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I have found my niche with Tamiya motorcycle models (both 1/6 and 1/12 scales) in the last 2 or so years. I was nicknamed "Bike Queen" by a very good friend and it stuck and I’m proud to carry it.
Up until now I have built all Tamiya bikes, (about 30) I now have a few Aoshima and Fujimi bikes in the queue and most recently the Pocher, Ducati Panigale 1299 Final Edition 1/4 scale.
I am a retired volunteer firefighter. I am now out of retirement and working as a Firefighter and Administrative Assistant for my counties Fire chief and Emergency Manager.
I am also a certified watchmaker but no longer in the trade. My skills in that field have served me greatly in the last 2 and a half years of building 1/12th scale bikes. (Not to mention the tools)
I am happy to have found iModeler and join a group of world class model builders of all scale and subjects!
You can see some of my work at the iModeler group Motorcycles here https://imodeler.com/groups/motorcycles-854753595/
Or visit me at https://bike-queen.org/news
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I have long loved Lotus automobiles. About 20 years ago I bought this kit in the Cycle Fender version. I truly enjoyed building it. Things got bad for me and I put the Ebay thinking I would make my money back at least. It didn’t [...]
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In the words of Monty Python “And now for something completely different” :)-
I was talking with someone about Dave Deal’s Tri Plane, so I searched for and came up with this instead.
I thought it looked cute and thought what the [...]
I built the sister bike about a year ago and have been watching this one, Finally found one that had decency tires, most had deteriorated tires in the kit.
I was excited to have it did a perfect (for me) paint job on it using Tamiya [...]
Another Tamiya 1/12th scale motorcycle, the Kawasaki ZZR1400. Brought to you by Cricket AKA @Bikequeen : )
I have always contended there is no black and white but a million shades of grey and to me, this bike is a study in black and grey. [...]
While I await my modelers block and other life situations to go away, I offer one of my favorite builds. I built this July of 2022.
It Tamiya’s 1/6 kit # 16010. The “body” came molded in blue But it called for “Pearl Blue”. I [...]
Was going to steal stuff about this bike off the web bit @chinesegeorge George pretty much said it already in his recent headline post about his Fireblade.
I choose to go with the Matte Pearl Morion Black finish. Painted with Tamiya’s [...]
I’ve alway had an affinity to Black and Gold color scheme, such as Chapman’s Johnny Player Special Lotus F-1 cars. So When I saw the Yamaha Midnight Special I had to have it. I had 12 motorcycle builds under my belt by this time, [...]
Honda Monkey (Z Series) mini bike, 40th Anniversary addition.
Tamiya’s Honda Monkey, 1/6th scale, it was called the Monkey because of the way the rider looked on it, arms an legs seemingly hanging out all over.
I bought the kit because I [...]
Hello all, I built this in January of this year and just posted to the motorcycle group, reposting here. It was my first experience with 1/6th motorcycles and now I’m hooked.
Thanks for viewing nod to @chinesegeorge for the suggestion [...]
