AF Suzuki Katana Multiple WIP Thread

[ales]

Nice to see some of you have already started this!

I have the kit now but I probably won't have time to do anything with it until next week. In the meantime I've change the thread title now that we (sort of) know what we're doing

[cinqster]

1/6th tank painted.





Forgotton how good the 1/6th version is - I'd put it down as Tamiya's best big bike model.

Pity I only have the Japanese instructions! LOL!

[depinho]

ohhhhhhhhhh Great !!!!

I have just bought my Katana at HobbySearch, but the kit should take about 20 days to arrive...

[gionc]

Originally Posted by depinho

ohhhhhhhhhh Great !!!!

I have just bought my Katana at HobbySearch, but the kit should take about 20 days to arrive...

Mine would be in my hands in a few

Meanwhyle I'm playing with crazy ideas: I would like a 100% stress release-full creativity nut job, but can't stop to re watch the fine and elegant tuned things you posted....

but at last I think I wouldn't live with those prehistoric frame and with only 100HP..... incidentally I have to convert a 1/12 Porsche RSR turbo on one athmospheric SC group 4 so... I would have a full huge 1/12 turbine.... if only I find room.....

[cinqster]

Don't worry Fabiano, I'm the slowest builder you'll ever see!
Nice website you've got there - can't read a word of it, but nice all the same!

[cinqster]

Originally Posted by gionc

Mine would be in my hands in a few

Meanwhyle I'm playing with crazy ideas: I would like a 100% stress release-full creativity nut job, but can't stop to re watch the fine and elegant tuned things you posted....

but at last I think I wouldn't live with those prehistoric frame and with only 100HP..... incidentally I have to convert a 1/12 Porsche RSR turbo on one athmospheric SC group 4 so... I would have a full huge 1/12 turbine.... if only I find room.....

Hope you're going to have some fun putting the rain gutters back on, Gionc?

[DOCQUINO]

Originally Posted by cinqster

Cool...this could be like a 'Katana World Cup' (just hope England doesn't have its usual poor performance!) :o)

Doc, any good modelshops in Cordoba? Heading over there for a few days, late September!

Not very good shops, but there are 2 not bad, "los Guillermos", near Tendillas Sqare (the Center of Cordoba) and "Ala Delta" in Diego serrano Street. If you come here, call me and perhaps we could see us.

I´m gratey surprised of how does this is growing up, and I´ve not my katana in hands and cant start i yet. I have a 750 new katana too, started but a lot of time ago, perhaps I built it at the same time, one stock and the 1100 heavily modified. Im thinking about to wear big wired wheels and a heavy fork from an NR 750.
Something like this:

Or this one:

But wired and chrome wheels like these:

But not really decided yet....

[rallymaster]

Originally Posted by gionc

Mine would be in my hands in a few

Meanwhyle I'm playing with crazy ideas: I would like a 100% stress release-full creativity nut job, but can't stop to re watch the fine and elegant tuned things you posted....

but at last I think I wouldn't live with those prehistoric frame and with only 100HP..... incidentally I have to convert a 1/12 Porsche RSR turbo on one athmospheric SC group 4 so... I would have a full huge 1/12 turbine.... if only I find room.....

Also thought to it myself for a moment, seeing that pic

There are many possibilities, shorten wheelbase... Or lengthen it, btw with turbo or not

But mine will finaly more look like this one or something close to that... That's the look that's inspiring me... For the moment, let's see in a 15/20 days when kit arrives.

[gionc]

I quickly sketched on DOQUINO pict my thoughts..... they need to be well designed in the pipe subframe area, my inspiration would be the Ducati 888 upper frame, the two swing arms backing and their own design needs to be imagined better, but at least I would like to achieve something similar: one atomic mix of Katana style and italian traditions

Do you think I can close up a ducati or guzzi twin inside the Suzuki L4?

[CrateCruncher]

Gawd! I almost fell off my chair when I saw that thing - then realized it was two different bikes. Gio, I think you should build it but also add that 930 turbo somewhere under the seat! It could double as a seat warmer when you ride in the Alps.

The wheels and rubber in your Tesi kit would look good on it too. (My 916 kit is dangerously close to being pilfered while this project is going on...)

[cinqster]

Nearly talked myself out of the factory stock look tonight. Tried the 1/6th NSR500 wheels and tyres from that dreadful Italeri Rossi kit. Made me laugh for about 30 minutes then decided that the pure Katana styling is actually quite refreshing after nearly 30 years. Factory stocker it is!

But yes, that three seater look is rediculous!

[gionc]

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But yes, that three seater look is rediculous![/quote]

I guess it is in the Suzuki DNA

My first "bike" was a Suzuki 400 Burgman sccoter, I done I guess one million Km with the wife and the small daughter closed up in the middle , and my mate done the pair with his burgman (we looked as the "Chips") with his wife and the small daughter as the wurtel in the hot-dog

@C.C.: actually it is not two bike stiched but just few copy/paste and some vectors on PSD

[DOCQUINO]

Mine could be something like this one:


But a stock version from 1983, with 16´front wheel and 17* rear, same as the new katana seems attractive too.

1982 (large wheel but not the same pattern as first series and tamiya´s)





1983 with 16-17´wheels and upper handlebar:
Same wheels than the 1985 new katana, which tamiya´s kit could be donor:


And 1985 new katana



I¨m in doubt now....
Start rating the thread if you like it.....

Someone loves this bike...me too...

[CrateCruncher]

Hey Doc, that first photo with the hot girl behind it is the first one I've ever seen with a shortened seat. Looks like they put a smaller wheel on the front but didn't change the wheelbase or rake angle. Interesting bike. And then there's the Imola green frame - I have a Protar 750 Sport in 1/9th that just needs decals and a fairing, or the Tamiya 1/12th 900SS that needs a lot more bits to get there. If somebody made a decent transkit for the Tamiya I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

Cinq, I did my 1/6th stock too. It's such a nice kit I don't think I could bash it either. BTW, I pulled my 1/6th out of the case today and it's surprisingly not all that bad considering when I built it. (It's HUGE!) If you think it interests you I'll take a pic or two and post them in the completed section.

[depinho]

cinqster, thank you for visit my website, i am working in the english version !

Good news. Hobby Search send me an email today. My Katana posted!!!