Lockdown Kit Tamiya Honda CB750F Display Engine

[nigelpugh7]

This is something different for me to my usual builds!

[generationx]

Lovely! Watching with interest!

[nigelpugh7]

generationx said:

Lovely! Watching with interest!

Don’t expect too much from me, as I said I’m not a really skilled plastic model builder.

I’ve been taking inspiration from this guys Tamiya builds.

Check out this Kawasaki Ninja!

[gruffgriff]

If the contemporary Tamiya 1/12 750F bike kit is anything to go by, you'll have a blast with that!
This was a joy:

[MBBlat]

Did the engine plus bike a couple of years ago
Tamiya CB750F_11 by MBBlat, on Flickr
Complete model, with biker chic for the PH masses
Tamiya Honda CB750F_23 by MBBlat, on Flickr

Worst part was trying to re-chrome the exhausts, if you leave the factory chrome on you get an unsightly seam line along the top.

[Turn7]

I owned both the 750 and 900 in that exact colour.....cheap bikes in their day......

[nigelpugh7]

gruffgriff said:

If the contemporary Tamiya 1/12 750F bike kit is anything to go by, you'll have a blast with that!
This was a joy:

Yes I watched a build video of one of those too.

Yours looks a fantastic model too, well done on making it look so true to life!

[nigelpugh7]

MBBlat said:

Did the engine plus bike a couple of years ago
Tamiya CB750F_11 by MBBlat, on Flickr
Complete model, with biker chic for the PH masses
Tamiya Honda CB750F_23 by MBBlat, on Flickr

Worst part was trying to re-chrome the exhausts, if you leave the factory chrome on you get an unsightly seam line along the top.

Looks superb, and it was that very colour of bike that I remembered from back in the day when I first started riding bikes.

We used to spend ages in the big bike shop in Birmingham just looking at bikes like that, could never afford one back then though.

Happy memories.

[nigelpugh7]

Turn7 said:

I owned both the 750 and 900 in that exact colour.....cheap bikes in their day......

Lucky man, I bet you wish you still had them now.

Best I ever got back then was a 400/4, lovely little bike, always fun to ride.