Moto GP / GP bike enthusiasts

A few pics of the West RC211V that I finished a week or so ago. I guess you guys have all seen a few of these before but I'm quite proud of it....

Hope you like it, and thanks for all your help guys....

Chris

I have finished the Ducati 888. Done the way the neighbour wanted with red frame and without the Police sponsor logo. We agreed to do it without number or rider markings so it is a bit more generic.

A question you may be able to answer, how does one remove the fingerprints that are almost inevitable on a build. They are not too noticeable when viewed with the naked eye but really show up in photos.

Joel  --Have I sent those Yammie 500 pic's or have I forgotten as usual

I'll do now anyway so if I have sent before would that be considered a double post

Itateri (think I spelt that right) have made the 2007 Honda and Ducati 1/9 scale.

There detail is not that great but hey it's a 2007 model , and hopefully the big T won't be that far behinde if they do will most likely be around june/july for a release.

On another note will be posting pic's of the new hobbyroom I'm using plus some progress on the 05 M1 with Top Studio detail set and heaps of C/F

Wife has said no more models till I finish at least one that I have lying around in verious states of progress

Shayne 

joelrydh wrote:

Bushpig: That is one great looking bike you've got there! The exhausts are tremendous! Engine looks great too. Chris: I think your problem is that the Dreml tool works at a too high speed wich leads to the melting of the plastic material. I use a hand held pin vise from Tamiya to do the job. The mini drill to use is a .5 mm one for most of the 1/12 scale brake discs (At least the Tamiya ones). /Joel

 Thanks Joel I will give that a go.

Also Yamaha unveiled their 2008 YZRM1 today. See pic (fairings look to have changed with the tail section being the most noticeable difference). Still no sign of any 800's from Tamiya - does anyone have any info on if and when the first will appear?

Bushpig: That is one great looking bike you've got there! The exhausts are tremendous! Engine looks great too.

Chris: I think your problem is that the Dreml tool works at a too high speed wich leads to the melting of the plastic material. I use a hand held pin vise from Tamiya to do the job. The mini drill to use is a .5 mm one for most of the 1/12 scale brake discs (At least the Tamiya ones).

/Joel

Hi everyone I have finished my West RCV now. I was going back over some of my other finished models as I got a dremel tool for christmas. I wanted to drill holes in the discs of some of the road bikes i made for better authenticity. However I bought what looked like the right size drill bit for the hole but when I drilled it seemed to melt the plastic rather than drill through it. What size drill bit do people use and do you use an electirc tool or something else?

Chris

Hi everybody!

what kind of putty is used for this kind of work?

Thanks.

Latest on the Duc 888, I have completed all the construction. Here are a few pics before the cowlings go on. All that is left now is to complete the cowlings and attach them to the bike.

chrisga wrote:

. Their answer was that they stick to the GP bikes because they are more widely known around the world and are more recognisable to more people. I think though that doing some more road bikes and then basing racers on that would be fantatstic and may get more people interested in making them. Certainly in the UK I'd say that the domestic superbike series is as strong if not stronger in terms of support than Motogp but i realise this may not be the case in other countries.

If Tamyia are only going to stick to GP bikes , Then are we to see a Suzuki , Team Roberts bike IImor ??

At least if they do a road bike I can easily convet it to a NZ or Aussie superbike as they are bascilly a road bike with race colwing and graphics.

My wish list from Tamyia this year are

road bikes

Honda CBR

Suzuki GSR

Yamaha R1,R6

BMW?????

MV Augusta hmmmm

Aprilla

KTM

Moto gp/250/150

Suzuki

Aprilla

KTM

Derbi

What have I missed

Shayne

PS Decalman where are you 

Shane great to have you back, thanks for the offer on the decal sheet but I think I have managed to do an acceptable rescue job. I will run it past the neighbour and see if he is happy, as I have said before in the GB he does not want an exact build of the Police sponsored bike so is hardly a rivet counter and I am sure will be happy with what I have done.

Joel I had a look at my ref pics and all I have of the Marlboro Yammies are a completed model I picked up on the net. I can email them if you want, the build is very good but I cant remember where I got them. Painting the engine block, casting my mind back I think I did the x18 first, carefully masked off with tamiya 6mm tape cut even thinner (begin with say 1 mm width) next x56  and again masking off then the final xf16. This is pretty similar to what you have to do on the Honda NSR engine I think.

I am nearing completion on the Duc, will complete all construction today then wait to speak to the guy I am building this for to make sure he is happy with the cowlings before I lay the final clear coats onto them. Then it's done, time to cast my mind to what will be next. Maybe time to complete that pesky Mugello honda NSR????????

Welcome back Shayne. Sounds as you have spent your time on well chosen stuff!

I'd very much appreciate the pics you've got. just mail them to joel@onetwelvth.com

Todays question to you all is a thought I've been struggling with since I bought my air brush. What's the best way to do the painting of the engine/air intake portion of the nsr/yzr kits? You have the air intakes wich is going to be black, the engine housing wich is, say XF-56 and you have the carburators that is XF-16. It's not an easy task to mask this big blob off but it has to be done somehow and I guess you have the answer. Wich paints do you do first and how do you mask them off afterwords?

/Joel

Happy 2008 guy's , Haven't been around for a wee while have been stuck on nightshift for last 10 months and with a wife and 5 year old running about have not had much time for anything + the fact forgot password for site ,new com and bloody xbox 360 is killing me .

Have lost my purpose built hobby room to dayghter and have now turned a closet into a minture hobby room.

My stash has growing double in size over last 6 months and have started back up into the grove.

Alll of the builds are looking great .

Bushpig -----if you need the decals for the ducati I can give you the set I have here as I have same bike but doing it as a NZ superbike. 

Joel----- If you still need some ref pic's I have heaps of the 2000 and 2001 Yammy's , some are high res shots and are quite big , I have a 22" wide screen moniter and I still have to scroll to see the whole image.It always pay's to  gather wn image whenever you come across them as most time the do get deleted from the web over time.

Shayne 

Joel the attachment points are for the exhausts. I have installed the engine etc so will post a pic tonight (back to work today ) I will check in my ref photos for any marlboro pics I may have.

Well a quick update, disaster has struck (why does it always seem to be toward the end of a build?). Quite inexplicably one of the rear decals split whilst settling down with the Microsol, I am not sure if it had an inherrant weakness but I now sit with a torn decal. I have to weigh up my choices, as this is for my neighbour I am tempted to try and just repair it as best I can and move on. I suppose the best though will be to order a replacement decal sheet and do it over. Damn!

Looks great Bushpig. May I ask what is to be attached to the rearmost black items of the frame? Looks interesting.

I thought I'd ask you if you happen to have some reference pics of the ´99 and ´00 Marlboro bikes. They would be most appreciated and can be sent to my mail address joel@onetwelvth.com

/Joel

I have had a bit of a break from work so have managed to make some good progress on the Duc 888, herewith a bit of an update.

Cowlings have had their 2 coats of clear and now ready for the decaling.

Wheels complete

Engine complete

Chassis complete

Next steps are basically to finish off the front forks and handle bars, decals and final clear coat on the cowlings and then put the whole thing together.

Hey Joel can't help you with the metal rods, I have always found my local model railroad supplier to be quite obliging with a few off cuts.

Welcome back to the bench and an ambitious start! I have done 2 of the same kit at once before and found it got so boring to have to do the same thing over and over. The upside though is once you finish you have swelled your collection that much faster. Good luck. I look forward to following your progress here and on onetwelvth.

Today I realized that I have to give myself a fresh start, as I've been out of modeling for quite some time. The ZX-RR and Spiderman kits seems a bit too tough to complete at the moment and I'm awaiting the chance to get my hands on some details to add.

So, today I picked out not one, not two, not three but four (why keep it on the low side...) older kits. Two YZR Antenna 3 ´99 and two YZR Factory ´01 kits. My plan is to make a Marlboro quartet with the ´99, ´00 + early and late season ´01 bikes.

I've never done the Marlboro kits before and as the YZR kits are quite straight forward I reckon I can manage all four at the same time. My basic intention is to keep it low when it comes to detailing but I know how that tend to be in the end.

I'll put some pics upp when I get somewhere. And I'll try and finish the others as well when I get up to speed (anyone that happen to have a small piece of brass rod (4 mm diameter with room for a 2 mm rod inside it) that they are willing to part with? Just need a few centimeters)

/Joel

Realized today that I have misplaced the entire resin/pe parts box for the Rossi 2001 test version. Doesn't that just make you so sad?!

Happy new year everybody!

/Joel

That looks like its going to be a suzuka 8 hour race GSXR-1000. Am I correct? Unfortunately the website came out only in japanese on my computer.

I emailed Tamiya a while ago and asked if they could do more litre road bike models, i.e. start with the road bike, say a GSXR (or my preference a CBR1000RR as thats my 1:1 toy) and issue that as a model. Then they could do various superbike race bike models with the kit based on the road bike kit, i.e. from BSB, WSB, AMA superbike, Japanese Superike series. Their answer was that they stick to the GP bikes because they are more widely known around the world and are more recognisable to more people. I think though that doing some more road bikes and then basing racers on that would be fantatstic and may get more people interested in making them. Certainly in the UK I'd say that the domestic superbike series is as strong if not stronger in terms of support than Motogp but i realise this may not be the case in other countries.

Not a GP issue but this is something special...

 Take a look at the upcoming release from Model Factory Hiro and this preview pictures...Amazing...and not to mention pricy.

http://www.modelfactoryhiro.com/shop/Y-S%20032.jpg

http://www.modelfactoryhiro.com/shop/Y-S%20017.jpg

http://www.modelfactoryhiro.com/shop/Y-S%20007.jpg

more pictures at www.modelfactoryhiro.com

/Joel - amazed

chrisga wrote:

Hi guys, I have managed to get some Klear frm my local supermarket. I am now at a stage with my current RCV build where I have fixed the fairings together. Do i just paint the Klear on with my brush before putting decals on and then another coat after decals or do i put decals on first and then paint over? Thanks in advance, Chris.

OK Gents, here's my progress on the Desmo Marlboro.  I tried the Crazy Modeler additive decals but wasn't happy with them--I actually wasn't happy even looking at 'em before application.  The print quality didn't seem so good and there were obvious irregularities in the white side decals.  I tried one and removed it.  I ordered a set of TABU additives and am still waiting... In the meantime I worked on the CF--here's some pics.  Always appreciate feedback, good, bad, and ugly..

This is the Scale Motorsport 1/20 twill weave black on pewter:

Here are some more shots of the cowlings:

I took the Marlboro logo here from the ST27 transkit sheet (I'm planning on doing the South Africa livery, so don't need it for that bike):