I wanted to build the fire scheme on the Hayabusa bike for a long time before attempting it. I looked for many reference on the net and finally found one thats suitable to my taste. The whole fire scheme is air-brushed painted with maskings. Quite a pain-staking process of needing to draw the fire on a paper, transfering the drawn pic to masking tape before cutting, applying and lastly painting. I even cut out the jap "haybusa" word, 隼, using a chrome decal and applied it on the back of the bike. I entered this bike into 2006 Tamiya Model Competition together with the Rossi's Honda bike. Unfortunately it doesnt win anything but still its still one of my proud project.
Presenting my 2006 Tamiya Model Competition winning model. The Doctor, Valentino Rossi RC211V! Sidetracking a little, he's the world MotoGP champion this year! Congrats to him! Well, this build took me a year and 3 months partly because i was in the army during that time therefore really lack of time. Another reason is that this is one of the build that i classified to be super-detailed as well. I spent lots and lots of time referencing from books and internet while building it. Many of the details were scratchbuild, for e.g. electrical plugs, electrical box, front area of fuel tank, exhaust pipe, exhaust springs, sensors, tubing, hose clamps, on board camera holder, side guard and etc. The bike is filled with studio27 and few other company's photoetched parts, like the clutch, pedals, pedals pad, rear wheel frame, rivets, speedometer and gear chains. Correct patterns of carbon-fibre is applied to the necessary area. For e.g. i use scale motorsport hi-def cf decals for the fuel tank and seat areas while i used the normal weave pattern for the clutch. That's the brief summary of what i have did with this kit.
This is my wining model of Tamiya Model Competition 2007 held in Singapore. Its a 1/24th scale model from Tamiya. The kit as usual from Tamiya, is of a very high standard. Most details are given in the kit and i only added a few stuff on it, like photoetched brake discs and small details in the engine bay. The underpanel is full carbon-fibred as well as the doors, seats and engine bay. Seatbelts are also added together with scratchbuild buckles. Clear plastic provided by the kit for the engine hood was replaced by metal mesh from Eduard. Now lets take a look of the finished model.
using photoetched mesh to replace the clear plastic
Well again, its my favourite Ferrari! but this time round it is an old Ferrari model, 250 TR. Its regarded as the second most popular Ferrari car, behind the legendary 250 GTO. This build was completed around 3 months ago and took me around 2 weeks. It a Hasegawa kit and i must say it is a great kit too. Most parts are fit into place without much problem though the wheels given are not close to the real thing. It was fairly a easy build considering that i didn't include too many details except replacing the air funnels and wheels with full metal parts(btw the wheels are still not up to my satisfaction, will change to better in the future) as well as some photoetched rivets. Let me present to you my Ferrari 250 TR.
A thrilling action at the Singapore GP!! But im quite disappointed because both FERRARIs performed poorly! I was at the Bay Grandstand, there are good and bad points about this grandstand but whatever, its a really nice and different experience especially being alone at the race! haha! So below are some videos and shots of the event! Just love F1 racing!! Ferrari Forever!!
One of my favourite cars of all time, Enzo Ferrari! I spent almost six months building this one and i have add a considerable amount of details in it. From Scalemotorsports Super Detail Kit to detail sets from Crazy Modeler and detail parts from Sakatsu, I invested quite a lot of money and time in this. Also, I did scratchbuilt several parts in order to make it as close to the real thing as possible. The most prominent is the front bonnet area, with luggage compartment and etc. During the build progress, there are millions of fitting tests to see if anything can go into place. Although Tamiya's kit is already fabulous, to me its still not enough.
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Absolutmodeling is a place created to share the joy of scale modeling. Hi everyone, I'm Roland, an automobile scale modeler from Singapore, the author of Absolutmodeling. It's my passion to create realistic models and i would like to share this passion of mine with you. For more information about me, please refer to "About Me & Blog". Please contact me directly through mail or phone if there's any questions. Thank you!
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