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My Entry Into Grumpy's Big A Campaign
AJLaFleche
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Posted: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 - 10:27 PM UTC
My entry into Grumpy’s Big A campaign. Arnold on his Harley. Andrea 54mm kit (Highway Cyborg) representing the T2 Terminator. If I'm too late, oh well.










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Posted: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 - 11:09 PM UTC
Looks great Al, Glad to see you posted already into the gallery.

I must really get off my butt and finish mine. :-)
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Posted: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 - 01:47 AM UTC
I like the figure. Not a fan of the bike itself. The molding seems a bit 'clunky' to me (nothing you did with it).
I think you did it justice.
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Posted: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 - 01:55 AM UTC

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. Not a fan of the bike itself. The molding seems a bit 'clunky' to me


I agree, the bike was something of a pain. The mirrors arms had to be folded to shape. The signals were very tough to work with, seam right in them middle of the lens, The headlight is molded in place and drilling it out to implant a good lens would have been way more work than it was worth. Most challenging were the handle bars, being thin white metal that had to maintain some semblance of symmetry based on the position of the left hand. I also don't like the interface of teh gun and teh mirror...makes the spot look too busy. And it does appear to be somewaht oversized for Arnie, doesn't it?
All in all, I was glad to be done with it.
AlanL
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Posted: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 - 02:34 AM UTC
Hi AL,

Nice one.

Alan
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Posted: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 - 04:50 AM UTC
Wow, if you had to do all of that to the bike then you really hit a home run with it. My hats off on the 'reconstruction'.
AJLaFleche
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Posted: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 - 06:34 AM UTC
The bike consisted of at least 20 kit parts with no instructions other than the box art. I also added brake and clutch lines and ignition wires. The mirrors and signals (as well as the added wiring) all had to have holes sunk into the handlebars to accept them, Which caused distortion to the bars.
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