Another Triumph Tiger 1/8 scale

Hello everybody,

here is my Triumph Tiger build from the reissued Revell kit in 2004.
The kit is larger than 1/8 scale, must be 1/7 or so. It is a kit from the late sixties
or seventies.
An orgy in chrome- tank , engine-everything !

Excuse the first poor quality photos , when I build the bike I only had a 1.2mp camera.

http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/85/5480285/3131653966363139.jpg

Revell must have used a custom bike to get their model from. The shape of the tank
is wrong and also the seat. Infact there were more version of the bike: a ´60 ties Custom bike and two versions of a bare bones drag bike.
Also a trike was issued.

I corrected the too narrow shape of the seat with a triangular insert of plastic sheet. I used the Italeri Triumph 350 Military bike kit as an orientation.

http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/85/5480285/3133373139346231.jpg (http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/85/5480285/3133373139346231.jpg)

On the left is the Revell seat and on the right the Italeri seat.

http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/85/5480285/3362626464386438.jpg

Here the corrected seat.

http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/85/5480285/3464663565373666.jpg

The wheels were respoked with 0.5mm silver wire. Now I use insect pins and brass tube for the spoke ends.

The cylinder fins were build from scratch. Thank fully Mr. Kinichi karube from http://kimshouse7015.com/ (http://kimshouse7015.com/)
sent me his drawings for the cylinder fins. I printed them on self adesive paper and put that on a sheet of 0.4mm aluminium.
Then I cut out the seperate fins.

http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/85/5480285/3539353666616533.jpg

The shape of the tank- which is too short was also corrected according to Mr. Karubes build.

Here is a mockup during construction:

http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/85/5480285/6433653930366130.jpg

Now on with better quality pictures of the finished model:

http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/85/5480285/6638376164306530.jpg

From the left:

http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/85/5480285/6331623561623365.jpg


From the right

http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/85/5480285/3234636339303930.jpg

Details of the engine, the exhaust pipes were bent from solid 5mm alu rod!

Engine covers shot with Alclad chrome.

http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/85/5480285/3931643433653132.jpg

The rear wheel. New struts for the fender made of 1,2mm steel rod with flattened ends.
Brake linkage mad of silver wire and aluminium sheet.
The seat´s springs also from silver wire.

http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/85/5480285/3535353038386134.jpg

The right side of the engine. Also shot with Alclad chorme. Self made LUCAS battery sticker.
The seat was covered with thin leather and finished off with rivets.

http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/85/5480285/6264666634653337.jpg

I printed out photoreduced copies of real instrument dials. The shape of the Lamp housing is also wrong, but I noticed it too late. It looks more like an ant´s head.
New handlebars were bent from 3 mm polished alu rod. I wanted to make a new tank rack by soldering silver wire. This attempt failed and I used the kit´s part.

Hope you like it.
Also to increase the number of vintagebikes in this forum!

Uli

Hi Uli,

Nice work on a such a crappy crafted kit.
Lot of details added, i had no reference photos when i build my bike and afterwards it looks pretty awful with all the little mistakes. (transmission position, brake and clutch levers, tank, chains, saddle and it's springs etc...)
I will try to respoke the wheels someday.

Nice Protarguy! I love the scratch head fins. Someday I would like to pull out all the stops on the Revell (Airfix) Vincent Black Shadow but I have so many projects....

Gorgeous job! I too love the barrel and head fins...got the same job to do for my Porsche RS60 project, but I keep putting it off! :eek:

Extreme top notch model, you did an amazing job bringing this to life.

i am finding a MB880 in Arabic version in ufodiag company , be happy and excited , it can work well , they service is good . if have chance in future ,would like to cooperate with ufodiag again :grinno:

i am finding a MB880 in Arabic version in ufodiag company , be happy and excited , it can work well , they service is good . if have chance in future ,would like to cooperate with ufodiag again :grinno:
If it makes you happy- go for it- what has it to do with this thread?:dunno::dunno:

Uli