1/8th scale Norton GP Bike vintage kit from 1970 by Protar
Well, this is a terrible kit with even worse instructions. Somehow I managed to get it together, I'm actually shocked it's built.
My 29th customer build of the year. I did this to look as if it was found in a barn, so I could hide mistakes, lol. If you want to lose your mind, get this kit. Italeri has reissued this kit, I have to imagine they have cleaned up the tooling and redone the instructions.
Protar was a company from Bologna Italy where they obviously consumed lots of wine while creating motorcycle models.
This looks very realistic, Rick @rickschad
It clearly shows that this Norton has been stored for many years in a barn.
I built the Italeri-version of the Norton earlier this year Rick. Looking at the parts in your pictures there isn’t a lot of difference. Maybe the manual by Italeri is better (it can be found on Scalemates I guess), still it was quite hard to build it. Compliments for your barn-version!
Thanks Harm! I had to do a ton of parts clean up, I have to imagine Italeri cleaned up the molds. I’m just glad it’s over lol!
Love the final result out of this very challenging kit, Rick!
Well done!
Thank you so much my friend
Wow. Looks great. Just wondering - I remember the Protar bikes being 1:9 scale. Maybe there were exceptions.
Maybe it is, no idea lol, it actually doesn’t say lol. Thank you!
Well done for finishing this old Protar kit, Rick, I remember the old Protar range was quite extensive, I also remember looking inside the boxes, it looked like black spaghetti inside, I kept well away.
Hahahaha! You know the nightmare of Protar my friend! Stay away, stay far away!
Regardless of how miserable the kit is, your result is great. Way to solider through.
Thank you so much Matt!