Cup Noodle Honda NSR250

[Ole_L]

It's been a while since I've built a bike.... a couple of weeks at least.

I picked out this older kit which will be a box stock build. Word of advice though... be careful with the exhaust cans... I managed to break one of mine in two places. Nothing that can't be fixed, but my kit seem very brittle.

The engine was a lot of custom color mixing. It shows in general with many of these older kits where you're asked to mix a color that became a premixed color years later. An example is X-11 + X-12 which is X-31





The frame was painted TS-30 from the can.



Next couple of pictures are just little bits and pieces. I also drilled out the rotor. Remember doing it by hand when I built the Repsol version, I put a #78 drill bit in my power drill and went to work.... much, much easier.










I used TS-17 for the panels which are now ready for decals.



More to follow....

[ketje]

looking great.
Waiting for the result.

[ALEX GAROLI]

Engine Looks Really Great!

[vrossi85]

looks good!

Ro

[oregon3]

Originally Posted by Ole_L

It shows in general with many of these older kits where you're asked to mix a color that became a premixed color years later. An example is X-11 + X-12 which is X-31

Interesting ... Is there a list of the combinations that are now premixed? Maybe theres not that many, but it would be useful.

Nice bike! Do you have a WIP of your Repsol 250? My wife is working on one right now.

JB

[Ole_L]

No, The Repsol 250 was finished years ago.... before I even knew what a WIP was.

Here's a few more progress pics.

[ketje]

Looking great Ole. Nearly finished.

[kanedge]

Looks great Ole, very clean work.

[Ole_L]

This one is done... here's a final image:

[joelwideqvist]

Great build as usual Ole, but aren´t the Cup Noodle Honda cowlings supposed to be golden instead of TS17 Silver?
/Joel

[Ole_L]

Originally Posted by joelwideqvist

Great build as usual Ole, but aren´t the Cup Noodle Honda cowlings supposed to be golden instead of TS17 Silver?
/Joel

Thanks Joel.... Bike #3 was gold and #13 was silver. The Tamiya kit include both options. I built this one with two other modelers and they both went for the gold version, so I wanted to stand out.

Tamiya's latest bike is another version of this one. Kit 14110.

[joelwideqvist]

Aha, that sort my thoughts out. I've only seen the box and remember it was golden. I like the this sort of separation in between the bikes of a team. 250 was ahead of their time compared to 500/GP.
Thanks again.
Joel

[islero666]

The two riders on that team, were brothers. Of that I am sure. But I think they only did one race together. Please correct me if I'm mistaken.

islero

[sportracer02]

A really nice detailed and built model - great !!