A couple of months ago, Ralph and I were looking at some photographs taken at an exhibition that somebody pointed us to on the Spanner II list. Amongst the models shown was a neat little motorbike that caught my eye so I thought I'd have a go at building it.
First thing to do was to find a nice clean 5½ x 2½ flanged
plate. That is not as easy as it sounds. We have dozens of them but finding a
nice looking one is a bit of a challenge. I ended up with a choice of three; a
nice blue one a red one and a strange brown one that must have come from the
Unicorn set. I decided to go with the red one - no surprise there then! After
looking closely at the original picture, I gathered the rest of the parts
together, as best I could, and started to build. Rummaging around looking for parts seems to
drive His Nibs mad - Tough, I like to
have all the bits to hand before I build something.
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| I even found a good looking No.52 to display it on! |
It made up into a very nice model when finished and looked
the part. Ralph made me an oversized 'SUE 1' number plate, based on a 1 inch
flat girder, to which I added some magnetic material to so it would stay in
place without using a bolt.
I fitted it to its base and added one of my replica
tin-plate flags to finish it off. Now for somthing a bit bigger...
Sue
