Honda RC211V - Repsol [2002] (Tamiya 1:12): Work In Progress

bossy122
I hope your clutch fits onto the bike. I did the same project and mine would'nt fit so that I could get the cover over it.

Julian Herrero aka Yuri
Following ,,, good work so far ,,,, which paints are you using ?

Federico Di Cori
@bossy122 I've had the same problem. The photoetched clutch has a greater thickness than the original and I was forced to glue the cover on the clutch itself. There were no other solutions ...

Federico Di Cori
@julian this is a photoetched clutch. No paint, except for one resin part painted with classic Tamiya acrilic in X-11 color. All the photoetched part are no painted!

bossy122
Yup. Sadly, I had to abandon the PE clutch as well.

bossy122
Having just built this kit, I will advise that the bottom of the Repsol red comes in two pieces. I applied the upper part over the orange painted piece and the bottom over the dark blue painted piece and found myself with two different shades of red.

Federico Di Cori
I preferred to mount the PE clutch anyway! The "defect" is seen only very closely ... For the red part of the Repsol decal I had read this problem in another forum. Is there any solution?

bossy122
On a do over, I would try to under coat the lower decal. I might try cutting a blank white decal the same shape.

Julian Herrero aka Yuri
Hi Federico , I ment which paint have you used in the plasric parts of the engine because they look so real

Federico Di Cori
@bossy it's a good idea! Please post some photos when you'll do that!!!

Federico Di Cori
@julian I only use Tamiya Acrilic Paints with manual brush. For some parts of the engine (as it is reported in the instructions) I used XF-56 (Metallic Gray) and for some other parts the color is X-31:1 + XF-56:1 (Titanium Gold mixed with Metallic Gray). At the moment I do not change anything from what is reported in the instructions, I scrupulously stick to those. But there are much better modelers than me who study the photos of the real vehicles and reproduce those colors

Julian Herrero aka Yuri
Thanks ,,, anyway look very real

Federico Di Cori
@julian thank you so much!

bossy122
Another thing you could try: paint that bottom piece the same shade orange as the sides then trace that red decal onto some masking tape and mask that area when you go to paint the blue.

Federico Di Cori
@bossy I didn't understand. Wich piece are talking?

bossy122
A 13 and A 14, the under cowl.

Federico Di Cori
Ah ok! Now i understand... Thanks!!!

Spanjaard
Looking good!

Federico Di Cori
Thank you Spanjaard! The working chain set is a very hard work! But gives big satisfaction!!!