simontie Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Started this after the new year and it's coming together ok, having built a lot of Tamiya I can see the difference in the quality of the kits, but I have tried my best to get it as close as possible found a few helpful Pinterest picture and here is where I am so far, The chrome plating I normally strip but I have left it on the wheels, forks, clutch and left hand casing I hope to touch these up with alclad chrome, engine and frame have taken a bit of fettling to get right, but all in its ok and I am learning how useful plastic putty is... kit comes with red and black tubing for ht leads and cables my mistake never read the instructions and used black instead but in my defence the red are fairly garish (hope that's a word) and I have taken licence on a couple of other items as everything according to the kit should be silver/alloy but it looks to silver so I used gun metal on the cards and some other mixes elsewhere like the distributor the frame took me ages to paint silver red looks much better but the original was silver so silver it is simon 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco F. Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Also an interesting item I'll following. But please try to insert bigger pics Marco F Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mumbly Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 You probably know this already, but it is a re box of a Protar kit from the 80’s. They weren’t Tamiya quality back then, but always were interesting. I have an AJS 7R on the stash pile with the rubber band chains 🤢 I will watch this one as it looks interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simontie Posted January 22, 2020 Author Share Posted January 22, 2020 Thank you still new to this posting pictures but getting there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simontie Posted January 22, 2020 Author Share Posted January 22, 2020 https://www.flickr.com/photos/184372675@N03/shares/7D70e3 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spitfire Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 Looks good to me, as a lifelong biker I built a lot of Protar kits in the past, including this one, the MV's were a huge part of Bike racing back then and the sight and sound of one on song was something I will never forget. I must build another one someday. Cheers Dennis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cherry268 Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 I remember watching Phil Reed and Giacoma Agostini racing these at Silverstone That was a while ago 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simontie Posted January 23, 2020 Author Share Posted January 23, 2020 Never heard of the protar kits till i bought 1 last week on fleabay, well at least i know what im getting 👍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heloman1 Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 Neat build, looking forward to more images. Colin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simontie Posted January 25, 2020 Author Share Posted January 25, 2020 small progress report 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simontie Posted January 30, 2020 Author Share Posted January 30, 2020 Final instalment some small bits of fettling to do but all in all i really enjoyed this, 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simontie Posted January 30, 2020 Author Share Posted January 30, 2020 9 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco F. Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 Stunning little MV Agusta! Perfect paint job on the fairing Marco F 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zidder Posted January 6, 2021 Share Posted January 6, 2021 Hi there had an mv model for Xmas and struggling with paint the code for the silver seems wrong, wondered what silver you used ? Gary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simontie Posted January 31, 2021 Author Share Posted January 31, 2021 hi sorry only just noticed your post I used some old fast dry enamel PLASTI-KOTE 105S (project paint)not sure if it is still available it was high in vocs.. sorry about the late response Simon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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