Dunter1969

Cheers I'll pop into the local Halfords, as with the Tamiya clear it has slightly eaten into decals in the past.

Roy cheers, I've never thought about doing a pencil rubbing, you've just answered a question I had for the Ducati build in just about to do. I've always been a rattle can man, until quite recently where I'm an airbrush convert. Although for the clear coat on my next build I'll be rattle caning that with Tamiya TS13 clear coat.

I've spent enough time on the paint, decals and front forks for the Panigale, the rest will have to make do at the moment. I might also get some more Zero Paints, I'm interested in quite a lot of their paint, as I've never used Zero Paints before, what do you use as a clear for it. I'm also just seen 2014 & 2015 decals for the Rossi Yamaha.

Cheers Steve the vision I had in my mind just didn't turn out the way I wanted by using the Tamiya paint. I will definately be getting some Alclad paint in the future, I'm using their Aqua gloss which I like. I'm actually think of at some point in the future I'll strip it down and repaint the frame, but not at the moment..

Mark thanks very much, I would love a real bike, but I wouldn't last long lol. Yeh I painted the frame several months again, and it's the one thing I'm not at all happy with, I've looked at the Alclad products, which I think are way more accurate than the Tamiya products in this respect, I'm planning to order some of their stuff come pay day. I never knew that about the masking tape and I'll certainly do your method from now on, as its a bugger when you pull the tape off only to find a bleed arghhh. I'll also look online for the smaller tubing, what would you suggest instead of the 1.2mm pipes. Yeh I've got the Senna paint from Zero Paints, I ordered it from Hiroboy, where looking at things you could go to town on the aftermarket stuff. This is exactly the point I was trying to make across on the Chat forum, I had no idea how to get rid of a bleed, or how I could achieve a better effect on the frame, now I know. The BMW is a nice car, I've driven loads of them at work, don't know if you've done it or not, but have a go at an Xdrive version, amazing handling and grip, far better than Audi's Quattro system, the Xdrive I found still to be biased towards the rear, where the Audis still under steer into oblivion lol. After being a VW man all my days, I've given up on them and I'm now a Toyota man, yep I know..... Cheers Steve, glad you like it, might do a Suzuki soon lol.

Lovely build and colour, I wish other makes ie Tamiya with their bikes could make brake discs like that.

I've never seen this kit before. I used normal cheap household bleach to take that fake/nasty/horrible etc etc chrome off. 5 mins and it was off (on a Tamiya bike). Looking good thought.

Cheers Simon, as you can see when I use words like canopy I'm still stuck in aircraft building.

Very nice indeed mate, glad you finished it.

I then went on to building together the handle bars and piping Next was the front canopy area, being a non biker I haven't the foggiest what it's called. Anyway here it is in all its glory

I then built up and painted the tiny fuel cap, a feat in itself which like too many will go unnoticed......

Cheers guys for the multitude of comments, liking and encouraging me on with this build.........I really must do a "mega buck" Poacher build sometime........ Anyway on with my lonesome build that's the tank seat area built, painted and slapped into place.

As the heading says can you spray clear canopies with Alclad2 ALC600 Aqua Gloss. I use this for all my gloss clear at the moment, and have been impressed with it. I would dip them but the cost is a bit prohibitive, you would need several bottles. I've tried the new formula Kleer with almost disasterous, my newly purchased bottle ended in the bin.

I bought this floor wax as well, absolutely useless. First of spraying clogged up my AB almost instantly, the amount of hassles this caused. I tried to dip a canopy, again absolutely useless, it didn't dry even at all, I followed all the guides etc to no avail. It's now in to bin. I bought some Alclad 2 ALC600 Aqua Gloss, and have used it for the past fortnight without any problems, although not dipped any canopies with it as it comes in such a small bottle. I don't know wither you can spray canopies with the ALC600.

Acht drat, another one I'll need to add to the to do list.....lovely build mate.

Stunning mate, it really suits that livery. Well done

cheers for the comments folks much appreciated

That's the radiator fitted. I sprayed this Tamiya Grey Metallic, with the ends done in Tamiya rubber black. I then gave the surface of the radiator a blackish wash. Again hope you like it.

That's the front and rear finished and attached, so far so good I think.

That's the front fork assembly now completed, again it went together as it should. Note the mistake which has now been rectified, yeh I put one of the fork brackets (I think that's what it's called) upside down. Noticed it before the glue set. The exhaust all finished, I tried the fake carbon look which although looked well ok, it wasn't good enough, so I used the decal, which to my surprise went on without any problems.

For such a "basic" logo it's certainly suits the A350 well. Looking good mate.

Cheers guys, yeh Ray I find the wheels a right nightmare to deal with, I bought one of those helping hands magnifing things which did help a bit. The engines really did fit together very well. Zvezda did well here.

Hi folks, I've just finished kit. An excellent kit, with only a couple of minor issues. Like all Zvezda kits I've done recently the decals are the only gripe I have. I used decals from DrawDecal, and the main paint was RAL1015. The other paints I used were Tamiya Acrylics. This is the first kit I've done any kind of wash. Hopefully it has turned out ok, hope you like it.

Anyway that's it done, I'm really impressed with these Zvezda kits, if only they could get a grip on the quality and quantity of their decals. Anyway I'll post it up a RFI soon hope you like it.

I've never really done a wash on the wings of a aircraft yet, so for this one I though what the heck I might as well add a bit of detail, now going for the dirty well used look, hope you like it.