AE86 Panda Treuno Color?

[cham2020]

I want to ask something. The FUJIMI manual gave me headache. What actually color is the color of the PANDA TREUNO AE86? IT is WHITE+ BLACK or

WHITE + FLAT BLACK.

The manual stated FLAT BLACK

[cham2020]

what colour is MAHAGONY and RED MADDER

[winstona]

Hi,

I hope I can help you out cause I built this kit as my first model. The color you use on the car should be black for the most part. For the mud guard and the other parts that are made of plastic in real life, you use semi gloss black or flat black based on your personal preference. The best way to find out is to check out some real pictures of the car.

As for Mahagony and Red Madder, you can check out the color chart for Gunze Sangyo paints:

http://www.ipmsstockholm.org/colorch...rcolor_map.htm

Mahagony is 42 and Red Madder is 68

I hope this helps.

Winston

[cham2020]

thanks winstona. in other words the instruction colors are not accurate right? they stated the body color is FLAT BLACK and it makes me headache..

[MidnightWangan]

Originally Posted by cham2020

thanks winstona. in other words the instruction colors are not accurate right?

Yeah cham, fujimi's 'instructions' are better used as toilet-paper, a far cry from Tamiya's detailed procedures.

The hachi's bumpers front & back are matt black but the black on the body panels are gloss black. Search the forums, the AE86 two-tone has been done to death, i rem there're quite a coupla posts with pics too. Or juz use google pic search & cross-reference pics of the real car lah.

[cham2020]

ok
thanks wangan midnight
in other words
bumpers FLAT BLACK
body GLOSS BLACK

thanks !

[fujiwara takumi]

depends on how old the car is if you got a panda thats been sitting in the sun for 15 years its going to look like every other japanese crudmobile, weathered and flat. they came "kinda" shiny from the factory.

[cham2020]

i wan to build one straifght from the factory

[fujiwara takumi]

Originally Posted by cham2020

i wan to build one straifght from the factory

my stupid dad has one of those, he makes me deliver tofu all over the prefacture with it. ugly old car.

[cham2020]

LOL
you are really funny ,takumi.....


body i will put gloosy bLAck

[MidnightWangan]

Dude if u gonna build the Initial D version pay attention to the zenki/kouki lights, ie. Takumi's hachi is the really old 1st release AE86 (1983) it's front signal lamps are recessed in the front bumper whilst the later re-release(1985) has signal lamps that extend to the side of the front bumper:

Not this one, even tho' it's Tsutiya's & used at a Japanese movie release:


This one, note the signal lamps don't follow the bumper's 45degree curve.


For clearer pics click the hyper link under my sig or go to Drift.Com.MY, there're a coupla malaysian Hachis back home in local events there.

[cham2020]

nmine looks like the takumi version.
wow, wanganmidnight, you are really awesome ..hehe...... hachiroku expert

[MidnightWangan]

Not really bro, juz that i got too many buddies who're bonkers over the Hachi. It's an okay car, seriously underpowered by today's standards, good training car for drifts. Personally i love rotaries more.

Also if u r using the Fujimi kit:
-the rear mud flaps r only moulded halfway, you'll have to use putty to complete it
(there're 'Trueno/Levin' fonts on the mud-flaps of the 1:1 car)
-the dashboard doesn't touch the front windscreen properly
-be careful with the stock exhaust pipe, it's brittle & breaks easily in the center
-the front & rear bumpers have moulding recesses(cover up w putty too)
-there's also a colored line(red/silver/black)juz above the rear tail-lamps(Takumi's is black)

Learned all this while building some kits & we compared it to the 1:1 cars we were trying to replicate.

[cham2020]

MIdnight Wangan
i am not buildng the panda color anymore