Brief review:Tamiya Yamaha M1, 1/12, 56K WARNING

[sjelic]

Here it is it came to me yesterday, but to cut my joy here is brief review.
First of all nice box art with many details that can be easily added on this kit.

Separate bag contains screws, tyres, brake cables, rear spring and new stuff, poly caps for instaling fairings (you still need to use screws but they should go on and of much easier)

Decals are Cartograf (finaly) didn't take good look but almost no trim at all and of course no "smokers" decals (thank you MC for quick response)

Also new are Yamaha logos printed to give natural 3D look and some new Michelin tyre logos.

Fairings are all in white on one sprue and separate front of bike, in my opinion a bit to much pieces that will make painting a bit more painfull

Black parts are realy nice, some of the parts almost doesn't need paint at all, beautifull and crisp, just check the photos





And at the end there is gray sprue that is cool to, mostly engine details and it is detailed indeed, I have never seen such complex intake system on 1/12 motorcycle

And for the end if there is a flaw in this kit this would, at first sight, be it. Brembo logos on front calipers are way to shalow, it will be very hard to make this nice. Sorry this image is a bit blury but you will see what I mean.

Anyhow this kit is state of the art, much more details then on Honda RCV and it will be a nice add up to the collection. I must say that now there will probably be some 4 versions of the bike before completly now bike.
Please let it be Ducati Desmosedici

[hrmodeler]

Great! Thanx!

[Veyron]

Yummy!

[joelwideqvist]

Thanks Sasa. Not that I wouldn't have bought it anyway but it's really nice to read your comments. Hopefully we'll se som aftermarket decals soon enough to do the other teams as well
/Joel

[Vric]

usual Tamiya Bike kit. Near perfect

[SLAYTANIC_1134]

Looks good, I'll have to pick one of thos up soon!
Very nice quality!!

[RallyRaider]

You bike guys are being spoiled! Nice.