In this WIP I’m trying to build a Christmas gift for my dad… Well if he reads it, he’s gonna have no surprise…
You see my dad and me we grew up in socialist Poland. Many years ago my pops build himself a ride:
You see in socialist Poland if you didn’t want to walk, or ride a bus or train, you had to get creative. In case of my dad he bought a piece of scrap that was Indian frame with engine and gearbox and rebuilt it as seen above. Al my life I had to listen about the story how when the baby was born (and that would be me) the bike had to be sold.
As only one photo survives I’m not going to build a 1:1 replica of my pops’ ride (yet), but I’ll try something simpler - I’ll take Italeri’s 1:9 Harley WLA, many of which were delivered to Poland after the war by UNRRA, and try to show how an ambtious young man could have rebuilt it in the early 1970s in socialist Poland.
So I’m starting with the wheels - I glued the rims, filled, sanded, drilled and Alcladed them (the colour came out on the dark side). I made a little rig for those wheels:
For the spokes I took 0.5mm silver coated copper wire. Here’s how the wheels look like after I’m done:
@Demolition - thanks a lot for your comment and for your kind words!
I have a small update today - I have dry-fitted the front wheel. I want to put one more coat of paint on the fender for better gloss, but you can already see the base colour - this is according to what my pops told me he used (I didn’t tell him why I’m asking).
As you can see I’m already working on the frame and also on the engine.
