Tamiya BMW R75/ sidecar

[The Smythe Meister]

And I'd like to know - who decided to put padlocks onto the panniers???????
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Now to leave them to dry, and get a cotton bud (Q-tip for our colonial cousins) and polish them up (humbrol polished steel)

Gerry!
Just caught up with this,
I`m a big fan of Motorcycle/combi kits and over the years have done several different types:nerd:,
I have to say that you haven`t picked the easiest of subjects to restart your military modelling hobby,and you`re making a great fist of it in my opinion Sir:thumb2: ,
The "painting as you go" is a must,with these tiny things,and methods are personal,so you`ll decide what`s best for you as you progress.After a build or two,you`ll decide to add your own cables,etc....... it`s a slippery slope!!
Anyway,i`m droning on now!
Excellent work indeed mate...... following closely from here on in!
Andy

[GerryW]

Gerry!
Just caught up with this,
I`m a big fan of Motorcycle/combi kits and over the years have done several different types:nerd:,
I have to say that you haven`t picked the easiest of subjects to restart your military modelling hobby,and you`re making a great fist of it in my opinion Sir:thumb2: ,
The "painting as you go" is a must,with these tiny things,and methods are personal,so you`ll decide what`s best for you as you progress.After a build or two,you`ll decide to add your own cables,etc....... it`s a slippery slope!!
Anyway,i`m droning on now!
Excellent work indeed mate...... following closely from here on in!
Andy

No fear of me adding the cables - I have had enough problems adding cables and brake lines to the 1/9 bikes I've done, so well know the slippery slope! :tears-of-joy: :tongue-out3: :tongue-out:

[scottie3158]

Gerry,
Looking good so far.

[Guest]

I won't say that 1/35 scale motorbikes 'are my thing', but thinking about the dio that I've got in my mind, a couple of outfits wouldn't be out of place.

Just don’t put any of these without the sidecar, that both Tamiya and Italeri released, into your diorama (That is to say: in the real world, the R75 and KS 750 wouldn’t go anywhere without the sidecar. Literally.)

[GerryW]

Just don’t put any of these without the sidecar, that both Tamiya and Italeri released, into your diorama :smiling3: (That is to say: in the real world, the R75 and KS 750 wouldn’t go anywhere without the sidecar. Literally.)

Yes, the solos would've probably been either DKW (Das Kline Wonder) or if larger cc, Wanderer motorcycles. Bit like the UK army m/cs, I notice that the BSA M20 is done, but not the Norton 16H (usually used as a sidecar option, though could be ridden solo) same lack of the Triumph (can't remember that model designation off hand though - T something)

[JR]

Enjoying this, makes a change from tracks Gerry, have my Russian combo in the stash, so taking note about the painting on the sprue.

[Steve Jones]

Lovely work on such a small model. Great to see

[GerryW]

Enjoying this, makes a change from tracks Gerry, have my Russian combo in the stash, so taking note about the painting on the sprue.

For some reason, I've never really got 'into' tanks - sure, I've done the Airfix 1/72 Tiger, Sherman, Churchill etc. and a 1/35 King Tiger when I first started (back in the '70s) but then got interested in the half tracks and all the versions that were available at the time, kubelwagon & outfit, all in 1/72, so sort of now moved 'up' in size
Biggest problem of painting on the sprue is keeping the 'contact' points where the glue goes clear (or just scrape the paint off)

Lovely work on such a small model. Great to see

Thanks - couldn't do it if I hadn't got a magnifying glass/visor, and my 'doctored' brushes, which have been with me for years - don't know what I'll do when it comes to replacing the old favourites.

Had a break from it today, hopefully get some more done before Wednesday, as I've the first jab - from all reports, I'm not going to feel too good for a few days afterwards!

[Guest]

then got interested in the half tracks and all the versions that were available at the time, kubelwagon & outfit, all in 1/72, so sort of now moved 'up' in size

Luckily, all of those and more are now available in 1:35 as well

Biggest problem of painting on the sprue is keeping the 'contact' points where the glue goes clear (or just scrape the paint off)

Scraping it off is generally easier for all but large areas, is my experience.

[GerryW]

Luckily, all of those and more are now available in 1:35 as well :smiling2:

I've noticed - though doubt that I'd have room for the AK dio that I had, which was a '88' (with tow) supported by 4 X 20mm 'quads' and 2 X 40mm, with outlying heavy machine gun/infantry positions plus kubelwagon, BMW, and a couple of kettentrad - fairly sure that it was on a 2 foot square base - in 1/35, we'd be talking getting on for 4 feet square - serious space!

[Guest]

I’ve long ago stopped building dioramas because of that space issue. I still need to find somewhere to put the blown-up M113 I built last year, which needed a base.

[GerryW]

I've tried just 'pure' modelling (though mainly motorbike models) but space to display is the problem for me now, so on this trip into the hobby, thinking that I'll make a model and dio, photo it, then box up and put away - the dios that I'll do will probably be scratched up out of household waste (cardboard base etc) which can then be binned after the photo (the one that I put up in one of my first posts'was an exception, as it was a hardboard base - rest was scraps though, and had been put into a box, along with a similar one that my youngest son did)

[JR]

A recurring problem, the one of display Gerry .
I'm lucky in that I have a modelling room, but there comes a time and it's here that I've no more display space. So like you it's into a box in the attic, probably never to see the light of day.
We can never have enough room !

[GerryW]

Just started on the two 'crew' - first time of using the Revell 'Plasto' not too sure that I'm all that keen on it, seems as though it's separated in the tube & I'm getting a lot of fluid coming out, and not much filler - will leave it overnight with the cap down to see if it'll get the fluid to the bottom of the tube! Still, it's converting Tamiya 'half heads' to 'heads', just got to shape and paint to see what I get - or should this stage go into the 'figure' section?

[JR]

Don't think it has to move Gerry, if it does one of the mods will say or move it for you.
Seen posts before about fillers separating, might take longer than a night to correct it, but worth a try .