W.I.P. Norton Manx 500cc #20 ''Piet Bakker''

[iceracer1]

Hey guys,

for a Dutch Contest I will make the Norton Manx 500cc from the Dutch racer 'Piet Bakker'.

The tittle of this contest is: 'If it is just Dutch or Belgian.

Here's Piet Bakker in action on his Manx.


and here on a other bike with number #33


For this model I use the kit from Revell. It's scale 1:9.








I painted the wheels a couple of weeks ago.... so they are really dry.


I try to make a lot of details. I bought some screws and bolts etc. for the engine but I try to search more because they're very expensive.

Hope you like this and comments are welcome!

Kris.

[robrex]

Great project!

[Ole_L]

Looks very interesting... looking forward to seeing more.

[Merkava]

Cool Norton! It's about time one of these showed up here... (in case ya'll don't know, I love vintage Brit Bikes!)

[Lutz-Bikes]

Hi Kris ;
Nice to see this Bike here ...
Hope ,you finish well
I have an eye on this thread ...
Greets Lutz

[iceracer1]

Finally I started to this kit.

First I wanted to add some details to the engine. So I searched for some screws and bolts etc. I found a lot of them at an sunglasses shop. I got them all for free and if I wanted more I only have to ask more

But before I started on the engine I completed the wheels:





I really like these tyres. They looks very nice and it's real soft rubber.

More to come soon!

Kris.

[Pippin1974]

Nice project!! good luck with it!

[iceracer1]

He,

today I did a lot of work on the engine.

First I scratchbuild the tumbles with real bolts and screws





Than I filled some gaps in the engine with some putty. After that I painted in Light gun metall.

I also addes some screws on the engine.

Than it was time for the cilinderhead. First I painted it black and than the outside in matt aluminium.

The valvecap was painted in flat black. I added the tumbles and the valvesprings. I also added some screws on it.











Hope you like it.

Kris.

[rrutherford]

cool work, I like these older kits, boy for a stump puller they really used to fly in their day.

Rod

[iceracer1]

Today I painted the frame in Gloss Black.

I also made the carburator. I really like the clear petrol hose.











Kris.

[proosen]

Looking good!
I like the way you made the engine look.

Niclas

[iceracer1]

After a long time I picked up the Norton again.

I looked at the instructions and saw I had to wire the engine. But before I did that, I picked up the fuel tank.

The racingbikes in the 50's sometime had a aluminium strip with holes in the lenght of the tank. Like this:



On this fuel tank there was also a strip molded on but this one had not those holes. So I removed the molded strip:

Before:


After:


With a piece of masking tape I looked how big the new strip must be:


Cutted it out of a sheet styrene:


marked where the holes must be drilled:


and drilled them out:


and glued it on the tank:


When the tank is painted I'll add some BMF on the strip.

After this I wired the engine:






After this I made the cap (don't know how it's called in english) with the Norton badge on it.

First I removed the molded screws and added some bmf on the norton logo.
Than I primed it and removed the primer from the logo, so it was chrome again. Than I sprayed it black and did the same handling as before with the logo. The pics are taken with max. zoom so this logo looks a bit crappy but when you see it in real it looks 10 times better

When the paint was dry, I drilled some 1mm holes in it for the real screws.
And than I added the screws. I think it looks really great





And placed it on the engine


Now I think I'll make some parts like the tank and mudguards ready to paint.
I also will try to make the #20 decals for the numbersheelds.

A little feedback is welcome!

Kris.

[Merkava]

Sweet Norton! You're doing a nice job on this classic

[iceracer1]

I changed the plans. I have not enough time to finish it before march, so I'll make this one stock. I decided to stop with the dutch contest.

I don't wanna screw this one so it's better to stop the contest and make it slowly further.

Kris.

[KTem]

Nice work, Piet.