A project to pass the time for Old Me
I'll need these...
To do this
A 1/12th scale model of a full factory works Yamaha YZR500 2-stroke 'motoGP' bike, in British double world champion and all round ****ing Legend Barry Sheene Liverally, Barry Sheene is one of my idols so grabbed this one when i saw it in the model shop as its an older one they dont make anymore, not done a model bike for about 3-4years.... anyway, ill carry on geeking it up
bits of the engine, its good you have to go into so much detail despite only tiny parts of the engine on show behind the faring
engine and hlf done with the throttles/carbs
swingarm
i sprayed the 3 parts of the frame before gluing, then gave it another two coats after being glued
rear sprocket
engine in
Body panels etc
my god i hate transfers!!!!
check the carbon fibre cans
Anyway thats as far as i got, thought it would take me a few weeks at work but took me 2days, another evening and id of had the front forks done and it be done, so will need another one to do next week
Heres the last bike i did about 4years back too :rollover:
Left the fairing unpainted
Thanks for looking, thanks for going
Very nice mate; Those wheels are 'DYMAGS'.. Well the plastic versions.. We made the wheels for alot of the factory YZR,RG's and the Tz's..A few years back i actually has one of Barry Shenne's seat unit on my GT500..
Your toy is looking GR8..
Thats very good, but get your arse outside and make yourself a PAS shaped inlet!
looks good dan. not done and airfix kit for ages, last one i did was old shape mini
Tamiya stuff rules, I used to be well into my scale modelling, but don't seem to have the time these days, to get a decent end product it's surprising how many hours you need to put into these things, looks pretty good work mate, what did you use to get the 'carbon' finish on the cans? Just a flat black? If you've got an airbrush you can be really geeky and spray through some old mesh to get the carbon fibre effect pattern on top of the flat black, then just a quick blast of clear to finish it off!
Yeah ive only done Tamiya bikes, i have done a Rossi 2004 YZF-M1 too.
Looking at doing some military stuff next maybe, i want to do the Kawasaki ZX-RR motoGP bike but neither the model shop in Leeds or Notts has the lime green spray paint needed, and the staff are all mongols!
dan theres a good model shop near me!. http://www.cbmodels.co.uk/xcart/home.php see if they have it. could always get it online somewhere couldnt you?
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