This is a free kit published on the web by Kozin. As built it consisted of:
| a 16-page PDF file of parts for a blue version of the model, |
| five 2-page PDF files containing the coloured parts for black, green, red, white and yellow versions, |
| a 17-page PDF instruction manual with assembly diagrams annotated in Japanese. |
More recently it has been reworked and retitled as 750-SS, and comes as a compressed Pepakura file. Two versions are available, one "gold" and one blue.
The model is described as not being strictly to scale, but approximately 1:8.
I printed my version at half size, i.e. approximately 1:16. This makes the model approximately 150mm (6in) long and 95mm (4in) high. Some of the tinier gluing tabs had to be sacrificed, and a few parts had to be redrawn to achieve a reasonable fit, but the majority of the build follows the original kit quite closely. The major change I made was to the wheels, using thread for the wire spokes instead of the very oversize paper cutouts in the kit.
I confess that by the time the model was nearing completion I was getting rather weary of it, and some of the last details to be added leave a little to be desired (well, a lot, actually). I just couldn't face going back and remaking them, possibly several times.
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Updated November 2021