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1:8 1917 Excelsior Board Track Racer-3D Scratch Build

by Matt Minnichsoffer on July 12, 2024 · in Automotive · 11 ≡

Like other manufacturers, Ignatz Schwinn, who acquired Excelsior in 1911, believed racing improved motorcycle engineering through track testing. The visibility of racing success helped sales as well. A machine similar to the one I built [...]

1/8th scale Norton GP Bike vintage kit from 1970 by Protar

by Rick Schad on July 7, 2024 · in Automotive · 11 ≡

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 [...]

1:8 Super X Deadwood Special – 3D Scratch Build

by Matt Minnichsoffer on June 13, 2024 · in Automotive · 10 ≡

In the Spring of 2000 I was working in the styling department for Excelsior-Henderson in Belle Plaine, Minnesota. The company had plans to unveil a hydraulic front (non-springer) end version of the Super X at the Sturgis Bike Rally in [...]

Scratchbuilt 1/8th scale Spyder/Exercising Sulky

by Graham GREEN on June 7, 2024 · in Uncategorized · 6 ≡

Here is a 1/8th scale “Exercising Cart", or, you can use its popular name that it goes by today, a ’Spider’, for very obvious reasons. The full sized vehicle was owned by Mrs Val Perkins, from a small town called Coonewarre, [...]

1:8 scale diecast MF Te20 farm tractor model

by Charles King on February 20, 2024 · in Automotive · 18 ≡

My very first 1:8 scale dicast model. The details are beautiful and the weathering and painting were fun to do on such a big scale model like this farm tractor. The customer was satisfied with the results. I've added 'before' photos.

1:8 Excelsior-Henderson Super X – 3D Scratch Built

by Matt Minnichsoffer on February 19, 2024 · in Automotive · 16 ≡

About a year ago I had an idea to scratch build an Excelsior-Henderson Super X. Reason being—a model of one doesn’t exist and I worked at E-H in the late 90s and have always wanted to own one. While the real bikes are out there and not [...]

1/8 Aurora "Red Knight of Vienna"

by Tom Hering on April 5, 2023 · in Figures · 18 ≡

This model of Medieval jousting armor is Aurora's 1963 reissue of their 1958 kit. The red color is the kit's metallic red plastic. The blue-green is Army Painter's "Wizards Orb." The gold is a 50/50 mix of Testors' Metallic Gold [...]

Heller 1/8 Honda CB750

by Spiros Pendedekas on March 18, 2023 · in Automotive · 34 ≡

Whereas by 1967 American racing's governing body, the AMA, still had rules that allowed racing by production machines only and restricting overhead-valve engines to 500 cc whilst allowing the side-valve Harley Davidsons to compete with 750 [...]

1/8 Aurora "Black Knight of Nurnberg"

by Tom Hering on January 14, 2023 · in Figures · 18 ≡

This is Aurora's 1963 reissue of their 1957 kit. Though molded in black, I sprayed all the armor with Tamiya TS-40 Metallic Black (rattle can). The decoration is Army Painter Pure Red, dabbed on with an 18/0 brush, mostly following the [...]

1/8 Aurora "Gold Knight of Nice"

by Tom Hering on November 5, 2022 · in Figures · 10 ≡

Completed in 2013. This is the 2011 Monogram reissue of Aurora's "Gold Knight of Nice," first released in 1959. I added the base. The armor is hand brushed with a 50/50 mix of Testors Metallic Gold and Metallic Copper, and the [...]