Protar Paris-Dakar BMW 1000GS 1/9 scale FINISHED (PICS)

I must say that having spent the better part of my life in the industry, what I'm seeing from your pictures here looks like something someone would be bringing in to the shop.

Outstanding realism and attention to the details.

Regards, PWB.

That's just unreal, Karel. Surely the finest representation of an offroad motorcycle that I've ever seen built!

I made a start with the wires and cables.

Karel

No thank you for your compliments

Karel

Your build on this bike is an inspiration.

Thank you

Dr

Thanks Karl, your words are a great motivation for me, especially because your builds are the best around in my opinion.

I hope some day i can order a full scale HPN BMW in this configuration

Karel

My god, Karel--if you didn';t post these in-progress shots, I'd swear that you were photographing your real bike and posting it as a model!

This looks freakin' AMAZING. I'm BLOWN AWAY!

Thanks Josh,

In the meantime i finished the rear fender, the numberplates and the waterbottles

The waterbottles, with home made straps.

I mounted a reflector and two lightbulbs in the light housing, and attached an electrocable.

I scratched a piece of aluminium plate for the license number

The rear fender ready

And mounted

Karel

Wow, absolutely stunning build! Definitely signing up for updates on this one.

Josh

The front mudguard is ready.

Karel

Karel,

WOW, that;'s pretty cool that you guys took the enterprising steps of actually forming your own parts and are selling them! My DRZ is a 2006--but I'm sure that it's pretty close to the '04 model--they haven't changed them that much. However, that carb and Yoshi setup would make yours a lot snappier than my blue bike---but I doubt you would catch me on my RMX,. lol!

Right now I have to put a top endin one RMX, and do a bottom-end rebuild in the other! OY! Lots of work to keep me busy for the winter!

Safe riding,and keep it on two wheels! I'll be watching your build here!

Good to hear, another Suzuki rider

I think we have exactly the same model and year DRZ, i bought mine new in 2004 in the same colours as yours.

Together with a friend we made a mold of a rally fairing, so we can reproduce these fairings from fiberglass and sell them if people are interested.

The tank is a Aqualine safari 17Ltr tank, the cams and exhaust are from Yoshimura and i installed a Keihin FCR carb.

I use it for amateur rally`s and for offroad holiday`s, last year i went to Sweden with a couple of friends, it was great!

Thanks again for your comments on the BMW

Karel

Holy Suzuki, Karel!

Not only is my real name "Karl"--no "e", but I too own three bikes--and a DRZ400 in blue, lol! A little different configuration than yours, but still the same bike, I think?

I have two two-stroke 97 RMX250's that I race offroad in "Hare Scrambles" and Enduros.

and here's my DRZ--

How cool, huh? It looks like you have a rally set up on yours? Oversized tank? My DRZ is essentially stock--I use it for mostly road riding in the NY summers.

Again, I must say that your newest posts are just blowing me away with the realism of this model!

Thanks Joelster

Today i finished the secondary fuel tank, there was no fuel petcock in the kit so i had to scratch one.

Here i dryfitted the tank and the saddle on the frame.

Karel

Can I ride it when you are done?

Seriously, that thing looks like it is 1:1 scale. I used to race motocross for a while and the way you have the sand stuck in all of the nooks and crannies on the frame is just perfect.

Haha thanks Doog for your kind words, Lekker means nice in Dutch

I am a biker too, i own three Suzuki`s, one of them is a DRZ400, the picture below is me playing with my DRZ.

Here are some pics from the saddle.

It was a hard job to glue the foam rubber on the plastic underground, because of al the curves, but with lots of superglue it worked out.

I painted the foam with a couple of layers matt black and carefully sanded it afterwards because the structure of the foam rubber was too rough for the scale.

Karel

Karel,

As a dedicated offraod rider and racer myself, let me compliment you on the absolute realism of your modeling here. It looks like you're doing a real rebuild on an actual 1:1 bike! AMAZING!!!

The leather seat bag is just outstanding! You are a master of finishing, and I can't compliment ypou highly enough on this tremendous, realistic-looking build!

It's--how do you say it?---"Lekker!:" lol!

Just finished the fuel tank

Karel

The front end  and the wheels are mounted, and i made the leather toolbag that is mounted on the subframe.

Brake disc

The bike on its wheels

And the leather toolbag

Karel

Thanks, i use mostly mixed pastels from MIG and Tamiya, and sometimes oil paint and enamels.

Karel

man what a great build,

what did u use for the dirt, just paint?

The swingarm and rear shocks are mounted to the frame

Karel

Looking Good Karel!

The shocks are ready, i replaced the plastic piston rods with steel rods.

The parts....

And everything assembled.

Karel

Lower legs from the frontfork are ready

Brake caliper

And the legs

Karel

Things might change, but for now thats not the plan.

Cool job again!!! Do you think to make a diorama with it?

Small update; the exhaust and some other parts are finished and mounted.

Karel

Thanks Darren and Brizio,

this is a rally bike so it MUST be dirty...

I use a combination of Tamiya and MIG pastels, and enamels and sometimes a little bit oil paint.

Karel

Impressive work!!!