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Another LSR machine, on two wheels this time. Only the third two-wheeler I’ve built, after the beautiful Yamaha powered Thunderbolt and the classic streamliner ???. The Pandora Models metal kit is very nice, but challenging, as the main body comes in two halves, which I soldered together, and had a couple of intense filing and soldering hours to recover the shape of the front wheel-arch (the bulge, yes), and the cockpit top. Both had simply melted away under the hot iron. The big big advantage of soldering is strength of the joint, and you can immediately start to file and sand the parts. CA glue with filler and accelerator also works fine for this kind of job. I cut out the locations for the stabilizers, and added the stabilizing legs from Superior Models p-e parts, hypodermic tube (injection needles) and bits of thick aluminium foil (from disposable oven pans). As always, I got carried away while painting and detailing the interior (instrument faces, bezels and glasses added, etc…), none of which can be seen through the tiny windscreen…
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by: Sergio Micangeli (nonnosergio43) on 2010-04-12 - 15:58
Hi Claude, a very good job! Stbilizers and ther locations pass the model to a higher class level. What a pity for the other invisible details! congratulations Sergio