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Here's another update fellas: I got the exhaust system painted, weathered and installed. I ended up drilling the tail pipe out for that hollow look. Things arent finished up back here as I still have that blemish on the rear seat and the seam line on the rear fender to deal with. Then I turned my attention over to the spark plug wires. The plug wires.........now what to use??? I took a look in my spare parts drawer in my shop tool box and came up with a fuel pump relay I robbed from a warranty parts turn in fuse block, tore the case off of it and used the coil windings in the relay for the copper wire to replicate these with..... Like this: Which ended up on the motorcycle as such: (with fuel pump relay next to it...lol )

And there he is. Thanks Wayne. Your figure building skills are a true inspiration to me that's for sure. Good to see you again.

Good looking build buddy! Plenty of detail here. There's a 1:350 scale Akagi (and a 1:250 Akagi but that's just nuts at $1200 bones) that looks really appealing to me right now but I havent built a ship since I was 13 or so (let's see .....that was 33 years ago.....). Anyways this looks great Joe!

This looks worlds away better than what I can do at this point Danny. I've been trying to get into the world of figure painting and am getting closer all the time with help from Agent G. The only thing I think I would add at this point is a localized wash around the belt area to bring the detail of the belt out. Agent G is the go-to guy on figure painting in my book though.

LOTS of work and LOTS of detail! The effort paid off Joe!

.....forgot to mention that the second picture was taken with my new Nikon S9700 camera. I forked out around 300 bones for it but it yields LOTS better quality of photos! LOTS!!!

This pic will show the installation of the "saddle bag " on the motorcycle. I'm going to be the first to say that I really don't care for the molding of this part because I happen to have the new Tamiya 1/48 scale BMW R75 in my inventory as well and those saddle bags look alot better. I may build that version here as well. Any how it did add a cool touch to the bike. Here it all is in non weathered form... The seats have too much of a frosted look and I'll address that after all weathering is done. The rear seat will have a sleeping bag draped across it so I'm not all that worriied about that one. Here's a pic just after the BMW decal was installed on the fuel tank and a couple of other parts hung on it as well as a flat coat. We're getting there anyways....

1/25 eh? Plenty of detail to get going in that scale . I'm a little further along with the motorcycle than in the pics and let me tell you, my biggest obstacle is going to be hiding those stooopid hard-to-get to seams!!! lol

A little further along with my motorcycle. Mine is in the 1/48 scale range here: Wheels are mostly painted here: Here we are with the bike frame together , engine installed and a light wash over the bike frame and fuel tank:

Looking forward to it! What scale is the motorcycle?

Lookin' good so far Danny!! This outta be friggin cool!!

A little more progress on the engine. I painted it chrome silver and applied a water based wash. Just enough to bring out the detail. I'll dull it up and make it look more worn down the road. Also in the works are some plug wires and whatever else I can think of to spruce this little engine up with. I received my Tamiya Acrylic German Grey in the mail yesterday and man that stuff goes on saammoooooooth! Got the base coat on the motorcycle frame, forks and wheels. I'll let this dry then gloss and weather it.

Gotcha posted there Wayne! Can't wait to see what you've got going next! A wee bit of progress this week after cleaning up all the parts before installation. Here's the 750cc engine for the BMW motorcycle that's mostly assembled:

Thanks Carl!

Nice job on the build there Lee!

This is some good stuff Aaron. I've always gotta tip my hat to anybody who can pull off a build like this in 72nd scale. Nice job!

Ok fellas. My next contribution to the CB will be my 1/48 Bandai BMW R75 motorcycle w/ sidecar that is pictured about middle way through this page. A small but detailed little build. Here's the parts layout:

Thanks alot Scott!

Thanks Glenn!!! There was a loud screaming/ siren noise that wasusually came from that little propeller you see there on the left wing on the landing gear spat. Alot of pilots elected to remove them because they were so dang noisy and were called the "Trumpets of Jericho". Youre right though, a god awful noise when diving. Fear factor played as much of a role as the bombing itself with the sirens on these things. I have built alot of aircraft from WWII and like them all but I have a soft spot for the Luftwaffe's airframes as they had some really cool looking birds and narly camo schemes.

Thanks for the comments Tony!

Danny that build looks really awesome. I can identify with seeing the gaps or any other fault when I look at a picture of what I've built. Even so, this is a cool build with alot of attention to shades and weathering. Wayne! Man you're a tank building factory man!! The quality of these builds are amazing and this one's no exception. Great work and great builds by you. Lemme know which pics you guys would like to have posted in the intro and stick around for another round. My next ones gonna be that motorcycle with the sidecar !!!

Thank you Ira and Harry! That's the largest pit I've done yet. Most of em are fighter aircraft and really small so this was a fun stray from the norm.

Thanks Jim and John. I'm going to bust out with my Bandai 1/48 scale BMW R75 w/side car motorcycle next and see if I can pull that one off.

Thanks Mike! I usually stick to 1/48 scale builds just due to display space.........or lack of it. lol

Just finished this one up after a long few months. I started with a 1/48 Hasegawa Ju-87 B-2 Stuka kit and added an Aires interiror detail set, oil reservoir and wing mounted machine gun guts from a Verlinden update set,Eduard canopy mask and decals from Tally Ho. I've been wanting to build an aircraft with this scheme now for 18 years and have had this kit for 16 years. I guess after all this time it was finally high time I started on it but I'm glad I didn't because I haven't had the skills to pull this all together until the last two years. Originally I was going to open up the engine bay because I do have an Aires total upgrade kit to do that with but decided against it because it would interupt such a cool scheme. I mean how many aircraft do you see runnin' around with a snake that goes from one end of the bird to the other? All in all I had a complete blast building this kit as I took my sweet time with it as to not have any foul ups. The cockpit had to be the most fun I had with it. The Aires floor didn't fit right and was WAY too small so I modified the Hasegawa floor and transferred all of the floor detail from the Aires floor to the Hasegawa floor. Other than that it was pretty straight forward: As for the rest of the build it was a chore and time consuming with the paint job but in the end it was worth the investment. I began with priming and pre-shading the whole bird, then I continued with the original splinter camoflage scheme of light green RLM 71, dark green RLM 70 and light blue RLM 76 (which I later could have slapped myself because it's supposed to be a brighter blue RLM 65 but it was too late in the game to ruin the work that I poured into it to change it). After that I painted on the field applied camoflage in the form of tan RLM 79 over the original camo. Absolutely NO foul ups here! I moved VERY slowly with this due to the work that went into the original splinter camo pattern. I have had a set of snake decals since the beginning(16 years ago) from Cutting Edge but they were too old to use and kept breaking up so I had to replace them with a set from Tally Ho. These decals evoked a range of feelings here because on one hand they laid down totally awesome and sucked right into the detail but were slightly out of scale. All in all I was happy with their application. LOTS of sweating while putting them on though.......................LOTS!!!