Delayar Posted May 7, 2019 Share Posted May 7, 2019 Hi! I recently decided to rebuild my Tamiya Harley Davidson Fat Boy. It is the kit from 1996, and I built it around 2000. It wasn't the cleanest build to begin with (my skill wasn't sufficient). It was sitting in an open cabinet for some time and even fell to the floor during cleaning, so it was dusty and had some not so clean repairs. It doesn't look so bad on the pictures 😉 However, I decided to try to tear it appart and rebuild it. The plan is to rebuild it in the paint scheme of the first year, which is an all-silver paint scheme, even the frame is painted silver. Some yellow trims add a tittle colour. The engine covers will have to be altered. As it wasn't built very thoroughly, it came appart quite well: Many of the parts are already stripped of their old paint. The oil tank and the rear fender brakets will be painted in the body colour, therefore I striped the chrome. The exhaust pipes will be chromed with alclad to get rid of the seams. Maybe I will 3D print the heat covers of the exhaust, which are missing in the kit. I didn't manage to sparate the front brake disc from the wheels without damage, but the brake discs are not very beautiful anyhow. I plan to create replacement parts with a laser cutter. I will also make the engine covers with a laser cutter. That's it so far. Cheers, Markus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsairfoxfouruncle Posted May 7, 2019 Share Posted May 7, 2019 Hello ... Fat boy is one of my favorite hogs, mind if i follow ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delayar Posted May 21, 2019 Author Share Posted May 21, 2019 Of course you may follow 😉 Anyway, after some more cleaning up, I started to paint some parts. I began by painting the engine block with Alclad duralminium. The oil filter should be changed, as in 1990 it was mounted to the frame. However, I will skip this conversion, since it is only a minor change. I am sure there are other things as well, but I am not aware of them 😉 I got a set of replacement silk-screened decals, which are finely printed. I decided to strip the plating of the wheels as well. I will paint the rougher parts with Duralminium and the polished parts with Alclad Polished Aluminium. Cheers, Markus 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delayar Posted June 13, 2019 Author Share Posted June 13, 2019 The build continues... I painted the yellow parts on the rocker boxes. I masked the area, applied metal primer and then a coat of Insignia yellow (FS 13538, Gunze H 329). As i mentioned in the previous post, I stipped the chrome off the rims, as well as the instrument unit housing. They were pinted gloss black in preparation for the alclad. The frame and body parts were painted with Tamiya Mica Silver (TS-76) Cheers, Markus 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delayar Posted July 7, 2019 Author Share Posted July 7, 2019 After a very light coat of clear yellow, I started with assembling the frame: The orange reflectors were sanded and painted to match the pictures of the real thing. Furthermore, I found no pictures of dark green dampers, only black ones, so I ignored the Tamiya call out, which is for XF-27 I also found some time to work at the laser cutter and make new brake discs: They are made from 1mm black acrylic glass. The covers for the gear boxes were cut from 0.5mm acrylic glass. I tried using styrene sheet, but the laser melted the fine structures. And in place on the engine: I have yet to make the mounting bolts. The engine and gear box was attached to the frame. As the parts holding the rear swing arm to the frame were broken during a fall off the shelf a few years ago, I had to craft another solution. To make this durable, I used a 2mm steel rod and drilled a hole all through the siwng arm. So there is one steel rod going through the mounting area. It will be held in place by the original plastic bolt heads. Cheers, Markus 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delayar Posted September 13, 2019 Author Share Posted September 13, 2019 I was a bit lazy in uploading my progress reports, but the build continued and by now is already finished 😉 I painted the body parts using Zero Paints 2k Diamond Gloss. Once the micro screws arrived, i could finish the gear covers: The rims were painted with Alclad Duralminium (flat parts) and Airframe Aluminium (shiny parts): The brake discs were also painted with Alclad and attached to the rims with allen head micro screws: Assembly continued once the lacquer was dry: Fork attached: Brake handles were also stripped of the chrome plating because of the ugly mold seams. The handle bar and mirrors were attached using steel pins for strength. The exhaust pipes were painted with Alclad Chrome. Here is a picture of the finished bike: More in the ready for inspection section. Cheers, Markus 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delayar Posted September 13, 2019 Author Share Posted September 13, 2019 Here is the RFI: Cheers, Markus 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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