Fazer

Hi Rob, great articles on your web site & good to see I follow your same method for resin casting & vacuuming. So a great thumbs up from me. I going to follow your method for paint stripping with a ultra sonic cleaner, sounds 🤔 regards Mark 😉

Nice, got one of these myself, lowered, chrome Porsche wheels, dechromed, must get it out & finish it off😅👍 Mark D...

Hi Matt, my go to airbrush for general use & been using them for 40 years & easy to strip down. No need to strip the air valve out as the needle goes through the trigger stem. Undo the back of the airbrush, strip out the needle barrel with spring. The trigger button needs a small 90 degree turn to come out of the slot. Simples! To reassemble, trigger drops in & align with the slots & needle barrel back in. The front seal is behind the brass tip where I have fitted PTFE seal, The needle gland seal is in the usual place like the Iwatas which can be removed with a good electrical screwdriver from behind. The early super 63s had a fibre washer but replaced mine with PTFE from everything airbrush. I have the Sprite for priming work, a super 63 for general work & a super 93 with polished needle for fine work. If you need any info, send me a pm & I will help you out! Mark

Great, just purchasing one of these at the moment, so looking forward to updates.👍😉

Mike, have you seen the police figures on Ian Hanratty website friendship models...under ‘wee friends’ 👍 Mark

Hello Oliver, I afraid it’s Cleveland UK not Cleveland USA....😂 wish it was though! mind you, I could get a ticket over to look for you...but COVID isolation is too long mate! 😉 regards mark.

Great work on this epic build Oliver, love to see you do your magic on this...- the Tamiya Repsol Honda RC213 V'14 at 1/12, no pressure mate! 😉 regards Mark D

Built a couple of Aoshima bikes & never had issues like that?🙄 maybe a bad batch or an old kit! mark d 😉

“ found the broken off shock absorber for the swing arm, now that I have nearly finished filling the gaps in the spare” 😋 I feel your pain as the carpet monster always regurgitate it’s parts when you have made a new piece! 😀 superb work on the motor, Tony, certainly will be using some of your build techniques when I get to start mine. here’s a link to some motorcycle tips I posted halfway down the page on detailing my chains & other parts. hope they may help? Fazer

Hi Tony, agree with you on the odd parts of the bike frame as I have a copy of the pit walk series on the YZR500 series & give some good pictures of the bikes in strip down form. dragged out my 1/9th Protar model of kenny’s machine to compare it with the TAMIYA version...if I could find my TAMIYA version in the stash???🤔 Mark 😉

Hi Tony, your talking my kind of bike now! 👍 got a few of the 80s & 90s bikes myself to build, building the Airfix / heller Norton street cafe racer at the moment but as I have taken early retirement, home is taking a bit of much needed work first, along with the daughter’s house now dads available!🙄🤔.... hope you find the part, it’s a bu**er when that happens.... Mark😉

Now that’s looking good Tony😃 my efforts with the hose ties was chrome foil & a piece of plastic spruce. 🤔 watching carefully on this as I will be attempting my version of the Barry sheene machine.... keep it up, it’s going great 👍 Fazer

Cracking build & paint....great masking as this can be a bear! look forward to the other pictures! Mark D

Great work Tony 👍 The engine / crankcase looks brilliant & I agree with you on the RB gear as its top notch.... hope you have the fairings removable or all that good detail will be covered! 😋 keep up the good work 😉 Mark

Looking forward to the progress on this one....👍 Mark 😉