1:12 scale modeling
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Yamaha YZR M1 ” J.Lorenzo”
Hello,
Tamiya kit 1/12 : it's my first assembly of motorcycle. It is the Yamaha M1 YZR of Jorge Lorenzo with the special decoration FIAT of Estoril. The assembly was very pleasant and from the box many détails.
Thank you and see you again [...]
Tamiya 1/12 Ducati 900 Supersport…
I was inspired to show this model because of George Williams’ post of April 17, of his Tamiya 1/12 Ducati 900 NCR racer.
This model was built quite a few years ago, and I just discovered it out in the garage, with the windshield and rear [...]
Ducati 900 NCR Racer
This is my latest build in the (mainly) Tamiya 1/12 series of motor cycles. Keeping with Ducati's tradition of modifying their road bikes for racing, the firm of NCR (consisting of three ex Ducati engineers) was entrusted with the [...]
Yoshimura Hayabusa X-1
Merry Christmas everyone! Got my Megabusa ready just in time before the festivities commence! This is the Tamiya 1:12 kit, and it goes without saying that it was a kit of their usual standard, nicely detailed and fit together perfect.
The [...]
Hasegawa 1/12 Honda RS250RW
This is a model of the 2009 250cc World Championship winning bike. It's the works Honda machine entered by the Scott racing team, their rider was Hiroshi Aoyama from Japan who went on to enter the top Moto GP championship. I believe it [...]
A Tribute to Steve McQueen
This model started life as a 1/12th Revell "Crusader" custom chopper. Using my 1/18th Porsche 917, Steve McQueen Le Mans version (die cast) as an inspiration, I got the idea to transfer it to a chopper as a [...]
This one’s a ‘smoker’
It's red, it's fast, it's good looking, but it's Japanese, not Italian. This is Tamiya's 1/12 scale kit of the 2001 Yamaha works bike, it's a 500cc two stroke machine, ridden by Italian Max Biaggi. Here it is without the cowlings , and [...]
Honda's upside down racer
Hi folks, this is the kit that imodeller kindly supplied as my prize from July. It's a model of Honda's 1984 World Championship challenger , as ridden by American Freddie Spencer. For 1984 Honda decided to investigate the improved [...]
A pair of Yamahas
The Moto GP world was surprised when hearing the news that three times world champion Valentino Rossi was moving from Honda to Yamaha for the 2004 season. Yamaha had developed their 2003 machine and were ready to take over the crown from [...]
Yamaha YZF R1
Hi everyone, this is my Yamaha R1. It's a Tamiya 1:12 kit, and the kit had been sat in my wardrobe still in the box for about ten years! It was originally the Taira racing kit but I haven't really followed the colour scheme. I managed to [...]
