Speeder Bike

[mwf4nut]

Some drag racing fun I did a few years ago.  The original idea was to do a diorama with two of them sitting at the starting line with the light tree flashing and all that good stuff.  This is as far as I got.

[Gary]

Cool. Dude, you're fitt'en right in here. You must be insane!!!! ^_^  

[Tophe]

Cool. Dude, you're fitt'en right in here. You must be insane!!!! ^_^

and insane fans do appreciate...  As far as I am concerned, I love such a twin-boom flying motorcycle...

[nev]

Whoa!  Thats awesome  


If you ever get round to doing the second one for your diorama, how about having it from the same team as Alvis's NASCAR?



Should turn a few heads    

[John Howling Mouse]

I'm going to send this to all my fellow SW fans!!  Lucas would be proud.

Positively fantastic idea and executed to perfection!

   

[mwf4nut]

Cool. Dude, you're fitt'en right in here. You must be insane!!!! ^_^

I take that as a huge compliment!!  

[mwf4nut]

Positively fantastic idea and executed to perfection!

   

Why thank you!  That was probably the fastest and most fun build I've done in 15 years.

[Captain Canada]

Hey, that is cool !

Love the paint....and your diorama idea sounds great...keep 'er going, eh ?

Reimnds me of Biaggi's Marlboro Yammie from a few years back.Whichj makes me think, that doing one up with a Tamiya road racer onboard and the MotoGP colours as a future bike would be neat !

Cheers !

 

[nev]

Lucas would be proud.

I think what you meant to say is "Lucas would set his army of lawyers on you and sue your donkey"

The Lucas Empire lawyers are rather aggressive....

[John Howling Mouse]

Lucas would be proud.

I think what you meant to say is "Lucas would set his army of lawyers on you and sue your donkey"

The Lucas Empire lawyers are rather aggressive....

True, but LFL lawyers are friendly compared to the Paramount's Legal-Nazis when it comes to the Star Trek™ franchise!!!

[Jschmus]

Lucas would be proud.

I think what you meant to say is "Lucas would set his army of lawyers on you and sue your donkey"

The Lucas Empire lawyers are rather aggressive....

True, but LFL lawyers are friendly compared to the Paramount's Legal-Nazis when it comes to the Star Trek™ franchise!!!

I've seen examples of both parties being aggressive.  SMT and Ravenstar are two "garage kit" companies that are known for producing good quality products.  SMT did a line of excellent Star Wars fightercraft, all built to a common scale of 1/48.  Ravenstar does Trek-based models.  In the last two years, both have been slapped with Cease and Desist orders to prevent them from producing models based on specific vehicles.  In SMT's case, they were about to produce the X-wing fighter and Millenium Falcon.  In Ravenstar's, he was about to make the Klingon K't'inga battlecruiser and the New Orleans-class (a background ship from one episode of TNG).  SMT were ordered to stop production on all SW-related merchandise, and to destroy the molds.  Ravenstar only had to stop those two kits.  It's taken a while, but both are bouncing back.  SMT have started doing craft from other, less-litigious universes, while Ravenstar has gone back to doing models of his own designs.  If anybody's interested, the two companies can be found here:

SMT

and

Ravenstar Studios

[John Howling Mouse]

I gave up on SMT after they sent me a simple resin knock-off of the old Snap-Tite A-Wing as if it was an original tooling.

And you can still buy SW-related merchandise from SMT.  Alfred Wong's AT-AT looked great to me (there are JMN's in the SF modeling world who shot it down, though) but, even though I was in the first production/sales que, a six-month overshoot on the promised delivery was just too much.  At least they refunded my money.

[nev]

Well, to be fair to the Lucas Empire (and we're back on licensing here), models of Star Wars aircraft are the intellectual property of Lucas as is the Star Wars brand.  So if someone is producing an unlicensed model of a SW subject then I have no problem with the lawyers closing them down.

What I have a problem with is when they shut down stuff like free downloadable SW mods for games like Starcraft.  Or even worse as Marvel Comics have done, issuing a lawsuit against a game (City of Heroes) which could - potentially -be modded by someone to represent Marvel Comics superheros (unlicensed).