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  • From: Ireland
* FINISHED * - kitbashed GP bike
Posted by nick31 on Friday, November 18, 2005 10:27 AM

The Project: T Harada's 1996 250 GP bike. This is the kit it'll be based on, Tamiya's 1994 Yamaha:

...and this is what its going to look like:

 

Fairing will need heavy mods. Chopped off the rear of the tail and built up a "frame" of sorts to the basic shape I'll need (apologies for the pic quality here - from a cheap phone camera)

 

Have applied Milliput to the tail and am currently sanding it down for priming. More pics soon. Any c & c or advice appreciated.

 

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, November 18, 2005 10:20 PM
Interesting bike.  I hadn't seen that particular body work before.  Good luck.  Post pics when your done.
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  • From: Ireland
Posted by nick31 on Wednesday, November 23, 2005 9:49 AM

Ive now modified the fuel tank to make it wider and flatter on top. Still working on the tail section - trying - and trying - and trying - to get a smooth finish !

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  • From: Paarl, South Africa
Posted by SeaBee on Thursday, November 24, 2005 12:14 AM
Hey Nick, you're looking at some serious re-engineering, esp at the back! Good luck - keep us posted. Thumbs Up [tup]
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Posted by nick31 on Thursday, December 1, 2005 9:06 AM

Have 99% of the tail section finished now. Theres still a few tiny, but annoying, marks that I have to fill and sand but apart from that Im very pleased with the outcome.

Waiting on some filling putty at the moment to finish it off properly.

 In the meantime, Ive started work on the main fairing. This I reckon will be actually much trickier as theres a lot of little mods to be done, not to mention getting a nice uniform finish to the relatively large side areas. More pics soon.

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Posted by howdidyoudothat on Thursday, December 1, 2005 9:54 AM

Looks like your having fun there. Keep posting your pics as you work your way through the project.

 

Bill.

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  • From: Ireland
Posted by nick31 on Friday, December 23, 2005 4:47 AM

Been working on the fairing....chopped off rear of bellypan section and built up a frame of stryene. Glued more styrene to the top of the fairing where it meets the screen to make these bits wider. Cut out right hand air intake on side of fairing. Rebuilt this with styrene.

 

Then I started with the Milliput. Covered in rear of bellypan, filled in all air intakes and slots, and filled in the join between the upper and lower fairing pieces. New join lines will have to be scribed in the correct positions.

More Milliput to the nose of the fairing to make it more pointed, and the pieces in front of the handlebars wider.

Next up is spraying but that will have to wait til we get some decent weather....

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  • From: Ireland
Posted by nick31 on Tuesday, May 23, 2006 9:42 AM

Finally got around to finishing this after many months of crappy weather (have to spray outside) 

Well pleased with the results...

Next up is an interesting NSR.....more later.

 

  • Member since
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  • From: Paarl, South Africa
Posted by SeaBee on Friday, May 26, 2006 1:36 AM
Nick, turned out super! This must have been a really rewarding build -congrats on the end result! Thumbs Up [tup]
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Posted by nick31 on Friday, May 26, 2006 5:26 AM

Cheers SeaBee,

This was the first time Id tried something like this, apart from a few mods to air intakes and such. The pics dont do the Marlboro red justice - its Tamiya flourescent red (TS36 I think ?) and it looks brilliant in daylight.

Best thing about it tho is that its totally unique.

N

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  • From: Kalmar, Sweden
Posted by joelrydh on Monday, May 29, 2006 8:05 AM

Hey, nice work! Turned out really great!

Joel

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