Hi all
Another year another frame. I was lucky enough to get hold of an Explosif back in april and held off building it as i hadnt had the Caldera very long at the time. Natrually it had some bad paint to sort out so that was all sorted in the summer. Not easy to match as the paint is a translusant blue but it came out well in the end. It was a case of finding a blue in a close shade and painting it thinly over a white base coat worked a treat. new decal from reynolds too.
Where the story all began is here, the main of the part collecting and servicing https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads...resto-mod-project-caldera-p11-onwards.404123/ on the 1998 Lava Dome and Caldera.
Before
After
Another year another frame. I was lucky enough to get hold of an Explosif back in april and held off building it as i hadnt had the Caldera very long at the time. Natrually it had some bad paint to sort out so that was all sorted in the summer. Not easy to match as the paint is a translusant blue but it came out well in the end. It was a case of finding a blue in a close shade and painting it thinly over a white base coat worked a treat. new decal from reynolds too.
Where the story all began is here, the main of the part collecting and servicing https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads...resto-mod-project-caldera-p11-onwards.404123/ on the 1998 Lava Dome and Caldera.
Before
![DSC_0645.JPG DSC_0645.JPG](https://www.retrobike.co.uk/data/attachments/432/432821-b83eb34a34e09676ab44f24a1345a57c.jpg)
![DSC_0654.JPG DSC_0654.JPG](https://www.retrobike.co.uk/data/attachments/432/432822-791e6585c450c9aa82b7eec6ad6c990c.jpg)
![DSC_0655.JPG DSC_0655.JPG](https://www.retrobike.co.uk/data/attachments/432/432823-6c54e97a1beef9aa847afc5b23da0352.jpg)
![DSC_0656.JPG DSC_0656.JPG](https://www.retrobike.co.uk/data/attachments/432/432824-420ef7b7ce7542afb5757772be13457b.jpg)
After
![DSC_0697.JPG DSC_0697.JPG](https://www.retrobike.co.uk/data/attachments/432/432825-c02ab4aef6c602640bded11047d36c38.jpg)
![DSC_0729.JPG DSC_0729.JPG](https://www.retrobike.co.uk/data/attachments/432/432826-0314e6102fef0205280af77f9c815eb8.jpg)
![DSC_0730.JPG DSC_0730.JPG](https://www.retrobike.co.uk/data/attachments/432/432827-0475773b854b9aac4af51192414ed54d.jpg)
![DSC_0737.JPG DSC_0737.JPG](https://www.retrobike.co.uk/data/attachments/432/432828-5b0bb6a15479f2f3738a4a65ad2a3627.jpg)
![DSC_0743.JPG DSC_0743.JPG](https://www.retrobike.co.uk/data/attachments/432/432829-a3bccfaa56e1e5495920f0fe411324f8.jpg)
![DSC_0745.JPG DSC_0745.JPG](https://www.retrobike.co.uk/data/attachments/432/432830-8c3fed9d84ac4a17842550c5d9978122.jpg)
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