1980 Yamaha YZR500 (Barry Sheene)

Hey guys, I started this kit a couple of months ago I have been a bit slow on this project due to work , our beloved Festive Season and just generally gathering all my reference material and aftermarket bits for the bike. This bike has been a hard nut to crack when it comes to your reference material as there is not much around (unless you want to spend the money - i.e hard to find books). A little story about myself I usually work on auto mainly muscle,  I took this project on for the fact of the scale and the amount of detail you can go to plus always had a fascination of building a two wheel kit and let me tell you I have taken to this genre like you wouldn't believe (I'm addicted). It has gone that far that I am seriously considering becoming a Temporary Australian (figure of speech for a motorbike rider in Oz) and taking on a 1:1 version.

Enough babble from me here are some pics of my progress....

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The Frame and Swing Art: alot of filling and sanding the mono shock is replicated off the kit version and reference photos, the shock is turned up out of ally stock and courtesy of my good mate Tim (70CudaTJ)

 

The Fuel Tank : As you know most bike kit fuel tanks come with only the topside of the tank here I have          scratch-built the bottom half due to the fact I want the tank removable for display purposes since this photo I have added the weldseams and painted the tank in a base coat. I will post update pics when I receive my new camera.

 

 

The Clutch pack and case dissected...

 

The Clutch: Case has had a protective guard add made from sheet ally, clutch packs made from styrene and reused retaining plate with holes drilled out ready for paint and photoetch.

 

The Clutch all together, I am happy how it has turned out

 

Cylinder Head covers OTB..........

 

Cylinder Head Covers with my little touch......

 

Cylinder Heads and covers, just cutting all the bolt heads off and replacing with styrene hex. but affective.

 

Complete long motor with all the bolt heads done only work left on motor is to finish the magneto I am assuming they had one being an early gp bike which were push started off the grid also the carbys, plumbing, paint and some photoetch.

 

So I hope you guys like my post, your thoughts and suggestions would be greatly appreciated too as I am open to ideas. As I have found out it can be a lonely old world in building scale bikes as around me there isn't a lot of interest in comparison to Auto...Cheers  Jas  

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