Tamiya 1/6 Honda CRF1000L Africa Twin.

[outrunner]

Still waiting for stuff to come for the rally truck so rather than do nothing I decided to start on this.

Sprues, there are rather a lot.












Hopefully the next pictures will be of something built.

Andy.

[outrunner]

I would say that since I came back to building models this is the best quality kit I have seen, the plastic is faultless, no flash, no ejector pin marks that will be seen and it has a really good instruction book, not a printed sheet like some others. The front forks are anodised metal,a large bag of screws and nuts to assemble some parts and there is even a jig to build the wheels properly, the decal sheet includes masks although you have to cut them out yourself and the decal sheet looks great, mind you, it is Tamiya so we shall see.

Andy.

[Mark1]

Looks like a nice kit.

[Ian M]

Nice. Quite fancied one of these.

[Jim R]

These large scale motorbike kits build up to impressive models. From what you have seen of the kit so far it promises to be typical Tamiya. Let's hope the decals are ok.

[outrunner]

Got the left and right frame halves assembled and primed along with a load of other frame parts.

Engine partly built and painted, TET bottle to let you see how big this model is going to be.



Andy.

[outrunner]

I painted all the frame parts last night and also the engine side casings but leaving them until tonight before lacquering them. Not too sure about the casings though, just don't look to be the right colour although I used the mix specified on the instructions.


Maybe I should have primed them with black, or used a bit more of the gold paint? anyway, I will have a think about it as it will not be hard to redo as the casings are not yet glued on.

Andy.

[tigersteve]

Great start - and the best colour scheme I reckon, have fun !

[outrunner]

Did not do a lot today as the weather tuned nice about mid day so I went out on the bike. This evening however I did get the frame built and the engine fitted in, it's not fixed yet as it was getting late and I could not be bothered with hunting out all the tiny screws that hold the motor to the frame.



Andy.

[outrunner]

A bit more done this evening, engine fixed into the frame with ignition coils and leads fitted, bit of a nightmare fitting the tubing that represents the plug leads but I got there eventually without too much swearing.

Rear shock assembled from 21 parts and 4 paint colours.

Quite a complex built this is so may take a while especially if the weather keeps improving as motorcycling is calling me. :smiling5:

Andy.

[JR]

Some nice detail on the rear shocks there Andy, certainly the kit looks impressive from the sprues.

[outrunner]

Some nice detail on the rear shocks there Andy, certainly the kit looks impressive from the sprues.

Very true John and there are a lot of sprues and I have only used most of 2 so lots and lots of building to do with quite a lot of it needing a large amount of care. The great thing is, no flash and everything fits together with no dramas.

Andy.

[simontie]

Sorry missed the start of this one, ill pull up a seat i have thought about purchasing the kit a few times, it looks like she is worth the money judging by your build so far, details look great.
simon

[simontie]

:thumb2:

[Jim R]

Looking very nice. Very nicely detailed and the painting really brings it to life.