Egilman

Those are two classics, a late 30's flathead and an early 40's BMW.... Nice bikes....

That is a beautiful camo job!!! Nice airbrush work!!! The yellow is fine it stood out like that in real life as well...

If it's a street bike, you usually don't see much grunge on one... They don't get the weather that cars do... Dirt bikes can get pretty grungy and dinged up though... And I've never seen a motorcycle in a wrecking yard either, Motorcycles don't die, they just fade away...

If your looking for the real deal brother Grainger is the place... If your looking for scale, 1/24th or 1/25th, then it becomes interesting... DOT reflective tape is called a decal either way... I would go here and scroll down a bit... Modeltruckin.com It took me four days of searching to find them back when I was looking for truck license plate decals.... Good luck, BTW, what are you gonna build?

Very Nicely Done!!!

The only response would be "Thinking of you Babe!" (then duck)

Some models are bigger than others..... Good looking paint job...

Now that is downright appealing.... makes a sexy looking bike even sexier... (or, is it the other way around) {chuckle}

Excellent! Nice Work...

Actually, it is an old engineering technique to allow the single tired, wheeled landing gear to track straight on uneven ground.... You find it on many aircraft designed to use unimproved runways or even pastures... What happens if the wheel is mounted straight vertical, when a bump is hit the wheels moves vertically and tends to deflect laterally, pulling the aircraft in a different direction... The camber of the wheel forces the wheel to remain vertical through it's movement while going over the bump.... You would note that the landing gear is also isolated from the frame of the aircraft with rubber mount bushings, so there is a tiny tiny bit of flex to the gear to account for the stress of being deflected sidewards... It's also the reason for the lower pressure big balloon tires, lots of sidewall flexibility there as well... You don't notice the deflection at taxi speed, but at take off and landing speeds? It's a big reason there were so many ground loop accidents during the early days of aviation... A pilot really had to be on the ball when taking off and landing, the most dangerous aspect of flying in the early days...

That'll work.... Well done

looks like the indexing is off one hole....

Yep, strictly a hand tool at that point.... glue it to a scrap of plastic sprue and/or mount it in a pin vise for a handle.....

It's really simple, it functions the same way a half round file or a round nosed chisel does, except for it polishes rather than cuts...

Yep it seemed to be a bit on the too fiddly side watching you try to get it right... WAY too much work... I think I would have ditched the idea of closing the clips and used Gators Grip to glue them on.... Probably stood a better chance of staying together that way.... Lesson learned I suppose, but one of many in our modeling careers though, the upper limit on photoetch....

Good to have you back brother....

You had to have a feel for it.... But you both knew when the ol' snorkel came up... {chuckle} (plenty of room to maneuver for the deep dive)

Good to see you back Dennis.... WE missed ya...

Well done Sir...

Gorgeous... Well done sir... If I may make a suggestion, for historical accuracy, a properly organized Gun Train would have the command car in front, the Liberty "B" truck following that, then the gun sections and the repair truck following the gun.... The gun can be barrel first or carriage first doesn't matter, when they got to the site the tractors were detached and the gun crew man-handled the pieces into position for assembly... (if they didn't have a crane available) Brother, This is going to be absolutely spectacular!!!!

You want the flat tipped ones, the pointy ones will not take the strain of trying to close the clips... That's why the jewelry set is the exact set for this type of work, the flats are for closing those miniature chain links in fine jewelry... There is another way of doing this, canopy glue... dries clear and reduces so it leaves no lumps, (ultra thin) and is designed for holding PE..... The chain isn't going to take a strain at all, and makes connecting it on the bike easy peasy...

If the dovetail HAS to be in two pieces, this is the engineering way to fix it in place... although for modeling purposes, one pin is sufficient... There is also the dis-similar metals issue to consider... Aluminum and CRS do not work well together over the long term...

Exactly...

Actually it is poor design, but then it IS only a model mill... Proper procedure would be to cut the dovetail into the saddle on both sides from a one piece casting to ensure parallelism of the dovetails, then counterbore the access for the cross slide nut... the counterbore would not affect the dovetail slide's operation in anyway and the whole thing being one piece, would be twice as strong... An over simplification if you ask me... and many more opportunities to make mistakes given the number of extra machining operations.... But then again it is only a model, not intended for actual operation making parts...

The camo pattern is derived from the early '17 French three color camo as used on the FT'17's and Schnieders... Splotches of Green, Khaki and Brown separated by black stripes,,, it was deemed the most effective camo used... After the breakout from the trenches, it was agreed by the allies to use camo again, and they decided on Green, Khaki and an off white ivory color... Primarily it was hand applied and it shows on the black stripes used to separate the blotches... Those troops who had time generally did a better job of painting, those in action did a lot sloppier job of it... It was a green based camo pattern and green should dominate the pattern, (but a Khaki dominated pattern was not out of the question) The mud of the trenches gave way to a yellower dust as the drier summer & autumn months came around... Yes, even in eastern France... By the summer of '18 it was again a maneuver war, mud would be less prevalent and, dusty conditions would dominate... The model "T" staff car, could easily appear that way, a tad too Khaki for my taste, but very appropriate, and one of many possible looks if the troops that hand painted it were in a hurry and were looking to just get it done... This three color camo pattern was adopted as standard by the US Army and is seen on many preserved WWI pieces in museums, although by '20 they adopted a distinctive five color pattern as standard.... The paint job is great, nice application and completely period in my opinion... (entirely possible as well Brother) EG