Honda RC166 by DocRob - Tamiya - 1/12 - multimedia

[DocRob]

10 hours ago, shipman said:

I must say, not only is your build top notch; so is your excellent photography.

Thank you shipman, I used to be a halfway decent landscape and available light photographer, back in analogue times. I stopped photographing for years, as my favorite film, Agfa black and white slide film vanished and fell into a deep early digital hole, not liking what the cameras were able to deliver, since some years ago. I never got back full throttle on photography anymore, but still like the hobby, but less obsessed than in my early years. Since years, I try to take good pictures of my builds, but find it very difficult. Lighting, depth of field, color rendition and of course macroing isn´t easy, at least to me and I´m a bit lazy to improve my skills.

Cheers Rob

[Canute]

Your build is looking like the real deal.

[DocRob]

3 hours ago, Canute said:

Your build is looking like the real deal.

Thank you Alan, it is indeed a very beautiful kit, well engineered and designed. You can feel that there was a lot of love going into it.

Cheers Rob 

[DocRob]

Yesterday, I airbrushed the fairing, gas tank and rear. For the parts, I used Tamiya´s LP bright red with Mr. Color pink primer as a base. Today, I started decaling, which worked well. The Tamiya decals were easy to use and the carrier film is nearly invisible. The tiny rivets on the seat proved to be difficult to apply. I used a flat cut toothpick with low tack double sided adhesive tape, which helped a bit



Cheers Rob

[Danstream]

Indistinguishable from a real specimen!

Cheers,

Dan

[DocRob]

29 minutes ago, Danstream said:

Indistinguishable from a real specimen!

Thank you Dan, but it is, at least sound wise, mine is not high pitch dentist drill screaming like the real thing .

Cheers Rob