instead of a candle.

Mike

keavdog

Wow that red motor is wild!

Greg, maybe using a thicker piece of sprue and bending would work.  Or patch up the kit piece and maybe use a piece of a plastic straw to join to the lower part?

 

The kit is 1/8 so that would be a hefty bit of sprue, but hey, I'm going to look.

A straw.....now that might just work!

Thanks for the ideas, John. I'll keep you advised.

Wow that red motor is wild!

Greg, maybe using a thicker piece of sprue and bending would work.  Or patch up the kit piece and maybe use a piece of a plastic straw to join to the lower part?

I have a question/problem.

I messed up one of the exhaust pipes. The assy of 77 & 78 below is what I ruined:

And here where it goes (it's assy 30):

So remembering back to when I was 13 in my ultimate wisdom decided to heat the bend with a candle and bend as desired.....without doing any practicing first:

Brilliant, eh?

The bend isn't all bad but the part shrunk and will need an extension to reach the cylinder head exhaust port. I have an idea or two but my scratch building skills aren't the greatest. I'd almost rather make a new piece, but I can't think of a flexible round raw material to start with. Except Milliput and that would dry too hard to work with I'm afraid. All ideas accepted, TIA.

Things are otherwise progressing ok: