MPC 1/16 Honda Super Hawk

[oldscool]

Here she is. Only mods were omitting the over scale front fender braces, removing the passenger foot pegs and adjusting the angle of the handlebars. Now wish I had removed the rubber flap from the rear fender as well. I made the usual couple of bonehead mistakes that I make on every build. When I removed the passenger peg mounts I accidentally cut off the exhaust pipe mounting pins, so the pipes are glued to whatever they touch. I also for got the horn but don't think I can get it in place without damaging something as it is very hard to handle now that every thing is in place. Brush painted with Testors little bottle dark red and several parts were dechromed and sprayed with Tamiya TS 17 aluminum.

Pros:

Good detail and decent parts fit.

Cool subject (to me anyway).

Good decals with several spares.

Cons:

Chrome was pretty scuffed up right out of the box and it was bagged separately.

The locating bump for the tail light places it too close to the seat. It should be about halfway between seat and end of fender.

Lack of clear headlight lens.

License plate looks oversize to me

[mustang1989]

Man that's alot of chrome on that bike! Looks really good Gerald!! 

[Phirewriter]

Looks great! Given its age and manufacturers origin you really did a nice job. I've got one in progress right now and found a large paperclip that looks to scale for the front fender support. I'll take your advice for the rear rubber flap and remove it although I'm undecided whether I'm going stock or mild cafe racer at this point. I also managed to find a headlight lens from a large scale kit in my parts bins to use but will need some fiddling around to look good.

[cobraman]

Looks good, you did a nice job with this kit.

[Perspect Scale Modelworks]

That looks very cool. I like this bike. I did a cafe style version. The kit can be a little challenging with all the flash on just about every part and getting the engine and frame to fit right but overall fun to build. Nice job.

[Sam I Am]

Awesome!  I need to pull mine out now.

[slusher]

Beautifully done!

[PappyD340]

Very nice!

[skymnky721]

love it!