Wow! ... Speechless! ... Stay the course, brother!

Great tooling!

Thanks Mike and Richard.
Chain drama solved , a usable tool and system worked out. 1/32 scale Becker Cannon in first color. So I can put that aside and hit this afresh.
The inner primary drive plate gets some of the cool Archer weld beads , a little bigger this time:

Gloss black today:

And some decal work:

Battled with this for about four hours, the shift mechanism:

Good night!

...bit of an exhaust leak...

As a competition machine , the hillclimber would go through a tech inspection prior to racing. The tech's want to see the welds done on any and all parts. No grinding or sanding. So the pipes get cool Archer weld beads:


Primary gets a cast aluminum finish:

Pipes into 'Hot Rod Primer' , flat black:

Looks like metal rims and hubs will be the order of the day. Tool procurement and masters on the way:

Front hub master spoke locations being drilled with a divot , not right through:

Gratuitous filler shot:

hah, nice!

Thanks KSO
Built that in 2010 outta Italeris WW2 Harley kit.
Stalled out on the HC here , some momentum building for the casting of the wheels and hubs , once that hurdle is overcome the Big Finish, wont be far behind.

Just stumbled into this awesome build here, wow!
Keep it comin' when ya can, love what you're doin'
so far. Excellent Bobber there too.

Dave

Thanks Dave.
Ceased work on this as another has reached critical mass , meaning I cant leave it until its finished:

Well , well ,well ,well my little droogs!

Back on this going into the wheel work , cutting spoke nipples and readying the front rim master.

Steve,
Lookin' frwd to how the rims, spokes, hubs and tires all come together. This is great for someone (like yers truly) with a couple of 1/12 bikes in the stash. Is your bobber in 1/12 ?, I've been wondering where to find a flathead motor in this scale.

Cheers
Dave

btw Excellent Great War vignette as well, any chance of viewing more pics?

[quote]Steve,
Lookin' frwd to how the rims, spokes, hubs and tires all come together. This is great for someone (like yers truly) with a couple of 1/12 bikes in the stash. Is your bobber in 1/12 ?, I've been wondering where to find a flathead motor in this scale.

Thank you , Dave
The Bobber is Italeri's 1/9 WW 2 bike model. I have seen it in 1/35 and maybe 1/24 but not 1/12. TYhere is a build log of the 1/9 kit going on here in Armorama. 'Ypres 1914' is here:
http://kitmaker.net/forums/156152&page=1

Back on this with spoke layout on the rim master , as wll as application of p/e washers to represent the spoke nipple landings

Nipple landings placed:

Rear wheel components ready to go.
36 spokes cut, bent , deburred, loaded with a 'nipple' and a washer:

Hi-tech lacing jig comes into play:

Here we go now, 9 sets of 4 , 36 spokes , first row of nine in:



Second row in ,halfway done:

High-tech jig exchange to allow lacing of the opposite side:

Mounted:





6244

3/4 Done , 9 spokes to go;


...and why we move to white metal casting, the rim or hub ,in plastic , WILL fail at some point: