Well, this kit holds the title of having spent longest in my stash, that is, not counting the thirty or so really old kits that have travelled with me from the time before all that adult stuff. I bought it on a trip to Preston from the now defunct Transport Models whilst on a trip to visit my daughter at uni in 2015. Whilst the Ladies went shopping, I took myself off on a long stroll to the shop that was in an old mill out of the town centre. After getting it home and looking at the parts, I decided to leave it until I'd got a few other kits under my belt.
Since then I've dabbled with it here and there getting the seams tidied up on the bodywork and exhausts, but mostly it got forgotten about until I had completed my GPZ900 for the TV & Movie group Build. That's when I thought it deserved finishing. And here she is. There are a few things I'm not too happy about and I need to think about an alternative to the generic one-size black piping that loves to kink and is not always true to scale. Built out of the box aside from removing the 'chrome' and fashioning a small piece of scrap plastic to make the oil filler on the clutch cover look a little more realistic.
The main challenge to the latter stages of the project was coming up with different combinations of 'silver' so the finished bike didn't look too monotone. To that end, there are various shades of Vallejo metal colour, but the bodywork was done in A.Stand High Speed Silver which went on very nicely.
Anyway, here are the pics.
I was offered one of these bikes for £1600 somewhere around the mid-eighties. Decent ones are going for five figure sums these days. I have owned a 650cc version since 1994 that I used for commuting all year. That one is pretty much worthless in its current state. :upside:
Thanks for looking in. All comments and questions welcome.......
Nick
Since then I've dabbled with it here and there getting the seams tidied up on the bodywork and exhausts, but mostly it got forgotten about until I had completed my GPZ900 for the TV & Movie group Build. That's when I thought it deserved finishing. And here she is. There are a few things I'm not too happy about and I need to think about an alternative to the generic one-size black piping that loves to kink and is not always true to scale. Built out of the box aside from removing the 'chrome' and fashioning a small piece of scrap plastic to make the oil filler on the clutch cover look a little more realistic.
The main challenge to the latter stages of the project was coming up with different combinations of 'silver' so the finished bike didn't look too monotone. To that end, there are various shades of Vallejo metal colour, but the bodywork was done in A.Stand High Speed Silver which went on very nicely.
Anyway, here are the pics.
I was offered one of these bikes for £1600 somewhere around the mid-eighties. Decent ones are going for five figure sums these days. I have owned a 650cc version since 1994 that I used for commuting all year. That one is pretty much worthless in its current state. :upside:
Thanks for looking in. All comments and questions welcome.......
Nick
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