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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.

Set up for quick throttle response.

Metallics look fantastic 

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.

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.

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.

Hey look, Steve has started!

Your Batpod should be fun to watch come together.

Batpod!  Cool.  Looking forward to that.  Looks good 

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.

Holy lightening, Batman! That was fast!

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

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.

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.

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

Looks good Steve.

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.

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

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

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

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

Starting to look like a bike.

GMorrison

Starting to look like a bike.

Yes, by golly, it is.

The 745 Norton was old school design, what's been replaced by unit construction.

The engine and the gear box are totally separate, both mounted in a plate frame.

The power transfer from crank to gear box in shaft, and the gear box to final drive gear and sprocket and chain are all layered on the left side.

The frame was a little unusual having a single top bar. 

I'll focus in more the next go. The engine/ trannie combo are anchored to the frame with four big rubber isolation blocks. Italeri made a big deal of putting this all together with screws- 8 different lengths no less.

Big displacement twins vibrate like heck, except for BMWs; this at least made her run under some amount of control although the noise and throttle activity was pretty consuming for the rider, I can attest.

My other bike model, the RC 166 has three times the number of pots, at one third the total displacement. Kind of not real interested in plunging into it, get the Nort finished.

BTW the working suspension is really well done. I'll try to post a vid once I get the wheels on.

Looking good GM!  Just the one caliper on the front brakes?  Those early day racers were brave...in all motor sports.  Looking forward to the finished bike.

gm,

really liking the norton build. came real close to buying the manx 500 kit for this group build.

very slow progress on the cr 450 but managed to get the rear suspention

assembled and installed. home improvments are piling up now that its winter,so this will slow things down for me for a while. hoping to get at least the cr 450 done,but would like to build the monkey z50.

oh well we'll see.

GMorrison

I'll try to post a vid once I get the wheels on.

That will be fun.

I almost commented on the spring. It never occurred to me the suspension is working.

Invert, the 450 is looking real good.

Love that knobby tire.

Did you dot every connector on that drive chain? Gee, that chain looks so real and it looks like you did.

Greg,Yes I did a light drybrush on the link pins With a lighter shade of metallic gray.

Just a quick reply here, sorry I haven't been in. Life getting the way, my feet are feeling better. things are getting better  and I'm hopping to get started on my bike before the end of the year.

If there is anything I need to know you can message me. I'll try to be in more.

Thanks everyone for understanding

Have a Merry Christmas Happy Holidays or However you Celebrate the Holidays

Wow that's looking good invertman!

Greentracker - no worries.  Take care of yourself. 

invertman

Greg,Yes I did a light drybrush on the link pins With a lighter shade of metallic gray.

 

Well, you did good. It is one of those little touches that adds a lot.

Greentracker, yes, take care of yourself.