Yamaha 50th Anniv.

[uniongoon]

Well, my first bike model, and also first model since I was a young kid.

First attempt I tried too many colours, silver, copper, clear red, clear blue and blue. Started out good and then got too dark with excess paint. So I stripped it and started again, stripping it actually gave it a weathered look sort of like my old ZX11 in my garage.

1st coat Testor's silver

2nd, light dusting of Tamiya titanium gold

Then some accents with Tamiya clear blue

mounted

and the other side, showing my decal damage on the yellow/black, ouch

[uniongoon]

Messing around trying to get a believable carbon fibre look. After a few paint /strip/ paint trys I think I found a combo that works OK. Base coat of Metallic Grey, brushed on an angle and then about 6 coats of clear smoke also brushed on an angle. Actual item looks better than the picture.