Honda road racer 1/8th scale

[tr1ckey66]

Fabulous stuff reworking the spokes, it makes a hell of a difference. Time consuming but ultimately well worth the effort.
Cheers, Paul

 

[Airborne01]

Not often you read that on a scale modelling forum!

Wheels are looking great Simon.
Pete

I think this forum is becoming a dumping ground for innuendo, sly asides and all sorts of nippery slipple type jokes; I am actually appalled Sir! Keep 'em coming!!!
Steve

 

[simontie]

Thursday yippee, ok well managed to complete the rear wheel and it looks ok fitted the tyre for effect i need to paint the wheel now once i clean it all up started the front as you can see one side complete but a lot to do before i start the other side..
also I bought a new dermel drill stand seems ok used it on the front hub for the spoke holes
simon

 

[simontie]

Quite weekend so i have pieced some of the engine together lot of flash and mis matched parts in most cases i have just cut off the dowels and lined up by eye, lots of dressing up there seems to be a glaze over most of the parts i suspect a primer for the heavy chrome plating that took an age to dissolve
also finished the front wheel and primed it along with the rear wheel & engine
This is a big engine shame theres not more detail & the primer has helped me id some other areas to work on the cylinder joins front to rear but you can clearly see the seam lines after i tried to dress them up more to do.…
simon

 

[Mark1]

Good job with the wheels, sure the engine will be fine when your done, itll be hidden behind the fairing.

 

[scottie3158]

Simon,
The wheels look great, well worth the effort.

 

[Mr Bowcat]

Wheels look awesome mate.

 

[tigersteve]

Great job so far ! Enjoy yourself .......

 

[Tim Marlow]

Lovely job on the wheel lacing. Very impressive considering you used piano wire.

 

[simontie]

Thank you all, I hope to do the rest of the bike justice i might have my work cut out but ill give it my best shot…

 

[simontie]

hi all, slow week here but… I have managed a few small steps further wheels painted so all done, frame cleaned and painted still in two halves, mega amount of scraping and sanding to get all the flash off (assume thats the right phrase?) engine primed and painted, oil tank, swinging arm and carbs again loads of cleaning up, bell mouths were oval so i have DR’ed them a bit and now they look ok not great but happy with them. Still a mountain to do. The engine mounts on pins in the frame but there poor to say the least & the swinging arm is the same moulded in at the pivot point on the arm, so i will drill these out and screw together, the 2 half's of the swinging arm had some small dowels to hold them together but possibly at the weakest point in my opinnion, so I Drilled these out and bonded in two longer (10mm) steel pins I think thats it. I won’t mention the weather..
simon

 

[Mark1]

All looking very nice so far.

 

[PaulinKendal]

Yep, looking good.

 

[Mr Bowcat]

Ooh, shiny.

 

[langy71]

I've only ever built one 'bike', the old Tamiya Honda CR450R 'scrambler' many many years back, and at that early stage in my modelling journey I really struggled to get it looking good, your doing a tremendous job of bringing this to life, Who knows you may even tempt me to grab a motorbike and have another crack...

 

[simontie]

I've only ever built one 'bike', the old Tamiya Honda CR450R 'scrambler' many many years back, and at that early stage in my modelling journey I really struggled to get it looking good, your doing a tremendous job of bringing this to life, Who knows you may even tempt me to grab a motorbike and have another crack...

I have a cr in the stash but the kits have come on a lot since these were first produced
simon

 

[simontie]

Well spent a bit of time puttting a shock absorber together out of a few bits and pieces as the kit ones are wrong red and they look …
so i came up with this a bit of old sprue, some stainless wire and an spare mono shock bottom from Tamiya Kit.


this is as far as i got with it needs cleaned up, painted and assembled then and then hopfully i can replicate it, thats assuming it fits!!!

simon

 

[JR]

Great work Simon all round . As for those spokes a work of genius.

 

[Mark1]

Thats a vast improvement on the original.

 

[simontie]

Ok busy weekend but don't seem any further on,
managed the engine in to frame drilled the mounts and screwed it together, had a look at the front end and decided to drill out the centre pins that hold the front wheel i have an axle for it but this might just be glued each end.. forks are a bit ruff so a bit to do to clean them up, front brake disc’s had no recess to fit the wheel so i reamed these out to fit tight to the hub, the handle bars must just be a standard moulded part the real motor has clip ons so i have modified them to work as clip ons, i also noticed the rear end of the frame has what would be foot rest brackets but look again at the real bike these aren’t there so i cut them off i think it looks better a long way to go but getting there slowly shocks turned out quite nice I pleased with them…

simon