Production Bikes GB 06 (March 01, 2006 - March 01, 2007)

To celbrate that I posted the 100th post in this thread and to move on to page 6 and to see if there's someone left I'll post this completely unnecessary rows.

/Joel

Seat got painted the other day. What do you think? Too light?

I also started adding mesh hose for the radiator and some red throttle lines from the cylinder heads. I'm thinking of adding some sort of box for the lines to take care of valve timing and such. Perhaps a new battery as well.

/Joel

Thanks for your comments Ryan! Nice to know the group build is still alive ;-) I'm aware of the fact that the frame needs some cleaning up. Will take care of that before I mont the engine.

Joel

Did quite a bit of work today but most smaller details that won't be visible until further ahead in the WIP. What I'm about to show are the painted frame and swing arm. I chose to do both in flat black. I've used Tamiya laquer spray, wich I emptied from the can and sprayed through air brush. I did the Alclad gold and CF on the frame first, masked off and then sprayed the black. I think the filling of the frame fell out very good although it was a real pain to get it evened out as the shape of the frame is quite complex.

I've added some washers and a few rivets, none of wich is very visible in these photos.

Swing arm has got some brake line fastners wich I made out of hex rod and cut in shape. Hole shabang is then painted flat black. I was going for full CF on the mud guard but I've stripped the paint and will do it metallic grey with some CF areas.

/Joel

Using my two days off to make some progress.

I've finished off the top cowl. I painted the head light glass clear yellow and the wind screen with smoke. Had to put a lot of smoke to make a clear finish. This also made the paint run quite badly leaving me with a small dot in the middle of the screen where there's no paint. Not that visible though.
Mirrors are painted black and Alclad gold and the black areas are covered with Scale motorsport CF decals. Molded in rivets are sanded and Model Factory Hiro rivets installed. Inside of the cowling was supposed to get CF treatment but I was satisfied with flat black. I put two washers on the inside to recreate mirror fittings. Enjoy.

The lower cowl and side cowls come in one piece. On the front side of the lower cowl there is a V-shape. I've painted this one Alclad gold and installed Studio 27 mesh from the inside. Side cowls are cut on an earlier stage. Inside is painted flat black and the panel line is painted with a Gundam marker.
Sorry for the bad lighting.

Front fender is painted flat black on the inside. Two Model Factory Hiro rivets installed on each side. If you missed out on it earlier on this fender comes from a GP500 Yamaha YZR.

I testfitted the seat and tank cowls on the frame with engine installed. Frame is so far painted Alclad gold, white parts will be flat black.

Best regards
Joel

Hi Ryan
It's not the final exhaust pipe you see on the pictures. That is just a piece of scrap wood that I used when painting the muffler. Hence the golden color.

/Joel

archangel571 wrote:

hmm... Joel, I think I have commented on your exhaust before but I guess the post got lost somewhere?!!  Anyways, that CF finish and the extra work on it is off the hook.   Maybe it's the picture, but why does the exhaust pipe leading to the muffler seem to have a bottle neck look to it?  Extra backpressure will only decrease performance hehehe.

Can't be summer vacation for all of you, can it? We've had such a warm summer here, leaving me with zero tolerance for model building. As I got some days free now I'll try and get somewhere on my R1. I nearly finished the top and lower cowls today. Hopefully you'll get some pics in the morning.

/Joel

So, it's time for a minor update, the finished mufflers. These are the stages they went through.

1. Glued pieces together, cut hangers.
2. Sanded down the molded in rivets and drilled holes with .5 mm drill bit
3. Puttied, sanded, putted, sanded...
4. Painted gloss black enamel
5. Put on some SMS carbon fiber decals.
6. Painted whole shabang with Modelers' Super Clear
7. Masked off the CF area and painted the end parts Alclad II Pale gold
8. Inserted Model Factory Hiro aluminum rivets in the pre drilled holes.

The result are as follows, I personally think they turned out great.

Joel

You are getting there andrew!! This will look stunning with the cowls in place!

Joel

Progress photos of the Honda RC30 750

Andrew

Hello Joel

Thanks for compliments, I love bikes so have tons of patience, but I only post the cool bikes a few still end up in the spares box.  The rim colour is Tamiya white Surface Primer and then two coats of Tamiya TS49 Bright Red.

Yann

We don’t get Alclad in Africa so all my models are sprayed with Tamiya TS spray paints (from an airbrush not from the rattle can) or Tamiya enamel paints. I have gotten used to using Tamiya paints. I use Tamiya TS 30 Silver Leaf for most of my "shiny parts" as the finish is really good and the paint is very forgiving in that it dries to a nice shiny silver.

Andrew

Very clean and flawless as usual Andrew. You must have great patience within your building.

I love the rim color, what have you painted them with?

/joel

Progress on Ducati 916 Senna. Stalled a bit waiting for new decals.

The PE parts were great and the dics loog good as does the imp[rovemnet of the rear hub nut and clip see pictures below

Andrew

joelrydh wrote:

You're bloody right I do!! Ha ha I saw that picture and thought of cutting it but forgot.... /Joel

The image that is, not the nail....

You're bloody right I do!! Ha ha I saw that picture and thought of cutting it but forgot....

/Joel

Ok, so it's time for another larger update on my pimping project.

Engine is slowly comming together. I've painted the carburators with Alclad II Jet Exhaust, masked them off and painted details semi-gloss black and Alclad II Pale Gold. I hotted the thing up by adding some CF to the oil filter and painting the start engine Pale Gold and metallic red. I think especially the red made a stand out once installed.

I went about some CF-ing as well (hmm new word...) As it's a pimped ride, you've got to have CF. Preferably lots... My first thought was actually a full CF bike but that's way too far from my league. I decided to lift some of the parts instead. Here are pictures of one of the side cowlings together with a plate that goes between the top and side cowls. Quite a crappy image...

Next was the head light housing and that was quite fun. Took some time but I think I got more out of it than I invested. All CF parts has been painted with Tamiya Smoke and then Tamiya clear. As the acrylic paint is slow drying I made the mistake to mask off the headlights too quick for the Alclad Pale Gold treatment. This left me with some dull areas on top but I will fix that later.

Last but not least as they will be very visible on the finished project, are the rear view mirrors. These were pretty tricky and I'm not fully satisfied with the result but this is done on the first try.

I also finished off the rear damper set up. It's painted Alclad II Pale Gold and Jet Exhaust (what else??) and the spring is cowling color, Mica Red. I've added some Scale Motorsport Washers.

Last but not least (as I now you guys just want the shiny parts :nono: ) I did some progress with the cowlings. I've painted all cowling parts except the tank wit Tamiya (TS-39??) Mica Red, and the tank with Tamiya Metallic Grey. I had an incident with the side/lower cowls so they are lagging a few coats of clear and I haven't taken any pictures of those just yet. So far all cowlings has got Tamiya Primer, followed by 1 mist and 2 wet coats of paint and finally 1 mist and 4 wet coats of Modelers' "Super Clear" (an absolute favourite of mine). I'll think about adding some decals and go for a gentle sand/polish and then finish off with a couple of more clear coats.
I think the Red/Grey combo turned out very well, and I'm so far very pleased with the result. I would like to have myself a dust free area to spray in. Bloody hell those cowls attract lint and dust particles... Well well, here we go.

Bye for now and thanks for looking. Please feel free to comment, good or bad or just some crazy ideas that I should put into the project?

best regards
Joel

archangel571 wrote:

wanna join in as well?

Of coarse you shall! Brake some new frontiers, buy some gloss paints But most of all, don't bring yourself down, I've seen what you do to those armored monsters, I would never in my life step into camouflage painting... I have hell of a job concentrating on a two tone color scheme of my GP bikes...

/Joel

Yann Solo wrote:

I was sneaking in your thread and I'm really impressed.  You guys build great stuff.  This is much more difficult than building armors, I mean you must do a clean job all the way.  I can't wait to see the final results.  I have to improve my skills if I want to build such clean model.

wanna join in as well?

I was sneaking in your thread and I'm really impressed.  You guys build great stuff.  This is much more difficult than building armors, I mean you must do a clean job all the way.  I can't wait to see the final results.  I have to improve my skills if I want to build such clean model.

joelrydh wrote:

Is it just me that think that the showing of images on the forum has some flaws since the update? Now they seem to be cut in random order, not showing the whole picture until you click it. /joel

It does it to me from time to time.  I thought it was because I was using firefox.

Is it just me that think that the showing of images on the forum has some flaws since the update? Now they seem to be cut in random order, not showing the whole picture until you click it.

/joel

Time for a larger update with some paint and finished parts!!

On the tire issue I decided to go with the Ducati tyres as they look most agressive among the three sets I mentioned. They will look like this.

Engine's starting to come together. I decided to paint the block flat black like on the more recent R1:s. Other parts of the engine will are so far painted Alclad II Pale gold and Jet Exhaust. There are of coarse more parts to come, I will do some black and some CF. Parts are just glued in place, they will need a wash.

I finished off the work on the brake discs. They have been a real hazzle but they turned out ok. I didn't get them cleaned up to the degree I wanted them but they started to fall a part so I put the Xacto away... I sanded down all rivets and washers and replaced them with Model Factory Hiro rivets and Scale Motorsport washers. As the rivets has quite a long pin I filed them down on the back with a modelling file.
Here are the front discs:

and here is the rear:

Stopped sanding the cowls and went for the primer a couple of days ago. Today I sprayed the parts that will be Metallic Red with some TS-17 to give them a silver base. I think the Red will look better that way.

Finally for today, the swing has reached its final shape, a lot of work with epoxy putty and Tamiya putty and between those sanding sanding sanding. Now I will prime it and paint it flat black together with the frame.

Hope you like it.
/joel

You were right about not stripping the chrome plating. It looks really good. Must be a bit tricky to get all that shiny stuff in place without a lot of 1/1 fingerprints... Is it just me that never found this bike to look like a 1000 cc one?? The chassis, tank and seat could pass for a 125 in my book..

/Joel