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From: Peter Stasukevics Artist Pete Stasukevics describes for us how he created this unique motorcycle model: "I bought my FXRT Harley brand new in 1986. Ever since, I have been looking for a model of this bike. Most Harley mechanics agree that the FXRT is the best riding touring bike; it was never a great seller because it didn't have the well known gull wing shaped faring. Because of low demand no company bothered to make a model." "I was recently in a ceramics store where they pour clay into molds for people to take home and paint, glaze and then have the piece fired. To my delight they had a Harley FXR. That is my bike without the faring trunk and saddle bags. If they could pour one and leave it wet for me I could make the bags and faring out of clay and attach them to the bike prior to firing. They agreed to do that so when I picked up the wet model I took it home and went to work fashioning saddle bags faring and trunk out of clay. After they hardened, but were not yet dry, I attached them to the bike. I let the piece dry slowly, then fired it in my kiln. Now it was ready for painting. I painted the whole piece with primer then sanded and sprayed it with silver spray paint. For the black and the white KISS faces I used an airbrush; the fine details I did with a very fine paint brush, then added a clear coat to the Black parts. The windshield was cut from a plastic container and formed around a jar. The bike is 13" long. The entire project took 30 hours". Nice work Pete! We here at KISS Asylum love seeing stuff like this; please send us photos and stories of your KISS creations for us to post!
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