Quick build scooter

[Pete J.]

There is a bit of a story to this little build.  I built it because my local club(San Diego Model Car Club) had a quarterly theme of "any Tamiya Kit".  Well, I am probably the biggest proponent of all things Tamiya in the club so I couldn't very well let that go by without building something.  The question was what could I build in the time I had.  Being the great procrastinator that I am I had two weeks.  On top of that I like to take my time with my builds.  I was digging through my stash and I came up with this scooter.

  Now there are a few people on this forum who will recognize the "kit".  This is not a retail kit per se, in that you can't buy it in a box by itself.  They did produce a kit with four different scooters and it also comes in the Campus Friends box but never by itself.  This kit came from Tamiya Headquarters in Japan.  If you visit them, there is an injection molding machine in the lobby spitting these things out and as a visitor, you are welcome to grab a few and that is were this one came from.  I visited their HQ as a Tamiya/con winner in 1998.

Fast forward to three weeks ago.  In addition to the "any Tamiya kit" theme we held our first workshop in recent memory.  The work shop was on applying Bare Metal Foil.  I took one look at this little kit and decided that it might be a chance for me to brush up on my BMF skills so I was off to the races!  All the metal work that you see here with three exceptions is BMF.  The exceptions are the bolts(machined aluminum on a Sherline mill), the kick starter(also machined but on a Sherline lathe) and the speedometer bezel which the kit is lacking, also machined.  Every thing else is BMF'ed.  The trim was laid down before painting and then once painted the edge was cleaned off with a swab dipped in lacquer thinner.  The side cover was BMF'ed after painting and then made to look like brushed aluminum with a little steel wool.  All the lights are just BMF painted over with Tamiya acrylic clear orange and red and then covered with canopy glue(formula 560) to give the impression of a lens.  It was a fun little kit.

[cobraman]

Cute little scoot.

[Renegade]

Very nice. I would have to grabbed a double handful.

[Pete J.]

Very nice. I would have to grabbed a double handful.

I should have!

 

[Foxer]

Cool ... this is 1/24?

[Pete J.]

Cool ... this is 1/24?

Yes.  When it was originally designed it was in the campus friends accessory kit.  Way back when, Tamiya had a lot of different "accessory" packages that included tools, people and fun other bits.  I think the last package they did was the Subaru Rally mechanics set .

[ChrisR]

NEAT!!

[disabled modeler]

Yes.  When it was originally designed it was in the campus friends accessory kit.  Way back when, Tamiya had a lot of different "accessory" packages that included tools, people and fun other bits.  I think the last package they did was the Subaru Rally mechanics set .

That set kit has a lot of nice scale figures...too bad I missed them when I could have gotten one.

[vintagercr]

Sweet!