Honda road racer 1/8th scale

[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. :tears-of-joy:

[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... :thumb2:

[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... :thumb2:

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!!! :rolling:

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

[Mark1]

Looking very nice,the shocks have turned out very well.

[JR]

Looking very nice,the shocks have turned out very well.

Indeed they are Mark, I also like that mesh on the air feeds.

[Mini Me]

Just had a look in on this little project........very impressive build so far Simon. I couldn't help noticing that spool of stainless "safety" wire that you used to spoke your wheels. I Can't begin to count up how many of those I used up in my years as an Aircraft Mechanic. And you are right it is pretty stiff to work with. I'm looking forward to where this build goes next.

[simontie]

Just had a look in on this little project........very impressive build so far Simon. I couldn't help noticing that spool of stainless "safety" wire that you used to spoke your wheels. I Can't begin to count up how many of those I used up in my years as an Aircraft Mechanic. And you are right it is pretty stiff to work with. I'm looking forward to where this build goes next.

My old man was an aircraft engineer, hence the safety wire, i used it for the shock springs never thought about using it for the spokes, but i will the next time :thumb2:

[simontie]

hi all well 2 steps forward and 3 back or what ever they say? took the swinging arm off as it just didn't sit pretty as you can see the tube that the swinging arm shaft should spin on is like a a banana and the shaft was short by 2 or 3mm.

sorry not so obvious in the picture, So after some thought I cut it off and as provenance would have it that's when I ran in to one of the steel pins I used to stiffen up the 2 half!! so I cut round it using a junior hacksaw blade..

.. cut a bit of sprue slightly longer and made a new shaft drilled the to screw holes for fitting to the frame these don't pass all the way through but a massive improvement on the plastic pins that were on the original shaft ends.

trimmed to length after trial fitting and bonded to the legs (arms?) of the swinging arm after hardening I gave it a quick coat of paint ready to fit

then I refitted it tonight and defiantly an improvement on the original,

so I then I started to fit the oil tank that's when I noticed this should have been done when the frame was put together but a luckily I didn't mainly because it would never have fitted the lugs for the top of the tank were twice as thick as they should have been I cut these out of the frame and split them down the middle, drilled four more fixing holes in the tank and cut away the plastic dowels that it was meant to locate on in the frame and it slipped in perfectly :tongue-out3: screwed the bottom mounts to the tank then rolled it up in to position, using the split lugs refitted to the frame and screwed the top mounts in to place.
its looking quite tidy a fair bit to do but getting there (I might cut the HT leads down they seem to be to long? cut as per the kit but a lot of bulk especially when there mixed in with the throttle cables.

one last thing any advice on a razor saws make model what blades are available, realistically I need one for metal as well as plastic just now I use the dermal for metal tube and bar and its great using micro disc's if you can see where the parts land!!! thought I would ask any pointers would be great
cheers
simon