Dántin Pramac Ducati GP4 ´05 Test+Race

Hi guys!
While finnishing off on my Télefonica RC211V ´03 I picked out and started this double build.
I will do the test and race versions of Roberto Rolfo's 2005 Moto GP ride. I think the bike livery is a real stunner and I'm very soft for test bikes.

There are (minor changes beside) two options for the race livery, the differences has to do how far up the side cowls the black area is painted. I've decided to go with the version where the black reaches up to the mid portion of the side cowls as I've seen a few of the other one.
The one I've chosen looks like this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/joelwideqvist/rolfo%20ducati/portugal.jpg

Test bike looks like this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/joelwideqvist/rolfo%20ducati/photog08.jpg

and for that I'll be using the Renaissance decal sheet:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/joelwideqvist/rolfo%20ducati/ren_rolfo05test.jpg

I've only just started the cowlings and the engine. Pics will come soon. I'm also planning for a comparation between the kit fork parts and the metal parts supplied by Tamiya.
/Joel

I'm doing the same bike right now!!!! but just the tamiya kit....nothing else like metal parts or other things.....it's a lovely bike...but the decals..are a bit hard to stick!

Yes, I've heard that from other sources as well Pippin. Hope you get them down alright. Good luck on your build, any troubles so far besides the decals?
/Joel

Will be doing the same two bikes here as well but not right away have a couple of others to fin first,
watching this build with interest
Shayne

Great project! These test bikes look cool!

Joel, was the bike painted black or is it all CF? Just wondering.

It's black. I don't risk my well being on CF liveries ;-)
/Joel

Some serious puttying is taking place in southern Sweden. Sweet jesus how hard it is to get the rear cowl smooth. I'm on my third round of putty and I'm running out of 600 grit abrasive paper. Starting to look pretty decent and all I have to do now is to pick out some 1500 grit and then head on to the primer.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/joelwideqvist/rolfo%20ducati/cowls_putty2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/joelwideqvist/rolfo%20ducati/rearcowl.jpg

Engine, frame and air bow are put together and waiting for painting.
/Joel

Hi,
had to laugh at your muscle aching. I was the same, now its a cinch with the sanding sticks from Crazy. Did an old RG500 seat, tank, fairing, clear glass, last night and for the 1st time in 25 years had it turn out good.

Rod. not so tired now lol

i will have to try those, have to survive christmas first....
/Joel

have you told Santa what you want in kits this year ? She oops he may get you a sled full of transkits but then if we knew it would not be a surprise. ;-)

Man I would like a new Suzuki, Kawasaki, KR from Tamiya Claus. pleeeeease how do you say Merry Xmas in Japanese lol.

I put kits on my wishing list all the time but since my mother saw my pile of unbuilt kits she has stopped buying them ;-) The wife has never bought any. It's up to me...
/Joel

Decided to compare the Tamiya front fork set to the regular front forks. I bought a set on E-bay and hopefully I'll get it next week. Will try to do my best on both and see if it turns out value for money or not.
/Joel

Had a long painting session today. I primed all body parts and found some imperfections. Bloody seat cowl ;-) Temperature was a bit low so I had some runs from the primer that I have to sand down. I'm priming the test bike parts grey and the race bike lightly white, as the plastic is red I'll get a nice pink color to start with.
I've painted all semi-gloss black parts including those to be covered with CF (will dive into the Pit-walk collection books for reference).
Engine parts that calls for X-16 in the instruction has been painted black enamel and then sprayed with Alclad II Aluminum. Here an idea was born for future projecs. Before the aluminum color covered all of the black base the engine looked really weathered. Will have to try that one. Would be perfect to skip one step, wouldn't it!?
/Joel

give it a try and see how it comes out. most engine parts are rough cvast anyway and polished in some areas if its alloy

I know all about the :useless: issue but I'd thought I'll give you a small update anyhow. Got a shipment from Mediamix Hobby today with CF and a Crazy Modeller PE-sheet for the Desmosedici. As I mentioned above I want to see how much the front fork set adds to the appearance of the bike and if it is value for money so to speak. Then I thought why not do the same with a PE-set? I haven't worked with Crazy Modeller stuff before but I've seen pictures of the M1 set wich looked promising enough. So far I'm not disapointed with the Desmosedici set and the parts included. I've started the chain and the front disc rotors. Now it's just to figure out wich kit will get the PE treatment...race or test, race or test...

Engine block is painted Alclad II Aluminum and I will have another go at the detail parts today. Most of the cowls had to get another sanding session as there was a lot of errors to correct after the putty job.
/Joel

Joel,
Put the detail sets on the test bike please???
actually either bike would look great with them on! Am I starting to see a LOT more detailing from you? Next you will be buying a lathe?:lol:

It's growing on me. Earlier I found that bike PE sets didn't contain much that was interesting enough. Studio 27 has always put the brake discs in even though they are not steel anymore. Radiator fronts and that sort of things doesn't really apply to me either. But Crazy Modeler has some nice stuff out, the Desmo sheet is sheap and has a few really nice details.
I agree with you about the detail parts going on the test machine. I think it will be the best.
I think my wife would go crazy if I bought a Lathe...

Hope to show you some pics later today.
/Joel

Hi again. Promised some pictures, but due to some painting mistakes and photobucket not being available I can't show you as much as I would have liked.

What I can show you are some cf work I did yesterday. The airboxes has been covered in SMS high definition CF and I'll tell you, this stuff is great. I haven't had this much success with any CF I've ever used before. Went on like a dream. Image is taken before clearcoating.

http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/500/178501airbox_cf_rearaf.jpg

http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/500/178501airbox_cf_sideaf.jpg

http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/500/178501airboxes_cfaf.jpg

I also tried another SMS CF decal on the rear mud guard. I taped the part up and sliced the tape up into 6 parts. This is taken before clearcoating and you can easily spot the decal edges. Hopefully these will be less visible after some clear treatment. I was going to use laquer paint so that I could cover the decals with laquer clear but I forgot and used regular acrylic paint. Will have to take out the old X-22.

http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/500/178501rearmud_cf2af.jpg

http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/500/178501rearmud_cfaf.jpg

best regards
Joel

wow, very nice work on the cf.

where do you people get the pics of the test bikes?

adrian

www.motogp.com and www.crash.net often reports from the winter tests. If you check those sites out in the beginning of the year you will find loads. Now it's harder to find them but search on those sites or on google.
/Joel

Went down to the basement where I have my modeling room and had a look at the cowls. I've painted the TS-49 parts on the race cowls and TS-14 Black on the test ones and on the rims and swing arms. Look damn good actually. TS-49 flows like a dream and actually made a shining surface without both rubbing and clear. Some of the black cowls have to be rubbed out before I apply the decals. I also have to figure out how I will do the black section of the side cowls on the race version. Either I just mask it off or I could put the separating decal on first, put on a few coats of clear and then mask off and paint black...
/Joel

Hi Joel;
Nice CF work you´ve done ..looks well so far .

Watching for next update.
Cheers Lutz

Today my front fork set arrived and I promised you all a review of the content and that I would compare the parts with the standard kit ones. I will do my best to finish the standard fork set and for each step I'll give you my opinions and some pics for you to judge for yourself. Tamiya has set the retail price for the front fork set to 29 USD although I got it for 15 including shipping on E-bay. I'll try to give you some words on how I think this is value for money.

First out is a pic of the parts included in the detail set.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/joelwideqvist/rolfo%20ducati/tamiya_forkset.jpg

Joel

Ok up for some new progress, are you?

Here's some input on the Tamiya fork set.
As you saw in the last post the fork set includes the fork leg in some sort of metal, sliding parts and reservoir in brass and a fork bottom in plastic. I was actually hoping for a metal bottom as well but now I'm left with some painting on this as well. Here are the steps for the standard forks wich includes these pieces in plastic:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/joelwideqvist/rolfo%20ducati/fork_standardparts.jpg

With these I had to:
Paint the bottoms with Tamiya X-32 Titanium silver.
Paint the fork legs with TS-14 Black.
Paint the sliding parts and the reservoir with Alclad II Pale gold. I have to do something to the reservoir as it has to get a more orange look.
Install the reservoir

Four steps resulting in this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/joelwideqvist/rolfo%20ducati/fork_standard.jpg

With the Fork set parts I had to do this:
Paint the bottom with X-32 Titanium silver.
Install the sliding part on the bottom part.
Slide those two parts into the fork leg.
Install the reservoir.

Four steps resulting in this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/joelwideqvist/rolfo%20ducati/fork_details.jpg

Conclusion: The actual fork legs of the Fork set from Tamiya has a nice touch to them. You don't have to go through a lot of masking and the time consuming period of time between painting sessions. The metal parts also has a shine that is hard to come by using paints. I'm a bit surprised that the bottom parts weren't metal as well. Plastic that had to be painted.

Although the really nice appearance I must say I'm a bit disapointed as I feel like I'm cheating... This is in a way just too easy. Value for money? Yes, if you wan't that really clean, spot on look on your bike and if you are having a hard time masking off the areas to be painted on the standard kit. Brass parts looks excellent. No if you like to do stuff by yourself. With these parts it is actually only the brass parts that adds to the kit. You have to paint the fork bottoms and TS-14 gives at least the same shine to the fork legs as the ones given in the Fork set kit.

Skipping fork legs and fork bottoms would have cut the price on this detail kit. All in all this part gets :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: out of 5.
/Joel

I've painted the cowling parts of both bikes.

Race bike first got painted with Tamiya TS-49 Bright Red (except for the lower cowl that is totally black and was painted TS-14 black), I then masked the side cowls off with Tamiya tape

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/joelwideqvist/rolfo%20ducati/sidecowls_red.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/joelwideqvist/rolfo%20ducati/sidecowls_masked.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/joelwideqvist/rolfo%20ducati/sidecowl_masked.jpg

and sprayed the lower parts TS-14ending up like this.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/joelwideqvist/rolfo%20ducati/sidecowls_black.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/joelwideqvist/rolfo%20ducati/sidecowl_black.jpg

Here are the whole set

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/joelwideqvist/rolfo%20ducati/cowls-1.jpg

Black parts for test bike was painted TS-14 Black. I chose to do it this way to get a nice shiny base for the decals. I will use a satin clear coat later on to dull the cowls down.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/joelwideqvist/rolfo%20ducati/cowls.jpg

/Joel

nice work Joel, a very journalistic touch. The trouble with any work on the forks are that most of any nice metal parts are hidden once completed.
Rod.

I've started working on the wheels as well and I have a question for you. The test bike has black rims on most of my reference pictures. On a few you can see that they also tested with a rear tyre that had the red circle on the outer part of the rimb. I think that the flat black would do great with a pair of wheels that have red circles but as I don't have ref pics showing the use of both front and rear tyre with red circles I don't know if I shall go down that road. The rivet counting part of me sais no, but the other slightly smaller part of me keep thinking that they must have tested the bike with a black/red front wheel as well at some stage of the test, mustn't they???
/Joel

Waiting for your comments (hint, hint, wink, wink) I'll pot by and tell you that these decals goes on like a dream. Renaissance as well as Tamiya. I've heard something about the Renaissance decals being hard to lay down but using a towel dipped in VERY hot water makes it easy to press the decals down. Hope to show you some pics this afternoon.
/Joel

Do the wheels with the red line Joel! It would look much better!

Nice progress Joel... it's a nice kit to work with and you're doing it justice.

Nice progress Joel... it's a nice kit to work with and you're doing it justice.

Thanks Ole, and may I say it's nice to see you back on the scene.

Time for a small update.
Test bike is all decalled up and I love it. Decals went on without any problems beside the fact that I got one of the side cowl Dántin logos in the wrong position :banghead: That hade nothing to do with the decal itself though so I have to bare that mistake.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/joelwideqvist/rolfo%20ducati/cowls_decalled.jpg

Decals from Renaissance are of very high quality but some of them are in the wrong size which is quite annoying for a rivet counter... One of the Magnolia flowers on the top cowl is also printed the wrong way (at least from my ref pics although you can't be too sure that the image isn't reverted)

A problem I have is that the rear magnolias is overlapping the seat and rear cowl and had to be cut. I totally forgot to do it while the decals were still wet and now I'm a bit worried that they will crack if I put the scalpel in them.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/joelwideqvist/rolfo%20ducati/seat_decalled.jpg

I've used a lot of Micro Sol and they might be fragile. Any ideas from you guys on how to proceed? I could check if the parts can be installed as is but it can be problems with the exhausts...

Another problem that I've encountered is due to the choice of race version. As the decal sheet from Renaissance gives you the chance to the version I posted in the beginning of this thread I fell for that option and painted the higher black section on the sides. With this paint scheme you can do two liveries, one with just the red Pramac logo and one with the logo on a white base. Unfortunately the first choice had to be dropped as the decal is cut in the wrong way on the sheet. I went for the logo on the white base but also this had its problems. The logo is separated into two parts due to the design of the cowl. The smaller part is to be positioned in the ventilation scope but it is WAY to big and doesn't have the right angle compared to the other part. It is like Renaissance just made the logo and cut out one section. I had to cut the smaller part down and install it even if it looks like crap, there were no choices left if I wouldn't strip the whole set and do the basic Tamiya version.... I hate these things.
Here's a picture

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/joelwideqvist/rolfo%20ducati/sidecowl_decalproblem.jpg

Top cowl is decalled up and I've left the number decal out as it is a bit chromed. I think I'll put it on top of the clear coat instead.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/joelwideqvist/rolfo%20ducati/topcowl_decalled.jpg

Swing arms has some differences when it comes to logos. Have a look for yourselves.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/joelwideqvist/rolfo%20ducati/swingarms.jpg

best regards
Joel

where the decal joint cutting is concerned Joel, try clear coating lightly then cutting gently about an hour after. decals will still be soft from clear coat and will cut OK. Then when its hard, cut gently again, seperate then give final coats of clear.

Ok, great. I'll try that.
/Joel

Hi Joel ,

Nice Decal work ,
Looks great .
Cheers Lutz

Hi Joel,

Awesome job on the decals/paint :)

This is the kind of things inspires me to follow with the modeling

Hope to see more soon.

Roca.

Joel, I LOVE that test bike!

Looks Wonderful!!:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Joel, I LOVE that test bike!

Isn't it wonderful? It was the right thing to put the PE stuff on that one I asure you!

Thanks for all your comments, I'll show you engine and frame soon.
/Joel

I've been doing some work on these babies the last week and thought I'd give you a small update. I also need some advice again.

Advice concerns the painting of flat clear on the cowls. My new strategi is to paint the inside of the cowlings flat black using enamel paint and spraying it through the airbrush. This way I can rub off any paint from the outside using a q-tip dipped in enamel solvent. This is a tip from this forum and works very well. Now, when using a flat clear on the outside I'm thinking the q-tip will polish the flat surface... Doing the other way around, painting the enamel paint first I'm afraid that paint will get damage when mounting the cowls for painting the flat clear. Any ideas on how to go about it. Maybe mount the cowls in another way than using masking tape on a stick...

Build is moving on as I said. No images though... Lot of CF going on on these rockets. From my mind I recall the speed meter, the air intake, the air box, electronical boxes, foot peg brackets, chain sprocket cover, rear mud guard and gas tank. Has taken its time I assure you that.

What else? I've been doing those nasty rimb decals, the red circles, hate those. Been trying my luck on some PE parts, not too successfully, the chain is horrible.

Will try to take some pics this week end to show you the progress.

In the meantime, please visit my web and tell me what to build next.

Cya
/Joel

Some photos to show that I'm actually working on these...

Engines has been mounted in the frames. To this stage the two bikes are completely the same.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/joelwideqvist/rolfo%20ducati/engineright.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/joelwideqvist/rolfo%20ducati/engineleft.jpg

This is a crappy images but I took it to show the amount of CF treatment that goes on these bikes. You can see some on the airbox in the last two pictures but here are the rest. Particularilly satisfied with the gas tanks. I added yet another picture to give you a closer look.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/joelwideqvist/rolfo%20ducati/cf_parts.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/joelwideqvist/rolfo%20ducati/cf.jpg

/Joel

joel,

how did you place the cf on the mudguard without getting any air bubbles? i tried both on the west & fortuna but i keep on getting air bubbles & bumps at the end which stretches to the mid of the mudguard.

what i did was i place the tape on the mudguard, then i peel off the tape & place it on the decal sheet, then i cut it out from the decal sheet. is my way correct or is there another way? besides that, i sometimes accidentally have the cf a little bit oversized at certain parts.

adrian

Hi Ace! I usually get the same problem, on these particular mud guards I sectioned the masking tape prototype up in smaller sections (wich unfortunately is quite visible if you look close). Other than that I guess it's left to the old Micro Sol/hairdryer trick. Wet it up and go over the piece with the hairdryer. This also takes care of the problem with too large pieces of CF decal as the over flow "melts" away from the fluid and heat. If you are left with bubbles, pick them with a needle, then go over it again with fluid and the hair dryer. That would do the trick although the Ducati mud guards are VERY complex. You are probably better off when doing it on your new yamma build.
/Joel

Fantastic work Joel, Great subject choice and great execution.

I must say that I am in love with test bikes, much more then real racing liveries.

looks Freakin sweet!!!!!!!!! I love the test bike above all.
Keep us updated.

Jordan

Why not carry on while I'm at it?! Here's a bit more progress.

Finished off the cowls for the race version. All that is left is to spray the foot peg brackets black. I took the heads up from a fellow modeler and added the numbers after clear coating. Instruction sais "do not clear coat over decals" and that is due to the fact that the chrome decals crack if coated.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/joelwideqvist/rolfo%20ducati/cowls_done.jpg

Here you see the front wheels with the discs mounted. First one is from the PE set (inner section). Dunlop tire decals were crap and I have to clear these to pin them down.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/joelwideqvist/rolfo%20ducati/frontdisc-1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/joelwideqvist/rolfo%20ducati/frontdisc.jpg

Two pictures of the race version swing arm (left and right) followed by one of the test version. Decals on swing and mud guard are different and on the test version I've mounted the PE brackets and the damper fluid container from the Fork set.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/joelwideqvist/rolfo%20ducati/swingarm_left.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/joelwideqvist/rolfo%20ducati/swingarm.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/joelwideqvist/rolfo%20ducati/swingarm-1.jpg

Close up of the brake discs. First the standard kit one, followed by the PE set one. Mounting for the brake caliper is also PE. (Don't mind the touch up needs...)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/joelwideqvist/rolfo%20ducati/reardisc.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/joelwideqvist/rolfo%20ducati/reardisc-1.jpg

I've made this build a comparison between standard kit detail and after market details added with the Tamiya Front fork set and the Crazy Modeler PE set. Brake disc above really adds to the look when using the PE set. Realistic metal look and just a bit more crisp than the plastic disc. That you have to buy the Fork set to get a fluid container shaped as the real thing is just madness, but the brass looks MUCH better than the painted OOB stuff.

With the PE set you also get a PE chain wich has cost me about 8 hours of work for nothing. If you like to try it I'll give you a few hints along the road.
First of all, when putting the two chain halves together, put them together with the "dotted" sides against each other :naughty: I didn't...wich gave me hell trying to put the small link parts on the chain as they tend to slip away. If I had glued them on a flat surface (as intended) it would have looked better. Here is a picture with the PE chain on top compared to the plastic one.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/joelwideqvist/rolfo%20ducati/chain_comparison.jpg

Did you see why I had to leave this one out no matter how much work I put down on it?? Well have a look at the next picture...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/joelwideqvist/rolfo%20ducati/chain_wrong.jpg

I put it up side down.... I guess it will not be such a problem to take the sprocket detail off and glue it on the other side but the other side of the chain is too damn ugly due to me not reading the instructions carefully enough (as mentioned above). Links point in every direction. I'll take it as learning money and do better next time.

As last picture for this time I give you the rear screamers. They are painted enamel black followed by Alclad II polished aluminum. I could have stopped at plain aluminum as I weathered them quite hard. I used the great weathering box from Tamiya for the first time. If you havent tried it, do, you won't get dissapointed!!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/joelwideqvist/rolfo%20ducati/screamers.jpg

Hope you like it so far.
I'll be back
/Joel

Thanks for your comments Sasa and Jordan. I think I'll be able to finish these off in the near future. As you, Sasa, I also love the test liveries. If I had the guts I'd have a go at an all CF livery. But that is not likely to be happening.
/Joel

Joel,
These are looking great! It's a pity about the chain.
The exhaust looks great with the heat staining. Those Tamiya sets are really good.

awesome work so far Joel:thumbsup:
Can see what you mean about Dunlop decals for wheels , would it be worth while making a mask up and painting these?
great job on the red wheel trim , I hate doing these never get them lined up the last time I did them I cut them into about 10mm pieces and put them on that way.
You will have to try a whole c/f test bike , if you have enough Patience with PE parts a whole c/f bike should be no problem. (feel the force Luke)
Shayne

Yeah i would definently love to see an cf test bike. I the Ducais look awsome. I too hate putting on the dunlop/ michinen tire decals, i always find a way to screw up ;).

kutgw
Jordan

Any idea on how to make a mask for the dunlop markings, Shayne?
/Joel

Any idea on how to make a mask for the dunlop markings, Shayne?
/Joel
I know aucstion make one for the Michelin markings , but thought might make one out of plastic card somehow
Shayne

I got the decals down using some enamel clear. One of them broke and have to be replaced but that's the easiest part. Did some more work today but photos will have to wait. Will paint the test cowls with flat clear during the week. After that it's just mounting work left.
/Joel

You have made a great job dude!

Comming to an end here. I most say I've loved building these bikes. The Ducati is such a lovely art of engineering and design. The kit is great to work with and as always without fitting problems. Here's what I've done recently.

Front sections are done. Here's some pictures so that you can see the differences using the Tamiya fork set (test version) and kit parts. Containers were just to dark on the race bike. I tried doing them Alclad gold but ended up covering that with some orange clear to separate them in color fron the sliding parts of the fork. A tip would be to paint the containers silver and then orange clear. Notice that the Dántin team still used Brembo calipers on the test bike. A nice feature between the kits.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/joelwideqvist/rolfo%20ducati/naked_frontwheel.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/joelwideqvist/rolfo%20ducati/front.jpg

Here's the test bike from left and right without any cowls on.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/joelwideqvist/rolfo%20ducati/naked_left-1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/joelwideqvist/rolfo%20ducati/naked_right.jpg

And from the top

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/joelwideqvist/rolfo%20ducati/naked_top-1.jpg

A bit closer

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/joelwideqvist/rolfo%20ducati/naked_top_close.jpg

A few pics of the semi naked race version.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/joelwideqvist/rolfo%20ducati/naked_left.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/joelwideqvist/rolfo%20ducati/naked_side.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/joelwideqvist/rolfo%20ducati/naked_top.jpg

Close up of the rear section

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/joelwideqvist/rolfo%20ducati/naked_side_rear.jpg

and the engine with some of the CF work visible.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/joelwideqvist/rolfo%20ducati/naked_side_close.jpg

Now I have to dress them up. I'll be right back.
/joel

Coming soon to a completed section near you! After a bit of touching up that is...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/joelwideqvist/rolfo%20ducati/both_done.jpg

/Joel

Wow It's a flawless built...really nice work and details!

joel,

i always love to see your work. your work is always good & detailed.

currently i'm building the camel '04 max biaggi's version but not sure when i'm gonna start the wip thread as i've attached the swing arm & now doing the front fork, the exhausts & the nose cowl.

adrian

Thanks for your comments.
Ace, the Camel bike is gordeous, will like to follow your work with it. I too plan to do that in the near future, hopefully along with a test version.
/Joel

Beautiful, a pure work of art and no mistake.