Another Triumph Tiger 1/8 scale

[protarguy]

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.



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.



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



Here the corrected seat.



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/
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.



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

Here is a mockup during construction:



Now on with better quality pictures of the finished model:



From the left:




From the right



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

Engine covers shot with Alclad chrome.



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.



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.



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

[jylhami]

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.

[CrateCruncher]

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....

[cinqster]

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!

[quadzero]

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

[sale02car]

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

[protarguy]

Originally Posted by sale02car

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

If it makes you happy- go for it- what has it to do with this thread?

Uli