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    Going to attempt making a LIFE SIZE Yamaha DragStar Classic 11 PaperCraft

    Hi there PP, this sounds like a major project! As you see from my avatar, my preference is to make things smaller, not bigger, but maybe I can help in a small way. 1. As far as I know the Yamaha models are not precise scale, but adjusted aesthetically to convey the right impression. However...
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    Harley-Davidson Model 7A

    Indeed I am. David and I have been in touch through other forums, but I am pleased to be able to express my appreciation of his efforts here as well. Two superb builds! Alan
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    I was ill, but now am much better

    John, that is seriously good news. May you go on to make a complete recovery. My very best wishes, Alan (one violinist to another!)
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    Kawasaki 750-RS (Z2) Motorcycle by Kozin

    As promised, pictures of the completed Kawasaki 750-RS. I'm not totally convinced that I should be showing it to you all, as it is a bit iffy in places. Still, here it is, and you can have a nice time criticising my incompetence. All the best, Alan
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    Bits and pieces

    Finally the Harley-Davidson. After I released my model of the 1911 Model 7A I decided I needed a new explanation of wheel construction, and made a couple of new wheels so that I could take photos. They sat on my shelf for a while looking lonely, and eventually I decided to give them a present of...
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    Bits and pieces

    So on to the BMW. This is the well-known Schreiber reprint of an old (1930s?) model, and is predictably a bit crude. It needed a good deal of adjustment to get a reasonable fit, especially around the front end, where the multiple layers of paper forming the front forks varied quite a lot in...
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    Bits and pieces

    Thank you, but this was not in fact my problem - I have used Character Map extensively in the past, and now use a customised keyboard layout (based on the UK Extended layout) which gives me access to most European accented letters with just two key strokes. The problem was that when I...
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    Bits and pieces

    So you didn't like the Gasgas, then...? :grin: Firstly the other two ABC models, which I bought at the same time as the Cechie. They both represent 50cc mopeds, one from (East) Germany and one from Czechoslovakia, as it then was. As with a lot of ABC models, these are somewhat cartoonish in...
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    Bits and pieces

    Hi Andy Thank you for your interest. The Cechie-Böhmerland Touren was an extraordinary machine made in the 1920s and 30s in Krásná Lípa in Bohemia. (Incidentally, the "C" should have a caron accent, but I haven't fathomed out how to get that into Zealot.) Its main claim to fame was its...
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    Bits and pieces

    (in another thread) A few odds and ends with which I have been keeping myself occupied over the last few months... Lednice Minaret (Betexa), Maria Laach (Schreiber) and St.Mary's, Warwick (Rupert Chicken). Kingfisher, Firecrest and Wren (Johan Scherft). Simson SR50, Jawa...
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    Searching for a missing sheet of La Seu de Manresa

    Thank you, though I haven't really been away - I look in fairly often. It's just that I don't often have anything interesting to say, so I don't say much. ("It is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool, than open it and remove all doubt.") Alan
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    Searching for a missing sheet of La Seu de Manresa

    True, but rather strangely when you use the link without the accent, it actually gives you http://www.isegon.cat/materials%20didactics/la_seu/La%20Seu%205%20transpar%e8ncies.jpg, where "%20" is the code for space, and "%e8" is the code for "è". This seems to match the original URL exactly! Some...
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    Frauenkirche Dresden, 1:300

    Very well done. I am impressed that you have managed to get those pieces around the conical apse roof to fit, albeit with much adjustment. Eventually I gave up on the original parts in that area and remodelled them to get better outlines. It is strange that in a model which otherwise fits...
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    Harley-Davidson Model 7A

    For some time now I have been working on a model of an early Harley-Davidson motorcycle, the Model 7A "Silent Grey Fellow" of 1911, and have had a thread running at papermodelers.com describing my travails. Zathros has persuaded me that there may be some over here who may not have seen it, and...
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    OK....What is it?

    No guesses from me, CA, as I've made that model myself, and I KNOW(!) I'll look forward to seeing your build, especially to see how you approach the challenge of the wheels. Alan
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