1/9 Italeri Harley Davidson (fifties style) bigger pics now

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I just finished this 1/9 scale Italeri kit which is actually a Liberator (army-Harley) kit. I really like the bobber style from right after the second world war, so i decided to convert the Liberator into this bobber.

I chopped the rear fender, leaved the front fender in the box, lowered the front fork, narrowed the handlebar, made a slash cut exhaust, an aluminium velocity stack for the carb, a new headlight mounting bracket to relocate the headlight and a homemade real leather saddle.

The lenght of the model is 23cm.

Normally i build 1/48 scale aircraft models, but for a change i really liked this project.

I hope you all enjoy the pics, although they are a bit dark.

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looks to be a beautiful job— love the ‘wrapped’ exhaust–really enjoyed these pics-- super nice job!![tup][tup]-- right on the money dude!— treadwell[:D]

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Sorry i just discovered that the pic size is a bit small…

I wil try if i could get them bigger.

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Hmm its not working

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Ah that`s better

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That is a beautiful conversion job. What did you use for the thermal wrap?

Your image was small cuz between that img,/img tags, you had the .th. in your image name, so it linked to the thumbnails.

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Cool work on this bobber from 2006 , And I thought I was original! , goes to show there is little that is new in model building.