Straight on to another bike kit, although a very different style
It's a newer version of a pair of real bikes that I'm painting for a customer. I've since found out that I can get the exact model so this may be more of a practice run. The 1/6 scale Tamiya is £££ though. Even the 1/12 from Aoshima isn't exactly cheap either, so we'll see.
Anyway, back to this one. It's a pretty old kit, one of Tamiyas first motorcycle offerings I believe , but the parts are still in pretty good shape.
With that in mind I started by gluing the bodywork halves together in case they needed filler. I did add a swipe of sprue goo to the joint but didn't really need to have bothered.
With those drying I started to strip the chrome. After the nightmare I had a few years ago with a truck build, this was almost magical. Just a few seconds in bleach and it was gone.
I cleaned the horrible silver plastic as best I could, assembled a few parts, then gave everything a good wet coat of gloss black in preparation for the chrome. This will have at least 24hrs to fully dry. Don't be fooled by the additional test piece, some 1/48 fuel tank I think
Then the bodywork, what little there is, received a coat of SMS Super Silver. It's the first time I've used their metallics (apart from hyperchrome) and I'm impressed.
It's a newer version of a pair of real bikes that I'm painting for a customer. I've since found out that I can get the exact model so this may be more of a practice run. The 1/6 scale Tamiya is £££ though. Even the 1/12 from Aoshima isn't exactly cheap either, so we'll see.
Anyway, back to this one. It's a pretty old kit, one of Tamiyas first motorcycle offerings I believe , but the parts are still in pretty good shape.
With that in mind I started by gluing the bodywork halves together in case they needed filler. I did add a swipe of sprue goo to the joint but didn't really need to have bothered.
With those drying I started to strip the chrome. After the nightmare I had a few years ago with a truck build, this was almost magical. Just a few seconds in bleach and it was gone.
I cleaned the horrible silver plastic as best I could, assembled a few parts, then gave everything a good wet coat of gloss black in preparation for the chrome. This will have at least 24hrs to fully dry. Don't be fooled by the additional test piece, some 1/48 fuel tank I think
Then the bodywork, what little there is, received a coat of SMS Super Silver. It's the first time I've used their metallics (apart from hyperchrome) and I'm impressed.
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