1937 Indian Custom Motorcycle

[jbwelda]

As I recall it anyhow, this was a 37 Indian, but I cannot find any verification of that, needless to say, there were a few deviations from strictly stock if that is so, the 1937 part I mean. A resin 3D printed kit I picked up on ebay, seller claimed it to be 1/24 but turned out much more like 1/20 or so. Kind of resembles a Christmas tree ornament actually. No visible means of locomotion, meaning no drivetrain, but there is a left over part that is either a front end stabilizer bar or some kind of driveline. Any photos I have seen of real ones of these seem to have chain drive which is totally missing here, as are brakes or other running gear. Christmas tree ornament style.

Anyway, I got this from ebay and then the seller dropped from sight and I do not think he continued selling these. I tried to get him to cast me up just some wheels and some of the front and rear fenders but he said he was too busy. Too bad because I would have used them on some rod project, the fronts especially look really nice.

As usual, photography reveals I really need to spend some time cleaning up some things, chrome painting being one, and adding some detail like at least some semblance of linkage to the rear wheel, but time will tell.

Tamiya Bright Red with Pearl overcoat and plain matt black on wheels and tires. Don't see much of them anyhow.

Thanks for looking!

Here's what came in the mail:




Pretty minimal, and that's of course after spending some time cutting away the sprues of resin.

Came together pretty well even though there is a distinct lack of detail and some parts fit issues, I did rake the front fork some and attempted some other modifications. One big problem was the resin, really hard and brittle and almost impossible to drill into without it chipping up. I was going to add some plug wires but my experience with just drilling out the wheel axles really warned me off. So I left good enough alone and just concentrated in getting out of this what I could.











Just to show the scale, here are a couple strategically staged shots to show the Indian in comparison to the 1/25 Henderson I recently built from the MPC Gangbusters set.  Even given a 1/24 vs 1/25 difference, the Indian looms over the Henderson.

Placed like this, doesn't look too bad:




but swap them around and its a whole different story:




Believe me, the reality is the latter of the two photos...

thanks again!

jb

[patw]

That is superb!

[jimrichards]

You did a nice job on this.

Jim

[deuce]

I really wish they would produce 1/25th scale motorcycles by themselves.

[TooOld]

Minimal details sometimes make for a very presentable model , based on what you started with you did an excellent job !
Too bad about the scale being off so much , just don't park them side by side on your shelf .

[Dave from Pleasanton]

Cool.

[jbwelda]

Thank you all very much, folks! I forgot to mention the headlamp with the kit was unusable so I dug one of the large ones out of the Revell 29 Model A, reshaped it a little, painted it and used the lense, much better than the one piece lump that came with it.

Thanks again for looking and commenting, I have been kind of out of it for awhile but starting to pull together some projects for the near future! Including finishing that Futurista but that has hit some roadblocks for now. But soon...

jb