Images of The Central PA Model Car Club meeting!!!

[cruz]

As usual, I had a lot of fun sharing with my friends at our monthly meeting! We had a Chopper theme going and there were a lot of cool ones in display. Congratulations to my boy Rick Forrester for his 1st place win, his Chopper was really gorgeous!!!

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As I said, this was really a cool piece by Rick, lots of attention to detail and very clean!!!!

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Link to all photos below!!!

http://public.fotki.com/MCRUZ1/cpmcc-2009-...ber-/page2.html

[Lyn]

WOW! Those are awesome!!!!!!!!!

[Eshaver]

Intresting builds there .................... Ed Shaver

[Bluzboy66]

Thanks for the compliments on my 'Blue Ball Bobber', Cruz, but I'm not 'Rick'.....I'm Mike!! lol.....Mike Forrester. No relation to Rick.

I had a blast building that chopper kit. I back-dated the frame to resemble an early Harley rigid frame. Mods include: shortened rear section, w/under-seat 'sag' removed, de-raked front steering stalk, added reinforcement tube under the backbone/tank (again, per vintage Harley frame). I also molded all of the seams and junctions on the frame smooth. The whole goal was to build a 60's-style bobber. I also used Norm Veber's/Replicas & Miniatures of Md resin mustang-style fuel tank, modded to resemble an early Paughco 'mustang' peanut tank; resin solo seat w/real springs (cut-down electric guitar pickup adjustment springs), and resin open primary.

I added all of the wiring, cables, hoses, and foot shift linkage. I cut the handlebar risers down to get the bars down nice and low.

Forks were cut down, and lower tubes are polished aluminum tubing. The entire frontend sits lower as a result. Exhaust tips are also aluminum tubing. Big thanks to my son, Alex, for tossing me a set of straight exhaust pipes from one of his own Revell chopper kits for this build!! BTW, my boy Alex won the Junior class with his own custom Revell chopper!

Paint is 'Pure Ice' Pearl Blue lacquer nail polish over Tamiya Bare Metal base, with 2-part catalyzed urethane clear topcoat.

Thanks again,

Mike Forrester

As usual, I had a lot of fun sharing with my friends at our monthly meeting! We had a Chopper theme going and there were a lot of cool ones in display. Congratulations to my boy Rick Forrester for his 1st place win, his Chopper was really gorgeous!!!

Hosted on Fotki

Link to all photos below!!!

http://public.fotki.com/MCRUZ1/cpmcc-2009-...ber-/page2.html

Edited October 13, 2009 by Bluzboy66

[Greg Cullinan]

Everything is top-notch,imo. The work truck really stands out to me. I make my living in the roofing industry and want to do a old school tar truck one of these days.