Hi, all
I've been away from here almost a year.
Currently I've been working on one of my private projects, "Kettenhund", which is 1/9 ESCI Zündapp KS750 vignette project.

This is an experimental "mixed" project, that I do traditional sculpting with clay, digital modeling & 3D printing, scratch-building parts and detailing with old-school plastic cards, etc.

First I was thinking post pics in "sculpting" section but it's not only sculpting so I will post progress here.

hello Mr Tomori

Excellent work so far Kaz, looking forward to seeing more of this project.
Steve

Thanks a lot Carl, Hello ask40000

Steve, the figure needs more cleanups but it is 90% done. I sure will post more progress.

Nice bit of allround modelling Kaz!

Adrian

Thanks Adrian!

Kaz,

I can't wait to see what you do with this! It reminds me of a similar project that Bill Hearne did many, many years ago. I am sure yours will be better!

Mike

Hi Mike,

I'm glad you like this project! I use your 1/9 SS officer as an ideal 1/9 model reference all the time while sculpting this project.

Of course I know Bill Hearne's work, I only saw it in Shep Paine's book, and it's the first complete 1/9 side car vignette I have ever seen.
I thought it's a shame that there's not so many 1/9 figure vignette with ESCI 1/9 sidecars which is long-run big hit model.
That's why I decided to sculpt a rider for it.

Here's some progress pics of the ground work. I use Apoxie Sculpt and Sculpey FIRM for the ground and rubbles, wrapped around the edge with 0.2mm plastic card.

I scratch-built a hooks of the side box with plastic card, it requires 4 copies so I casted it in resin.
Also I used Evergreen plastic card a lot for detailing ups.

Wheel spokes are replaced with 0.4mm diameter brass rods.

The saddle bag is sculpted with Sculpey FIRM and casted in resin.

Excellent Kaz, love what you have done with the new additions to the bike, wheels looks very nice with new spokes.
Steve

Thanks Steve, I had to do 4 wheels, which was very time consuming.

Sculpiting figure is almost finishing, needs a bit more fixes but I'd like to share some pics.
Hope you like them.

You need to do this figure, converted for the single bike as well. I would love one

MrBMB, converting for a single bike will be nice too. Shame to found out that BMW doesn't fit properly.

This gets better and better, dog is a great idea for the sidecar.
It can be a it tricky getting the figures to sit nicely on these kits, I found the bikes are a little off scale compared to 1/9 figure anatomy when I did mine. Looks like you overcame this well with your figure.
Steve

>Steve
Oh yes, fitting and to make "look good and natural" was the hardest thing. Are these bikes a bit smaller or bigger? or mis-scaling?