@anthonyricco @gblair @chinesegeorge @johnb @brithebuilder @bikequeen @fiveten

Well its coming along, lots of subassemblies

Throttle body

Damper spring and assembly

With center stand

Throttle body, battery box (with embellishments) :). Battery box sides and damper installed.

The lines that will be under the seat/tank are attached but when doing the other bike they kinked at the bend so I slipped a length of brass wire in the tubes and the did not kink when curved to fit. 🙂

Next was the fuel tank…..SCARY :). Painted Tamiya Pearl White, masked off,

then painted Tamiya Pearl Blue, (shown side by side with the red/silver decal

I used Tamiya Decal Adhesive…which was very hard to find…. Applied the decal with about 5 coats of MicroSol…also scary :)…hours and hours later it laid down about 95 percent.

It went so well I proceeded to do the rest of the Pearl White parts and applied the decals with the same technique, again 95 percent effective. I also airbrushed the seats, 3 part flat blue 1 part flat white, with Tamiya Rubber Black trim

The last pic is the fairing with the black trim attached.

Next assemblies will be the wheels and the chain. Those 2 assemblies make this model and it will take a while to complete

I am so pumped as to how the decals turned out, they are all metal flake but may be hard to see in pics.

Thanks for viewing and stay tuned for step by step assembly and painted of the wheels and chain 🙂

Apologies this was so long 🙂

5 additional images. Click to enlarge.

And BTW….i coated all the body parts with auto wax, several coats …really made them shine

@brithebuilder .. Showroom clean, I have not acquired the weathering skills 😉

Wow! Spectacular, my friend @bikequeen!

Hi Cricket @bikequeen, you’ve done a lot of fantastic work there and it’s looking great, the colour scheme really suits the bike. Like Spiros @fiveten, said above, putting wire inside the tubing is a good idea. Looking forward to the next stage.

@anthonyricco @gblair @chinesegeorge @johnb @brithebuilder @bikequeen @fiveten

Thank you everyone, the decals are almost perfect, a couple tiny wrinkles but it will pass. I did the chain and started the wheels yesterday stay tuned 🙂

This is an impressive chain, Cricket @bikequeen
Over 300 parts for a single chain makes it look like you are building a real one.
In the end it also does look very realistic.