14th-Mar-22, 08:52 PM
Hi all,
I'm waiting on a few things to start my next car build so I'm giving something a little different a go.
One of the most iconic bike builders in my life time is the late John Britten from my home town Christchurch NZ.
If you've never seen it or heard of it, the thing is a piece of genius created from the man's very own hand, look his story up.
So sad the dreaded C took him way too early.
I have collected a few Moto GP bikes from ebay that have damage and using the frame, wheels and cutting up the fairings to then shape with milliput.
The bike is very unusual and I'm going to do my best to make it look right with the shape of the chassis etc completely different to the GP bikes.
I have a diecast model of it which got damaged years ago (I will fix it) they only sold a limited run of these so I'm stoked I have one.
Here's all the donner parts.
I cut the fairings up but made sure I kept the mounting screw holes in tact otherwise I have no way of fitting to the chassis, moulding the milliput to the shapes I'll need has been a challenge and there's still a lot to of sanding and shaping to do.
The seat part of the body work is a beautiful shape and this was enjoyable trying to get right.
The forks are a very different set up to your conventional front end which is another awesome feature of this bike, I've sculpted the shape to what I think is ok.
There is a pink mudguard which I will make from balsa that also goes on the forks.
Here's the last pics from yesterday, I've since added some more shape to the side of the tank so it flows more correctly to the fairing, the tank section and fairing isn't all one piece in real life, he just made the diecast like that as it was easier.
But I have to make the fairing separate to the tank because of fixing points.
I've also shaped the back mudguard, removed the large piece of excess since these pics.
I know not many people like the motor bikes that were made for scalextric but I really enjoy them so i hope you don't mind me posting this little build.
Cheers
I'm waiting on a few things to start my next car build so I'm giving something a little different a go.
One of the most iconic bike builders in my life time is the late John Britten from my home town Christchurch NZ.
If you've never seen it or heard of it, the thing is a piece of genius created from the man's very own hand, look his story up.
So sad the dreaded C took him way too early.
I have collected a few Moto GP bikes from ebay that have damage and using the frame, wheels and cutting up the fairings to then shape with milliput.
The bike is very unusual and I'm going to do my best to make it look right with the shape of the chassis etc completely different to the GP bikes.
I have a diecast model of it which got damaged years ago (I will fix it) they only sold a limited run of these so I'm stoked I have one.
Here's all the donner parts.
I cut the fairings up but made sure I kept the mounting screw holes in tact otherwise I have no way of fitting to the chassis, moulding the milliput to the shapes I'll need has been a challenge and there's still a lot to of sanding and shaping to do.
The seat part of the body work is a beautiful shape and this was enjoyable trying to get right.
The forks are a very different set up to your conventional front end which is another awesome feature of this bike, I've sculpted the shape to what I think is ok.
There is a pink mudguard which I will make from balsa that also goes on the forks.
Here's the last pics from yesterday, I've since added some more shape to the side of the tank so it flows more correctly to the fairing, the tank section and fairing isn't all one piece in real life, he just made the diecast like that as it was easier.
But I have to make the fairing separate to the tank because of fixing points.
I've also shaped the back mudguard, removed the large piece of excess since these pics.
I know not many people like the motor bikes that were made for scalextric but I really enjoy them so i hope you don't mind me posting this little build.
Cheers