A model Katana I finished building today...

[Terence]

http://upload3.postimage.org/244168/DSCF0006_Large_.jpg (http://upload3.postimage.org/244168/photo_hosting.html)

[Terence]

http://upload3.postimage.org/244182/DSCF0007_Large_.jpg (http://upload3.postimage.org/244182/photo_hosting.html)

[Terence]

http://upload3.postimage.org/244193/DSCF0008_Large_.jpg (http://upload3.postimage.org/244193/photo_hosting.html)

[falc]

Thats a huge manual! :shock: take up the whole garage that would :lol:

[K]

Wow, that looks really detailed - what scale is it?

I used to do loads of models and Airfix kits as a kid. I'd make anything - birds to cars to planes. Then Dad let me make the stuff for his model railway as it was sometimes too fiddly for him.

Cor, that takes me back. Just the fun of building them, paining them and then ignoring them as you move onto the next model.

So - planning any modifications from stock?

Hmmm, I wonder if they do a SV model and then I can have a go at putting a Gixxer front end on it! :wink:

[Skip]

Very nice - looks like you have made a nice job of it =D> 8)

[Ceri JC]

I used to do Warhammer 40K minitures (I'd occassionally play the game, but I was more into the minitures), I've been meaning to get some bike airfix kits. Could be fun streetfightering a sportsbike kit and changing the paint accordingly :)

[northwind]

If there was an SV kit, I'd have it like a shot... I'd have to make a repliac of my bike of course ;)

[carelesschucca]

You'd have to make a new bike every second week...

[Sid Squid]

Aaaaarrrrrggggghhhh!

GSX750 Pop up?

A vile desecration of the name.


http://www.karma-net.com/karmanetimages/kanji-katana.jpg

Desist forthwith.


PS. In answer to K I think that's the Tamiya kit at 1/12th scale.

[Terence]

Wow, that looks really detailed - what scale is it?

I used to do loads of models and Airfix kits as a kid. I'd make anything - birds to cars to planes. Then Dad let me make the stuff for his model railway as it was sometimes too fiddly for him.

Cor, that takes me back. Just the fun of building them, paining them and then ignoring them as you move onto the next model.

So - planning any modifications from stock?

Hmmm, I wonder if they do a SV model and then I can have a go at putting a Gixxer front end on it! :wink:

Hi K,

It's a 1/12 scale tamiya kit. They don't do a SV kit as far as I know, but your gixxer front end comment made ma laugh :-D

[northwind]

You'd have to make a new bike every second week...

I know... It'd be great :) I used to do tabletop wargaming too... (anyone given to mock wargaming is invited to stop reading now) There was this great game called Gorkamorka, which centreda around orcs (Oi! Told you to stop reading!) tearing around a desert planet in various ramshackle trucks, buggies, tanks and bikes, fighting for no real reason at all. Well, there was a backstory, but it was all drivel.

Anyway, I used to play it a lot, and after every game you could do stuff like upgrading vehicles, adding new parts (extra spikes, armour plates, wrecking balls...), and sometimes you'd get permanent damage too. Used to love this side of it- constantly tweaking and modifying stuff.

Unfortunately I grew out of it, and so instead of modelling new parts and damage onto a £10 plastic model, I put new parts onto a £2000 motorbike. The damaghe takes care of itself :)

[Terence]

Very nice - looks like you have made a nice job of it =D> 8)

Thanks... you'd be amazed at how a bit of creative lighting covers up all the ****-ups I made! Its the first one I've built in about 15 years so it was good fun. This one was just for practise, I'm going to build another Katana "properly" next.

[Terence]

Aaaaarrrrrggggghhhh!

GSX750 Pop up?

A vile desecration of the name.


http://www.karma-net.com/karmanetimages/kanji-katana.jpg

Desist forthwith.


PS. In answer to K I think that's the Tamiya kit at 1/12th scale.
Sorry :-(

I know they do a kit of the old school katana as well. maybe I should build that next as pennance?

[Sid Squid]

I know they do a kit of the old school katana as well. maybe I should build that next as pennance?
Quite right too.

C'mon, get on with it.

[carelesschucca]

I've made a few models of bikes in my time I spend hours painting the engine perfectly and then cover them over with fairings... Mental very theraputic over the winter months mind you...

[Ceri JC]

You'd have to make a new bike every second week...

I know... It'd be great :) I used to do tabletop wargaming too... (anyone given to mock wargaming is invited to stop reading now) There was this great game called Gorkamorka, which centreda around orcs (Oi! Told you to stop reading!) tearing around a desert planet in various ramshackle trucks, buggies, tanks and bikes, fighting for no real reason at all. Well, there was a backstory, but it was all drivel.

Anyway, I used to play it a lot, and after every game you could do stuff like upgrading vehicles, adding new parts (extra spikes, armour plates, wrecking balls...), and sometimes you'd get permanent damage too. Used to love this side of it- constantly tweaking and modifying stuff.

Unfortunately I grew out of it, and so instead of modelling new parts and damage onto a £10 plastic model, I put new parts onto a £2000 motorbike. The damaghe takes care of itself :)

I was a 2nd Ed. Blood Angels and Eldar player, then when the 3rd edition came out, I got into the Dark Eldar. I only played Gorkamorka briefly, but I can see why an Ork Kult of Speed would appeal you, Northwind. :)

They did an ork codex appendix in one of the magazines that let you field your gorkamorka army in WH40K. I imagine they'd play like Dark Angels (v. fast/manouevrable), but with less skill and greater numbers of troops.

[mudge32]

Ere get this one :wink: It's MAHOOSIVE :mrgreen: (and expensive!! :lol: )

http://www.abcmodelsport.net/p348378/Tamiya-16025-1/6-Suzuki-GSX1100S-Katana.html

[fizzwheel]

I've made four tamiya kits now.

Rossi 2001 NSR
Rossi 2003 RCV211V
Gibernau Suzuki 500
Garry McCoy Redbul Yamaha

The Yamaha highsided on my TV one night when I was pulling the curtains and now needs a rebuild though :oops:

[northwind]

I only played Gorkamorka briefly, but I can see why an Ork Kult of Speed would appeal you, Northwind. :)


:) Mainly because it was Necromunda, but with bigger cooler models... Necromunda being The Best Tabletop Wargame Ever- sat right at the moment where the dumbing down made the games fast and dynamic without being too crude.

[minky]

Aaaaarrrrrggggghhhh!

GSX750 Pop up?

A vile desecration of the name.


http://www.karma-net.com/karmanetimages/kanji-katana.jpg

Desist forthwith.


PS. In answer to K I think that's the Tamiya kit at 1/12th scale.

And whats wrong with it?

[Ceri JC]

I only played Gorkamorka briefly, but I can see why an Ork Kult of Speed would appeal you, Northwind. :)


:) Mainly because it was Necromunda, but with bigger cooler models... Necromunda being The Best Tabletop Wargame Ever- sat right at the moment where the dumbing down made the games fast and dynamic without being too crude.

Necromunda was my favourite too. I loved the way you were practically forced to play a campaign and how every member of the gang counted; one man dead was a massive loss. Involving enough that there was skill involved, but fast enough to play. Necromunda scenery was also the most fun to make IMO. I've still got some polystyrene ceiling tiles somewhere in my loft (used as square bases for buildings/scenery). I used to play as Delaque, but with hair off Goliaths (so the end result looked like the characters from Bullfrog's classic videogame Syndicate).

I reckon a rules appendix for a Dark Eldar or Harlequin raiding party could entice me back to Necromunda...

Sorry for even more off topic posting :D

[Sid Squid]

And whats wrong with it?

Nothing at all, but it's not a Katana, this is:
http://www.katanacentral.co.uk/images/download/yoshi-1100.jpg
So is this:
http://www.denbeauvais.com/three_d/3d_images/KATANA.JPG

This isn't:
http://www.suzuki-bikes.com/images/katana750.jpg
Neither is this:
http://www.thecreeper.net/katana550l.jpg
Or this:
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/katana.france/images/GS650B.jpg
And this certainly ain't:
http://www.scooterlandvenetia.com/2001_AY50LC_Katana_600.jpg

[minky]

Nothing at all, but it's not a Katana

Ah you're one of *them* I get it now LOL I guess my K4 SV isn't an SV then as they
changed the shape and frame design mid production ....