Tamiya Yamaha Moto GP build

[Gareth350]

This is my second build after my Yamaha OW01 from a few weeks back!

I decided on the 2005 Valencia coloured bike of Colin Edwards, rather than Rossi's bike, just to be different & i'm not really a Rossi fan!






Engine, frame assembled & painted,





Engine in frame, rear cowling on,



Exhaust, radiator & rear wheel on,



Tank & a few decals on,





front wheel, forks & brakes









Thats the progress so far!

Fairing to spray next, so will post some more pics when finished!

Thanks for looking.

[dr_gn]

Gareth350 said:

This is my second build after my Yamaha OW01 from a few weeks back!

I decided on the 2005 Valencia coloured bike of Colin Edwards, rather than Rossi's bike, just to be different & i'm not really a Rossi fan!

Thats the progress so far!

Fairing to spray next, so will post some more pics when finished!

Thanks for looking.

Great to see you continuing with modelling.

I must say though that your photographs don't do justice to your model - I can see it's a good one, but....get a better camera, then we can see the work you've obviously put into the finer details.

Cheers,

[Gareth350]

dr_gn said:

Gareth350 said:

This is my second build after my Yamaha OW01 from a few weeks back!

I decided on the 2005 Valencia coloured bike of Colin Edwards, rather than Rossi's bike, just to be different & i'm not really a Rossi fan!

Thats the progress so far!

Fairing to spray next, so will post some more pics when finished!

Thanks for looking.

Great to see you continuing with modelling.

I must say though that your photographs don't do justice to your model - I can see it's a good one, but....get a better camera, then we can see the work you've obviously put into the finer details.

Cheers,

Point taken on board sir! Will see if i can sort better pics in future!

[Gareth350]

Finished at last! Fairly happy with the end result, sorry if the pics are still a bit crap!

[dr_gn]

Gareth350 said:

Finished at last! Fairly happy with the end result, sorry if the pics are still a bit crap!

Great job - Can't fault it.

One question: are the rear discs on these bikes cross-drilled or dimpled? From the photos it looks like your model has dimples rather than through holes. If this is right - no problem, but if they are drilled you could either drill them out yourself, or add a dark wash to the existing depressions to give them some depth. Or...of course it may just be the photo that's not quite in focus!

[Gareth350]

Thanks! The rear disc is dimpled rather than actually drilled through. May try that on another model. Thanks for the advice!
Got my next builds lined up, courtesy of e-bay, classic RD350LC & RD250LC! will build these together as almost identical!