Automotive Forums .com - the leading automotive community online! Automotive Forums .com - the leading automotive community online!
Automotive Forums .com - the leading automotive community online! 
-
Latest | 0 Rplys
Go Back   Automotive Forums .com Car Chat > Automotive Art > Car Modeling > WIP - Motorbikes
WIP - Motorbikes Post topics for any "Works In Progress" motobikes projects in this sub-forum.
Reply Show Printable Version Show Printable Version | Email this Page Email this Page | Subscription Subscribe to this Thread
 
Thread Tools
Old 12-05-2017, 03:54 PM   #1
iceracer1
AF Enthusiast
 
iceracer1's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Heemskerk
Posts: 1,677
Thanks: 9
Thanked 26 Times in 26 Posts
Ducati 916

Here I am with my newest project. The mighty Ducati 916. One of my favorit bikes all time. As a young child I had posters above my bed and dreamed all day about this bike.

I have now 3 of them, unlucky for me not in 1:1 scale but all 1/12 Tamiya kits . Time to build one!






First I started to collect a few better looking bolts for the fairings. I removed the plastic ones and already drilled holes for the new bolts. I also primered them and painted in Ferrari Rosso Corso.








Kris.
__________________
iceracer1 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-07-2017, 12:24 AM   #2
iceracer1
AF Enthusiast
Thread starter
 
iceracer1's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Heemskerk
Posts: 1,677
Thanks: 9
Thanked 26 Times in 26 Posts
Re: Ducati 916

A new update:

I painted the engineblock in Alclad Dull Aluminium. I painted the engine components in a mix of green/grey to match the real color.





The swingarm is painted metallic grey. The shock components are painted yellow and silver with clear orange on top.




A few Ducati's at Google showed me a shiny bronze frame, but some have a matt bronze frame and wheels. I painted the frame and wheels with Zero Frame Bronze for Ducati. I liked the matt look of it, so I'll keep it like that.




And all together:







Kris.
__________________
iceracer1 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-15-2017, 02:55 AM   #3
iceracer1
AF Enthusiast
Thread starter
 
iceracer1's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Heemskerk
Posts: 1,677
Thanks: 9
Thanked 26 Times in 26 Posts
Re: Ducati 916

Yes I don't know why they paint an engine in green. The Senna edition is metallic grey which is much nicer I think.

Ok, a new update.

I painted the fairings and clearcoated them. Unfortunately one of the fairings felt on the ground and got some dust in the wet clearcoat. I will polish this part till all the dust is gone. I also did some carbon work on a few parts.





After this I started to paint the exhaust. First I sprayed everything in gloss black. Then I added the carbon decals on the mufflers. I clearcoated them and masked them off to paint the chrome. Then I made a mix of Titanium gold, copper and pale gold from Alclad to paint the exhaustpipes. I think they look pretty good.






I also made a start on the frontfork. A lot of masking was done. First I painted them titanium gold and the lower part in a metallic brown. Then i clearcoated the parts. After that I painted the brake calipers in Pale gold.
I drilled out the brake discs and painted them gold and polished aluminium.






Kris.
__________________
iceracer1 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-15-2017, 04:42 AM   #4
stevenoble
AF Enthusiast
 
stevenoble's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Barnsley
Posts: 3,199
Thanks: 8
Thanked 111 Times in 107 Posts
Re: Ducati 916

Very nice work, looks great!!
__________________
Steve Noble
stevenoble is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-15-2017, 10:15 PM   #5
malscar
AF Enthusiast
 
malscar's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Canberra
Posts: 604
Thanks: 0
Thanked 39 Times in 38 Posts
Re: Ducati 916

Love the detail work you are doing.
malscar is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-16-2017, 04:19 AM   #6
John18d
AF Enthusiast
 
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Tucson, Arizona
Posts: 1,468
Thanks: 12
Thanked 126 Times in 120 Posts
Re: Ducati 916

Really nice clean work Iceracer

Cheers
John
John18d is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-19-2017, 02:58 PM   #7
iceracer1
AF Enthusiast
Thread starter
 
iceracer1's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Heemskerk
Posts: 1,677
Thanks: 9
Thanked 26 Times in 26 Posts
Re: Ducati 916

First of all, I just bought a new camera so I struggled a bit on taking photos...

Allright, the ducati received his exhausts and a few other small parts. I also build the frontfork and mounted it on the bike. It's now a bike!












Kris.
__________________
iceracer1 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-21-2017, 03:36 AM   #8
John18d
AF Enthusiast
 
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Tucson, Arizona
Posts: 1,468
Thanks: 12
Thanked 126 Times in 120 Posts
Re: Ducati 916

Iceracer - Great work on the exhaust pipes and cans

This build is coming along nicely

Thank you for doing the WIP

I wish more builders of bikes would do the WIPs

Cheers
John
John18d is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-26-2017, 05:08 AM   #9
iceracer1
AF Enthusiast
Thread starter
 
iceracer1's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Heemskerk
Posts: 1,677
Thanks: 9
Thanked 26 Times in 26 Posts
Re: Ducati 916

I polished the fallen fairing and did the last assembly on the left over parts.

And it's now completed





























This kit is a very nice kit, and builds just perfect. I'm in love with this model, and I finally have a scale model version in my display cabinet. I only added carbon decals and rivets for the fairings. Nothing more. I think I have proved that not every model needs expensive detailsets.

Kris.
__________________
iceracer1 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-26-2017, 08:41 AM   #10
John18d
AF Enthusiast
 
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Tucson, Arizona
Posts: 1,468
Thanks: 12
Thanked 126 Times in 120 Posts
Re: Ducati 916

Very nicely done Iceracer

I agree this came out very nicely for not having a super detail kit added to it.

The pictures are good too -

did you do a WIP for the Panigale in the pictures?

Cheers
John
John18d is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-26-2017, 09:58 PM   #11
iceracer1
AF Enthusiast
Thread starter
 
iceracer1's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Heemskerk
Posts: 1,677
Thanks: 9
Thanked 26 Times in 26 Posts
Re: Ducati 916

Quote:
Originally Posted by John18d View Post
Very nicely done Iceracer

I agree this came out very nicely for not having a super detail kit added to it.

The pictures are good too -

did you do a WIP for the Panigale in the pictures?

Cheers


John
Thanks John. Here is a link to the panigale build.

http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbul....php?t=1139207
__________________
iceracer1 is offline   Reply With Quote
The Following User Says Thank You to iceracer1 For This Useful Post:
John18d (12-27-2017)
Old 03-01-2018, 07:52 PM   #12
JimboCO
AF Regular
 
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Denver, Colorado
Posts: 176
Thanks: 0
Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts
Re: Ducati 916

Really nice build and documentation. Motivates me to start on mine!
JimboCO is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-01-2018, 11:08 PM   #13
DRUMS02
AF Newbie
 
DRUMS02's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2018
Location: Heath, Ohio
Posts: 56
Thanks: 0
Thanked 13 Times in 13 Posts
Re: Ducati 916

WOW, now that is a great build of a timeless sport bike...

Wonderful job!!!
DRUMS02 is offline   Reply With Quote
 
Reply

POST REPLY TO THIS THREAD

Go Back   Automotive Forums .com Car Chat > Automotive Art > Car Modeling > WIP - Motorbikes

Thread Tools

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off



All times are GMT -5. The time now is 04:53 PM.

Community Participation Guidelines | How to use your User Control Panel

Powered by: vBulletin | Copyright Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
 
 
no new posts