On the washing site - KTM 250 MX
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Ulf Petersen@Those fellows who like offroad bike models: please check also my Paris-Dakar vignettes:
BMW R 80 GS '85, Paris-Dakar Winner, Tamiya | Album by Bongolo67 (1:12)
Honda NXR 750 '86, Paris-Dakar Winner, Tamiya | Album by Bongolo67 (1:12)
Steve Wilson...
Again Ulf, excellent, a 1st class build... Looking at it, I was intrigued with your method of replicating the water droplets on the seat...
In the past, I found using 2 part epoxy resin glue very successful, what method did you use Ulf???
Nosey bugger ain't I (((😄 ))) Lol!!!
Steve Wilson...
No Ulf if you go to Pic 11 you'll see looking down on the seat, there are water droplets on it and the rear mudguard, I wondered what you used to make the water droplets???
I then said that in the past I'd used 2 part epoxy resin for this task!!!
Ulf PetersenThese drops are simply gloss varnish (described also in the text) 😉
Ulf Petersen😄 No problem at all! It seems my albums often have too much text for the readers but I always have the feeling I have to offer all informations...
Steve Wilson...
I prefer lots of text, but I will have to read all the text first...
Not skipping between text and pictures at the same time...
At my age I obviously can't cope with it. Lol(((😄 )))
Similar to multi-tasking I suppose, which my wife seems so good at, well most women actually🤔
Album info
The austrian motorcycle smiths KTM developed a 250cc 2-stroke Crosser in 1986, the 250 MX. That bike had a water cooled engine and the rear strut was linked by the Pro-Lever system. The front wheel was guided in a conventional front fork but could also be equipped with the brand new upside down fork. On the front wheel it had a disk brake and at the rear wheel a drum brake.
With this bike Heinz Kinigadner, the living legend of the offroad motorcycle world, won the 250cc world cup in a sensational way in the same year.
Tamiya brought this bike in the late 80s as a 1:12 kit. There were kits with driver figure and without. I bought one with driver that time but didn't make use of it.
First I just assembled the model, painted it with Humbrol enamels and put it as a brand new piece on the jacking stand out of the box and placed it on my shelf.
There the model slept many years before in 2011 I had the idea to present it on the washing site after a hard offroad ride. Offroad drivers know the problem: you spend as
