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Tamiya Yamaha YZF-R1
Cheers Steve. :) I've been working on the paintwork for the last few days. First up was the body panels, painted, glossed, decalled and glossed again. The kit comes with a decal for the red accent on the front fairing, but I decided to mask and paint it instead. Then I cleaned up all the...- Mr Bowcat
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- Forum: Civilian Motorcycles under construction
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Tamiya Yamaha YZF-R1
Morning chaps. :) Back ends on. I lost a little bit of the decal on the exhaust when fitting the mounting clamp, not sure yet if I'm going to leave it or attempt a repair. The exhaust is only attached by one screw so I can remove it later if needed.- Mr Bowcat
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Tamiya Yamaha YZF-R1
Cheers gents. :) I had a bit of an "Oh S**t" moment this morning when I was working on the rear suspension (the joys of working from home). I couldn't find the suspension spring, not sure if I lost it or it wasn't in the kit. So I made this: Not perfect by a long shot but should do and...- Mr Bowcat
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- Forum: Civilian Motorcycles under construction
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Tamiya Yamaha YZF-R1
Morning guys. :) I finished building the engine and got it installed in the frame this weekend, still need to add a wash to the frame. I took some artistic licence with regards to the colour of some of the engine parts.- Mr Bowcat
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- Forum: Civilian Motorcycles under construction
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Tamiya Yamaha YZF-R1
Welcome along for the ride Nick. :) I got the first paint down yesterday. I've gone for gloss aluminium on the frame as it seems to match the boxart the best (and I'm guessing the real bike frame would be ali).- Mr Bowcat
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Tamiya Yamaha YZF-R1
Morning guys. :) For my second attempt at a motorcycle I've chosen this. I've made a start by getting the engine block cleaned up and together along with all the various bits that go with it. I also got the frame, mudguard and main body halves glued together along with all the parts from the...- Mr Bowcat
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1/12 Tamiya Repsol Honda RC213V
Hi Guys, I decided it was time to have a go at building a bike, so dove in at the deep end with this kit. It went together beautifully as you would expect with Tamiya, and considering it was my first bike build I'm pretty happy with how it came out.- Mr Bowcat
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Latest Acquisitions (2021)
Just finishing up my first ever bike build, so decided to do another. -
Tamiya Repsol Honda RC213V
Fixed! Now I can get on with decals.- Mr Bowcat
- Post #31
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Tamiya Repsol Honda RC213V
Morning chaps. :) Had a bit of a disaster with this. I'm working on decals and as some of them need to line up across different panels I decided to fit the panels to the frame first. The seat/tank section is made up of several parts, including a cover that sits in front of the tank. This is...- Mr Bowcat
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Tamiya Repsol Honda RC213V
Cheers gents. :smiling3: Paul, I know little about bikes (just enough to know not to get on one) so I'm not sure about the exhausts. I assumed it would have been bent, but maybe welded in sections is correct? The real one looks like this:- Mr Bowcat
- Post #25
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Tamiya Repsol Honda RC213V
Morning guys. :) I started getting some of the painted bits together yesterday. I'm not convinced that the exhaust heat staining is particularly good, it was my first ever attempt at doing this. As most of it will be hidden I decided to leave it. I still need to do a panel line wash on some...- Mr Bowcat
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Tamiya Repsol Honda RC213V
Morning gents. :) Small update on this one, I've been working on getting the remaining parts cleaned up and painted. I'm using Gravity paints for the panels, first time I've used these and it mostly went OK. I had some paint build up at the masking demarcations, but this seemed to be easily...- Mr Bowcat
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Tamiya Repsol Honda RC213V
Morning all. :) Not much modelling done this weekend, the ranges have finally re-opened so I was out punching holes in paper most of yesterday. I did get the swing arm together and fitted to the frame.- Mr Bowcat
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Tamiya Repsol Honda RC213V
Cheers Steve. :) Thanks to whichever mod moved this to the correct section. I've been working on getting the back end completed. First step was the pit stand and swing arm. Then it was on to the brakes (also got the front disks done at this point), chain, suspension and radiator. And...- Mr Bowcat
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Tamiya Repsol Honda RC213V
Morning all. :smiling3: I decided it was time to try my hand at a motorcycle, never built one before so why not jump in at the deep end with this. It's a very nicely detailed kit and typical Tamiya quality. I spent much of the Easter weekend turning this Into this So far so good...- Mr Bowcat
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Tamiya Nissan Skyline GT-R V R34
Hi Guys, I finished this one up today. Bought it as a practice kit to try and improve my paint finishing. Definitely getting better but still a lot to improve on.- Mr Bowcat
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- Forum: Completed Civilian cars
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Latest Acquisitions (2021)
Just received some paint from Gravity in Spain for an upcoming build. What was particularly impressive is these left their facility in Malaga at 10.39 yesterday morning, and arrived at my house in London at just after 12.00 today! -
Tamiya Nissan Sklyline GT-R V R34
Morning guys. I got the interior together this weekend. My first try at embossing powder for carpet, it didn't go perfectly, particularly at the rear of the transmission tunnel. I used matt varnish as an adhesive, I think next time I will try PVA. Still, this is just a practice kit so overall...- Mr Bowcat
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Tamiya Nissan Sklyline GT-R V R34
Morning all :smiling3: Got the underside detail painted and all the running gear installed this weekend. The wheels had been painted semi-gloss black in preparation for a metallic, but I'm thinking the black might look good against the body colour so I'm going to hold off until the shells on...- Mr Bowcat
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