[Tibbs]

Small progress, not had a lot of time the last couple of days.
A little more milliputt applied to the fairing, now I need to carefully shape the tank area.
Removed a lot of excess from the rear mudguard.
   
I made the little suspension spring which sits in front of the motor.
I cut a couple of really small eyebolts and a small piece of ali tube, the top bits that sit on the springs were tiny windows for boat modelling.
They even had little plastic in them for glass, there's a model shop closing in Portsmouth and I've been stocking up on small unusual bits. I really dislike internet shopping for things like this as I prefer to have the bits in my hand to see if they're right.
It's really sad and frustrating that we are loosing these shops.
   
   
Now I need to figure out the rods that fix the shock to the engine mount.
   
Hopefully get a bit of time on it over the weekend.

[Carver]

Amazing!  

Carver

[Tibbs]

Amazing!  

Carver

Cheers Carver,
it's coming along and it's really enjoyable.

[Scuderia_Turini]

Yeah when you need something like that its ideal to be able to examine what you are buying or else you end up buying stuff on-line in the hope that it is what the images make it look like. In some respects though the latter is a bit like the old days when we bought stuff by "mail-order".

Well done in "boldly going" into a new slot-racing world with this.

Leo

[KensRedZed]

Tibbs,

This is absolutely amazing stuff! 

Cheers,
Ken

[Tibbs]

Yeah when you need something like that its ideal to be able to examine what you are buying or else you end up buying stuff on-line in the hope that it is what the images make it look like. In some respects though the latter is a bit like the old days when we bought stuff by "mail-order".

Well done in "boldly going" into a new slot-racing world with this.

Leo

You explained it exactly how I wanted to Leo, you can never tell proper scale by pictures in my opinion.
In the picture of me holding the spring, it looks bigger than it is and yes it did fly across my bench a couple of times fitting it
Thanks, I'm looking forward to seeing how it rides with the added weight with the Milliput, I'm hoping I've got the weight equal enough.
Be no good if it wants to wheelie

[Tibbs]

Tibbs,

This is absolutely amazing stuff! 

Cheers,
Ken

Thank you Ken, I really appreciate it.
I think it's going to be pretty cool, I was going to spend a few hours on it tonight but I was doing some more clearing out of my garage and tripped and went for a burton.
I've got a big dent in my shin which is a little saw.
Cheers

[turbo d]

I was lucky enough to see the real Britten race at the IOM in 1993 and 1994 , 
The bike was on display in one of the high street shops in the evening such an innovative design. 
The film One mans dream is well worth watching 
Good luck with your build i shall watch with interest.

[Tibbs]

I was lucky enough to see the real Britten race at the IOM in 1993 and 1994 , 
The bike was on display in one of the high street shops in the evening such an innovative design. 
The film One mans dream is well worth watching 
Good luck with your build i shall watch with interest.

It is an amazing thing to see in real life, IOM would have been great.
I had the VHS of the film and lent it to someone and funny enough never got it back.
Cheers re build

[Tibbs]

A little bit of progress at the end of the week, had a horrible cold which haven't had one for over 3 years. 
Hopefully thats my fill for a while.

I've made the separate fancy front mudguard.
Cut a slice of balsa and drew the rough shape, then used a carver's chisel to start and then did most of it with the dremel.
It's a bit of a brain scratcher trying to get curve shapes as this thing has subtle curves in all directions.
I've got it to a stage I'm happy and just need to add a bit of milliput on the tip and need to shape it carefully, can anyone recommend small sanding pads that aren't big and cumbersome?
   
   
I wanted to remove the motor to shape some of the chassis but realised I couldn't as I've milliput the mudguard as one and the motor mounts are sandwich in between  with two bolts but the problem is there's a plastic nib in the middle of them which I should have grinded away.
So a bit of head scratching and I decided to cut down the middle of the mudguard where the join is and then I was able the use the scalpel to remove the nib.
Filled the cut mark and now I can remove the two bolts and slide it out when I need to.
   
   
   
Gotta go and tend to mothers day curry, I'll post some more tonight if I'm not out in the shed.
cheers