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Re: Tamiya's kawasaki ninja H2R

Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2016 1:50 am
by kiwigav
Very nice bit of work so far. very keen on doing a bike in the near future :th:

Re: Tamiya's kawasaki ninja H2R

Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2016 1:07 am
by Johnj
kiwigav wrote:Very nice bit of work so far. very keen on doing a bike in the near future :th:
Thanks gav :thumb1: you wouldnt go wrong with any of the tamiya bikes.

Re: Tamiya's kawasaki ninja H2R

Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2016 1:46 am
by Johnj
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Re: Tamiya's kawasaki ninja H2R

Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2016 2:08 am
by Johnj
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Re: Tamiya's kawasaki ninja H2R

Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2016 2:11 am
by Johnj
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Re: Tamiya's kawasaki ninja H2R

Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2016 2:12 am
by Johnj
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Re: Tamiya's kawasaki ninja H2R

Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2016 3:53 am
by Maverik
Coming along nicely there and yes a great sunset

Re: Tamiya's kawasaki ninja H2R

Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2016 9:06 am
by Davethepitch
Looking great johnj very neat work.

Re: Tamiya's kawasaki ninja H2R

Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2016 8:02 pm
by Plopper
Looking well tasty!

Re: Tamiya's kawasaki ninja H2R

Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2016 2:19 pm
by exmoor
Looking great jonj .i want this kit but the wife has ask me to stop spending money .going on holiday for xmas i suppose she got a point.l sooner stay home and spend it on models lol

Re: Tamiya's kawasaki ninja H2R

Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2016 8:59 pm
by HIghAltitudeScale
Nice detail work. You can see the time you've put into this build.

Re: Tamiya's kawasaki ninja H2R

Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2016 9:54 am
by Johnj
Thanks boys. It's went together just as you would expect really (so far)

Re: Tamiya's kawasaki ninja H2R

Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2016 10:01 am
by Johnj
Anothe 'pile' of parts cut off, cleaned up and primed ready for the detail painting. A good chunk of them are semi gloss black which moves it along quite quickly.
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I have carbon decal stencils for other kits but there seems to be quite a bit of waste after they're cut out so i was thinking i could use it for parts of this build, we'll see !
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Re: Tamiya's kawasaki ninja H2R

Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2016 10:21 am
by Davethepitch
Coming along nicely.

Re: Tamiya's kawasaki ninja H2R

Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2016 5:04 pm
by Johnj
Davethepitch wrote:Coming along nicely.
Cheers dave :thumb1:
I think i could safely bet every penny i have on you having started your's already :whistle:

Re: Tamiya's kawasaki ninja H2R

Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2016 5:35 pm
by Davethepitch
Johnj wrote:
Davethepitch wrote:Coming along nicely.
Cheers dave :thumb1:
I think i could safely bet every penny i have on you having started your's already :whistle:
HI Johnj

You would lose your bet because when my friend saw it she said it is off Santa from you know who and wrapped it up with a tag on.

No matter how much I said it was an early Christmas present she was having none of it. :(

Re: Tamiya's kawasaki ninja H2R

Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2016 7:40 pm
by Johnj
Davethepitch wrote:
Johnj wrote:
Davethepitch wrote:Coming along nicely.
Cheers dave :thumb1:
I think i could safely bet every penny i have on you having started your's already :whistle:
HI Johnj

You would lose your bet because when my friend saw it she said it is off Santa from you know who and wrapped it up with a tag on.

No matter how much I said it was an early Christmas present she was having none of it. :(
Lol ah bummer !

Re: Tamiya's kawasaki ninja H2R

Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2016 11:22 pm
by RossiM1
Great looking bike your doing a first class job of it John can't wait to see how this turns out.
ATB

Re: Tamiya's kawasaki ninja H2R

Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2016 8:08 am
by Johnj
RossiM1 wrote:Great looking bike your doing a first class job of it John can't wait to see how this turns out.
ATB
Cheers gary :thumb1: quite enjoying it so far.

Re: Tamiya's kawasaki ninja H2R

Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2016 2:07 am
by Johnj
Thats pretty much the detail painting done, just the fairings to go but i think i'll need to wait till next weekend fos some daylight modeling time.
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Re: Tamiya's kawasaki ninja H2R

Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2016 8:57 am
by Davethepitch
You are certainly setting a high standard of modelling

Re: Tamiya's kawasaki ninja H2R

Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2016 10:28 am
by Maverik
Lookin good Johnj

Re: Tamiya's kawasaki ninja H2R

Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2016 4:17 pm
by Twokidsnosleep
Absolutely great progress
Your sub assemblies look fantastic, cannot wait to see her all together :thumb2:

Re: Tamiya's kawasaki ninja H2R

Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2016 4:38 pm
by exmoor
Its looking good johnj

Re: Tamiya's kawasaki ninja H2R

Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2016 4:51 pm
by Davethepitch
I guarantee mine will not look anywhere near as good.

Re: Tamiya's kawasaki ninja H2R

Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2016 5:24 pm
by chops1sc
Johnj wrote:I used the Ultimate .4mm masking tape in anger for the first time with this and it worked a treat, no bleed what so ever
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Is that purple stuff liquid mask?

Re: Tamiya's kawasaki ninja H2R

Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2016 11:01 pm
by Johnj
chops1sc wrote:
Johnj wrote:I used the Ultimate .4mm masking tape in anger for the first time with this and it worked a treat, no bleed what so ever
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Is that purple stuff liquid mask?
Thanks boys, i really appreciate the positive comments :thumb1:
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Re: Tamiya's kawasaki ninja H2R

Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2016 3:10 am
by Johnj
Davethepitch wrote:I guarantee mine will not look anywhere near as good.
I'm not entirely sure who said this but it's probably the single best piece of advice you could give and it was - treat every piece like it's the whole kit. Scott maybe ?

This is what we were talking about the other week from my profile interests ? I think these two are three years old now and most probably out of date ! I do still enjoy the micro stuff though :thumb1:
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Re: Tamiya's kawasaki ninja H2R

Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2016 3:19 am
by Johnj
Still a bit of detail painting to do.
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Re: Tamiya's kawasaki ninja H2R

Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2016 3:20 am
by Johnj
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Re: Tamiya's kawasaki ninja H2R

Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2016 9:25 am
by Davethepitch
One word "excellent"

Re: Tamiya's kawasaki ninja H2R

Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2016 9:46 am
by Davethepitch
What is under the full fuselage on the helicopter is it a Trex and is it belt or torque tube and they certainly look better than my Blade 200 SRX.

Re: Tamiya's kawasaki ninja H2R

Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2016 4:35 pm
by RossiM1
That's looking really nice mate looks like you got this one nailed

Re: Tamiya's kawasaki ninja H2R

Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2016 5:16 pm
by Johnj
RossiM1 wrote:That's looking really nice mate looks like you got this one nailed
Thanks gary :thumb1: you've probably noticed i've missed out the exhausts so far. The last bike i did i used one of the tamiya weathering sets and they came out really good but with this H2R the exhausts are a very prominent part of the bike and i'm not sure the weathering set would cut it this time, i was thinking alclads ?

Re: Tamiya's kawasaki ninja H2R

Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2016 5:17 pm
by Davethepitch
I am having one of these off Santa and the standard Johnj has set will make mine look like it was painted with the brush between my toes.

Re: Tamiya's kawasaki ninja H2R

Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2016 5:27 pm
by Johnj
Davethepitch wrote:What is under the full fuselage on the helicopter is it a Trex and is it belt or torque tube and they certainly look better than my Blade 200 SRX.
Hi dave, yeah, it's align mechanic's with a carbon tube drive. It's a slightly different motor and gear ratio to the 3D stuff as well. It's 12cell 5000mah giving around 7-8 min of mixed hovering and aero's.

Re: Tamiya's kawasaki ninja H2R

Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2016 6:02 pm
by Davethepitch
I mostly learn fly at night

Dave

Re: Tamiya's kawasaki ninja H2R

Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2016 6:07 pm
by Johnj
Yeah, it shows up well dave

Re: Tamiya's kawasaki ninja H2R

Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2016 6:10 pm
by RossiM1
Hi John, Alclad is the way I would go with the exhausts, starting with polished aluminium or chrome followed by a dusting around the down pipes of pale burnt metal, hot sepia, then I mix Tamiya clear blue and red to make a purple ish blue heavily thinned down about 70% thinner to paint, and again just dusted on the down pipes from the manifolds.
ATB

Re: Tamiya's kawasaki ninja H2R

Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2016 6:19 pm
by Johnj
Parts D37 and 38 are to be painted gun metal where the handle bars attach to. The fit was so tight i had to take the paint and primer back off but after that they slipped on

Re: Tamiya's kawasaki ninja H2R

Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2016 7:16 pm
by Davethepitch
Can the Alclad paints be brushed on the exhaust pipes.

Re: Tamiya's kawasaki ninja H2R

Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2016 7:22 pm
by Johnj
I wouldnt have thought so dave, you wouldnt get the soft edge. What i'll do is use the weathering set on the chromed kit parts to see what that would look like before i strip off that chrome plating for the alclads.

Re: Tamiya's kawasaki ninja H2R

Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2016 9:39 pm
by Plopper
Lovely Jubbly. Getting better and better with every update.

Re: Tamiya's kawasaki ninja H2R

Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2016 9:53 pm
by Johnj
Plopper wrote:Lovely Jubbly. Getting better and better with every update.
thanks dave :thumb1: i've just had a bit of an accident, the bike has just fell over and broke off the right hand handlebar ! Not the end of the world but definately a pain. I might even post the fix if it might help someone else.

Re: Tamiya's kawasaki ninja H2R

Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2016 10:17 pm
by Johnj
This 0.4mm Ultimate masking tape is brilliant stuff
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Re: Tamiya's kawasaki ninja H2R

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2016 1:04 am
by NorthernModeller
it is a great masking tape for them jobs :) really enjoying this build. coming along leaps and bounds

Re: Tamiya's kawasaki ninja H2R

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2016 8:52 am
by Johnj
NorthernModeller wrote:it is a great masking tape for them jobs :) really enjoying this build. coming along leaps and bounds
Cheers Ivan. The only downside is a the usuall tricks dont seem to work if you 'loose' the end. I struggle even with good light a magnifier and a new blade. The 'step' is so small.

Of coarse there is every chance it's just me lol

Re: Tamiya's kawasaki ninja H2R

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2016 1:39 pm
by Johnj
RossiM1 wrote:Hi John, Alclad is the way I would go with the exhausts, starting with polished aluminium or chrome followed by a dusting around the down pipes of pale burnt metal, hot sepia, then I mix Tamiya clear blue and red to make a purple ish blue heavily thinned down about 70% thinner to paint, and again just dusted on the down pipes from the manifolds.
ATB
Hi Gary, yeah, i have a few of those mixed paints that i've made up over the year's for the exhausts. Another one that looks good is clear yellow mixed with smoke.
I put in an order to emodels last night for some alclads to try :thumb1:

Re: Tamiya's kawasaki ninja H2R

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2016 1:51 pm
by exmoor
What can one say awsome mate

Re: Tamiya's kawasaki ninja H2R

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2016 9:23 pm
by Plopper
Johnj wrote:
Plopper wrote:Lovely Jubbly. Getting better and better with every update.
thanks dave :thumb1: i've just had a bit of an accident, the bike has just fell over and broke off the right hand handlebar ! Not the end of the world but definately a pain. I might even post the fix if it might help someone else.
OUCH I did that years ago with my NSR 500, I'd JUST finished it "on the kitchen table back in those days" got up to hand it to my nephew who was visiting to have a look and it just jumped out of my hands from about elbow height! And miracle of miracles only a foot rest and a bit of exhaust came off and were very quick repairs!