@fiveten Thank you Spiros

@bikequeen, this is indeed the latest green color of Kawasaki. I do prefer this green more than the original green of Kawasaki in its early years. Recently visited a Yamaha dealer and it was really difficult to control myself to not buy a new bike 🤭

Yeah, Cricket @bikequeen, Kawasaki Green, my favourite bike colour after Italian Red.

Here is yesterday and today’s progress. The bike got knocked off the kitchen table yesterday, not much damage and I repaired it quickly. During today’s work I discovered that the rear wheel got jarred loose and I had to repair all that. The front wheel wasn't a picnic either 🙁

I did the exhaust system yesterday and tried to “blue” it but the new airbrush wasnt working right….turns out i had an air leak and the pressure was dropping to nil but now I got that fixed so next time it should kick you know what 🙂

I did the PE brake rotors for the front, came out okay, but man I loath CA glue :***(

I wasn’t going to add the clutch reservoir either but decide to after all…there is a lot of tiny detail that will never be seen, but I got OCD and did it all anyway

So here is the handlebar assembly…still have some paint to do on it, and a quick mock up of the bike. Quite a bit more to go on this one and frankly I’m getting a bit burned out 🙁 think it’s time to walk away fro a bit after this one 🙂

8 attached images. Click to enlarge.

Looks excellent, my friend @bikewueen! Great tgat minimal fixable damage was done from the dropping. Yup, when approaching burnout, better ease-off a bit.

@chinesegeaorge @johnb @fiveten thanks guys it’s not as good as I saw in my minds eye bit I like it. I have one more day to play with the new airbrush before the weather turns again :). And I have the front fairing to cover with decals many many more than the last bike

Part 2 …

I have achieved the elusive AK Chrome finish using my new kick A$$ airbrush the photos dont do it justice so I will show them in a later post

In other news i bought this Carbon Fiber decal set for the other ninja but didn't use it. so I tried my hand at with this one. Following the trick i learned from Plasmo on YouTube i applied the decals. I used the MicroSet which did nothing but bead up and roll off. I continued on with MicroSol and i found it too to be useless. So I moved on to tried and true Walther’s SolvaSet. Now comes the trick I “borrowed” from Plasmo. I soaked the decals in hot water. Not tepid but hot. Once applied and SolvaSet on them I het them with a hairdryer. It was scary let me tell you and a slight learning curve. After learning a technique they started to come out great! I had to be careful as the second decal was blown off the pat LOL. Once I got it figured out it worked flawlessly the decals just laid down like shrink wrap I kept wiping it down with a bit of SolvaSet and applied more heat. Had some bubbles which were problematic but I continued on.

There are almost 90 decals in this set crazy expensive on ebay etc etc but Spot Model in Spain had them at half the price so I grabbed them. (GREAT company BTW)

Here are some of the progress shots….tons more to be applied to the front cowling inside and out. Not done yet as I was driving my husband nuts with the hairdryer :/

I added a few more details

I applied the kit decals and came across this one so I zoomed in and read it…had a good chuckle. Incidentally i saw a top 10 fastest bike on YouTube the Ninja Carbon street machine was number 2, the number 1 machine was this one, the Ninja H2R (R stands for racing). Top speed 250 MPH and sticker price of $55,000…who would ride a bike at 250 MPH? Good grief! Anyway here is the sticker they put on the bike, and the model, LOL

Perfectly displayed by your lighting/photo set up, Cricket @bikequeen.