Darren B

the blue one in front of mine got second place...it had a really cool suicide shifter set up I regret not getting a pick of really cool.. these were the other bikes that entered the contest...

Had the contest today and peoples choice first place out of six bikes.....also part of the prize other than the trophy was this cool book of David Mann's artwork.

Thanks Chris

Thank you guys, you are giving me a big head, all joking aside I thank you all for following along, you have just witnessed one of my fasted builds in the past two decades, hope that maybe it will make me become a faster builder. Sunday is coming up fast, and for a while back in June I was worried that I would be working on it right up to the meeting. Just a few more days.....

The model meeting is this Sunday the 7th that we will be holding the contest for the motorcycles. I will let everyone know what it places.....

Thanks again guys much appreciated.

Thanks guys much appreciated

Well now that I got the mans ruin build out of the way back to this one slowly...

My two cents is that what it sounds like is that the surface may not have been prepped properly. I had used this wonderful paint for over 20 years when I had owned two sign shops and never had that problem. That is why is seems to me it may have been an issue with not prepping the surface, boat paint is tricky not to ruin the finish with a good wax and grease remover. As far as covering with lacquer it may work but again good prep of the surface before adding any paint to a boats surface.

A couple more inside shots....

Thank you.

A few more indoor pics......

also I wanted to make the plug wires to look like copper from a moon shine still....

actually was able to get some barbed wire on the build I made a shiftier linkage with it....

Well I finished it. My first build in close to two years, finished in under 3 months. This was a totally fun build and not what I usually build. I have a few decorations that I am actually working on for it but the bike itself is complete.... actually made the wires to look like the copper wire on stills that they use for moon shine...

Thank you.

Almost complete, hand grips, pedals, lincense plate, shifter linkage and brake cables,,,... soon very soon...now looking at a way to add barbed wire to it still....

thank you

thank you Gator, had not planned any display base being a model club contest, it would make it look even better but no time to build 1 by the contest date.

Oh I like where this one is heading totally awesome work so far.

finally the final resting place for the gas cap. All paint is finished just waiting for it to dry in the dehydrator will be doing the finishing of all brake cables gas lines spark plugs and get this thing finished really soon...

Thank you Vince.

keeping with the theme this is the belt cover that I have come up with!!!

Thank you Vince not sure where I get my ideas, kinda think part of it is my job as I install ads graveyard alone with no one to talk to kinda lets my mind wander....