Tamiya model number: Wheels and forks from Yamaha M1
After market:Studio 27 TK1229C
In progress through: 2007-04-xx - ??-??-??

 

The green zx-rr is a stunner in my eyes. Never was a track winner but some green shine on the model shelf would be fantastic. Max Motomodeling made this transkit together with Studio 27 after the first release of the 2002 version. This kit has a more sharp appearance wich makes it more attractive in my opinion.

Kit has some large bulky parts out of resin, the top, side and lower cowls comes in two halves. Seat and tank portions in one and, what is most annoying, engine block has the air box and the exhaust pipes molded in. Have to see what I can do about that... Rest of the parts are out of white metal, this modeling junk...

resinparts
side cowl
resin engine right side
resin engine
resin exhaust pipes
poor fit
poor fit
white metal parts
Decal sheet and PE set looks promising.

decal sheet

PE sheet

 

Wohaa, off to the, probably trickiest kit in my modeling career. As soon as I opened the red box of love from S27 I knew this was going to be interesting.

S27 box
First of all the large bulky resin parts (wich are quite thick compared to for instance Renaissance resin) has to be rinsed and all mold lines and flash has to be removed using abrasive paper. At a first glance there isn't much of neither flash nor sink marks but at a closer lock there are a lot to fix. Here's a few shots of what I started with.

Resin seat cowl

Resin seat unserside
I had to do some proper puttying and then sand, prime, putty, sand, prime, putty until the resin is all levelled out. The gap at the pictures above wasn't that bad as the resin can be flexed when you glue the two halves together. No matter that, there was a few rounds of putty needed and the air intake of the top cowl was impossible for me to sand smooth. After the last layer of primer it looks like this.

 
 
For this build I bought some Kawasaki Pearl Lime Green paint from Zero Base Paints, aquired from Hiroboy.com. This paint is a base paint wich dries flat and has to be clear coated to get a nice shine but this also means you can work with mist coats and don't have to fear orange peel or runs when trying to accomplish those wet coats. I gave the parts 6 or 7 coats with just a minute or so between the coats. Here is how it turned out.

Top cowl painted Side cowl painted Side cowl painted Seat cowl painted
 
Here's the top cowl in some better light to show you the pearl effect.