Front mudguard/fender

GORDON BROWN · Post by **GORDON BROWN** » Wed Sep 09, 2015 3:18 pm

Hello

Modelman, from the photos your mudguard looks just like a Honda CB72/77 one ! e-bay look out. Excellent work. Tell me please does the grey thing in the corner of the garage have anything to do with it ?

Gordon

SAFOJ

BTW, the Corgi looks great, you can see where Honda got the Monkey idea from,

Steverino · Post by **Steverino** » Wed Sep 09, 2015 9:42 pm

Is that a die or mold lurking in the garage?

modelman · Post by **modelman** » Fri Sep 11, 2015 9:15 am

Managed to buy a small amount of 1 mm steel sheet from a local garage yesterday, made a card template & 'guesstimated' the shape from photos, snipped it out, bent it up, a little bit of welding, hammering filing & priming etc. Just about to spray it when my compressor decided to blow up & spread itself all over the workshop!!

Had to get out the backup rattle-can to paint it, I'll remove it & do it properly once I've repaired/renewed the compressor.
I don't think its a million miles away in the looks department.

Steverino · Post by **Steverino** » Fri Sep 11, 2015 10:59 am

ModelMan
I think you should make some metalworking how-to videos. I would watch.
Steve

modelman · Post by **modelman** » Tue Sep 15, 2015 10:05 am

Change of plan, I was going to have a go at rubber-casting the tail-piece, but several items needed buying to get it all going, so I decided to 'have a go' using junk I had laying about in the man-cave!
A sheet steel support was cut out & fabricated from the chain-guard off cuts, painted up & bolted to the rear fender.
Carved the tail from wood offcuts, then thermo-formed the part from scrap ABS sheet, not too sure about the textured finish though, don't look too bad from about 20 feet away however!!

G-Man · Post by **G-Man** » Tue Sep 15, 2015 10:22 am

Amazing...... :-)

G

modelman wrote:Change of plan, I was going to have a go at rubber-casting the tail-piece, but several items needed buying to get it all going, so I decided to 'have a go' using junk I had laying about in the man-cave!
A sheet steel support was cut out & fabricated from the chain-guard off cuts, painted up & bolted to the rear fender.
Carved the tail from wood offcuts, then thermo-formed the part from scrap ABS sheet, not too sure about the textured finish though, don't look too bad from about 20 feet away however!!

Steverino · Post by **Steverino** » Tue Sep 15, 2015 10:48 am

ditto what G said