(The real car)
1/24 Tamiya Volvo T-5R This was one of the projects which took the longest to build, and the ironic thing is... it's not even mine!
Someone offered me... lets just say large enough amount of money for me to build them an EXACT model of their car: a yellow Volvo T-5R Limited.
This car itself does not have a model, but Tamiya did make a Volvo 850 Wagon, which was what I used as a base.
A front lip was made by hand with Tamiya Putty, and a sunroof was carved out on the top of the roof. The body was pretty much then finished after that... not much work there.
The time consuming part was the 17" 5 spoke wheels that ONLY came in that T-5R. I had to go out and buy a set of 1/24 17" Fujimi 5-spoke rims, totally cut them up and re-do the entire thing with putty until it looked exactly like the ones on the real car. (Luckly Fujimi rims sets usually comes with Pirelli P-Zero tires, which was what the real T-5R was equipped with).
Then the next trouble was to match the paint. I went out and bought a bottle of touch up paint from Volvo for that car and sat there for a day trying to match it with Tamiya colors. It worked out great after 4 hrs or so of mix and match.
A set of front headlight wipers was stolen from a Tamiya Benz S500 Coupe to accomidate the Volvo (but it was not put not yet at the time these pictures was taken).
And finally, I took the decals that came with the kit and managed to cut it up and make the emblem at the rear that says "T-5R."
Window tints were also added for the real car had some.
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