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**Hecky** · 30 March 2025, 14:17

I've not done much yet. I glued the engine, frame and swing arm together.

I've also bought a pin vise so I've been drilling holes in everything I can. I've done the rear brake disc and the front chain sprocket etc.

**Hecky** · 30 March 2025, 16:01

I've also been researching photos of the actual bike. The exhaust shading is going to be interesting.

**Hecky** · 30 March 2025, 16:04

It looks like the carbon fibre is a kind of diagonal pattern on the rear mud guard and chequered on the front mud guard, so I've ordered some decaf sheets from Hiroboy.

**Hecky** · 30 March 2025, 16:06

*decal sheets.

Autocorrect doing it's stuff again

**Hecky** · 31 March 2025, 14:21

Not really sure how I'm supposed to paint these bits silver. Has anybody bothered trying? Should I do the silver first and then paint the bits around it? It's really tight to get into.

**Mr Bowcat** · 01 April 2025, 15:02

I can attest that this is a really nice kit to build.

For the silver bits, I paint them first then mask them off. You can get Aizu masking tape in .4 and .7mm which works well for this.

Edited to add:

Completely up to you of you want to heat stain the exhaust, but bear in mind only the tips are visible once the belly pan goes on.

**Hecky** · 01 April 2025, 15:23

Thanks Bob. I'll give that a shot with the tape. I don't have any thin tape but I can cut thin strips by holding two razor blades together side by side. I've used this technique for masking the welds on my last motorbike exhaust.

I quite like heat staining the exhausts. It's one of the most fun bits. I have my Ducati displayed with it's clothes off so you can see them.

**Hecky** · 01 April 2025, 20:39

I feel like I've made a bit of progress tonight. I've tried to batch paint the main colours as much as I can so I've spent the evening cutting bits off the sprues and cleaning them up before sticking them to cocktail sticks with blu-tack and airbrushing. I think everything other than the fairings will be brush painted from here.

**Hecky** · 02 April 2025, 17:32

A pal of mine has loaned me an airbrush to try. I'm going to give it a go tonight on the exhausts. It's a decent one I think, a Gaaleri Mobius with a 0.2mm nozzle. It looks far better quality than the unbranded thing I've got and hopefully a bit smoother and more controllable. If it's any use then i might get one myself.