This is my entry for the “out of your comfort zone” contest. Despite not being an aircraft I still enjoyed it quite a bit. Helps that it was about the size of most of my planes.

This kit underwent quite a bit of customization. I’ve always loved hearing about how guys came home from WWII and started modifying EVERYTHING to make it faster and louder, and that was my inspiration for this. Some guy just home from the war decided to chop up a service bike and repaint it.

The rear fender was shortened, the front was removed. All the equipment brackets and support brackets removed. No blackout light. Shortened exhaust. I had to scratch build the shifter linkage because that’s not included in the kit for some reason. Also scratch built the side kick stand to replace the kits rear wheel stand.

I originally wanted it to have no “chrome” parts. This guy wanted everything simple and black. However, it looked really boring like that so I decided to pick a couple parts to paint silver just for some variation. Everything is Vallejo acrylics, glossy parts simply coated in Future. The leather seat and hand grips got treated with some brown washes to attempt a textured look. The helmet decals are from the T-7 decal sets i made.

One thing that annoys me is that there is no chain, but it’s not super obvious. However, I may make a diorama sometime in the future with a broken chain on the ground and maybe a figure inspecting it on the side of the road. But I’m done for now.

-Chad