Italeri Manx Norton 1/9

My god this thing is crude to the extreme, i would imagine a fair proportion of these things wind up in the bin by page 2 of the useless instructions
Anyway it would probably be boring if it was easy but sometimes these days i do dream of Tamiya .
Todays problem is probably my fault but, what turns black decals white when you clear coat them ?
I'm sure i found a solution before but cant remeber ...lol , i think it was ether temp or them not being properly dry ?



fortunately i have failed in the past to build this to any standard so i have a spare set of decals.

You can see here i need to completely finish the oil tank as its sandwiched between the frame halves. It could go in after the frame is joined but its going to be a real fiddle and its risks damaging the paint. You can see here on this mock up



Happy with the crank case colour, in the end its not one colour but a mix and an airbrush job but it looks like a raw alloy casting i think..

Like the wheels! Takes me back to the first set I built for a Fokker triplane, I made an indexing plate for my mini lathe






Same idea as you basically - only 15 years ago apparently looking at the exif on the photos Eek! All looks very Heath Robinson now.

I’ve got the Manx Norton kit myself and keep threatening to have a look at it - I’ll see how you get on first now

Excellent!

Impressive!