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World War 2 lady dispatch rider
Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2017 12:10 pm
by Everhard
- 1/9th scale resin 'tank girl' and Italeri Triumph 3HW
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- 1/9th scale resin 'tank girl' and Italeri Triumph 3HW
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- 1/9th scale resin 'tank girl' and Italeri Triumph 3HW
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This World War 2 lady dispatch rider is actually a 1/9th scale 'tank girl' made of the hard plastic unaccountably known as
resin. She is about eight inches tall and she was an 11-part kit that I bought via eBay. The bike is the Italeri 1/9th scale Triumph 3HW, an excellent though fiddly kit to build.
Re: World War 2 lady dispatch rider
Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2017 12:43 pm
by CF
You assembled and painted these? Very professional work!
Re: World War 2 lady dispatch rider
Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2017 9:46 pm
by carlys_guy
either she forgot her pants or she is trying to distract the enemy so she can get by them. either way nice photos.
carlys_guy
Re: World War 2 lady dispatch rider
Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2017 3:03 am
by DollAfficionado
Excellent work!
Re: World War 2 lady dispatch rider
Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2017 4:12 pm
by Everhard
Haha!
CF wrote:You assembled and painted these? Very professional work!
Yes. The bike has a lot of parts, but it is a fairly easy kit to build and paint. It just takes a while.
Vintage photo:
- Crack of Dawn
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The Sten gun came with the bike, incidentally. Everything else she is wearing came with the 'tank girl' resin kit of 11 parts.
Re: World War 2 lady dispatch rider
Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2017 6:21 pm
by siliconefun
Awesome work!! The vintage photo looks so real. Great hobby.
- SF -
Re: World War 2 lady dispatch rider
Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2017 11:49 pm
by Synobyte07
Excellent work Everhard.
Prof_ Sakai used to do this type of scale modeling and showed some of his work on TDF. He hasn't posted in years, but I still remember the models had an incredible amount of detail like your 1/9th scale model does.
Re: World War 2 lady dispatch rider
Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2017 3:33 am
by bentone
Great work, looks awesome. I always loved this type of modelling and even more explicit, but displaying it was always a problem.
Re: World War 2 lady dispatch rider
Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2017 7:55 am
by deerman
Good things come in small packages!
Re: World War 2 lady dispatch rider
Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2017 5:57 pm
by Rari
Fantastic job on both! Hollywu was into 1/6 scale WWII for a long time prior to my arrival. She saw the documentary film, "Marwencol" and she sort of went from there. She still loves it but doesn't have as much time to dedicate to it now. If you haven't seen the film, it's really wonderful and such an inspiration.
Hugs,
Rari
Re: World War 2 lady dispatch rider
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2017 5:03 pm
by Everhard
Professor Sakai's 1/6 scale tanks and Mark Hogancamp's Barbie-doll re-enactments of World War 2 both influenced this combination of motorcycle and rider. They are entirely unconnected kits, but they both happen to be the same scale (1/9). The bike comes with a World War 2 motorcycle helmet, but it is not as interesting as the helmet and goggles the 'tank girl' comes with.
Mark Hogancamp's Barbie-doll re-enactments of World War 2:
http://marwencol.com
Re: World War 2 lady dispatch rider
Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2017 12:05 pm
by Everhard
- Tessa takes the Triumph for a spin
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"This is so underpowered and heavy."
Tessa is more used to riding a 1970 Montesa Cota 247 trials bike.