Good evening Gentlemen (and lady),

I was going though a dry spell with my modeling, my airbrush breaking and having to strip the perfect paintjob off my Miata got me...
But! After visiting my friend, who just got back from Malaysia, I found that he had in his possession a Tamiya R-33 Calsonic Skyline. I offered to build it for him and he accepted, thus my dry spell is over...
I'm building it to his specifications which are; 24" Bellagios :sunglasse: :sunglasse: , Gloss black body, red rollcage, seat and trim and an aluminum spoiler.
As of now I have the body painted and i have the rims ready for mounting, it would mean removing the calipers of the stock brakes to have the 24's mounted so I opted for some lower profile ITR brakes which made the installation a breeze (A dremel make everything easy :rofl: ).

Here are the pics...

I'll have more later on tonight or tomorrow morning

Makes it look a little like those jada/muscle machine diecasts but i think i like it!

well i have to say, when i saw the post i thought to my self, this guys is an idiot (no offence) you just dont put rims like that on a skyline, its just not ment to be, but now that i see it.... dam it already looks pretty awsome, looks like it will be a very sexy sexy car, im actually kinda liking this!, hope to see more progress!

Looks pretty good. I'd never do it, but its not too bad.

wow wow wow i want those rims so so much. Please post a link to where i can buy me a set of these.
I love the look of giant rims. have had to settle for 19" before now.

They are my new challenge if i can get some.

model looks great. who makes that kit then? tamiya?

I must admit guys when if this was my Skyline I would have built this as per any reference photos I could find, but "the costumer is always right."

I used P-mans guide for painting the springs, thanks P-man it works like a charm. The rims fit the wheel wells nicely, I also decided to add 3 degrees of camber. How do I know its 3 degrees? Just look at the pics...
Here are some more pics...

I like the tires and all the detail you put under there. The rims are really starting to grow on me too. Keep us posted.

I realy dono about the rims.... :screwy: But the car looks wicked!

Keep up the good job! :iceslolan :)

Dat looks SICK!

Friggin insane...cant wait to see this done

wow i think that looks pretty sick, and a camber guage?!!!!!! where in trhe world did u find that? keep us posted!!!

wow i think that looks pretty sick, and a camber guage?!!!!!! where in trhe world did u find that? keep us posted!!!

Its a RPM Camber guage for radio control cars, have a look on towerhobbies.com and you will find it on there :smile:

Its a RPM Camber guage for radio control cars, have a look on towerhobbies.com and you will find it on there :smile:


Yep thats it...

BTW, I got the rims from the same place, there're Hoppin Hydros Monster 20 fours Bellagios

Heres a teaser pic...

wow can't wait, i would never do this but it looks quite nice, good detail on the chassis and suspension!

that looks farken sick! good work!
Can't wait to see it in the end.
I would have done a orange or yellow interior personally.

:icon16: Wake up! You need some bigger brakes! :icon16:

Wow!That's killer!

Wow,

Pretty cool.

Not big on such big rims, but like you said that is what the customer wants.

Can't wait to see it finished.

Alfred

Thanks for the compliments guys!!!

After some late night and early morning building i got the roll cage and interior painted. The seat is my favorite part, I love that Carbon Kevlar or whatever its supposed to be!!!

Also, I found an awesome way to take detail pictures. I have a magnifying light and I position it over the model and take a picture through the magnifying glass :bananasmi

And yes that is a first place Autocross Trophy in on my desk :D

I see your models are more important than your math homework. :nono:

It looks excellent.

Mounted the body today (damn these rims are huge) and it turns out i dont have to do any lowering, it sits perfectly :icon16: :icon16: This is all I'll be able to do before the weekend.

Ryan, screw homework!!!! :flipa: :flipa: :flipa: :flipa: :flipa: :flipa:

Looking good!! Was never really fond of street cars (which I assume this is) with race interiors - but this looks good so far! Nice colour combo! Can't wait to see it finished!

The ultimate street Skyline R33 !! Nice work!

Still big wheels...nice trophy too, we just get plaques :bloated:

Agreed.....different (bigger) brakes would look better..

Thanks for the words guys!

I have actually expressed my distaste for "street cars with race interiors" and i suggested that I put interior of my R34 Skyline in this, but the owner wanted a "blacked out street car with red interior" and didnt what a normal interior :loser:

About the brakes... I could ask him if he wants me to order some XS tuning wheels which come with brakes, or i could order then from HLJ and get them next millenium some time :thinkerg:

:feedback:

or you could buy some styrene and somehow build your own 20" brakes! :smokin:

Those rims are massive eh!

Mounted the body today (damn these rims are huge) and it turns out i dont have to do any lowering, it sits perfectly :icon16: :icon16: This is all I'll be able to do before the weekend.

Ryan, screw homework!!!! :flipa: :flipa: :flipa: :flipa: :flipa: :flipa:

Now thats what im talking about! haha.

Still looks awesome. Will it be wingless?

Now thats what im talking about! haha.

Still looks awesome. Will it be wingless?


I have been trying to convince him to leave it wingless because it'll go nicely with the stealthly-type look he seems to like. ie: Tinted front lights... But he wants the big ass spoiler that comes with the kit painted chrome silver with black for the sides :eek7: It's not exactly stealth in the first place with 24's and with Huge aluminum spoiler, it's gonna be kinda wierd. :sly: I found that the kit comes with the spoiler that comes with the regular R33 which might look somewhat normal, so I'll ask him about that :smokin:

wow... it's a killer wheel man..
hmmm.. keep the show car look.
i am totaly agree.. leave it wingless...

gooood job :bigthumb:

I love it!!! very creative!! :evillol: