Tom Daniels grim reaper chopper finished

[Mike C.]

finally finished.  If I had to do it over again,  I would have taken better care to get the engine to sit correctly in the frame. Installing the exhaust proved to be a nightie. I also managed to break off the tab for the fuel line under the gas tank to the carb so I left that off. I did manage to install (without messing up) the throttle cable that I made from some old phone wire. I'm leaving off the license plate for now as it seems to mess up the flow of the look . I took the velocity stack from 1/25 dual quad setup from an old Challenger T/A chrome tree. And the round gas cap was an air cleaner that I don't remember where from. 

[Mike C.]

I meant to say that installing the exhaust proved to be a nightmare. It must have auto corrected and changed it to nighte.  ???

[TonyK]

Not into choppers very much but this looks really cool! The choice of paint would be right at home on a real one and I like your engine detail. Glad I clicked on this.

[Mike C.]

Thanks Tony! People seem to like the paint. I'm glad it came out as good as it did. I was determined to use the glitter paint but when I couldn't get that to work correctly, it turned out pretty good. I'm definitely going to stick with that Testors Extreme lacquer for future projects. I wish they had pleated the timing cover. The chrome look paint I used looks more like aluminum. I thought about  Moloto pen but decided to leave well enough alone.

Next time I have to remember to take pictures earlier in the build.

[happy grumpy]

Nicely done. The thing with bikes, no curbside, no place to hide under the hood. Everything  is there like the real thing. Bikes are not my thing but I like to look at all kinds of models. I like to look at the work and this one is one beautiful bike and like you said, we do like the color.

keep it up

[Mike C.]

Thanks Mario. My days of riding these things are long since over. my back hurts just looking at this thing.  My cousin built more of these bikes he told me a story where a friend of his just built a hardtail and insisted he take it out for a ride. He said " when I went over the train tracks I knew the party was over". Ouch. ?

[shoopdog]

Fantastic job on your build!

[Mike C]

It came out really nice.

[Mike C.]

Thanks guys!

[stinkybritches]

Nice job, Mike. Turned out great.

[Hmann68]

Super cool! Clean work on that Chopper! ?

[slusher]

Beautifully done!   

[ChrisR]

Looks great!

[crazyjim]

Very nice.

[Chappy]

SSWWEETT

[mustang1989]

Very cleanly built bike Mike. Great work man.