The Captain and his Ride

[IKE-CON]

Okay, I know that I won't be in the majority, but I liked the Captain America movie.
Now I'm not talking about that complete embarrassment of a film staring Dolph in the 80's.
So bad it wasn't even called Captain America.
Nor is it any of the past Captain America films over the last 40 years.
I'm talking "Captain America: The First Avenger"
I liked it because that's how Captain America started out, as a war time comic book hero.

Anyways, just got my HT figure.

So I decided it was time to make the
Harley he road in the movie and get it as close as film accurate as I could.
So here's the picture of the actual bike and arrows pointing out what I'm going to
do to the existing base bike I have.

The good thing is that the 1998 Hasbro harley has a lot of the features needed.

So here's a quick shot, you can see him in a riding position. Had to swap the legs out for regular TT legs,
because the monster advanced TT thighs that come with the figure were just way to big and limited articulation.
Unfortunately the thigh parts are glued on at the factory and I couldn't just take them off without damage to the legs.

As you can see, I already started with the front light assembly and machine guns.

I will be using some parts from a simular bike made by New Ray(a WWII Indian army bike) and also making some custom
parts to get as close to film accurate as I can.

Starting with the front.
For the front light assembly, I took a smaller light off the New Ray bike, drilled a hole in the bars that
mount the original light. Removed cover from original light, dremeled it down to fit smaller light and
made the peg from the new light the correct size to fit.
Here it is in the early stages with the proto-type machine guns as well.

Then a friend of mine from the Triad forums gave me some metal
parts from some beading kit and this is how they look now.

And on the bike.

Looking like real machine guns now.

Once I smooth out the plastic part of the guns and paint them
to match the olive on the bike, they'll be pretty spot on.

Well, that's all so far. I will be updating this as I go.......

So....more to come.

Please feel free to comment or make suggestions as I go. The more
eyes on a project...the better it will turn out. So all comments welcome.

Thanks

Ike.

 

[dwing]

Cool project, will be watching.

 

[twik25]

Nice work so far! I did the exact same thing to the bike...

my WIP here... maybe you can get some ideas!

 

[IKE-CON]

Nice work so far! I did the exact same thing to the bike...

my WIP here... maybe you can get some ideas!

Nice.

Did you make the ammo box and back shock cannister things or
are there some things close enough to just mod?

 

[twik25]

I made the ammo box with wood from Hobby Lobby.

The canisters are made from parts and pieces from Lowes + Radio shack...

In the image below, the piece on the far left is for the top of the canisters, and the "tubes" and "caps" are from Lowe's. I have no idea what the parts are called... I just walked around and found them. The "tubes" and "caps" are in the same isle as nuts and bolts. Hope it helps. Oh, and I used heat shrink tubes from Radio Shack for connecting the canisters.

Hope that helps... sorry I don't know the names of all the pieces.

Tim

 

[IKE-CON]

I made the ammo box with wood from Hobby Lobby.

The canisters are made from parts and pieces from Lowes + Radio shack...

In the image below, the piece on the far left is for the top of the canisters, and the "tubes" and "caps" are from Lowe's. I have no idea what the parts are called... I just walked around and found them. The "tubes" and "caps" are in the same isle as nuts and bolts. Hope it helps. Oh, and I used heat shrink tubes from Radio Shack for connecting the canisters.

Hope that helps... sorry I don't know the names of all the pieces.

Tim

Thanks. That does help a lot.

 

[Laney74]

Guys the one thing that stands out to me is that the seat is too far forward. I'm waiting for my Cap to arrive before I alter the bike, but them first thing I'll do is fabricate new brackets for the seat and move it back, almost to the point that it is touching the rear fender.

This is an awesome accessory to the figure.

 

[twik25]

Guys the one thing that stands out to me is that the seat is too far forward. I'm waiting for my Cap to arrive before I alter the bike, but them first thing I'll do is fabricate new brackets for the seat and move it back, almost to the point that it is touching the rear fender.

This is an awesome accessory to the figure.

I totally agree with the seat. I was ALL about fixing that and a few other things until I realized that this bike is just too small for cap to ride on in poses. So, I decided to just leave some of the issues I was going to fix, and place Cap. in front of the bike in my display.

 

[dchung]

I also have both the Indian and the hasbro but I'll be using the Indian as the base to build on because it's the right size. Hasbro is not to scale.

 

[Morbach]

very cool project

 

[jokes-on-you]

looks great man awsome work

 

[IKE-CON]

Here's some update photos. It's about 80% finished

Finished most of the front end(except ammo box).

Reshaped weapon sheath and did in real leather.
Reshaped seat and did in real leather.
Played with some paint apps and weathering.
Took saddlebags apart and trimed them down to be
in proper scale then sewn them back together and dyed to match seat & sheath.
Added what I blv is a rocket or turbine by the back lights (Don't remember them saying in the movie what its for, but then they used it).
Added other part behind the seat with wire handle.

Still working on the rear canisters on each side and ammo box.

What so you think so far.

 

[Cheungkinmen]

Beautiful custom work, Ike! awesome!

 

[krec9]

awesome work there

 

[twik25]

Great work! You painted the engine... may I ask how you took the bike apart to get to the engine?! I couldn't figure it out!

 

[IKE-CON]

Beautiful custom work, Ike! awesome!

awesome work there

Thanks guys. I'm having lots of fun with this one.

Great work! You painted the engine... may I ask how you took the bike apart to get to the engine?! I couldn't figure it out!

Yeah, I gave up on that because of a few stripped out screw tops.

So I just used my tiny tiny brushes to reach
in there.

It looks like you have to remove all the screws and pop the tank up.
Looks to be something holding the top of the engine in via the tank
and maybe something on the bottom under the running plate.
That's one of my stripped screw heads, so I can't see the bottom to well.

Hope that helps.

 

[IKE-CON]

Another good thing about this bike. The sheild fits
tightly between the springs and handle bars like in the movie

Here's a better shot of him in full riding form but in black & white.

 

[69slimer]

Looks great

 

[elar]

Fantastic job

 

[meth head]

Really nice work from both of you. This looks great!