1:24 Fujimi Daihatsu Move SR Turbo

[Spottedlaurel]

Making good use of the extended weekend I finished this little thing off today, WIP thread here:

 

 

 

We did get the Move in the UK, but not the sporty SR Turbo that the kit represents. Having unearthed a couple of photos I took of a 1:1 example........

 

 

 

I decided to come up with a backstory, Instead of it being scrapped as I believe happened with this one, imagine the elderly owner gave up driving and passed it onto the only grandchild who expressed any interest in it. They got a job as a trainee at a paint and bodywork repair place and with help and guidance from their colleagues gave it a funky coat of paint, fitted the JDM front spoiler and a set of TOM'S wheels, and lowered the suspension by a generous amount. Maybe not so practical as a daily driver, but looks good at the local Japanese car meets.

 

 

Paint is Halfords white primer, solid orange Tamiya TS-12 as a basecoat, TS-92 metallic orange top coat and Mr Hobby Gloss clearcoat, polished with Micromesh sheets, Tamiya Fine and Finish compounds and Autoglym resin polish. Panel lines were given a wash of acrylic brown/dark grey mix.

 

 

Wheels are TOM'S Rally from a Fujimi accessory set fitted with the original kit's Pirelli P7F tyres. Rear windows were tinted with TS-17 Smoke and the registration plates were printed on paper then 'laminated' with selloptape front and rear. A suitably silly large exhaust outlet was taken from another Fujimi accessory set.

 

 

I left the roof trims and spoiler in body colour, as I felt it suited the look better and wouldn't my fictional owner do a bit of colour-coding? Remaining 'black' trims were brush-painted with Revell #9.

 

 

The metallic orange catches the light nicely, I already have another project in mind where I'd like to use it.

 

 

 

Underside, more for reference than to show off any detailing I have (not) done. It looks as if there's the ability to run a propshaft from the back of the gearbox to a rear axle for what I presume would be a 4x4 version.

 

 

Fairly basic interior, with no detailing whatsoever on the door cards:

 

 

With other Kei cars I've built:

 

 

 

Overall it was an enjoyable thing to build, with the finished look matching-up to what I'd first envisaged when I pulled it off the shelf, and my first use of the Tamiya compounds went well.

 

Must now concentrate on my Eighties GB entry, and I've dug something else out of the stash to start within the next few days.

 

Thanks for looking!

[Davi]

That is a really nice storyline and totally believable. Nice modifications, good execution and a beautiful trio of Kei cars!

[Potsie]

Great model and thoroughly enjoyable wip thread as well. I think the overall look is spot-on and really suits the car. Completely in keeping with current trends in Kei cars generally.

[Spiny]

This is just the sort of subject I like to see, and you've done it justice. Actually, there is an argument to say that you've more than done it justice, it's a lovely build.

 

I hope you'll permit one suggestion on the number plate for next time you do a UK plate - maybe reduce the font by 1 point and set the width to 90% which should get youpretty close to the plate in the photo of the real thing. But that really is all I can find on this - it's a really nice little build of something I haven't seen done before.

[keefr22]

That is a really lovely little thing, well thought out modifications, great stance and wheels that really suit it - and a gorgeous paint job! 

 

Nice collection too!

 

Keith

[Spottedlaurel]

1 hour ago, Spiny said:

This is just the sort of subject I like to see, and you've done it justice. Actually, there is an argument to say that you've more than done it justice, it's a lovely build.

 

I hope you'll permit one suggestion on the number plate for next time you do a UK plate - maybe reduce the font by 1 point and set the width to 90% which should get youpretty close to the plate in the photo of the real thing. But that really is all I can find on this - it's a really nice little build of something I haven't seen done before.

 

Thanks!

 

I actually did ithe plates on AutoCAD, as I'm more used to drawing at 1:1 and then printing to scale on it. But I did struggle to find a good font......

[Blacque Jacque]

1 hour ago, Spottedlaurel said:

. But I did struggle to find a good font......

UK Registration font is available ;
https://www.dafont.com/uk-number-plate.font

 

I'm sure there are others, I don't know if any of them are "official" per se, but they look the part, the one above makes me think late 80's XR3 era ish ?

[SnøMotion]

10 hours ago, Blacque Jacque said:

UK Registration font is available ;
https://www.dafont.com/uk-number-plate.font

 

I'm sure there are others, I don't know if any of them are "official" per se, but they look the part, the one above makes me think late 80's XR3 era ish ?

It's actually the 2001 onwards font, but I've struggled to find something accurate for the earlier font, so this is what I use 

 

I think it's a 'vectorised' scan, or the like, because the points are very messy. But that certainly won't be noticeable at scale.

 

Martin

[Spiny]

22 hours ago, Spottedlaurel said:

 

Thanks!

 

I actually did ithe plates on AutoCAD, as I'm more used to drawing at 1:1 and then printing to scale on it. But I did struggle to find a good font......

 

To be fair, I don't think you're far off wiht the one you've chosen. And as you're doing it in Autocad you're definitely onto a winner as that will allow you to set the font to a different aspect ratio - my gut feeling is that if you set the width to between 0.8 and 0.9 you'll be close enough that nobody will notice.

[galaxyg]

Can't help but enjoy a good Kei car. Very nice.

[PatW]

A neat little job!

[Toftdale]

Great concept and perfectly executed - Andy 

[Blacque Jacque]

Forgive the cross posting, but Windy's post from SoTD is exactly what I meant above about the font;

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Early non injection XR3. 4 speed box too