Regular readers (if any) will know I am not afraid of spoking wire wheels at 1/12 scale. The Alfa P2 (192 spokes), Auto Union Type C (224 spokes), Ferrari 156 (288 spokes) and the Honda RC166 (72 spokes) all went together reasonably well for a lifetime total of 776 spokes so far. So perhaps I could be forgiven for thinking another 72 spokes on this Honda RC110 would be, if not necessarily a breeze, at most a moderate challenge.
The wheel consists of two photoetched rims, joined to the hubs by a pair of sacrificial strips. Spokes are cut from 0.25 mm wire provided, bent and glued to little grooves etched in the PE piece. The first row goes on OK but subsequent rows involve knocking earlier spokes off. So as you get to the last of 18, each spoke involves one step forward, three back. Bah.
Then once you've got two half-rims done, you stick them together with a plastic hub in the middle. It is sad that I have had to rely on great gobs of 5 minute epoxy to (hopefully) hold the first 36 spokes together.
(The rear wheel is yet to be started). It's been blocking me for a while so it's now headed for the Shelf of Doom to reflect.
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