Yamaha YZF-R1 1998 - Completed 2

Yamaha YZF-R1 1998 - Completed

Here is some shots for the completed Yamaha YZF-R1 1998 on Lorenzo livery.

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Finally, this #99 R1 is done~! Let's Rock!!

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Little more progress with this R1 as I have started polishing the cowlings.
I will have some screws on and it will be completed.

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This weekend, I have get rid of most of the parts on the chassis. And all the wirings are alrady setup. a few more parts are to be painted and after the cowlings are polished, this simple kit will be done.

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Last weekend, I have got the cowlings clear coated with Gunze GX-100. Probably I will let it dry for a couple of weeks before polishing. Meanwhile, I have started the painting work on the machineries. Simple gloss black and Gunze SM06 silver paint are applied at most of the machanical parts. Some brass and copper colors are to be painted as well and then the chassis can be assembled.

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I have refine the paint a little bit but still, the blue seems to be far from the M1 blue for 2009... Anyway, I should have the color tested on something else first but it is too late now. Though, I still like this blue color anyway.

A very quick clear coat to seal the metalic and pearl colors, I have start the decal work straight away. Just a few decals have lift up this ride a lot. Hopefully I can have the decal work done with the cowlings and a quick clear seal tomorrow, so that I can allow a full day drying during my tennis course on Wednesday. My plan is to have the clear coat fixed by this weekend and then I can move on a bit with the M1 chassis a bit.

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Finally, special thanks fo Joe as he help me out with this blue paint.
I have got this R1 masked straight a way and the result looks great!



After the paint dry out, I will seal the surface with a light coat of clear. Then simple decal work will be done and this R1 will have completed its duty~

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For a couploe of nights of painting, a custom made pearl white was applied.
I had a foundation Gunza GX-1 white as base before I applied a mixture of Gunze GX-1 white, Gunze GX-100 clear and Alcad II 105. This is actually not a pearl color but a pale metallic white. But the fine powder from Alcad II paint has deliever a fine result. As the main purpose of this building aims to test for the blue, it doesn't matter too much for the white for me.

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At a very quick after work moment, I have managed to get started with the paint work.
This time, it was the main frame being painted with Gunze #33 flat black plus very little #8 silver. I always like this metalic black which turns out to be in matt surface. Some other parts were also painted in this color and some od them are prepared to be CFed.



At the cowlings, I am quite confident with the primer except for this part. I have sanded it a few more rounds to make sure the gaps are perfectly sealed. Hopefully the gaps will all be covered after the night of work.

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I was originally getting into the M1 chain set this morning, but I really don't know why I was moving on with the R1!

As I started to realise that there are plenty of parts that are left useless with the 2009 M1 transkit, I am trying to implant some of the parts into the street bike. First of all, the exhaust. The original R1 exhaust was enormous. And with the racing exhaust replacement, the ride turns out to be lighter.




I have managed to fill all the gaps over the cowlings today. So what's left will be simple painting works, which is the objective of this side-tracking progress.

Yamaha YZF-R1 1998

If having 2 full detailed kits working at the same time is too much, it is just the beginning of this long-lasting horrible story...

In order to get a nice and matching color scheme for the Fiat Yamaha livery, I have decided to put the paint test on a R1 first!

I have just freshly got this kit tonight afterwork. And at a very very fast assembly, I have worked the parts together. Easy, I have just glue a couple of the parts for now. I have a few M1 experience here but none on R1. And I am telling you this is the first street bike I am going to build too.

So this pre-assembly was just to get the feel and touch of the parts included. I will be working on it a little bit faster just solely to give a trail on the Fiat Yamaha painting scheme.