The Epic an electric tri car.
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Tom from Rubicon
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Well if Steve added a shaft, strut, wind driven prop, and faux rudder. What ya got is a Hacker Craft 
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Tom from Rubicon
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Danny, have you read the Indian Tadpole thread started by Sliver Bear and fasteddy / Steve almost finished?
(10) Indian Tadpole | Motorized Bicycle Engine Kit Forum (motorbicycling.com)
It is epic! Keep track of the last page you read every sitting. You ain't gonna finish it in one go.
Tom
(10) Indian Tadpole | Motorized Bicycle Engine Kit Forum (motorbicycling.com)
It is epic! Keep track of the last page you read every sitting. You ain't gonna finish it in one go.
Tom
Nightster
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That’s cool, I’m going back and reading a bunch of build threads
Tom from Rubicon
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Steve is quite the guy. Enjoy.
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Nightster
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Lots of talented individuals on this site!
The Epic's tank is shaped up. As I figured the metal slid a little despite being mailed into place. The nails just went into 1/4" plywood so there wasn't much to hold them given the amount of clamps I had to use.
Tomorrow the seams will get a thin coat of J B Weld and a sanding.
Steve.
Tomorrow the seams will get a thin coat of J B Weld and a sanding.
Steve.
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Hi Pete,
Thank you and I wish I had an answer for you as to colour. I'm flipping and flopping around about that like a freshly caught trout on a river bank. Looking at a lot of the old paint colours on the bikes of the era doesn't help either because every time I see one I like, something even more appealing comes along.
I am open to suggestions however.
Steve.
Thank you and I wish I had an answer for you as to colour. I'm flipping and flopping around about that like a freshly caught trout on a river bank. Looking at a lot of the old paint colours on the bikes of the era doesn't help either because every time I see one I like, something even more appealing comes along.
I am open to suggestions however.
Steve.
Tank seams and divots are filled and sanded. I'll primer it tomorrow and set it aside for a while. If the weather holds up next week the plan is to work on the front tri car section.The welds need shaping up with the grinder and some need to be blended in with body filler to get a better look.
Steve.
Steve.
Pete, I spent a goodly part of last night looking at colour photos of vintage motorcycles to see what was used in the era and I kept coming back to the lighter grey {Harley-Davidson} and darker green that they used not that the colour palette was that broad in those days. Perhaps a deep yellow is a possibility.
Accented with pin striping of the variety available in a roll. I did have a nodding friend of a friend of a friendship with a pin stripper in Vancouver years ago by the name of Shaky Dave. He did have a tremor in his hands which was relieved by a tobacco like substance now legal here in Canada but not at the time.
Dave left us a number of years ago to answer a higher calling. A lot higher than Dave ever was in life I'm sure although I did see him when he was a few thousand feet above reality.
The gas tank calls me. Time for a gas and oil filler cap.
Steve.
Accented with pin striping of the variety available in a roll. I did have a nodding friend of a friend of a friendship with a pin stripper in Vancouver years ago by the name of Shaky Dave. He did have a tremor in his hands which was relieved by a tobacco like substance now legal here in Canada but not at the time.
Dave left us a number of years ago to answer a higher calling. A lot higher than Dave ever was in life I'm sure although I did see him when he was a few thousand feet above reality.
The gas tank calls me. Time for a gas and oil filler cap.
Steve.
PeteMcP
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Sticking with a restricted colour palette is the best move Steve. Once you start to over-think paint colour, therein lies madness.
Despite being a time-served graphic artist, I can procrastinate for England when it comes to choosing which colour to paint anything.
I tend to stick with a limited range of colours from the RAL range and usually make a perfectly good paint decision early on in the process. But then I foolishly go back several times over the months to waste my time looking at postage stamp sized RAL paint chips online and change my mind umpteen times - only to end up going with my original colour choice in the end.
I'll admit to having purchased a good many mixed-to-order rattle cans of RAL paint from my usual supplier in Northern Ireland and the cans have never been used. Still have a box of these unused rattle cans stashed somewhere in my storage facility. The difference between actual rattle-can paint and colour chips viewed online can be disappointingly poles apart. I'm sure those Irish folks send me entirely different colours sometimes. I reckon there's definitely a market for miniature 'tester' cans of spray paint, same as those tester pots of household emulsion paint, to help avoid costly mistakes when it comes to colour selection.
I like your idea of a 'deep yellow'. Pinstriped, of course. RAL do a greeny/brownish yellow colour, aptly called curry, but baby pooh would also be descriptively correct, which I've always wanted to use on a vintage themed build. Reminds me of one of Harley's early colours. Vintage bikes I've seen painted in a similar colour look 'right' for the period.
Despite being a time-served graphic artist, I can procrastinate for England when it comes to choosing which colour to paint anything.
I tend to stick with a limited range of colours from the RAL range and usually make a perfectly good paint decision early on in the process. But then I foolishly go back several times over the months to waste my time looking at postage stamp sized RAL paint chips online and change my mind umpteen times - only to end up going with my original colour choice in the end.
I'll admit to having purchased a good many mixed-to-order rattle cans of RAL paint from my usual supplier in Northern Ireland and the cans have never been used. Still have a box of these unused rattle cans stashed somewhere in my storage facility. The difference between actual rattle-can paint and colour chips viewed online can be disappointingly poles apart. I'm sure those Irish folks send me entirely different colours sometimes. I reckon there's definitely a market for miniature 'tester' cans of spray paint, same as those tester pots of household emulsion paint, to help avoid costly mistakes when it comes to colour selection.
I like your idea of a 'deep yellow'. Pinstriped, of course. RAL do a greeny/brownish yellow colour, aptly called curry, but baby pooh would also be descriptively correct, which I've always wanted to use on a vintage themed build. Reminds me of one of Harley's early colours. Vintage bikes I've seen painted in a similar colour look 'right' for the period.