Revell Triumph Tiger

Hello, I'am new to the forum and i'll shear my latest project: a Revell Triumph Tiger 100 at 1:8 scale. This is not a very good quality kit, so a lot of work.

http://koti.mbnet.fi/jylhami/mallit/DSC_9504_pikku.jpg

http://koti.mbnet.fi/jylhami/mallit/DSC_9506_pikku.jpg

I love the bike and I love what you have done with it. Very nice work :thumbsup:

I didn't know this kit existed and I'd very much like to get one now that I do! :)

Hi,

I prefer modern bikes, what what you did is absolutely great: nice details and weathering - convincing result !

Loooove old bikes (really all bikes but prefer old). I like it a lot, very good job. We would have preferred a progresss, but next one perhaps...? Wellcome to the forum.

I love the bike and I love what you have done with it. Very nice work :thumbsup:

I didn't know this kit existed and I'd very much like to get one now that I do! :)

Me too!
Not quite my Daytona 675 but it's still a Triumph and a beautifully made model!

Thanks for the positive feedback !

I love old motorcycles, i own an old Brittish AJS 16M model 1952 wich will be restored when i have my garage ready.

The next project will be another Triumph from Revell kit, but i will make a old style front and also modify it as a speed twin. Here is the engine under construction:

http://koti.mbnet.fi/jylhami/mallit/eng_01.jpg

Me too!
Not quite my Daytona 675 but it's still a Triumph and a beautifully made model!

Me too...very nice indeed! Trying to locate a kit now!:smokin:

Can't think of any necessary visual improvements. At a push, maybe re-spoking the wheels and a turned alloy carb intake.

If this was a poor quality kit, it sure doesn't show in the finished model. You did beautiful work here. What a great looking bike. How did you connect the ignition wires to the sparkplugs?

Excellent Tiger build Jylhami! I've seen that kit and it is really crude which makes the work even more impressive in my opinion. But I too am scratching my noggin' wondering why a guy at your level left the spokes stock? Time constraint? Anyway, welcome to AF.

P.S. Your photo's are quite nice too. I'm looking forward to more!

Thanks again for a warm welcome to the forum :)

And indeed this kit really is a mess, but it is a good base to start with !

I have had more than 20 hours only cleaning the frame to even look like the real one. All chrome was also stripped away and painted with alclad II chrome.

Also the plastic is weird, the revell liquid glue does not seem to fix the parts well.

I would like to respoke the wheels, but the centers won't let it, so i will make new centers for the wheels.

Now i also need to start practice to make silicone moulds myself, for example i want the rubber kneepads to be separate parts to ease the paintjob on the gastank.

Some progress:

The engine mount drill:

http://koti.mbnet.fi/jylhami/mallit/engine_mount_01.jpg

...and cleanup:

http://koti.mbnet.fi/jylhami/mallit/engine_mount_02.jpg

Fitting the engine to the frame:

http://koti.mbnet.fi/jylhami/mallit/frame_01.jpg

I dont know what to say, im speechless....
That bike its just perfect, that is THE BIKE.

What a beauty!

Incredible result with the touches you added. I really appreciate this old kit and I also have a race version somewhere in the Forum.
Sincere congratulations
Aldo

Incredible result with the touches you added. I really appreciate this old kit and I also have a race version somewhere in the Forum.
Sincere congratulations
Aldo

Can you find it for us Aldo...I'd like to see it please!:)

Hi Cinqster,

You can find Aldo's Triumph at the finished models section: http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=978076

Looove this bike, I have a 1:1 bonneville, but this one likes more. Impressive work from that kit (mould has.....years). Please post more of your work.
I like to see you the same guys when an old bike appears, Perhaps the same preferences? he, he. Really glad.

Thanks for the kind words !

I will make a new thread for the Triumph Speed twin when i get the Yamaha done. Now there is just too much to work :headshake

BTW: I have an 1:1 AJS 16M 1952, would make a perfect scratch build project in the near future...

Not many old bikes (racer or street) in the forum, some of them:
http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=973168
http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/t936778.html
http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=449414
http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=884939
http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=937461
http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=623143
http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=666386