This is Tamyia's bike, with Lion Roar PE set.
I'm doing it as a civilian bike, so I removed the tool box from the frame.! Since this will go into a future vignette, and is civilian, I'm posting it here.
The Photo Etched set comes with enough parts to do two bikes, but strangely enough only one luggage frame!





The photo etch wheels were a b*tch to do, extremely fragile, and bend easy. I became a linguist, inventing new words trying to assemble this, but hopefully learned enough to tackle another bike or two in the future.

I salute those that do this photo etched stuff on a regular basis. Perhaps I need to cut down on the caffeine.

Nice job. Not much left of the original kit. That seat position doesn't look like it would be much fun especially on bumps!

Great job on the Bike! Lots of possibilities with that.......

Looks clean. The brass looks well handled. The PE set greatly improves this bicycle kit with all the tiny details, esp. in photos up this close.
I'm currently reconditioning a 1:1 scale replica military bicycle with the tool box in place. It will have one rear rack behind the seat, over the rear fender.
Cool model addition.

That is delicate PE, I can just hear the words you created

Nice job in the end.

Yep, missed a folding instruction on that one Al, so it ended up at a strange angle. But it's going to be a damaged, abandoned bike, and that's my excuse, and I'm sticking to it.
The hardest besides the wheels was the chain, comes in left and right halves, and need to be glued together, and remains extremely fragile. Breathing on it bends it. Plus no defined pips on mounting the wheels.
Learned on this one the mistakes not to make on the next one.




I came up with new word to help discribe old words.

But the amazing thing is ----
I didn't lose any of the tiny parts!!!!!

Nice work Dave, I've considered that pe set in the past and decided against it but if a grumpy old man can do it...

Great bike Dave!!..and trust me, I doubt those were new words it's just the combination of them that can be unique as for P.E detail wise it's amazing! but working with it sometimes... well refer to your new words