"ROLAN SANDS" STYLE Yamaha KR500

[YongGun Park]

WOW !!!!!!!
Lots of excellent tips for me. Thank you very much.

[ALEX GAROLI]

Now time to make the handlebars, styrene tube and grips from other bike:






Now the seat, it is bicycle type, I used 2 plyes of 3mm stryrene and a lot of sanding, some dremel work too:






A rivet is added for detail and finnaly brown leather paint, some shades too:


Now seat support:

All scratch parts finally finished, I can bealive it took me more than a year to make all this little pieces, but now is the more fun part, is like I just opened a Tamiya kit, so time to paint and glue parts:

Here with the doned parts from the yamaha ysr 500:

Finally testing all parts fitting, the bike looks amazing!!!



Here is the finnal paint schemme:

[ALEX GAROLI]

Oh I forgot to build the radiator!, I only made the radiator housing, well tomorrow I will do it, I painted the parts white so the yellow is going to be brighter:

This is my first time doing wleds, I usen testor putty, O think they are really ugly but, what can I do, my forst time:


Alclad 2 chrome for the engine and exhaust pipes:

And some blue, red and gold for the welds, colors are really intense so Im going to do some overpainting with chrome:

Nice contrast:



Testing seat:

More images:

[ALEX GAROLI]

Hi, after a while, here is some advance, this took some time because ti paint, I have to wait from layer to layer diferent colors.
Here is the base color:

The second color:

Now the decals, I already made them, but I will post teh process, due the decal paper is really transparent, and I dont have a printer that prints white.
1.-Y painted some decal paper in white ando some in black:

2.-I printed the background of the decal (in this case rsd logo, stands for roland sands design), and draw the shape im going to use:


3.-I applied the decal on the white painted paper:

4.-Now I cut the piece and applied it on the black painted paper:

5.-Now I cut the piece again, leaving a black edge, and I have my final product

6.-I put the decal on the model, with some tamiya mark fit softener, I was surprised this softener works with the painted paper really well:

The decal looks blurry because I made it really quickly, just for an example.
Here are the real ones with the clear coat on, so at the end, they are a fory layer decals, bacause of the logos and number 1:

I have used this technique a lot with adhesive vinyl, but the result is very thick decals, even with thick clear coat on, example:



I masked the model to paint the white areas, but later I decided to make the decals described:


I discovered with some tests, that adhesible viniyl is good to mask, the shapes result really sharp, but only if you now you have good adhesion in the base paint.

[ALEX GAROLI]

Now the radiator fabrication, I used diferent styrene calibers and some fabric net:


Fitting:


Painted:

More fitting:

This is not the final grille, it is just testing material:

I removed the 15 years old paint, eassy off worked well after 4 applies:

I used plastic tubing and really thin wire to mahe the hoses:


Pieces almost finshed, I use some CF on the exhaust tips:

Now finally comes the fun, the assembly:

I still have to make some pieces, pegs, shift linkage, brake pedal, some more cables and hoses, but thas a quik job.
Here are all the patterns I had to make:

Radiator housing:

Number plate:

Gas tanks:

Rear fender:

Cant wait to assembly the model, but I have to wait some days to polish and wax the paint, so Im spending my time in a fun quick build.

[jayll]

Nice scratch building. It's coming along really nice, can't wait to see it finished.

[ALEX GAROLI]

Well, lets begin the assembly, this is the radiator housing grille:




The forks:


I added a chain guide so the frame doesn't get scratched:

Clutch cover:

Testing fits:


Engine, I added fuel lines, spark plug cables, and water hoses:


I wanted to use some Hiroboy clear tube, but I is too thick, so I used a clear material used to make plastic necklaces:


Coils and fuel pump:

Acelerator cables:




Nice engine!



Ready to glue engine, no turn back from here:

Exhaust and rear end assembly:

Conecting cables:

Testing forks:

The hardest thing to do was to connect the water hoses:
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Wow!

Everything is fitting right!







Now axle and hex nuts:


Now bike stand with styrene rods:





And its finished!!!!!!!

Its been so long time so I have the feeling I still have something else to do, but its really finished.
Ill post it in Complete model section later.

Thanks everyone for watching, and thans for your advice and comments.

[jayll]

Wow, that turned out really nice. Good work and thanks for the WIP.