Wolf Buddee Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 I'm not sure if this is the right place for this post as it's definitely a "Large Scale Model" but I thought this is where it should be. Tamiya's 1/6 Honda CRF 1000L Africa Twin. One of the fastest builds I've done in years. I started the end of this August and finished the end of November. A typical Tamiya kit with amazing fit and lots of metal parts including the front fork tubes, lots of nuts and bolts, and bags of different coloured and sizes of screws.The kit comes with decals for two different colour schemes and masks to complete each scheme. I initially intended to build the Pearl White machine but switched to the Victory Red option part way through the build. The wheel rims should be semi-gloss black for the red scheme but the gold rims for the white option look very nice on the red bike too. The hand guards on the handle bars should be semi-gloss black for a red bike as well but seeing as I wanted to do the bike up as I'd want it I went with red for those instead. Other than adding some additional nut and bolt detail that was missing on the kit I did very little extra. I did, however, add the brake fluid level sight glass and it's bezel to the front brake master cylinder and scribed a line all the way around the top of the master cylinder to represent the lid. I also used thin strips of Tamiya's tape to represent the cable ties as per photos. The tape was permanently secured by very carefully applying extra thin CA and then painting the tape with Tamiya Rubber Black. No markings for the switches on the handle bar controls come with the kit so they were cobbled together from a number of different decals sheets. The white "START" letters for the starter button, for instance, were sourced from a 1/48 Phantom data stencil sheet and applied individually to get "START". The symbol on the horn button was made up of 4 separate pieces of decal. In 1/6th scale it didn't look right to have the buttons bare so the extra work was well worth the effort to me. The rear wheel drive chain is made up of individual links and is a Tamiya Detail-Up accessory for this kit. It's a big improvement on the kit supplied two piece chain. Paint used was primarily Tamiya's spray lacquers decanted and applied with my airbrush. I also used quite a bit of Alclad Polished Aluminium and Chrome. Cheers, Wolf 11 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 Get away................ that's REAL ................. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 Happy New year from the snowy Kootenays, Wolf... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harv Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 Well Wolf ok buddy, great to see you here ! Outstanding build. Wish there was something in the pics for size. Must be big. Great looking bike.....harv 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocRob Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 Wow, the bike looks very real, nice work on the details and painting. I wish, there were more interesting high quality bike kits in large scales on the market. I could go for one of my old KTM 950 SM, which looks a bit more badass. Cheers Rob 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spitfire Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 Looks like you could cock your leg over it and ride into the sunset, very realistic. Cheers Dennis 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomber_County Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 Wolf, great to see you over in this neck of the woods, stunning build...... 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf Buddee Posted January 1, 2021 Author Share Posted January 1, 2021 Jeff, Harv, Rob, Dennis, and Phil, Thank-you for checking in on my post and leaving your kind responses. They’re certainly much appreciated! I hope that 2021 will see a renewed energy and drive to complete a number of builds I’ve set aside over the last couple of years. There’s enough of ‘em on the bench that need doing! Cheers, Wolf 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harv Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 The best to you and yours my friend !....harv 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martinnfb Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 Ok Wolf , thanks for posting the pictures of the real thing and....now you can actually show us the model right? LOL Just being me. Stunning work as always! cheers M. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kpnuts Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 Superb, these 1/6 tamiya kits are nothing short of amazing. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterpools Posted April 11, 2021 Share Posted April 11, 2021 Wolfe Awesome work and nothing short of your high standards. Your Honda could easily pass as the real deal if you didn’t spill the beans about it being a Tamiya kit. Looking forward to you hitting the bench and diving back into some of your started projects. Keep ‘em comin Peter 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackster Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 That looks so REAL!!!!! Cheers Kev 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators JeroenPeters Posted April 15, 2021 Administrators Share Posted April 15, 2021 Definitely the right place to post this. Wow... One of the most realistic bike models I've seen in a while! Is this by any chance a model that you drive yourself? Here's mine: 2 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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