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Thought I had posted this build up, but somewhere I got sidetracked and never posted it, so here it is. My third built car kit. Comments are welcomed, I would do things differently, for example clear coating and what not, but pleased overall with the outcome. Cheers for looking. Coops
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Not posted up the fair bit of this build I'm afraid. I have a few pics back home on the PC but I guess what have will have to do. Well I built up a few of the parts like the shell before spraying, and the most I did separately. First up the windscreen and rear screen come as a single piece, and there are no door windows in this kit. The out front oil cooler, just missing hoses The headlights and intercooler The door cards which attach to the inside of the shell The dash, I'm fairly happy with, and as it will be hard to see I guess I can live with a less than perfect paint job. (Need to get the steering wheel centre cap finished) the interior all up together, and roll cage fitted the exterior, I chose to go with a Halfords rattle can, with the Ford Focus green for this build. I think it will work well (fingers crossed) Thanks for looking in and fingers crossed this should come together fairly soon. I welcome any comments. Coops
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So it's time to start putting this little gem together. I've wanted one of these kits for ages and ages, and more ages, so to say I'm looking forward to this would be a mild understatement. It's been a while since I built a Tamiya kit and I'm currently wallowing in a warm bed of Japanese engineering and quality, oh they do make nice kits! This is the custom version of the kit, so along with all the usual bits you also get a sprue containing an oil cooler, strut brace, air dam and the all important RS Watanabe rims. There's a set of turned aluminium trumpets for the carbs and a nice sheet of PE too. Dry transfers for the GT-R and Skyline logos I havent seen before, and are a nice touch. The body is very nicely done and the minimal mold seams will be easy to get rid of. The only thing I don't like is the chrome plating. I've built two Viragos and one of them had chrome like this, shiny on one side and a matt/satin finish on the other, the other was done properly. Ah well, not to worry since I'll be stripping it off and re-doing with alclad. So first off time to wash all the bits and strip the chrome, then start deepening some panel lines.
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This was this year's first build. I did start paint the body in the autumn of last year though. The kit is the recent street custom release of Tamiya's great KPGC10 skyline GT-R. The steel wheels in the original release are massively oversized lol. The paint is Ford Signal green from Halfords, and is a great come and get me colour. I've used this paint again on my current Charger build as it is just suited to Mopar muscle lol. The Watanabe wheels are Revell Anthracite. Anyway Pics ahoy: And some WIP pics: [ TTFN Ashley.