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That really is astonishing !!

From here https://iranian.com/History/April99/Airforce/hurricane1.html

I think it might have been easier to scratchbuild a giant match...... Simply astonishing work at that scale, and with rigging that looks right ?? What did you use ??

Pretty sure that's representing a Victorian/Edwardian glazed earthenware set up, the corrugated runnels at floor level are very reminiscent of the ones we had in school fifty years ago, and more than fifty years old then. You need to round the edges of the urinal dividers and the hole slot. Should probably have a copper pipe running along the top for flushing, plumbed to a cistern at above head level as in an old-school domestic toilet, but without the chain pull. The rest of the floor of the toilet ?? I would go for quarry tiles, ubiquitous in places where lots of mopping would be done.

Both images definitely colourised by AI. The giveaway is always their assumed-to-be dark blue or brown colours suddenly going dark red when the light hitting the object changes; so on the top image, the duffel coat of the officer stood on the stern; on the bottom, the paintwork on the lorries and the jacket of the nearest driver. Those colour shifts don't happen in real colour photographs.

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Sorry to hear that you've been unwell, but glad that you're still working through it; with further thought, it might have been his later machines, Nero and Super Nero that I saw forty years ago, but still...... re. Growing Old; it beats the alternative. Take care of yourself !!

Sad to see that the thread has not been updated for a while; I hope nothing untoward has happened and that this fantastic work is continuing........I saw Gunga Din (and a more outre supercharged Vincent whose name escapes me) at a Bike Festival at Brands Hatch in the eighties, ridden by their creator George Brown's son.

They are dampers; frictional suspension dampers. As the rear wheel assembly pivots like an unbraced square from the saddle nose and behind the engine, it rotates at this point as the suspension acts; the knurled wheel adjusts the friction so adjusting the suspension dampening. There was a similar knurled steering damper on the top yoke of the front forks (at least on standard Vincents).

If I didn't know better, from these last pics I would think you were restoring the real thing. Exemplary. Particularly the patina on the crankcases....spot on.

If you're happy, I'm happy, and it will look gorgeous either way. Hope this helps your oil pipe runs.... https://www.yesterdays.nl/site/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Tornax-1929-3002-3.jpg

Oh my god, what a kit, and beautiful work....................but I hate to say this, I think there may be a problem, hopefully it isn't too late to be looked into. You said earlier that you had seen cylinder bases both bright metal and black, That's correct. I'm 99% certain, and forgive me either way for this, but I spent a LOT of time around vintage motorcycles over the last forty years, the original J.A.P.V-twins as used by Brough Superior, Morgan, Coventry-Eagle, McEvoy and others ALL had cast-iron cylinders, rough textured and dark in appearance, fro the fins to the crankcase (they are the same chunk of metal). The cylinders you have seen with polished metal finishes in that area are more modern replicas, manufactured by lathe-turning alloy billets in small numbers because the originals are the proverbial wooden horse excreta. If you wish your machine to represent a completely 1920s/early 30s machine, those cylinders should be a dark matt finish, cast iron, so black with a hint of brown. Don't take my word, check the photographs again, preferably 1920s photos, as of course some old bikes have had replacement cylinders. Oh, and in response to an earlier post, while technically it should be JayAyPee, no-one ever calls them that, they have been called JAPP since the 1920s, as it wasn't like the Japanese made motorcycles or anything......

Sweet !!!!! To answer your question first; the thing in front of the engine that you thought was the oil tank is actually the silencer for the front cylinder; if you wanted, you could add a curved exhaust pipe from the top of the front cylinder down, and then from the expansion chamber past where your existing one for the rear cylinder starts. The oil tank is actually the rear quarter-or-so of the petrol tank, internally divided. The only other observation is that the front wheel stand would only be deployed when changing the front wheel; normally it acts as the bottommost front mudguard stay, and would only be deployed for the aforesaid emergency; in normal use, only the rear stand was used to keep the machine upright when parked. If that's how you want to show it, the rear stand should be pointing rearward slightly from the hub, maybe 10-15 % short of vertical; almost every other marque would have it forward of vertical, but not the Clyno; weird, but there it is. I found this image online; it's a 1911 model but the general layout is the same, the colour, of course, wrong. 1/72nd ???? You must have great eyesight

The one bike I have always wanted to own, since I was a kid......but they were produced in such small numbers, I'm not even sure if any of the 'survivors' are genuine or replicas........so here from the catalogue, the 1925/26 500cc Sprint Sunbeam, good for close to 100mph if you were brave enough....and wealthy enough 100Gns was a colossal amount of money in '25.... # .....and here's an action shot of a slightly earlier version with its designer on board, the legendary George Dance......

Great listing Steve, there are also various kittings of Welwyn Garden City's favourite export, the Excelsior Welbike paratroopers runabout.....Dragon do/did a 1/6 kit, Tamiya have a 1/35 in their paratroop figure set.....but TriStar have one with photoetch which looks more detailed. If you fancied a 1/1 scale model, there is this..... http://www.welbikeuk.com/downloads/Full%20Page%20Replica%20Bike%20Advert.pdf