All the kit components out of the box, not to many sprues due to this being one of Tamyia's earlier cheaper kits, not as much detail as the newer kits but I wanted to build one as my stepfather had the real thing
As with all my builds I start of with painting all the fiddly bits and assembling them into bigger sub assemblies, quite a few chrome parts in this kit but as usual with Tamiya the chrome was quite good, even on a kit of this age. Also at the top of my c
this is always the best bit of the build for me - assembling the engine, view shows the turbo at the front, frame is painted and is sitting off to the left of shot drying
I was quite happy with the finish on the frame considering it was hand brushed, I do hate gloss black though for showing up fingerprint marks when handling the kit during assembly
engine has been mounted in the frame now along with the rear swingarm, front forks off to the left of the picture are painted ready to go and also the exhaust system bottom right
Ok after painting all the bodywork, fighting with all the decals and building up the front suspension assembly were now at this stage of the build where some of the bodywork has been assembled, decals don't look bad from this angle
but when viewed from the rear the wee niggles I had with the old decals become apparent - luckily they match Tamiya's X-10 gun metal grey, if I had of had an airbrush I would most likely of tried to recreate all the decalling with paint, but I don't so t
can't quite make it out due to the whiteout on this image but the front decal TURBO is mirror image so car drivers can tell there a fast bike behind lol Just the mirrors to fit and one small decal but I can't find my superglue and it's late o'clock here
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23 December 2015, 01:14
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It was a nice kit build right up until fitting the steering yokes and forks (they wouldnt sit square with the frame headstock) and trying to get the fairings to fit properly and the fettling with the seat to get it to fit, also graphics/decals were apalling (might be due to the age of the kit), this is not the norm for Tamiya and is one of their cheaper earlier 80's kits.
I suspect (due to it's age) that some warping of the plastic parts has occurred and that the decals were past their sell by date, one of the things you just have to deal with when sourcing Out Of Production (OOP) vintage kits I suppose.
Kit was hand painted using Tamiya acrylics and TS-45 Pearl white
