Tamiya 1/24 Aston Martin DBS

Hi dear guys, it's been several decades since last time I posted something. I'm now very much an old fart rather than the moon-faced teenager in your distant memories. Being buried by the works I was away from beloved hobby for a long time, and trust me, there wasn't a single day that I stopped dreaming about this moment---geting back to the community! Things were getting better and I could eventually spare some time on modeling, so I think it might be the time. Since I work relatively slowly and was still lacking modeling hours, I thought the best way of doing this was with a complete model instead of a forever-going WIP. Then I grabbed a less demanding tamiya kit in case I forgot how. So here it is, not perfect but I'm really happy that I can finally build something out! I've tried a new way to present, hope you like it. Any comments, criticisms, questions and discussions are welcome, just say something, guys! I missed you!!!





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It looks absolutely great, my friend! Lovely colour, great execution, fantastic photos.

The model is very good - apparently no problems getting back from the break there.

The thing that blows me away is your presentation! I honestly don't think I've ever seen better in one of the top modelling magazines. The photography is top drawer, and the layout is professional. As for the writing...well, I've run out of superlatives.

There have been many outstanding projects posted on this forum, and while I don't generally get excited about road cars, this post really stands out.

I'm looking forward to your next project - please don't wait too long.

stunning presentation, i agree with the previous posts.

That is just jaw-dropping beautiful !!!!! That's as clean and neat as it can get. Thanks for sharing and welcome back !!

Stunning presentation Tang! I too had problems with the panel lines etching on this kit. Coincidentally I built and painted mine exactly the same as yours but I must say, yours is better than mine in every detail! Well done on a flawless kit, it's beautiful!

I am simply lost for words.... Your work is the amongst the very best I've seen and your presentation lifts it above anything else. What an inspirational post. Thank you.

kitefighter
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23973738@N03/5933736388/in/set-72157627185678560/lightbox/

Superb model and presentation! :sunglasse

Great presentation! something i really hope to achieve too when im able to devote more time to getting another kit finished once again.

Ro

One of the Best models I have ever seen....absolutly amazing..

Love the Color..

amazing!!!!!
Very delicate!!!
i love it!!!!

I am totally speechless. Breathtaking!

Flawless!! absolutely awesome! Top notch job! The body finish is superb! The details added to the engine bring those parts to life.

Congratulations budy for this great work!

And the presentation... Oh boy you just went way off the expectations!! Amazing!

I'm glad to see you back!

Is the intake plenum really white? I did mine with flat white, as all the pictures I saw online but, I doubt if it is light gray or white.

wow!!
I've nothing to say except i totally agree with all of the above!!

massive build. this reminds me like models are presented in model graphix mag and I realy like it. want to try it out sometime

我靠，太强啊，哈哈哈
12爷爷你好变态啊！

做得太好了

Is the intake plenum really white? I did mine with flat white, as all the pictures I saw online but, I doubt if it is light gray or white.

It is white.
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This build is well made and the presentation is nothing less than professional. As a graphic designer, I really enjoyed your layout and presentation of your work. Great use of space and typeface, it really brings out the model more realistic.

MARVELOUS!
A pure demonstration of art. Unique and breathtaking.
One of the cleanest builds i've ever seen, if not the best.
CLAP CLAP CLAP.


Jochen

The most exciting presentation, I 've ever seen in my life...
Great Job!!!

Very nice work! I especially love the little details like the carpet seams.

At the risk of being redundant. Great build and equally great presentation!

Great build.Im working on the same kit and you have inspired me to add more detail.Thank you!:rofl:

Gorgeous!
It's LEGEN, ...wait for it..., DARY!
Absolutely stunning!

Can't really add more to it than all the others have already mentioned.

The presentation is just fantastic and very refreshing. Brilliant.
But the presentation is IMO overshadowed by the fantastic quality of the build. Amazingly clean, great details, perfectly executed alltogether...
Big thumbs up and a great re-entry!

WOW !!!

:)

:eek2::eek2::eek2::eek2::eek2::eek2::eek2::eek2:

As someone already wrote earlier
'One of the Best models I have ever seen....absolutly amazing'

For begining I thought that is joke - what does the real car in Car model section ?
Then I realized it is not real one. And I started to cry... :biggrin:

:banghead:

In The Polish language is the phrase 'zajebisty' - that is, more or less - 'fu***ing cool' (positively) and this is a right phrase for summary your excelent work, gorgeous model, max high detailing and outstanding photos in presentation.

I look at models I have done, and I asking my self "what is it" ? :iceslolan:

Stunning model, and superb presentation. I felt like I was reading an advert for the real thing!

Gorgeous! You should send this to Tamiya.

This is amazing!!

wow, build and pics are just amazing. nicely done bro, my hats off to you.

Very nice work!

Wow. Amazing work. Welcome back. I recently resumed this hobby as well after a 5 year break.

Tang, buddy, blew me away.
I think you can tell by the amount of replies that people are stunned by it - both model and photos. Great stuff, glad to see you back at the bench. Top notch work!

One of the best Completed Model posts ever. The quality of the build, the great photography and descriptions and a perfect layout to tie it all together.

Very nice job and I really like the photos too! Mine is still in the making, but it's Celeste Blue pearl by Zero, I really like that color. Your's isn't bad either.

Stunning way to present your model! How did you do that? Is it a PDF from InDesign that youve attached to the post? Great work, I love that colour on the DBS!

You kind sir, have amazing talent in both modelling and photography. I envy your skills and I wish that I can do that.....i love the aston martin, and your pictures look so realistic and the presentation is so nice that it looks like it almost came out of a brochure.

That is awesome!! Please do more models and post the pictures!

Tang, buddy, blew me away.
I think you can tell by the amount of replies that people are stunned by it - both model and photos. Great stuff, glad to see you back at the bench. Top notch work!

Alex the model is stunning, the presentation got a superb good taste, but I'm not stunned ;), the guy CAN!

Shame I can hardly write up two words in inglitz and I can't understand the cool bad words and curses your partner left :D.

Buddy: welcome back, and in full shape. Congrats and thanks for the motivation.

PS: I see the difference between titan and alu in the dashboard: fantastic touch.....it push the titan to be... more.... titan :-)

Wow, it's Tang! Godd to see you back.

Very nice work- I can see your time away hasn't eroded your skill. If anything, I might say that the great build is maybe a bit overshadowed by the stunning presentation.

Awesome...simply awesome.................

Very nice work I have the main photo as my ipad wallpaper so must be good
Thanks for the zero paints comment
Keep up the work
Seve

Hey Tang, first of all welcome back to the Hobby.

Then... amazing and unbelievable work. Laser clean built, this Aston is the best one I ever seen. Not to mention the photography.

Yes, this is art. Wow...!

R :)

Wow that's hilarious! It really feels like getting back to the old days! Thank you guys, thank you a bunch! Can't tell you how happy to be back around! I'm sorry the reply came very late since the past busy week.

yours is better than mine in every detail!
Thank you buddy, and I don't believe you for a second~:evillol:

I am simply lost for words.... Your work is the amongst the very best I've seen and your presentation lifts it above anything else. What an inspirational post. Thank you.
Hi Kitefighter, that's a lovely DB9 you got, I assume the green one is pretty rare right? Don't let your DBS wait on the sprues, I'm sure it'll be much better than the minichampions when finished, and way more funny!

Is the intake plenum really white? I did mine with flat white, as all the pictures I saw online but, I doubt if it is light gray or white.
Thank you very much buddy, I think it's flat white just as all the pics suggested. There's something I'd like to share about the white paint. I used finisher's foundation white for that part then flat cleared it. That paint is the whitest I've ever used, and covers the base coat incredibly well. I've also tried some other flat white before and they were all more or less yellowished, not this one, really great stuff!

It is white.
Hi xpeed thank you for the picture and kind comments! That was the very car that inspired me on the paint scheme inside out.

WOW !!!

超，非常漂亮的模型 (google translator)



As someone already wrote earlier
'One of the Best models I have ever seen....absolutly amazing'

For begining I thought that is joke - what does the real car in Car model section ?
Then I realized it is not real one. And I started to cry...



In The Polish language is the phrase 'zajebisty' - that is, more or less - 'fu***ing cool' (positively) and this is a right phrase for summary your excelent work, gorgeous model, max high detailing and outstanding photos in presentation.

I look at models I have done, and I asking my self "what is it" ? :

Hi Mr.Benz, Thank you very much! That google translator really made a lot of fun there LOL~~~~~:iceslolan:iceslolan Did you know stevenski who's one of your Polish lads? Haven't seen the old dude for a long time...

Stunning model, and superb presentation. I felt like I was reading an advert for the real thing!
Hi Mike thank you! You really were realing an adv. cause the book in the first pic was actually the commercial brochure of the real thing, lol~~~~:runaround::runaround::runaround:

Gorgeous! You should send this to Tamiya.

Thank you very much Helico, I'm sure they've seen better. But here's a loooong wish list that I really would like to send to them! Please Tamiya please make the alfa 8C, 4C, the maserati Gran Turismo, and all those new ferraris!!! Wow and Studio27 is about to release the Alfa TZ3 Corsa later this month!!!

Wow. Amazing work. Welcome back. I recently resumed this hobby as well after a 5 year break.
Bring it on buddy!!!! That's really a long break and we need to sit back aside the bench NOW!!!

Tang, buddy, blew me away.
I think you can tell by the amount of replies that people are stunned by it - both model and photos. Great stuff, glad to see you back at the bench. Top notch work!
Many thanks Alex! Encouragement from my all time idol really meant a lot!

Very nice job and I really like the photos too! Mine is still in the making, but it's Celeste Blue pearl by Zero, I really like that color. Your's isn't bad either.
Thank you Uninen! I've no idea of that color you mentioned, could you please post a pic perhaps? Being curious about a pearl blue Aston! :)

Stunning way to present your model! How did you do that? Is it a PDF from InDesign that youve attached to the post? Great work, I love that colour on the DBS!

Hi da ashman, thanks for the comments. I did the layout in Photoshop. I'm not a professional graphic designer so I wasn't capable of much softwares like Indesign, but I thought I should have a try when possible, that should make life more easy right?

You kind sir, have amazing talent in both modelling and photography. I envy your skills and I wish that I can do that.....i love the aston martin, and your pictures look so realistic and the presentation is so nice that it looks like it almost came out of a brochure.

That is awesome!! Please do more models and post the pictures!
Thank you very much sir! I could have done absolutely nothing without learning from amazing people here. So you'll do just fine! What's more important, what a lovely place to be!:naughty:

Alex the model is stunning, the presentation got a superb good taste, but I'm not stunned , the guy CAN!

Shame I can hardly write up two words in inglitz and I can't understand the cool bad words and curses your partner left .

Buddy: welcome back, and in full shape. Congrats and thanks for the motivation.
I nearly burst into tears to get you again CRAZY HORSE! I honestly hope I can bring you some motivations so we'll be able to appreciate some absolutely insane stuff again! Plus you've made a huge improvement in English buddy! Now you're just as terrible as I do!!!!:smokin::eek7::loser:

Sorry I can not reply everyone but I do appreciate all the comments left! Thank you guys!

Perfection, simple as that.

Beautiful presentation of the end result and amazing finish: Welcome Back!

Now you can finish that 612 with the stunning red/black interior ;)

Now you can finish that 612 with the stunning red/black interior ;)

Hi Bernard I wish I could get back to the scaglietti but for the moment I have a higher priority of a 458 for an important friend of mine, the obviously better revell one by the way. I'll finish the 612 any way as it was actually half-way to the destination. I'm struggling if I should put a WIP thread here since you know... seemed none of them had an happy end lol~~~~~~~~ Thank you very much for the inputs!:tongue:

....."That google translator really made a lot of fun there LOL...."
Google translator should translate it as "Super, very nice model".
But, I don't want to know how google translator did his work :iceslolan.
It will be better If I erase this translation.

Did you know Stevenski who's one of your Polish lads? Haven't seen the old dude for a long time...
Yes I know him personally. He is very nice Man. I haven't seen him for several years, but I know he lives. I can even tell you that he lives near my city.
He also have desappered from the Polish Modelers' Forum (we miss him and his sense of humor:)). But I know for sure - he lives.

Hi, i'm a Prancing Horse fanatic too, but you did a great job on this Aston.
Painting and interior detail are simply stunning.

Max :-)

This is car modelling at its best! Bravo

Fantastic model and awesome presentation of that build! Innovative, elegant and full of very well taken pictures. :worshippy:worshippy:worshippy

Wow, this is just awesome. I keep finding myself going back to this thread and looking at it over and over. I've been tooling around on here for many years and this might be the best presentation of a build I've ever seen. Its as if it was torn from the glossy pages of a high quality auto mag. My hat is off to you.

Sooo...oo Amazing!!

it looks fantasitc~~~Nice Work~~~We need U to save the world~12~~LOL

Hehe I looked the first pictures and started to scroll down fast to jump and see your actual model while thinking "It´s weird... he´s posting a car brochure before the model?" and suddenly the word "Tamiya" popped up from the "brochure".

Hope to see many other "completed model" threads from you soon.

FRAUD!! These are pics of an actual car!! ;) Well done, looks incredible!!

wow!!! the whole thing is just incredible!!!

I can't find the right words! :eek2:

Thank you very much guys~:wink: