Repsol Honda RC213V 93

[simontie]

Ok last post for a while me thinks, bike is complete…. Apart from the fairings and seat i will work on these over the next week its a lot of drying and hardening off so i don't want to rush it.
but here is the bike naked

[Tim Marlow]

Lovely job. It looks like you are building a real one.

[tr1ckey66]

Looking real good Simon
:thumb2:
Paul

[simontie]

Lovely job. It looks like you are building a real one.

If only i had the money !!!

[Mr Bowcat]

Thats coming along very nicely.

[simontie]

So i spent most of the week applying coats of this fluorescent orange and its turned out quite well, one or 2 little bleed marks but nothing i cant fix with a grinder. Colour was quite hard to balance and the pictures don‘t do it justice but were heading in the right direction
simon

[Tim Marlow]

That’s looking really good Simon. Lovely clean colours.

[Mr Bowcat]

Nice. What paints are you using?

[simontie]

Nice. What paints are you using?

Tamiya rattle cans for the white red orange,the blacks & silvers air brush x11 & x 18

[simontie]

hi not much of an up-date been an interesting week or 2, got the reds on to the fairings , tank and rear seat cowl all was looking great so I gave it a quick rub down with 2k grit and clear coated it using humeral clear BIG mistake orange turned yellow and ran in to the reds and whites after a bit of a cry ((joking) I was in to minds as to rob the parts from another kit but after some investigation I discovered you can strip the paint using oven cleaner or Dettol really to be fair I was stunned that Dettol could be used a a paint stripper, but I felt the the oven cleaner would be to aggressive I decided to give it a try, ok so I mixed it 50/50 with water and soaked it for 22-24 hours really didn't expect it to work if I'm honest, but amazingly I brushed of the bubbling paint and was left with pristine white plastic absolutely brilliant anyway started again and have just about finished the paint work hand on heart I buggered up the tank again and its now re-soaking in a fresh batch of Dettol I was going to live with it, but I would see it & everytime I looked at it I would kick my self for not stripping it back...
so here are the other parts I will try and get the tank done over the weekend and start the decals & polishing this off (if the tank don't beat me again)
simon
simon

[adt70hk]

Coming on nicely!

ATB

Andrew

[Tim Marlow]

Shame about the need to respray. It’s amazing what will act as paint remover. Fairy power spray cleaner has long been a favourite of the figure paint community! I occasionally still use it as an airbrush cleaner.
Looking very very good now though! Cant wait to see the final reveal :thumb2:

[adt70hk]

Learnt 6 something new too.... Who new Dettol was a paint be stripper....

Tim, is this the stuff you're on about.

[Mr Bowcat]

Sorry to hear about your paint woes. I had similar problems when I built this kit, although mine were down to chipping the paint when I tried to fit the fairing piece onto the tank. If I recall correctly I actually glued those two pieces together for the second go and painted them as one piece.

[Tim Marlow]

Learnt 6 something new too.... Who new Dettol was a paint be stripper....

Tim, is this the stuff you're on about.
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Hi Andrew
i lost my bottle of power spray when I moved, but that looks similar…..
Heres a YouTube vid of it in use….

Windex window cleaner works also works well. That looks like this…..