Wolfangel

Here is a fun idea I had. I bought one of the Aoshima food trucks. I originally intended to build it as a food truck....but then I decided to go a whole different route. I had bought some rims, and I wasnt sure what I was going to put them on....then the idea hit me to put them on this. I cut the food truck part off of the body.....fabricated a wooden stake bed out of balsa wood and made a back wall for the cab. I lowered the front just a bit and then added fender flares front and rear. Im not sure on a color yet, but its going to be a cool little truck when its done.

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Here is my version of a Suzuki Katana done in a cafe racer style. I have put a picture of what the bike was suppose to look like from the kit. There is a bunch of work done on it. You can read in the WIP folder to see what was done. I made the side panels on the gas tank.....the front fender is the kit fender, but its cut down and turned around backwards......I made the front and rear signals with 1/16 Lamborghini lenses.....rear shock reservoirs were added.....REAL working chain.....scratch built gauge cluster.....scratch built headlight bracket with headlight from 1/8 scale street rod kit.....cut down the kit windshield to make it smaller.....scratch built mirrors.....the 3 black symbols on the gas tank say SUZUKI in Japanese. I am proud of this bike and it actually won its class at its first show this past weekend in Roanoke, VA.

The bike is about 15 inches long. Its a pretty big beast. And as for the carbs....I did not know that....to late to change it now, so lets just say they are custom aftermarket carbs....LOL. Here is a small update for today. The front fender is actually the fender that came in the kit.....but I cut it down and turned it around backwards. I got the whole front end on for good this time. All the brake lines are run, the speedometer cable is run, headlight and turn signals are on (lenses are from 1/16 scale Lamborghini) and I got the battery detailed and ready to go in. The gauge cluster is done and the handle bar grips are on and detailed. I also made some external reservoirs on the rear shocks. And I have a pile of parts I did not use on the bike. I didnt expect that big of a pile.....lol. Its getting there....not to much longer to go. Hopefully done in a few days.

Made some good progress today. Since I wasnt going to be using the front cowling/body work....I needed to make a bracket to hold the headlight. The headlight is from a 1/8 scale street rod kit. I also scratch built some front and rear turn signals and the brackets for them to. I also scratch built a new smaller gauge cluster which also has the brackets that hold the wind screen (the wind screen is cut down from the original kit piece). Its coming along quite good. Should look good when its all done.

This is the Tamiya 1/6 scale Suzuki GSX1100S Katana......and it will look nothing like the box art. I started out by ordering the chain from Tamiya.....and let me tell ya.......its an adventure putting that together. There are 350 pieces in that chain alone. And since I got the chain, I had to 3D print some sprockets for it. Those came out real good and it works really smooth. I then decided to add some velocity stacks to the motor and get rid of the chunky air box.....along with making carburetor butterflies that you can see looking into the stacks. I made the velocity stacks from some wire ferrule connectors I found at Lowes. I have done a few more changes I will post as I go along. This bike will eventually be a cafe racer style bike.....but just using a modern-ish bike. So far so good.

This is my version of the Evil Iron Trike. This model has special meaning. When I was 5 or 6 years old....my mom helped me build this. This is the model that got me started building models......47 years ago. I had to get it when it was reissued. I did change a few things. I cut the exhaust apart.....reconfigured it to the way I wanted.....glued it all back together and smoothed all the cut seams and sprayed them with Revell chrome. I also made the exhaust supports coming off of the frame. I wanted a hot rod style vibe. I then added a strip of plastic above the skull to bring it out further to be more like a cloak. The rest is pretty much the way it should be with a few touches of clear red on some engine parts. The black at the top is a combination of paint and modified kit decals. I painted it Tamiya bright mica red with pearl clear then 4 coats of normal clear over that. I really like how this came out. And it looks really good sitting next to the Tom Daniels King Chopper trike.

My "Top 5"....was hard to pick.

I am real excited to get this issue.....thats my yellow 57 gasser at the bottom. First time making the cover.

That looks really good man. I like how that turned out. Details looks great. I think me and you are the only ones that have done this version (in this scale).....at least that I have found.

This beast was such a joy to build. This is the most detailed model I have ever done. It went together really smooth. I added a bunch of details that are not furnished in the kit. This is not an exact replica either, as I found different versions online so I kind of took elements from them all. The display base really makes it stand out. I cant wait to show it the first time.

The model is about 12 1/2" long and 5 1/2" wide.

The resin hood I got fit really good with no gaps.....but...I didnt use it because the motor interferes with it and it wont sit down all the way. As for the nuts and bolts for the wheels....I didnt use them anyway. I installed my own wheel studs and used different bolts to attach the wheels.

I should have been posting these pictures as I went along. A little less than 2 months ago I purchased the Italeri 1/12 Lancia Delta HF. And I had all the intentions from the beginning to paint it yellow and make it the Camel/Clarion sponsored car from the 1989 Swedish Rally. This was a good challenge but it has went together really good with no problems what-so-ever. I have added a lot of details that is not furnished in the kit, and to numerous to list here. You can see in the pictures I tried to add as much detail as I could. There were a few things I changed like the color of the suspension arms....I didn't want them to be painted silver as they would just blend into the chassis. The chassis is completely done and I'm now onto doing the body. This has been my most detailed kit to date and I absolutely love it. Hopefully will get it done in the next week or so.

Here is one I finished not to long ago. I did a lot of detail work to this one. I was able to find a photo-etch kit for it and added those details. I then added lights to the sleeper area so you could see it better even when the top cap was off of it....which I also cut into the cab top to show off the interior better. The trailer is just the basic Revell Auto Carrier but I did relocate the spare tire to the front of the trailer and of course added 6 Dodge Challengers. The Dodge Brothers signage I made on my computer and it represents the logo the brothers had when they started building cars in Detroit.