Honda NSR 500 Rossi Nastro Azzuro Build

[simontie]

just to clarify -- simontie said to use wind screen wash there is a big big big differance

[Guest]

Have a cheeky whisky and sit down. Race bike decals are complicated shapes and a pain to get right. Why not try a road bike? Tamiya's 916 goes together well and there's next to no decals!

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[Guest]

Have a cheeky whisky and sit down. Race bike decals are complicated shapes and a pain to get right. Why not try a road bike? Tamiya's 916 goes together well and there's next to no decals!Sent using my fat thumbs and Tapatalk.

i did that one years ago!

fitting the decals is okay. these decals simply disintegrated. some fell to pieces on the contact paper whilst drying on a paper towel, others cracked then split when drying on the model, some split whilst still on the decal paper, others fitted okay, then split as they dried over the contours. the only thing i can think of is that they were old or shoddy quality. if i made another one i would do all of the bodywork first, then if the decals fall to pieces you find out sooner rather than later.

[Guest]

I've only done a couple of Tamiya race bikes but the decals were fine (if fiddly). I honestly think you just got a dodgy batch. Don't give up.

[Guest]

maybe..a bit suss though because the Doohan model decals were extremely fragile too. luckily i had a spare set which id purchased from ebay (although they were a very poor colour match)..these too were very flakey, although a lot more robust than the originals in the box. when i used the carbon sheet decals these were fine. fragile of course but so easy to position and took microset really well. the tamiya ones are just utter rubbish. you can see right through them to the base colour...just rubbish. thats probably wht the more recent models use cartograph decals. its a lot of money nd time to throw away and to be tripped up by something that is totally beyond my control is infuriating..if it was my mistake then fair enough. as i hope you can see, ive really taken enormous care over the 2 models ive made....like..obssessive!! so when i get let down by rubbish parts that are almost definately impossible to obtain it really grates on me..as it stands ive no idea how to try and fix...all over some nasty 20p decal sheet (which, if can get again will probably cost something lie £10+)..it makes a joke of the whole thing.

[Guest]

Best thing to do, is chuck em back in the box and have a pop at something nice and simple, to get your "eye" back in. Trust me, it works. Apologies if someone has already mentioned this, I'm a bit drunk!

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[Guest]

i finished this model just now, and it was a pig right up until the end. the seat unit i painted and shaded using an airbrush due to the decals dropping to pieces. It actually looks much nicer than the original pinstripe and shaded decal although i dont know how well these will show in the pics. The lower fairing (as with the doohan NSR500 i built previously) was a nightmare to fit and after about 45 minutes of careful trimming i gave and simply cut off the front portion of the panel. this is concealed behind the rear wheel, but i got to the point with this where im simply not interested....hence i didnt bother spraying beneath the tail section..i just left it white. Even the tail decals tore when i was finishing this one today, and trying to get the panels to fit i had bits falling off and pipes working loose etc...but hey, thats how its gonna stay!

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[Ian M]

Well despite all the problems that you have had along the way, that has turned out very nice indeed. Your eye goes direct to the problems you had, Mine just look at the whole package and I must say that If It was mine, I would be quite chuffed.

Ian M

[Guest]

cheers ian :thumbsup:

[simontie]

yep turned out rather nice spot on funky

[Guest]

Funky. Perhaps a bit late now (sorry) but I have just found something which might well have solved your decal problems. I started a new article Microscale Decal Film.

Something says bolting the stable door after the horse has closed it. No no that cannot be right !

Laurie

[Guest]

cheers laurie. i actually ordered some earlier this afternoon!! if only id heard of it before..that said the decals were falling to pieces before i did and research and im happy with how the airbrushing worked out..it actually looks a lot nicer than the decals imho.

si

[Guest]

Yes I would be very pleased about the whole finished model. Very nice a lot of good work has gone into that Si.

Laurie