Honda CB 750 F dio by kpnuts 1/6 Tamiya

[kpnuts]

Hi all I love these Tamiya 1/6 bike kits but I realised that a lot of that wonderful detail is lost when you put it all together ( I would have loved to do this with the Yamaha 1100 midnight special which I built in my youth as a bike I dreamt of owning but as it was no longer in production i couldn't afford the stupid prices it was going for on ebay)

So money being tight at the time i went for the Honda.

Of course what seemed like a simple idea at the time quickly turned into a nightmare, a kit intended to be displayed complete opened up a whole bag of worms when you decide to put it in a garage totally dismantled ready for restoration.

 

[mtaylor]

I'm loving your bike builds.  The detail is incredible.   The only bike model I've ever done was the old "Widowmaker".  It was (as I recall) a Harley frame with a Hilborn injected small block Chevy sitting crosswise built and owned by a guy named Potter.  It was pure exhibition drag racer back in the day.

[kpnuts]

Thanks Mark

I've built loads of  these fantastic tamiya kits.

Well all garages need a spray boothe so I had a go at making one.

 

[kpnuts]

Did some work on the engine (as I said at the start because this kit was designed to be built complete I had to overcome some problems firstly the carb intakes were blanked off so I had to drill those out. Then of course I had to bung the hole up with some rag to stop the dust getting in there.

Of course all workshops need a bench.

[popeye the sailor]

....in the land of Lilliput.........don't tell me..........let me guess.........your chief mechanic's name is Gulliver!    kinda cool in a way........it shows the scale of the model.    with the large scale models I've built in the past,  I wondered about it too.........why aren't some of these ports tooled open?   there so much that can be done to enhance these models.....are you going to use screen for the ports,  or did they simply have the butterflies in there?  I suppose we'll just have to see what your pint size pit crew comes up with.