Painting Gen 1.5 nylon tank

Oh yeah that's a good call thanks. Was thinking about maybe just matching the initial design which is vaguely (but not) like the old SBK number board. But especially with the early tail I'm going for a more RS 250 look I think, which an oval number board would look good on. I'll do number boards on the tail too to match, though I'll leave them blank for now.

Actually just on that site now ha. Do you know if you can get 3 front numbers ok onto a 285mm x 235mm oval? And 3 side numbers onto 260mm x 220mm oval?  https://www.race-number.co.uk/oval-285mm-x-235mm-sticker-background---acu-spec-16012-p.asp

That’s next Bemsee round prices for Donington 

blacklines wrote: Hell of a noise that, makes you wonder how good the exhaust system was. Think the little pit bikes that ride around my estate can't be far off that and they will probably only be about 140cc.

Done the nose, side panels, tail and airducts now. Just did the duct outers fire now to see how I feel about keeping some red to break up all the black. Now also thinking about masking off that recessed square area on top of the tank to leave that gloss red. Paint seemed to adhere perfectly fine too the plastic air ducts so it's promising for the tank. Looks different to the side panels but I'm sure that can be explained with science. Surface refraction or something..

Got the tank painted finally. Tested the surface a bit with my fingernail underneath the tank where it can't be seen. Went fairly hard and didn't leave a mark so my worries of it just flaking off in chunks were unfounded. May still rub off with wear but feels as tough as factory right now.

Thanks James. Yeah might give that a go, though thinking of taking off the stickers as they're a bit scuffed from running the AP sets upside down. 

Ah right didn't know that Ian. Aye you saying they're the genuine article in that they're OK, or that they're genuinely dodgy? Guess should always be suspect of free services, though I don't know how you can get a trojan from just an image. Do you know of any good ones Ian? 

U dot and I dot are just subdomains of cube, which itself is trusted. Sometimes antivirus are more trouble than they're worth. Never in 30 years had a virus but had grief from antivirus software frequently. I'm a software engineer too so I'm exposed to computers enough. 

I'd say yes Ian. Or leave it as is and maybe override to show images from people you trust. Assuming you can click to show. Looks like an old issue where at sone point users had tricked it to host malware files rather than images. Guessing they weren't validating well enough at the time. The u dot subdomain is where user images are, so if someone managed to get something dodgy in they could blacklist it. I don't know for sure if they've fixed their validation or just removed any dodgy files they found.