this is how i took a lego kit for a bmw m1000rr and changed it to make it look just
like my customized s1000rr i bought this bmw motorcycle lego kit to give myself something
to do recovering from heart surgery it's actually for the m1000rr so you can see it's got the white
panels it's kind of red white and blue graphics so i thought while i'm doing this why not make it
a little bit more close to what i actually ride so here's the changes i made to the model as it
is to make it more like my actual s1k and to do this i bought some carbon fiber vinyl wrap some
different testers model paints and paint brushes there's still quite a few parts outstanding but
i made pretty good progress there's a wheel assembly that's the other one front forks
and then the bulk of it this is the actual bike assembly you can see it comes off that stand
and this is kind of a look at what the structure of it is so far you can see even the gold chain
sprocket rotor back there swing arm the level of detail in this is pretty
amazing you can see that by rotating the chain and sprocket on the back
if you look up to the front you can see all the gears turning in the transmission case in there
and if you look closely those yellow pistons coming up as you go and this is an i4 cylinder
configuration and it's just another view you can see those pistons popping up my bike has a much
more simplified now that i put the akra full titanium system on so a more accurate design
would just be a single pipe that comes back to the exhaust can but i'm obviously not going to
redesign the entire lego model just trying to stick with the more cosmetic items and this is
about as far as i could get before i have to start actually modifying the parts with paint or wrap
to make it look more like mine the first one being the blue rear caliper which on my bike is black
now i have a nice black caliper instead of a blue one there now the swing arm on my bike is actually
a polished aluminum this is just gray but you have other things like rotors and sprockets that
are more of a polished look on the real bike so i just left that gray i did cut the sticker off here
so it would not include the bmw m1000rr logo instead it just has the kind of blackout look for
that centerpiece to mimic what the actual swing arm looks like i'll start with the gold paint
and the only thing that needs to be gold that's not is these dark silver forks i've already put
the olins on my s1k so i'm gonna go ahead and do those in gold i will leave the bottom one silver
now while the gold front forks are drying i'm going to attempt
to paint this rear shock spring yellow the trick is that it's going to be very hard to get it
completely yellow without getting yellow on the parts inside of it
i also put a little oval of it on both sides of both wheels so i can kind of mimic the bst uh logo
like on the real bike now you can see the yellow coil spring right in there in the rear shock
the gold forks are in place suspension is actually functional it's a working shock and the front ones
they actually work too front wheel in place next will be the brake calipers and either the m blue
so i'm going to paint those parts black before i put them all together all right just painted the
caliper parts for the front brakes in black the original 2010 bmw s1000rr were gold calipers but
i've since replaced them with monoblock brembos that are black so i'm painting them to match that
now we have gold forks with black front calipers black rear caliper and the yellow rear spring
what i've been doing is trying to build the sub assemblies laid out these which don't have to
be painted at all or anything these are the tank parts that are going to go across here
so i know that all these need to be painted silver so i've got those broke out i can do that now
now while the silver paint's drying these white parts that go on the back the tail section
those i'm going to wrap with carbon fiber vinyl wrap now the pattern will be a little
bit bigger than what we want for a bike at that scale but it'll be the closest thing to
getting as realistic a look to my bike as i can and i cut out a piece just a little bit
bigger than the first part i'm going to try to wrap first thing is to peel the back off
now we just want to cut it all flush on the bottom
there's the first vinyl wrapped part there's the next piece and you can see i made a cutout
in there for that so the vinyl doesn't jack with the ability to put that piece on the silver tank
parts are starting to come together that's looking good and then there's some black kind of carbon
fiber and stuff that's just part of the kit the vinyl wrap part of the tail section looks good
but you can see on the edges it's white and on the underneath a little bit
so i'm just going to get the black model paint out touch that up so it looks a little bit cleaner
while i've got the black paint out the foot controls are silver on this one
i've changed mine to the attack rear set so those need to be black
as well so i'll just go ahead and do those while i'm at it
now the tail section looks better that the white accents have been blacked out and the foot
controls are now all black like they should be now the actual bike has a carbon fiber tank cover
so i took that silver tank top not tanked up like a shirt a gas tank top and put some carbon fiber
wrap on the front as well as wrap the front of the silver on the tank here so now when i put it
together it'll be more realistic to the silver tank with the carbon fiber tank cover one big
difference is that the m1000rr has the headlights sort of tucked down inside at the bottom and you
can see these clear lenses where those would go so i'm going to cover those with the black carbon
fiber vinyl wrap and somehow make the headlights up higher where they are on my actual bike
there we go now the quote unquote headlights from before our carbon fiber wrapped so it'll blend in
more with the body parts this is the windscreen on the front fairing pieces from the factory with the
white and the red and blue accents it's got to go on that piece the first thing i do in vinyl
wrapping is cut a piece you know a little bit bigger than the actual part i'm going to wrap
once i have the backing off i lay the piece kind of in the center lay it down rock it back and
forth and then i'm basically taking the razors and just cutting the edges where i want them
but for say something like this edge i'll cut it a little bit differently because i want to wrap
it up around you're not going to get it completely vinyl wrapped and i'm still going to have to touch
up with black paint but i'm trying to get the bulk of it i can with the wrap and there's that piece
as i'm starting to get these black panels ready that go at the bottom of the bike even though
they're already black i want them to be carbon fiber because that's how the actual bike is
so i'm going to go ahead and wrap them as well they won't need to touch up because
they're black on the back side these individual pieces as i start getting them ready to assemble
you can see how much the carbon fiber dresses up the black part front fender in place with all the
parts carbon fiber wrapped carbon fiber wrapped headlight housing front fairing whatever you
want to call it wind screen even the little rear stand is somewhat functional it's got
rubber tires on a wheel and they move the new m model has those carbon winglets on it
so for the assembly where the carbon winglets are included i had to kind of reverse out those pieces
and remove them so that i ended up with just the structures for the panels you can see
that upper fairing piece in place and again no winglets to match my bicarbonate fiber on the
headlight housing and the upper fairing and under the lower fairing and all that carbon fiber kind
of coming together parts are all assembled definitely has more of a realistic look with
the carbon fiber wrap everywhere and all the parts painted black where they needed to be
so the only thing i'm waiting on now is a few more custom paints to just do a little bit more
detail work on it to make it look like the real thing now i want to add the german flag
strips down here and vinyl to the bike to match the original starting with two full width chunks
of red which is the middle color and then i'll come across the top with a strip of black
bottom with a strip of yellow it's all going to be tapered like on the actual bike and then
i'll chop it down to size there's the layered strips now i'm going to cut them down into one
tapered size for each side and obviously two different sides means you got to make
them a mirror so the black red yellow is still the same pattern top to bottom
there's the two layered strips and now i need to cut the ax logo out of this to match the original
and there's the german flag vinyl strips on both sides and while i'm down here brandon
the legos won't actually show this level of detail with the way they're structured but
on my bike we have what's kind of a trademark of the s1k are those gills that you see on this side
the one big triangle you'd see on this side so i'm going to try to recreate that with black vinyl and
see if i can achieve kind of that recognizable look granted it's a little hard to see and i'll
probably be the only one that ever knows it's there but you can see the three slits in there to
form the gills on the right side the triangle on the left side this little clear piece of plastic
is supposed to represent the oil fill level and it goes right here according to the model
but that's because they changed it from my model which has it down here on this side
so i'm going to put it down here and now you can see it's got an oil fill lens closer to where it
is on the actual bike the next thing i'm going to do is put the more accurate headlights on
remember the kit came with them down here i've covered that area up with the carbon fiber wrap
so i'm going to take some white vinyl and put the round headlight and the more trapezoidal one over
here and while i've got the white vinyl wrap out i'm also going to use it to start making the dash
display there's the two headlights in white vinyl there's the more accurate lopsided headlights
and a little piece of red vinyl for a tail light since these are all fancy digital gauge displays
from the m-bike they wouldn't be suitable for mine so there's just kind of a simple rendition of what
my gauge would look like on this bike model the headlights are a little bit blah being just all of
the white i'm just going to throw a little bit of silver in there just to give them some dimension
there now they kind of have a little bit more of a look just a little bit of texture to them
to liven them up from the plain white now since my bike doesn't have the little bmw
badge there anymore they have the chrome ax i'm going to try to paint on sort of an axe looking
logo with the silver paint kind of an ax shape with what i have to work with here
i've got brembo painted on the front calipers i've got the little brembo b on the rear caliper
i've got the bst in red on the yellow logo on the wheels silver tank carbon fiber wrapped panels
gills in the side the axe with the s1k and the no limits no regrets german flag graphics down
at the bottom old 2010 style headlights oil sight glass on the left side of the bike foot controls
painted black to match the attack rear sets gold forks black calipers with brembo logos
yellow olin's rear shock spring and the lego kit is done even down to the
little painted details on it to kind of make graphically looking like my actual s1000rr bike
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