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Did you see it at the Pacific NW Model Fest? Next time let me know, I would love to put a face behind a name! Thank you! Thank you Mike! Yes, laser welding. I made all the bags using the same process, and is a pretty simple/basic tecnique. First I decide the design of the bag, lol. After using wire metal I bend it in shape. I did the tw faces first, in the case of teh cilindric bag, the faces have round shape. After I cut few piece of wire to give the dept. The rest of the process is to put all together. It can be done with soldering, or even glueing, also can be done in plastic (small round rods). But since I was using wire metal, and have acces to a laser welder, I prefer to use it. Is super clean, and fast. To make the side bag on the rear fender, that is the biggest bag of all, it toke me less than a minute to laser weldit together. A the end you have a cuboid frame object. After I cover it with fabric vinyl, and detailed. The cool ting to do a frame structure in metal, combined with a flexible material on top, is that you can bend it easyly without the worry that it can break. All the bags I made I had to adjust them so they can have a more organig posture on the bike. Thank you Christopher! Thank you Chris!

Thank you Doyle!

I was looking a some pieces, when this caught my eyes. Surprised to see this on a Revell Germany kit. The revell print is not centered and not aligned.

Nice job! I start to build one 5/6 years ago and never finished...

Thank you Larry!

I'm planning to work on it this weekend, I'll update with photos.

I didn't serach too much about it, I know Revell Germany make pretty good kits. I wonder why it toke soo long to make a T2. Is one of the most iconic VW.

That was the fun part of the build. Nobody would drive something like this for a trip, above on offroad trails. My bike is more like the rat bikes that were around before building a rat rod or better a rat bike was a build itself. like this one.

I would do the same. One time they had to shut down the highway, because somebody lost control (was wet) of the truck, and hit the median for bounce back on the far right lane. Luckly nobody was injured, but there was piece everywere!

Me too! LOL

Agree on the space!

Thank you Bill!

Thank you Bob! The Harley was a fun buld, altough I prefer smaller scale, but It is nice to see it done. I'm working on different builds, beside builds I do for work... Lately I start to play with Matchbox cars... Giving them a "what if" touch, but keeping them box stock.

I ike it! It remind me when the Lotus team in F1 were sponsored by Camel.

Nice job on it, looks great! I know Heller kits are a pain to build... Above all the old ones...

I always wanted to do a Rat Harley, but never did until recently... I remember the Rat Hole show a the Daytona Bike Week, in the 90's. It was run by Big Daddy Roth. The rat bikes were used, and had a bunch of stuff on them, like a collection of items on wheels. Now the rat bikes are build to look like old. A lot of Harleys were WLA (military version) painted at some point in a "regular" color, or colors. I had a ESCI WLA in 1/9 scale, that fitted perfectly for this project. The kit was made in the late 70's, but the parts are pretty good and not many flashes The major thing I did, was replacing all teh fuel, fluid linees, using metal wire. Also added a lot of electrical wires. . And here the Rat Harley, mostly of the stuff you see on it where scratchbuild. It is funny how sometime the items take longer to be build than the actual kit. And yes, it leaks oil. I mean it marks it's terrritory... Here is why I'm saying that sometime the items take longer to be build, than the actual model. On the left is the stock side bag. On the right the one I made. for make it I first made a metal frame of the shape of the bag, laser welded togheter. Covered with soft vinyl that looks like leather, added piping and painted. The three belts, are from the kit. Here the aluminum suit case and the bag that is going to be on the front fender. You can see it in picture #4. Here the suitcase finished. The cans are made out of plastic.

Few weeks ago I bought this kit, It seems a fun quick project to build. It is like a Snap kit pretti much, and came with two set of decals, one is waterslide and the oter one is sticker. The casting is nice, no flashing, and all teh parts are pretty crisp!

Thank you Bill. Here the washing machine and oven, you can see also the truck in the background. https://www.instagram.com/p/CUTy33pAyp5/ Thank you Anton! Thank you MArk! Thank you Jim! Thank you Danno!

Few weeks ago, I enter the truck at the lotal model car show. And it won the MCM Award!

Pristine... Is all rusted out...

Thank you Larry!

Thank you Greg! Yesterday I add another piece of scrap metal in the back! Thank you Robert!

Thank you Claude! Thank you JC! Thank you Mike!

Thank you Carl! Thank you Kim!

Thank you Chris! Nice quality scrap metal! LOL! Thank you Bob! LOL! Thank you Dennis! 12 as 12000 lb of steel... Thank you Al! I know what you are talking about, I had a '74... Thank you Mario! You win the bet pretty easy! Thank you Tom!