Tamiya Bimota Tesi 1D 906SR build

[Davethepitch]

Hi all

I have started to build a Tamiya Bimota and straight away I have glued the engine components wrong and spent an hour putting it right.

I have sprayed it semi gloss black as per instructions but I am not sure whether to high lite certain parts Titanium gold or chrome silver.

Another problem I have come across it shows the engine being fitted and then the frame joined together but a build I have found on the net shows the frame assembled and painted without the engine fitted.

I never build as per instructions for some reason so I guess this bike will be no different https://www.scalemates.com/kits/129776- ... i-1d-906sr

Dave

[exmoor]

Nice to see your doing anotheir bike .what i do is spray the frame and join them togetheir only at the front and then i can spread the back end and squeeze the engine in then join it all up . Hope this makes sence.

[Davethepitch]

Hi Exmoor

Yes that makes sense and I will see what I can do when I come to attach it and the weird thing is about this bike it does not have any forks.

I popped into Emodels today for some blades but they were out of stock but at least I got my paint.

[Davethepitch]

Nice to see your doing anotheir bike.

I like doing bikes as they take me longer and I purchased this one with my monthly budget.

[exmoor]

Sorry dave i wasnt being funny . Bikes is my subject .just like seeing otheir peoples builds .am not into armour or planes so the more people build bikes the better it is for me.i can see how i wrote it it could offend sorry dave

[Davethepitch]

This build is a disaster i think i am out of my depth with this as i am struggling to understand the building instructions.

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[exmoor]

It looks fine so far i see what you mean by the front forks looks like they put a swinging arm on the front it will be interesting to see more pics of the build has its diffrent

[Davethepitch]

Just the bit I have done has been a pain in the ar5e and there is loads more detailing to do and it all gets hidden by fairings.

Dave

[Davethepitch]

Well it looks like I am going to abandon this build as I have made a right mess of the front steering assembly and glued the wrong parts.

Sorry for the failure folks.

Dave

[exmoor]

A shame dave but no probs got a few like that myself keep looking at them and going errrrrrrgh .shall wait for your next build

[Davethepitch]

The failure.

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[RossiM1]

That's a real shame Dave, just a thought rather than let it go to waste, do you have any spare forks and head stocks from another kit? I would see if you cannot create your own custom build of it, if you haven't got any I certainly have loads of spare from when I used upgrade sets on the Moto Gp builds I have done I would be happy to send some to you if want them.

[Plopper]

That's a darn shame Dave, no way of removing the parts and re-gluing?