Finished: Fujimi FIAT Barchetta

This is Fujimi's Lightweight Sports version which came with 18" wheels but they are too big for this car so I dropped to XS Tuning 17" wheels and XS brakes. The wheels are painted with Testors Magnesium buffing metalizer.

It's painted with Tamiya AS12 and cleared with TS13. The seats and door panels were sprayed with TS12 Orange straight on to the black plastic, it settled in it's own pattern with one coat so I left it. I masked the orange and airbrushed PolyScale Oily Black on the rest of the interior parts.

I painted the carpet black and accented the interior with aluminum metalizer. The roll bar is from the Aoshima Miata Exe kit and painted to match the wheels.

The headlight bezels and tail pipes are painted with Alclad chrome. MV lenses were used for the headlights and I did my own color scheme for the tail lights.

It's a nice kit overall with no fitting problems.

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looks nice. this is the first one of these I have seen. you did a great job with it.

Looks great, the color is very nice! great job, is there an emblem missing on the hood?

Hot little model of a hot little car. Odd, but great choice of subject matter for an American builder, but oh what a treat! Especially when built so beautifully clean. Your treatment of the XS tuning wheels is marvelous, they look real! Great work!

VERY clean and sexy, almost looks real, great build man

Amazing build! love the weathered effect on the seats.

Great build Brian!

Beautiful as always. :thumbsup:

Kewl! :smokin:

Color looks great, wheel choice superb. 18's are too big for little cars.

Not sure I'm feeling the weathering on the red seat inserts, guess I'll just have to wait to see it in person. Ultra clean car w/grimy seats just looks a bit odd :sly: :icon16:

How'd you do the panel lines?

breathtaking finish!

Kewl! :smokin:

Color looks great, wheel choice superb. 18's are too big for little cars.

Not sure I'm feeling the weathering on the red seat inserts, guess I'll just have to wait to see it in person. Ultra clean car w/grimy seats just looks a bit odd :sly: :icon16:

How'd you do the panel lines?

Thanks all!

The seat treatment is not a weathering effect, merely a orange/black fade pattern.

Fiat Coolness!!:sunglasse

Very nice.. AND SHINY.. but the I'm not really feeling those seats..

Looks so professional!
Excellent job on the headlight covers and paint overall :)

Very clean build. I like :)

yeah!
I love this car, and you just made a superb job of it!

Not feeling the rollbar entirely, but hey, the rest is just tastyliscious!

*claps*


Oli :rolleyes:

Very clean built. I like your rims, too

Cool roadster. :)
The wheels look perfect, and the interior is very nice.
Classy color choice too.

Tasty silver!! :thumbsup:
and rims suit for the car perfectly. always love your clean work.

Very clean build. I like :)

Ditto

A very clean and realistic build for a Fujimi kit. Thumbs up man!

Thats nice, can you post a picture of the box it came in?

Looks fantastic!!! Makes me speechless!

It looks sooo clean. Awesome job.

Beautiful FIAT!

Excellent, very neat and clean :thumbsup:

Great Model man!
I'm amazed by the clean build and super tasty subject but I would like to point out the wonderful photographs you took, they are one of the most beautiful I have seen, those reflections and tonal richness is just superb. They make the model justice.
Thanks for sharing that beauty.

I'm drooling on my keyboard man...great job... :smile:

Nice clean build. The fenders look a little too heavy for the wheels, and 18" wheels are probably too big. I might have tried to find some higher profile tires for this one. At any rate, it looks superb. Good job.

Nice clean build. The fenders look a little too heavy for the wheels, and 18" wheels are probably too big. I might have tried to find some higher profile tires for this one. At any rate, it looks superb. Good job.

Thanks!

I tried many tire/wheel combos and very few made the car look as 'tuned' as these 35 series tires. Most tires that fit these rims were too tall and looked fat.

If you are going for more of a stock appearance there are many more options.

Nice, good paint job dude!

looks good

If it's possible, could you pop a wheel off and take a picture of the brakes? Oh, and post the picture when you take it, that would be even better.

Nice car.

If it's possible, could you pop a wheel off and take a picture of the brakes? Oh, and post the picture when you take it, that would be even better.

Nice car.

Thanks!

Sorry, the wheels are glued on.

Oh, ok. That's cool.

Very sharp! Impeccably clean build.

Nice job Brian, there is one barcheta sitting in my LHS for a long time, I just might take it now :D

Nice Fiat, I like these sideskirts :wink:

Haven't seen that kit before, it looks good, especially for a Fujimi kit.
Great buildquality too. http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/images/icons/icon14.gif