Lexus IS200 x Toyota Altezza (7)

As the protective coat has been left dry for a few days, it is time to start the final step to prepare the complete body livery. I masked for the white number tag spaces and painted with Gunze GX-1 so the cracked parts are covered up along with a much whiter color.

Then the remaining number decals are on.

The worst part of the decal damages are on the roof where the red strips are broken quite seriously. I have repainted the broken parts with Finisher Bright Red with a steady mix of white color to get the right blending towards the decal color. It looks quick successful try and it proved my luck here~ ^.^

Lexus IS200 x Toyota Altezza (6)

After different stage of decal work, clear coating for protection, repainting and cycles... it finally become a 'decalled" work. I still need another round of coating and repainting for some of the colors. But at least by now the main graphics are intact! I am so glad about finishing such a old but pretty livery with just some problems. ^^

Lexus IS200 x Toyota Altezza (5)

The silver areas have to be managed in quite a details way. I need to mask some of the lines from here and there and the lines need to be very sharp to replicate as closely as the decals used to be. I spend an hour or so doing this and finally I managed to give some silver spaces on the ride.

Lexus IS200 x Toyota Altezza (4)

These are some close up pictures about the cranking decals. It looks fine after the protection clear coat and I will be giving silver refinish to it.

And I also put decals for the street version as well. Anyway, it is the way it goes with silver rides. The silver emblems never show up properly.... LOL

Full Scratch-build Roadbike - Completed

Here are the completed pics. Thanks for reading.

Full Scratch-build Roadbike (3)

After finalizing all the parts at fittings, I have broken them down back into pieces again and got them ready for painting.

This is a carbon frame though, the carbon pattern needs to be prepared, so as the Keo Blade pedals too!~

The rest of the parts are mostly black in color. And the brake calipers are in Bright red.

This is getting into the fun part as I started to hand paint the Wilier livery for crankset and brakes, the Fizik Arione Champion version, and pedals and the details around the handle bar includeing the Garmin Edge 500 computer.

The second run of the fun falls into the frame livery itself. I admit I wasn't able to recreate the logos in great details, but I do like the way it present as it is so handcrafted~ LOL
Oh, I also haven't forget the Zipp components and their logos.

Finally, I wired it up with thin wire and now the bike it ready to go~~!

I really surprised myself as I didn't really expect I am able to complete the bike at this level.
I just tried things here and there from each scratch building task. Adding all these together is really great fun and I have had a big time spending days during this Lunar New Year vacation.

Lexus IS200 x Toyota Altezza (3)

I started to work on the body work for both kits this week. I was trying to lay the decals for the race machine but my Lord the decal has aged! It is a 10-year-old decal sheet anyway and the decal started to fall into pieces even on slight motions.... I spent almost an hour to lay the decal on the roof and the hood. I guessed I will need much repainting work on it and the rest of the silver areas will be taken up with spraying work as well... I decided to work this out as hard as I can as I like this livery so much that I still want to finish it after this 10 years. (I have built one 10 years before)

The street version will be in silver color as I like it a traditional export version rather than the Japanese Altezza version. I used Gunze SM01 for the silver.

I applied a very light clear coat on both as of now so I can move on with the rest of the decal/ repainting.