AIM-Fan models

[Weaver]

As far as I can tell, this is nothing to do with Aircraft In Miniature...

Anyway, here's an oddball new in at Hannants: a 1/35th Soviet TIZ-AM-600 motorcycle. No I'd never heard of it either, but apparently it was a licence-built copy of the BSA B31 "sloper" 600cc single. Nice to see something other an a Harley, BMW or Zundapp:


http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/AFM35001

[zenrat]

The hard panniers look interesting.
My eyes and fingers are not up to a bike in 1/35 but it'd be nice in 1/12.

[Weaver]

Thing is, there's so much diorama stuff in 1/35th but not in 1/24th or 1/12th. It's like that Master Box biker-girl-plus-zombies set you can get: the zombies are 1970s American but what bike can you put her on in 1/35th? A BMW R75? A Harley 45? Any added variety of bikes in 1/35th is a good thing.

[Old Wombat]

Heh!

Just noticed the machine-gun on the handle-bar!

[jcf]

Thing is, there's so much diorama stuff in 1/35th but not in 1/24th or 1/12th. It's like that Master Box biker-girl-plus-zombies set you can get: the zombies are 1970s American but what bike can you put her on in 1/35th? A BMW R75? A Harley 45? Any added variety of bikes in 1/35th is a good thing.

'1970s American' Uhhh, they're from the Resident Evil movie franchise which puts them smack in the 21st century. 

[Captain Canada]

The gun on the bars might have cause a few 'watch this' accidents. I like the pinstripes on a military bike as well. Then again, it almost looks like they are on a parade square, so who knows. Still an interesting subject.

[Weaver]

Thing is, there's so much diorama stuff in 1/35th but not in 1/24th or 1/12th. It's like that Master Box biker-girl-plus-zombies set you can get: the zombies are 1970s American but what bike can you put her on in 1/35th? A BMW R75? A Harley 45? Any added variety of bikes in 1/35th is a good thing.

'1970s American' Uhhh, they're from the Resident Evil movie franchise which puts them smack in the 21st century. 

Have they got an actual franchise deal or is it just generic rip-off? I don't see anything specific on MB's website and you'd think they'd be shouting it from the rooftops if they actually had a licence.

Nevertheless, you're right: the girl's gun is a Beretta 92F which puts it mid 80s onwards at least, which makes the choice of bikes even more incongruous. If you were really in that situation, would you seek out a rare museum piece or a Russian import with dubious reliability and thinly scattered spares? I think if you wanted a bike at all (not a super-bright decision) you'd get a standard Honda or the like where you had a chance of finding spares in any town.

[Mossie]

The Tamiya JGSDF Recon set supplies a modern bike (I had to search the web, Honda XLR250R apparently).  There's a Dragon one too I believe?

[jcf]

Thing is, there's so much diorama stuff in 1/35th but not in 1/24th or 1/12th. It's like that Master Box biker-girl-plus-zombies set you can get: the zombies are 1970s American but what bike can you put her on in 1/35th? A BMW R75? A Harley 45? Any added variety of bikes in 1/35th is a good thing.

'1970s American' Uhhh, they're from the Resident Evil movie franchise which puts them smack in the 21st century. 

Have they got an actual franchise deal or is it just generic rip-off? I don't see anything specific on MB's website and you'd think they'd be shouting it from the rooftops if they actually had a licence.

Nevertheless, you're right: the girl's gun is a Beretta 92F which puts it mid 80s onwards at least, which makes the choice of bikes even more incongruous. If you were really in that situation, would you seek out a rare museum piece or a Russian import with dubious reliability and thinly scattered spares? I think if you wanted a bike at all (not a super-bright decision) you'd get a standard Honda or the like where you had a chance of finding spares in any town.

'Franchise' in the sense of the film franchise, rather than having franchise rights. 

Alice(Milla) was on a bike in the early parts of Resident Evil:Extinction:


Amusingly not even the Red Army zombies in Resident Evil:Retribution ride Urals, and the story takes place on Kamchatka. 

[Weaver]

Ah, right. I've not seen Extinction, so I didn't recognise the outfit. Now I understand the comment.

The bike behind here there is actually a BMW, although it's about as far from the old flat twins as it's possible to get. It's also one of the last BMWs you's choose for any kind of off-road setting, but I'm guessing it's the one BMW wanted to plug most via product placement.

[Weaver]

An He-60 Floatplane in 1/72nd. Nice, but Hell's Bells is it expensive!

https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/AIM7201