【Honda】Japan domestic specification equipped with tandem steps and mounted with a muffler cover! Honda CT125 also combining a rotatable gimmick for wheels incorporated into the vehicle body is three-dimensionalized!

Emitting a unique presence recognizable at a glance both in the city and outdoors, the Honda CT125 Hunter Cub. What allows you to assemble such a popular motorcycle with your own hands is “NEXT Series No.4 1/12 Honda CT125 (Hunter Cub / Matte Fresco Brown)”. What served as the model is the domestic specification CT125 that appeared in 2020. In the calm brown vehicle body, Hunter Cub-like charms such as an up-muffler with presence and a large rear carrier are tightly condensed. Square blinkers reminiscent of the past CT110 and a powerful style unique to leisure motorcycles cannot be missed either. Not to mention people longing for the actual vehicle, wouldn't it be a curious machine for people collecting motorcycle models as well?

Don't you think like “Motorcycle plastic models seem difficult for painting and gluing...”? What we want such people to pay attention to is the ease of assembly of this kit. Each part is made of molded materials pre-separated by color, so there is no need to prepare paint. Moreover, it is a design that can be assembled by snapping in without using adhesive. Properly using 6 types of molding colors of brown, black, silver, aluminum, clear, and clear red, it expresses natural differences in colors. Especially, the brown of the vehicle body creates a unique gloss by dedicated materials, and a beautiful finish with a slightly different flavor from painting can be enjoyed. The time shaping 126 pieces of parts little by little is also the real pleasure unique to this model, isn't it?

Just because it is a small model does not mean details are omitted. The engine is a structure combining black and silver parts, and even the “HONDA” letters on the left and right are expressed with delicate engraving. The intake passage on the left rear of the vehicle body is also full of three-dimensional feeling through the combination of matte black and brown. Furthermore, around the handlebar, switches and master cylinders are reproduced, and transparent parts are adopted for the meter. Attached stickers are used for the central wing mark and various indicators. Gazing thoroughly around the handlebar after completion, there seems to be the fun of discovering like “Are even such small parts built in!?”

What is particularly interesting in this model is the mechanism capable of opening and closing the seat. The seat itself is a 3-part divided structure matching seam positions, and the texture of matte black produces a calm atmosphere. And when lifted up, the sculpting around the fuel filler port, which is normally not visible, reveals its figure. The tank cap is also an independent part, and the point is that even differences in color from the surroundings are reproduced. Not merely making the appearance similar, but places where the structure of the actual vehicle can be felt transmit the creator's commitment.

Not ending with just displaying once completed is also a charm. The side stand and center stand are movable, and variations can be added to display postures. For tandem steps, stored states and deployed states can be selected by replacement of parts. Thin spokes are integrally molded on the wheels, and by combining with rubber material tires, a sense of reality is born at the feet as well. Of course, wheels are rotatable. Furthermore, the large rear carrier, which can also be called the symbol of the Hunter Cub, is an integrally molded part using slide molds. We also want to pay attention to the point cleanly reproducing complex shapes.

The completed size is total length about 165mm, width about 69mm, height about 109mm. While possessing view-worthiness typical of 1/12 scale, it is a size easy to display on desks or collection shelves as well. Attached to the kit are 16 runners, 2 rubber material tires, 1 assembly instruction manual, and 2 stickers. The process of assembling parts one by one and completing the familiar figure of the Hunter Cub should let you taste joys differing from purchasing completed products. Gazing at the austere Matte Fresco Brown vehicle body and turning thoughts to the next touring or camping is also wonderful, isn't it? Tickling the hearts of motorcycle lovers, how about finishing this single machine with your own hands by all means?