-=And so it begins: 350Z streetDRAGON=-

[Artem1985il]

Since I have nothing to do until the SAS kit arrives, I painted the headlights. According to the instructions, Im supposed to paint the border with Tamiya's Smoke, but I thought it would look bad with yellow and red...so I painted them red too - I thought it would look cool with the fire decals around the headlights. By the way, I should get the decals and the kit on Mon or Tue.

[86_SR5]

That's cool, but I'm not so sure how camel yellow and red will mix.

[willimo]

Did you know that the colors yellow and red are incorporated into food packaging because they subconsiously make you hungry? Your car's making me feel it. Think McDonald's is open this time of night?

[Artem1985il]

Originally Posted by willimo

Did you know that the colors yellow and red are incorporated into food packaging because they subconsiously make you hungry? Your car's making me feel it. Think McDonald's is open this time of night?

Haha....yeah I knew about that. Red and yellow will look great on my car, I know - I'm very good at commercial/graphic design (got 3 awards)

[Artem1985il]

Just got the package from eHobbies - the yellow paint, 8000 grit, and some sandpapers. I've asked them to add a polishing compound and they said they will, but for some reason it wasn't in the box!
Looks like the paint job won't be the best...

If you guys want, you can send me a piece of 12000 grit to polish the paint, I would really appreciate it. PM me for address.

Today, I'll paint the wing. If I get the SAS kit today, I'll put the first 2 coats of primer.

[Artem1985il]

NEWS

Checked the mail and guess what! The SAS kit is there, the decals sheet is there, and a check for $1000 from my grandparents is there! Hehe...

Anyway, the decals look AWESOME! Very good quality, and 3 sets of em! Bedlam Creations did them for me...thx to whoever recommended them. If you need custom decals, go to them. They will even design them for you, you just give them an idea of what you want.



The SAS kit is awesome!. High quality...requires very little work to get them ready. But I'm gonna make it look good in the end. I will try to get them ready and glue them on today so it's dry tomorrow.

[86_SR5]

The graphix look awesome. Low quality, from SAS??? Really??? Chris been slacking off huh?

[BugZilla]

I need some decals done, do you have a link or something.

[chrismcgee]

LOW QUALITY my ass, dont slag off chris's products because of your inexperience.
all they require is a little bit of scalpel work to trim off the excess flashing. resin is an extremely difficult substance to work with and i doubt you can understand the complexaties of it.
I have built many of his kits and so have many others. the only thing that separates sas from tamiya is the budget, chris creates excellent hand crafted peices that tamiya use computers to create.
Please amend your previous comments.

i dont mean to flame but do research b4 slamming his work, you could put customers off from dumb comments that are un justified.

[Zwaag]

nice car, but dont diss Chris, or you'll get your asked kicked- J/K

But seriosly, have you ever worked with resin before? I think it always needs a little work

[slk320]

Originally Posted by Artem1985il

NEWS

Checked the mail and guess what! The SAS kit is there, the decals sheet is there, and a check for $1000 from my grandparents is there! Hehe...

Anyway, the decals look AWESOME! Very good quality, and 3 sets of em! Bedlam Creations did them for me...thx to whoever recommended them. If you need custom decals, go to them. They will even design them for you, you just give them an idea of what you want.



The SAS kit was pretty disappointing. Low, low quality...requires tons of work before I can attach them. But I'm gonna make it look good in the end. I will try to get them ready and glue them on today so it's dry tomorrow.

This is not true at all. I am presuming that you have never worked with resin transkits before this and therefore do not have an extensive knowledge on the topic, but SAS kits are actually top notcha nd require "minimum" clean up. Every resin part, from most major manufacturers requires some clean up, mold release lines, injection marks, resin "film" etc, and require cleaning as well, to relieve of mold agent.

SAS kit offers a close-to-exact fit, unique subject matter and minimum clean up, which ranks them highly among resin trans kit manufacturers. They have resin reinforcement tabs, mounting tabs, all the openings are molded open and all the extras that you do not usually see with trans kits, so I consider their quality top notch.

Just trying to help people make good decision without relying on negative comments from inexperienced users. Once you mount the kit on your model you will see how high of qulaity Chris's kits are. Good luck.

[SonyMobile]

Decals look great! not my style of design but whatever floats your boat, and i think the dragon style theme will suit this cars lines very nicely,

The SAS kit looks pretty dam good to me, I see 0 air bubbles, and a bit of flash, nothing an exacto knife and some sand paper cant fix.

SAS kits are "THE SHIT" of Resin transkits, every one of the SAS kits i have seen have had NO air bubles, NO fitment problems, Non of the parts were broken or cracked or innacurate, the only thing is the excess flash, but thats not a biggy.

[Artem1985il]

Originally Posted by BugZilla

I need some decals done, do you have a link or something.

http://www.bedlamcreations.com/

Progress report:

The SAS kit turned out to be great, took only a little xacto and sandpaper work to prepare them. The cutting out of the original parts was HELL! I had to use xacto... I've only cut out the hood and that took me 35 min and 2 cuts (1 pretty deep one). The SAS hood fit almost perfectly (after 15 min of 'fitting' with xacto and sandpaper). I used suepr glue to attach the hood...my fingers stuck to the car while I was holding it all together...rippin' em off was more painful than the cuts.

I will start cutting off the front bumper tomorrow morning and try to put the first coat of primer in the evening.

Meanwhile, I've partially painted the wing with Camel Yellow. The alluminum 'attach things' will be in silver (X-11) and the 'side things' will be red or black.

[86_SR5]

cool, yeah I've had bad cuts before. but ripping superglue hurts more.

[Artem1985il]

Here's a pic of the car while I was trying to cut out the hood. I made those scratches after cutting myself with the exacto...damn thing!



Now, both the hood and the front bumper are attached to the body, fits pretty well. I will sand off the glue tomorrow and prime the body.

Having some trouble with the wing...it looked great after painting the middle part with the body color. But after I tried to spray paint the side edges red, it got ugly - the paint leaked on the yellow... I've covered the leaks with a thick layer of the yellow, and try to fix it all tomorrow...