In the illustrations the figures look like Miniart's FeldGendarme figures. I wonder will there be more cooperation between the two companies?

Hi Miniart has supplied figures to GWH before, the German set refuelling with fuel drums to go with their half track kit. This just looks like an attempt to sell off more of the non existent solo bike with some Miniart figures added to encourage you to buy it. Maybe because the word got round that this and the BMW solos they produced never actually existed and they are stuck with them its somebody's idea of how to shift them I should add I have both the Zundapp and BMW combination kits from GWH and they are superb examples of what actually existed.. Alan

- now I remember, this was fairly convincingly proved (non-existence of the Zundapp KS 750 Solo) in a thread on ML a few months ago, thanks for bringing this up...

Forgot about that one Alan

Hi I actually think it would be of more benefit to GWH if they brought out a set that just has two side cars and the other associated parts found in the motorcycle combination sets without the actual bikes parts, as a separate kit. That way those who had the mistakenly depicted solo kits could add the side cars and then have two motorcycle combinations and know they have two actual replicas of machines that existed. I don't really see this happening though because it would be tantamount to admitting they made a mistake and that seems very hard for any manufacturer to do, not just GWH. They are not alone in this of course as Tamiya still churns out its solo versions, along with others in various scales floating around in peoples collections that pop up on ebay etc. Its a shame really because the GWH kits are little jewels and if I had to make the choice of buying only one motorcycle combination kit in 1/35th scale it would be theirs without hesitation. Alan

I know of an Ebay retailing selling all four motorcycle kits for US$69 plus postage.

Perhaps then, it'd be a good idea if manufacturers, when they send out the details include information such as 'New Tool'? My assumption as well was that this looks like a simple exercise in re-packaging. When this doesn't happen (all too often, i'm afraid) threads like this do tend to get swamped with comments about mistakes the manufacturer has made. If any manufacturer wants their product promoted then great - we'll do it, but it helps if we get more than a simple (low-res) image of a poster with the images of the model in CAD.

Up until about 18 months ago I was under the impression that the solo version depicted by several model companies were legitimate replicas of bikes that actually existed and were produced by Germany during WW2. But after reading up on how these were conceived, frame steering geometry, differential with shaft to drive the outer side car wheel it is pretty clear that this was designed and built as a three wheeled vehicle. One argument to support the existence of these solo bikes is that some engineers etc. could have easily found a way to disconnect the drive and blank of the hole left by its removal, which I don't disagree is feasible , although it doesn't take into account the how the frame was set up, steering rake geometry of the forks etc. in other words the handling of the "bike" was for a combination "complete", and if you've any knowledge or experience of riding a motorbike you'll know how important handling is It was designed as a combination from the ground up, not a solo bike with a side car attached. Whilst I have the utmost respect for Ron Volstad I hardly think a box art image depicting the item inside the box is a basis for historical fact, to hold onto for evermore. As I said up until recently I thought the model manufacturers had got it right. Add to that I've yet to see any manufacturers records from BMW or Zundapp to show the solos were produced. In all this time, with countless other images appearing every day from this period in history I've not seen any pictures of these two versions as so called "solo" bike in actual use during WW2. Alan