Aoshima....Same wheels....new color.....

[malsheem]

Originally Posted by joecwlaw

so you are trimming your collection??

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=5957969118

Need some funds to pick up S27 Zhuhai McLaren F1 and Fujimi 1/16 288 GTO Enthusiasts.

[Verminator]

Originally Posted by malsheem

Hehe, already too late. HLJ already has them as "order stop" two days after offering them for pre-order. Hot stuff.

Been on site today and they are back for preorder.

[7th_skyline]

My C110 Skyline "chiki chiki racing" kit left Hobbylink today.
I'll post pics of the Hayashi wheels and (hopefully) stretchwalls as soon as it arrives (probably mid next week).

[nis.k.a.]

Originally Posted by 7th_skyline

My C110 Skyline "chiki chiki racing" kit left Hobbylink today.
I'll post pics of the Hayashi wheels and (hopefully) stretchwalls as soon as it arrives (probably mid next week).

Do you have a link? I didn't know HobbyLink carried the Nostalgia line.

[Porsche Carrera]

is from hlj? or another hobbylink?

[7th_skyline]

Originally Posted by nis.k.a.

Do you have a link? I didn't know HobbyLink carried the Nostalgia line.

Doh! I meant HobbyWorld, sorry for the confusion guys. I can't wait until this one arrives.

This is the kit:
C110 Skyline GT coupe

[nis.k.a.]

Originally Posted by 7th_skyline

Doh! I meant HobbyWorld, sorry for the confusion guys. I can't wait until this one arrives.

This is the kit:
C110 Skyline GT coupe

I saw they re-stocked those. Make sure you post pics when it arrives.

[7th_skyline]

Absolutely! And as soon as I get done on the C130 Laurel I'm doing (next couple of weeks), thats the next project.

[Porsche Carrera]

this will never be available at hlj? i mean the chiki chiki series.

[Hiroboy]

Originally Posted by Porsche Carrera

this will never be available at hlj? i mean the chiki chiki series.

Why?

[Porsche Carrera]

cause they don't have any preorders for them at all. or does hlj take a long time to get new items?

[nis.k.a.]

I did a bunch of searching and neither HLJ nor Hobby Search nor Rainbow 10 stock the Chiki chiki racing. The only major place to order is Hobby World. Other places receive the cars like selected LHS', Japanese toy stores (TRU etc.) and other smaller Japanese/International online stores.

Why HLJ, Rainbow 10 or Hobby Search don't stock these cars is beyond me.

[7th_skyline]

I should have it in half an hour or so,

[7th_skyline]

Well I just picked up the C110 GT-X chiki chiki racing skyline, the 2 door.

Good things:
- Very tasty Hayashi racing rims, super deep dish/small diameter. They are Polycap mounted too, by the way.
My (crappy plastic) vernier calipers say 15mm diameter X 12/14mm wide, so roughly 15x10" and 15x12" rims. The rears have a whopping 10mm deep dish, roughly 9"

- Stretchwall tyres - and they're even still just a tiny bit narrower than the rim, maybe 1mm or so. Representative of stretched 195/40R14, 235/40R14 tyres as my guess.

-Cool extra suspension components which allow the slammed/heavily cambered rideheight, no fabrication needed !

-Heaps of extra bits and pieces, including some SSR MKIII rims and the standard skyline steel rims Unfortunately not chromed. Evidently this is based on the "Hot-Rod" series cars.
Theres 3 different steering wheels, a drivers race seat, choice of grilles, 2 sets of mirrors, even 3 different stereo head units.

The body is nicely moulded, and quite accurate on my personal experience of 1:1 C110 Skyline/240Ks.

The Bad:
-NO CHROME SPRUE apart from the Hayashi wheels sprue.
This means the grille, bumpers, taillight surrounds and various bits of moulded in trim on the body will have to be BMF'd or alclad.
Not cricket. A bit sad when the chrome on the hayashi's is PERFECT, and other best vintage and hot-rod kits have all the requisite chrome... Obviously BMF and alclad won't achieve the same look, and there are some VAST areas of chrome on the bumpers in particular...
-(sort of bad) Chassis is nigh on identical to the C130 laurel kit chassis, however it comes with a number of important upgrades my C130 doesn't have , namely suspension crossmembers and so on...Wish my C130 had them

-My camera is shithouse and this is as good a picture of the stretchwalls/rims as I can get.

[7th_skyline]

C110 pics and progress thread
here: