For a long time I've thought about doing a widebody S2000, but wasn't sure how it would look. Then I saw the Amuse S2000 and knew it would look GOOD. I've never attempted a wide body before, but once I saw Appleseed's S2000 I got inspired. It's not the Amuse S2000, it's not the Tracy Sports S2000 either. It's along the same lines though. I started it a few months back, but I just recently FINALLY got myself a digicam. Still a ways to go. Let me know what you think!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/S2000wb.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/S2000wb1.jpg

Looks very good, looking foward to see more! :grinyes:

Wow very nice progress so far, going to be a stunner, very clean
thinking of a body color?

Looks great!

Wow very nice progress so far, going to be a stunner, very clean
thinking of a body color?

Actually, I haven't thought about color yet. Maybe Yellow with a carbon hood and deck lid. Orange, graphite, blue. I'm open to any suggestions. I just don't want to do it white.

Great body work !!!

looking forward to more progress. looks great so far!

Brilliant body fabrication, looking forward to see it finished. As far as colour i think this would look great painted Camel Yellow by Tamiya or perhaps other light colors to empahsise the wide body work..

Looking great! I've been seeing this in your sig but hadn't seen the thread yet. I'm super impressed, especially with the little vent by the taillights. Did you cut the front quarter off and glue it further out, or did you fab up a new quarter over the old?

wow. how'd you fab the fender extensions?

Might i suggest a metalic orange with the mentioned CF hood and deck lid, and possible some other aaccent accessories i.e. canards, wing etc.? That would look great to go along with the already great bodywork!

Keep us posted! :)

Looking great! I've been seeing this in your sig but hadn't seen the thread yet. I'm super impressed, especially with the little vent by the taillights. Did you cut the front quarter off and glue it further out, or did you fab up a new quarter over the old?

Yup! I cut the front quarter off and glued it further out, along with some styrene sheet for support. The top sectoin above the body line was styrene, so it would match up with the body. The rear quarters were built over top of the original.

Thanks for the comments guys! I was thinking a brighter color would be best as well, to show of the body work. I've been trying to figure out what to do with the front bumper. I don't want it to look like the Amuse or Tracy Sports S2000. Once I get that figured out and get the side skirts finished up I can get this thing in first primer to look for flaws.

Small update. The side skirts are getting closer to being done. The front fender will also be extended down to the lip on the side skirts.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/S2000ss.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/S2000ss1.jpg

BTW... do you guys think the side skirts are a little too low? I might trim a little off the bottom. Let me know what you think.

I'm very impressed with the work you've shown. I really like the way the widebody fits the body. I cant wait to see more.

As far as the side skirt, I think it looks a little tall. You could do a few things to change that. Its hard to tell which would fit best depending on the way you finish the skirt. You could add a rocker panel below the door, and have the skirt attach to that. On the other hand you could just make the skirt shorter and make the ride height lower.

Finally started work on this again. Still a little rough, but you get the idea. Started on the front. Still not 100% sure how the front is going to look. The bottom of the fenders won't be sticking out like that either. Feedback's always welcome!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/S2kWBf2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/S2kWBb2.jpg

looks good!

Brilliant body fabrication, looking forward to see it finished. As far as colour i think this would look great painted Camel Yellow by Tamiya or perhaps other light colors to empahsise the wide body work..

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I like what you have going there, looks very tasteful so far.

Looking amazing. I am watching this one with bated breath. The side skirts look just fine for such a heavily worked over, aggressive car.

Thanks so much for the comments guys! Hey Willimo, are we gonna see progress on that sweet Do-Luck Widebody Supra soon?

Little bit of progress, you can see how the front fenders are gonna be now. The front end's cleaned up a bit more now. And I think I've decided on the shape of the vents in the fascia. Advans???? Yes? No? I'm sorta likeing them, but I'm not sure if I want the TE37s or these. What do you guys think?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/S2kWBadvan1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/S2kWBadvan2.jpg

Personally, I think the TE37's fit this car better. I think the wide spacing on the Advan spokes compete with the lines of the body kit.

this is going great! plz finish

Personally, I think the TE37's fit this car better. I think the wide spacing on the Advan spokes compete with the lines of the body kit.
I agree, maybe black TE37´s :grinyes:

+1 on flat black TE37s.

I think you guys are right. I kinda like the Advans, but I think the TE37s do suit the car much better. Thanks for the input. I'm hopeing to have all the major body work done by the end of the week.

Im astonished with the work you have done. Very professional, clean, and inspiring. I look forward to more updates.

Awesome work so far, looks great ;). I would go with the TE37s, they suit the car a lot more than the Advans.

looking forward to see more progress

Beautiful work!!:sunglasse Lemon Yellow with the Super Advans painted in a nice charcoal.:)

Keep the Advans! Those rims are sick!

-Chris

Thanks Tonio, coming from you that's a real compliment. Here's a sketch I did to show kinda how it should end up looking.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/S2000sketch.jpg

wow, and you can draw as good as you build!!!! that is very impressive.

I would opt for the TE37's. yellow paint would be nice, but make it a pearl color. white te37's charcoal and ivory interior.

or pearl silver/red 2 tone with chrome paint pinstriping between the 2 colors with mostly dark red and black interior. and hyper silver, or bronze te37

Wow... absolutely amazing!

Woot for renderings, this is going to look very nice as i have mentioned before.
I like the slightly raised fenders over the hood line.
Also the TE37's will look plenty good, maybe add a bit of a lip to them just to be different and it will compliment the widebody nicely. n do em charcoal or like a dark silver gunmetal. :sunglasse
Keep it comin! :thumbsup:

UPDATES!!!! Hopefully just 1 more round of putty before the first coat of primer. Hopefully there won't be many flaws revealed by that first coat of primer, but it's hard to tell.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/S2kWBad1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/S2kWBad0.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/S2kWBad.jpg

Advans are much better choice to big bodykit

I think it would look good if you did it with a spoon paint job.

http://www.s2000.com/tuning/spoon/spoon09.jpg

or maybe the red AEM one. :)

http://www.apartment107.com/assets/article/1490/pic01.jpg

Very nice build. Te widebody kit is very well done. The front reminds me of th C-West bodykit. As for the color a dark silver, like gunmetal or a pearl yeallow with carbon fiber hood and top would really set it off.

gun metal or graphite is best, and as team_mph said, carbon hood and roof

Color choices!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/S2WBBLUAF.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/S2WBREDAF.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/S2WBYELAF.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/S2WBPNKAF.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/S2WBTEALAF.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/S2WBORNGAF.jpg

Since white's not an option.. (I think it'd look best white) I think yellow is a nice color for the S2K

I love the yellow that Honda has for production S2k's. But this one is special. Orange would really make this car stand out. Orange body with black interior... and maybe even some color matched TE37's!

Either way, this is a sweet build! I want one!

I didn't want white because it would be too similar to the Tracy Sports and Amuse S2000s. But just for fun......
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/S2WIT1AF.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/S2WBGRNAF.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/S2WBSLVRAF.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/S2WBBLKAF.jpg

I'm just curious what editor program are you using to make those pics?
Great work so far! Luvin it!

The original sketch is on page 2, I rendered them with good old
Photoshop CS2.

I normally dont like pink but for some reason that pink with black rim combo actually looks pretty sweet. And then theres that black and white rim combo wich looks sweet too. I say go for the silver or black one..... unless you want a stand out car, then the pink on would be perfect.

I think pink or orange, maybe metallic pearl orange?:grinyes:

hmm this is gonna be a tough one. Its hard because you want it to be different than the big tuners out there, and most of them already have a fair color association with them, Amuse, spoon, Top Secret, Yashio Factory, etc. So idk you have to kinda do somethin a little different for it , well because it is different :D

Id say maybe go with a lighter bronze color, carbon hood trunk lid etc, and black TE37's. And if not then maybe a red with bronze te37's and some accents to tie it in. My :2cents:

My wide body has a similar basic style to the Amuse and Tracy Sports widebody kits for the S2000. That's the only reason I want to stay away from white. Other than that I'm open to most colors. The Bronze with black TE37s probably would look great. Or possibly even a Top Secret - ish gold. DANG now I've got more ideas. It's all YOUR FAULT!!!!! j/k Thanks for the input! Wish I could add those two colors to the poll.

The black photochop of your model looks hard! With the fiber hood and top, and some gold advans, the one of the D1 S15 would look clean! Keep it up! More pics man! Looking forward to see more.

blue with dark gold wheels wil be nice!:D
you are like me..i hate have some model lke another that already exist,itá mine and will be different!:D

Sorry guys. It's been quite a while and I haven't done a WHOLE lot. But the front end is pretty much done. I also rescribed most of the panel lines. Just gotta do some touching up on the side skirts, and hopefully THEN it'll finally be ready for primer.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/S2kSAF.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/S2KS4AF.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/S2KS1AF.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/S2KS2AF.jpg

The wide body looks so hot, nice progress.

very nice i liek this s2k :) good job on the wbk

Great job, I'll have to stop by on Monday and have a look at the progress in person! As for the colour, yellow with dark TE37s would look sweet (I like orange, but aren't you doing the WRX in orange?)

You should post up some of your other WIP's!!!! :grinyes:

HAHA. I haven't even thought about the WRX in a looong time. I'll have to see if it's salvageable from my earlier customizing attempts. Even though Orange won the Poll, I'm still not sure what color to do this thing. I kinda really like the pink, or the yellow, maybe some other color. Idon't know, but I don't have to worry about that 'til I get the primer on and all flaws fixed. All I for sure have worked out is the bodywork, the c/f hood, roof, and decklid, and the TE37s.

hey is those thing for sale i wanna have one :D

Uh.... is what for sale?

I think he means your S2000.

Damnit, and I thought there was gonna be an update :(

Soon my friend, soon. I've got my evenings free now, so hopefully it'll be in primer soon.

Can't wait. Are you painting it just orange? Or are you planning to add pearl to it?

Alright! I know it's not much, but I have scribed the gas door. You'll see this thing in primer soon I pormise!! I know I've said that a couple times now, but I think I've pretty much got the bases covered now, so it shouldn't be much longer. One more round of sanding and I can spray the primer. Here's a pic of the gas door.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/S2KWBGD.jpg

hey i know how hard it is to spray the first coat, i just sprayed my mustang after all that pain of getting every little tiny winni blemish out, but in the end it will turn out great! I personally think it would look good white but thats just me. Keep up the progress!

i want to see this completed before i retire from modeling.

on with the primer!

HAHA!!! Me too man! I am REALLY likeing these GT-Vs!!! What do you guys think, GT-Vs? Or keep the TE37s?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/S2KWBGTV.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/S2KWBGTV1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/S2KWBGTV2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/S2KWBGTV3.jpg

GT-Vs look hot as cheese.

the GT-Vs look good, but i think the te37s fit your widebody better.

TE37's all the way

GTV's all the way, they are sexy wheels, great project too...

Just start another poll, lol.

I am partial to TE's, but the GT-V's really fit it well. Tough choice, lets see the TE's.

how was V.TE37 ,fujimi 18'' or aoshima 19'' ?

They are the Aoshima 19" Thanks for the input guys! It is a tough choice. I love both wheels.

I will make s2k too,but do you think that will be good looking on fujimi TE37?

If you're not doing a widebody, I think the 18" TE37s would look just fine! Start up a thread on that S2000 when you start working on it. I wanna see it!

Im working on Silvia s14,maybe if i get money,in next week I will started S2K :licka: ,only light bodykit - amuse touge
http://www.spc.org.uk/honda/i/custom-s2000-000.jpg

Hmmm I'd have to say keep the TE-37's the GT-V's draw too much attention away from the wide body kit. That's just my :2cents:

Wow, GT-V, you have to use them!:grinyes:

Hmmm I'd have to say keep the TE-37's the GT-V's draw too much attention away from the wide body kit. That's just my :2cents:

They wouldn't necissarily be all chrome like that though. Keep in mind, whatever wheels I end up using will most likely end up being painted a different color. But yeah, it's a hard choice. But I don't have to make that particulare choice for a while still.

My vote goes to the Advan SA3R's

How about TEs on the other side and GT-Vs on the other? Just a thought.

Might not look like much progress, but believe me, it is. Finally have the side skirts on and blended and smoothed, which means..... this thing is FINALLY almost ready for primer (so long as nothing ELSE goes wrong). And hey! What's this?!?!? ANOTHER set of wheels??? What do you guys think of the GT-Cs? I'm just trying out all the possibilities for wheels right now. I wont decide on the final wheels until there's color on the car and everything. Anyway, here's the pics.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/S2KWBSS0.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/S2KWBSS1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/S2KWBSS2.jpg

Finally someone else who suffers from the same sickness as me! You can't decide on wheels for a project either! I personally think the Gt-vs or the advans will look good, I'm not a fan of the gt-c's in real life, so i'm not much of a fan of em in scale either. But its your kit so build it how you want it. Looks great so far though, I look forward to seeing some paint.

Gray

Look's nice that way.

Finally someone else who suffers from the same sickness as me! You can't decide on wheels for a project either! I personally think the Gt-vs or the advans will look good, I'm not a fan of the gt-c's in real life, so i'm not much of a fan of em in scale either. But its your kit so build it how you want it. Looks great so far though, I look forward to seeing some paint.

Gray
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energon...anyway..the cube of the wheels are the same,female cube,so..low the car,adjust the suspension..and only on the end,you feet,decide,and cement!
Because the original tamiya cube is male,right?
So,i´m enjoying all work until now!
congratulations!

Just an IMO, but on this kind of car I'd rather see purposeful wheels, like you might see at a track day, rather than chrome bling. Even keep those wheels, but strip the chrome and paint them gunmetal or aluminum. Just my two cents.

This looks awesome, btw. :D

What's up with that Pacer in the background of one of the pictures? :)

Just an IMO, but on this kind of car I'd rather see purposeful wheels, like you might see at a track day, rather than chrome bling. Even keep those wheels, but strip the chrome and paint them gunmetal or aluminum. Just my two cents.

This looks awesome, btw. :D

I never planed on keeping the chrome. Volks are definitely purposeful track wheels. But depending on what color the body ends up being that will determine the color of the wheels. Weather they're black, gunmetal, gold, bronze, silver, etc. SO the chrome is definitely not final. They might have a chrome lip. but they wont be all chrome. Thanks for the input!

What's up with that Pacer in the background of one of the pictures? :)

Aahhhh... the good ol Pacer. Yeah, I have WAAAAY too many projects on the go so some get neglected for long periods of time. I shaved the door handel and badges n stuff. I planed on putting a V8 in it and kinda hot rodding or Pro Touring it out. Lowered with some larger diameter hot rod styled wheels. Unfortunately I have been a MAJOR slacker on everything model involve lately. Plus my dad started putting up some shelves around my work are, I had to pack everything up so it didn't end up damaged, and he's never finished putting the shelve up yet. I WAS hoping to get this S2000 in primer before it got too cold but it doesn't look like that's going to happen. I've just been too busy this past summer and I can't really paint in the winter. Plus It doesn't look like things are getting less busy. And unfortunately there's just some things that are more important than building models. I wish I could turn out lots of beautiful models like some of you guys do. Hopefully someday soon I'll be able to finish this thing though.

I think the GT-C's look great,it would look really good if it was orange,and the wheels had a gold center,thats just what i think anyway.and if u like the GT-V's i reckon put them on,it wont take away from the car too much...it IS widebody.but this is looking awsum

Still not finished?? :grinno: Ah, what do I say here, do you know my Blitz Skylines?
I think we have started our projects at same time. :lol:

I want to see this one finished, some things which takes long will be good, like this one for sure!

done yet?

Sorry to drudge this thing back up again when there's STILL NO PROGRESS?!?!?!?!?! but anyway, I saw this and started thinking it might be a really nice color scheme for this S2000 of mine that is taking forever because either I'm too lazy, to busy or both!!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/350Zzzzol.jpg

Ey,

A Honduh is neva a Niss an,kay?
Don't eva compare 'em.



LOL,just kiddin'!
Hmm,if you use that scheme,you're going to have the TE-37's on it,or different wheels with the same colors?
It does look very good!

If I went with that color scheme I'd most likely go with the TE37s. The rear TE37s would be made deeper.

Hey guys, I need some help figuring something out here. I want to cut the lip of the TE37 off, and cut the back section of the rim off, swap that back section over to the front and reatatch the lip so that I preserve the lip detail, and deepen the rear wheels for this thing. My original idea was to atatch
the wheel to my dremel so that I could spin the wheel on the dremel while I cut the wheel with an exacto knife. BUT I couldn't find a decent way to atatch the wheel to my dremel. So, I could use some suggestions. I know someone out there has to have done this before. But I didn't find anything when I attempted to search for it.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/TE37help1.jpg

Also I am hoping to get back into things here once the weather gets nice again. In the mean time here's a little sneek peek at some of the projects I have on the go.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/peek4.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/peek3.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/peek1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/peek2.jpg

Dang, I look forward to these being built! :sunglasse

Heh cool line up! :D

Thanks guys! Most of em should be in primer once the weather gets nice enough. I haven't decided yet if I'm gonna do any body mods on the S13 yet.

So does anyone have any helpful advice on my little wheel issue? I need deeper TE37s for the rear of this thing!!

If your lip isn't too wide, you could very well try a piece of styrene wrapped and glued around, it would make the rim a tad bigger and as wide as you want. It's easy-peasy, and has got quite good results if you don't do it too wide.

hey energon, do you have any extra sets of rims with separate lips on them? thats the easiest way to deepen that lip, I've got several sets, and have tried a few different lips and most look close enough to pass for the real deal, if you don't have any extras pm me and I'll look around my resin ones...

Gray

Hello,

I can chime in here 'cause it is an issue I've also been thinking about for a while.

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/1993/14741328db2.jpg

I use the 2 mm rod that is usually the rear axle of an older Fujimi kit, and cut it in half.

http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/8161/24960160gz8.jpg

The size collet that works is 1/16".

http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/6858/15344224tv5.jpg

Now just pop the wheel on there. Works great for sanding tires down to visually pleasing dimensions, which is what I use it for.

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/2121/10334706eu6.jpg

Hope it helps.

Keep it up with the s2000. It looks great thus far. :popcorn:

Thanks so much!! That is pure genius!!!!! And it's so simple I feel stupid for not thinking of it. I've got some Fujimi metal axels too! Here I was trying to use some Aoshima plastic spindles and they were just twisting off (which shoulda been obvious). Thanks very much to bigfrit and stryfe101 as well for your suggestions. But A. I don't want to increase the diameter of the wheel what so ever, they're already 19" and don't need to be any bigger.... especially on a S2000. and B. I DO have sets of wheels with the seperate lips, but don't want to scrap a set of wheels for em, I also don't have the suplies or the funds to get the suplies to cast em either. They are good suggestions as well though! But I'm definitely gonna give sileightsix's suggestion a try. Thanks very much guys!!

Alrighty! Sileightsix's trick worked great.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/WrW1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/WRW.jpg

BUT, I think I may have made it a little too deep for this car, tell me what you think, it doesn't seem toooo bad, but it kinda seems a little too deep.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/S2KWrW1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/S2KWrW.jpg

Yay, another update, thanks for keeping us up to date dude, seems like it's very close to completion, eh!

And sadly, i think it's also too deep. I 'd half the depth on the rear, but then that's just me.


eitherway, go the extra mile, finish it when you're ready and make it just as good as you can do!

To deep? NO! That would look fan-freakin'-tastic if you painted the centers a light metal color (silver, light gunmetal, bronze, gold, etc) and painted the lip with alclad chrome. People would be asking where you got such DEEP rims, and you could boast that YOU made them! haha, man it really does look good.

Well, the plan is to paint them black with a red line along the edge of the lip. I've been seeing Te37s in that color scheme a lot lately and I love it. That 350Z I posted earlier has em, though the color of the car itself might not be the color of that 350Z. Maybe if the fronts were deepened a little as well, then the rear would look alright like they are. I dunno, I'll have to think about it some more.

Ok, the wheels are mostly done, I think I'll do a little putty work on the lips still to even things out a bit. They're not quite as deep, but still fairly deep, but I think they look pretty good now. So after I even things out a bit, the next step will be painting them black, and somehow putting the red stripe on. Also does anyone have one of those funk printers for printing decals? I would like to get some red versions of Aoshima's Volk and Rays engineering decals for the wheels. If you're willing to help me out with that PM me with details and how much you would want for em. Hopefully it'll only be a few more weeks before the weather's warm and dry enough to start primeing. Anyway... pics!!!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/S2KWD.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/S2KP4.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/S2KP2.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/S2KP3.jpg

The rims look excellent i think the dish is just right for widebody, slow but very good progress!
Cant wait to see some primer and paint!

PRIMED!!!!!!!!!!!! I knew there were going to be some flaws. Even before I primed I could see a few, but I wanted to get it primed cos it would be easier to spot the flaws and fix them. Anyway, here's lots of pics.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/S2Kprimed3.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/S2Kprimed.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/S2Kprimed1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/S2Kprimed8.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/S2Kprimed7.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/S2Kprimed2.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/S2Kprimed6.jpg

any new updates on this built

I say you leave it primer, it looks like a bad motherf***er.

You are giving me inspiration for my S2K build I'll be doing soon, keep up the good work.

Looks great! Very clean lines and great body work. Can't wait to see more!

good luck, it will be finished one day. These things take time!

Years for some of us. :iceslolan

good luck, it will be finished one day. These things take time!

Years for some of us. :iceslolan

haha and for SOME of us, maybe even decades!!! j/k, thanks for the comments guys, nothing new yet. I have some touch ups to do with some of the body work. Hopefully it won't take me a decade to finish this thing! :biggrin: