| Honda VF750 Interceptor - Faired I had acquired a few of the Tamiya kits of the Honda VF750 Interceptor (as it was called in Canada) and after looking through them, decided I had enough parts to build one with the full fairing (Tamiya called it Fully Cowled). I spent a while searching the internet and never found photos of an actual motorcycle with the full fairing as depicted in the Tamiya kit. There were a number of VF750F motorcycle photos with a lower fairing added onto the original café fairing but never any with the model kit fairing. I don’t know if the kit depicts a prototype that Honda considered releasing or it was something imagined by the Tamiya design department. The monochrome graphics of the box art also did not appeal to me. The original motorcycle can in two colour schemes in North America: - White with large red areas and smaller blue accents - White with large blue areas and smaller red accents The box art has a drawing of the model with the white and red colours and blue accents. However, to my eye it did not extend the markings of the original bike. The other odd thing about the bodywork in the model kit was that it had a single seat, with what looked like a cover for the passenger seat. The cover did not really integrate with the bodywork very well. There is a full build article found by clicking the link Honda VF750 Faired Build Article (2 MD PDF) Base Kit(s): Tamiya Honda VF750F Fully Cowled (kit number 14031) Finished: March 2020 Modifications/Additions: - molded rear seat cover into bodywork - removed passenger footpegs - added photoetch chain from Hobby Design Honda VFR750R detail set - filled in back of swing arm and front forks - added backing to brake calipers - shortened mufflers - modified rear shock using parts box shock and spring - graphics mimic and extend the graphics of the original - Meng bolt heads replaced some the visible bolt heads - custom license plate - Bodywork paint is Tamiya pure white, mica red and mica blue, all airbrushed, followed by three coats of Tamiya clear, straight from the can, polished and waxed Awards: Desert Scale Classic, online contest, June 2021, 2nd place Motorcycles Click on Thumbnail to see detailed image. These images are 1024 x 768 and should load reasonably quickly, depending on your connection speed. |
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