RC166 progress

Made a little bit of progress on the Tamiya RC166 last week, got some red paint on the tank and tail, looks good but I think one more layer would be even better. It's just... you know, I'm bound to screw it up if I paint one more time and then I have to sand it down and shit and I'll be pissed off with myself and it'll be standing on my desk for another few weeks and so on... To paint one more time or to not paint one more time, that is the question. 

Btw, saw a nice sportster a few days ago, I'm no Harley fan, but this stuff I like! 

Tamiya RC166

After going to the Axis exhibition of the handmade bike models I felt ashamed of my own neglected RC166 Tamiya model. It's been standing on my worktable for about 6 months without any progress...

 

It's good fun, but oh so frustrating, some of the parts are hardly possible to grip with tweezers. But I have good inspiration from my coffee cup and figured out how to see what I'm doing when I'm spray painting stuff on the balcony at night, double sided tape kicks ass! I also realized that it helps to do things in the right order, not just start with the bits that looks like the most fun to do, weird.

And btw, while I was working on the model the old Asimo decided to take Freddie Spencers NS500 for a spin and don't you think he managed to crash it and brake the left grip... What a twat. 

Dusting off the bookshelf...

... has it's perks it seems, for example, you get to put all your bike-models together on the table and pretend that you own the real ones! It's also ok to play with them a little bit since they are just waiting there for the time being... It's ok right?

Tamiya.

As I mentioned in the last post I kind of caught the Tamiya-bug, it actually started even before that visit to the Tamiya headquarters and their showroom because a guy at work gave me a CB1100R model kit for free after I promised to take part in an little exhibit... stupid stupid me... Of course I could not leave it at the level of just building the CB the way you should, I had to go and customize it. I was strongly influenced by Wrenchmonkees CB750 build, shown below here, my personal favorit among their very nice bikes.

Now, you'd think I'd at least be smart enough to take some pictures of the final model before the exhibit, but you'd be wrong, so here are a couple of dirty iphone-shots which is all I have for the moment. I'll make some proper shots once I've got the damn thing back.

Thanks Kuro. ;)

Next up: Honda RC166...