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That´s the way I love a bike built. I will follow this thread. Thanks for sharing it with us.

This is one of the best custom models I´ve seen. Very nice and clean style.

Sorry, but the cylinder head is built in the wrong direction (front is back).

This will go round on a carousel

Galileo Galileo figaro magnifico

A family-van with a face. Nice suicide doors and look the rear wheels standing

Real scale 1:1

As ever: impressive work all over.

Hello Jim, I think the Bronson Bike only needs some carefully restoration. But one of your Sportsters I like to see as a Digger.

I say it´s a model.

Yes Jim, you´re right with the Harleybuilder . I like to see the sporster as a digger before you start with the big twin

Hi Jim, nice to see, that you come back again to the digger theme. I´ll take place in the first line to see what you are doing on it.

Awesome work. It looks like an original. How do you make the wonderful deep blue body color??

Yes it´s an all new "Fat Boy Lo" and it looks like the actual 2013 model. It will have the Twin Cam Engine. The old Fat Boy comes with the Evolution Engine. If I read it right on the tamiya homepage, the cylinders comes as seperate parts fin by fin. Google made this translation from their homepage: a stacked assembly method the cylinder head and cylinder, 1584cc air-cooled V-twin engine as a center of attraction to reproduce sharp cooling fin chiseled. I hope they take the chance, to make a first class model without the old phillips screws and put so much detail in it, like they do in every military scale model. I´m looking forward to get the new Fat Boy Lo and hope they make a Black Line, Slim or a Wide Glide too.

I ´ve built this bike years ago and when you made it as a stock built, there are no carbon fiber parts on it. It´s a nice bike kit from Tamiya.

Beautiful built. Very clean paint job. The only thing I ´m missing, are opened holes on the brake discs. Let us see some more of your work please.

Even when I come from the motorcycle section, I take a look here from time to time. I like this model, very nice and clean build. Please let me know what TS Number is the Tamiya champagne, because I only find a golden color tone from Tamiya called chamagne and yours look right silver, like I need it for a project of mine.

Is this article also available as part of the direct download pdf how to engines?

Very very nice. And again how much and where?

One of the best RM-Choppers I ´ve ever seen (or the best?). Clean style and clean built.

Nicely done overall and as ever you built one of the RM Choppers.

I like your creative decalwork on this theme-bike. A bike can be built in many different ways, like any other model. Most important you must like it. I don´t like the RM choppers so much, because the basic is a bit toy like. But I saw finished bikes from these kits, that looks like the real thing. But to get such perfect results its a lot of work to do. There are a few bikes in real, that have hidden cables, but they have an overall very clean and technical look, with cnc parts and no chrome. To the Bengal I would add some cables. You will find some different sizes at the railroad hobby shop. And don´t forget to study the oil lines on an original bike. Also the tires can be sanded where they meet the road to take away the gloss. The brake discs can be put in a dremel tool and sanded and/or paint while turning. I hope we will see more bikes from you.

Some of you might be waiting for progress on the bobber and here it is. I added a little detail to the carburator and made a new base for a small air cleaner with ports for the breathers on the cylinders. I made these parts from flat and round sheet. Before these parts are glued together I made a few testfittings on the engine. The airfilter is made from sheet. I made a base and on this I glued a second for the height in the middle. Both had the contours of the finished part. Between these parts I filled the room with putty. All was sanded and polished a few times. To finsh the carb I glued a small flat strip and a half round strip on top of the cleaner and put a little bit filler at both sides of the stripes. And again sanding and polishing to the end result, that the carb can get his chrome. And the bike gets it color (custom mixed Vallejo with the gun) with self made decals and a few coats of clear gloss (Gunze can). All parts are sanded (at the end with 12000 grit) and polished. Now the bike is nearly finished, the only thing still missing is the rear light. I want to make a simulated LED light. Testfitting the base for the new aircleaner The license plate mount missing his rear light

Thank you all for the kind words. I continue this thread with the next steps. That are the fenders of the bobber. My plan was to make them from ONE old fender of a side car. There is enough material for both of the bobber. For the rear fender it works great, he got the needed shape and mounting brackets from styrene. But the rest part for front fender I can ´t use for this model. It has a hole in it for the tail light and the fender did not get a good shape after filling this hole. So I took the nice front fender from the Fat Boy and cut it down to the proper size. I cut off the mounting pins from the fender and placed them that way, the fender comes down more to the tire. The fender from a side car. The original Fat Boy front fender perpared to cut. The finished rear fender. The covers of the front fork have deep sink marks on them. I filled them with putty. For those who can ´t work with allclad and wanted chromed covers is this a great penalty. In the past I thought, that wheels OOB are delicate enough in scale 1/6 and it is not worth the work of spoking the wheels with wire. But it is. I took .6 mm steel wire (because of lack .7 mm steel wire) for the spokes. I made the nipples from .5 mm² core end sleeves. The rims get a template to make the holes for the spokes. To make the tires fit on the spoked rims, they had to be reworked. Also a point of no return. The tires of the Fat Boy have a collar that will be pressed into a groove of the disc wheels. This collars have to be cut away to fit on the new rims. And after the tires were filled with kitchen towels (an advice from a friend of a German Forum) they fit proper to the wire wheels. The hub with the template. Wire and core end sleeves. Not finished but strong enough for free handling. Handmade spoked rims vs OOB Now it may take a little more time til the next update, because many small things have to be scratchbuild, like the aircleaner, the signal lights, the rear light, licence plate bracket, decals and so on..... Thank you all for your your interests and looking.

Thank you old-hermit, Brendan and Eric for motivation. I ´m here for fun and modelling. After the frame was prepared the engine and drive train was installed again. For the solo seat I had an old seat from the Tamiya Harley Davidson Police Bike. I cut the apron from the seat and put thin leather on it. I made the rear mounting bracket for the seat from 0.5 mm brass plate. For measurement I first made a template from paper. This bracket is mounted with 2 mm hexagon sockets. The front brackets are made from 0.3 mm brass. The frame part is soldered with a base plate and the pivot for the bracket which is mounted under the seat Also the exhaust was done at this time. I took flash bonder repair putty for this parts with some styrene pipe of the right diameter. I put a little amount of the putty into one end of a styrene pipe and roll it between two laminated sheets of wood (by moving the upper sheet), with a second pipe parallel to the pipe with the putty, till the putty have the same diameter than the Pipes. Before this step, I wetted the sheets that the putty can ´t stick at the sheets. Then I put the pipe with the putty end to the front cylinder and gave the exhaust the right shape. This new exhaust got a bracket from brass and was screwed to the frame where the footrest was mounted before. Then I made the rear exhaust the same way. I had to work quickly at that point before the putty is hardened. Afterwards I took a black band which is used normally for seams at clothing, I don ´t know the English name for it, and put it around the two new exhaust pipes. The end of the pipes I covered before with BMF. At that point I registered it might be better to took polished aluminium tube than styrene tube. Next time. I put a little dust on the pipes with gray chalk powder. Then I made covers from copper for the pipes after templates from paper. The holes in the cover are milled with the dremel tool. Free hand. For better handling, only after this milling I cut the cover to proper size.