Tamiya Lamborghini Coutach LP500S

This is a simple kit that I bought in Miami when I was on a Disney vacation with my family. By the way, the store I bought it, a BMW Z3 and the Aston Martin DBS it’s a huge Tamiya and Revell warehouse with awesome prices. I will use this kit as a comeback from last April, when I was getting ready for the GSL. From that date, I hadn't touched a model. Actually, I haven't opened my GSL model's bag to see how they arrived..if they arrived

A dry fit to see how everything looks together.
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Some primer after I removed the mold lines over the body.
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Here I did a Scalefinishes paint job for the first time ever and it was on this body. By the way, great paint! I also airbrushed some gloss black paint to the muffler tips and the wheels before an Alclad II coat. I was pretty impressed by how this paint performed since its enamel and there's a lot of detail on this exotic body. The deflection of the inside of the dehydrator can be seen on the hood:
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/Porsnatic/IMG00366-20111001-1635.jpg


The wheels tube wholes are too wide to me. I proceed to thin it and then gave them an oven cleaner bath, then some Alclad II Chrome.
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The muffler tips also are a little bit thicker, so, received the same treatment.
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As will be a Box Stock model, the engine will receive no add-ons goodies, so I have to take out the brush to enhance it a little bit.

Before:
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After:
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The dash is a two part assembly, but, an ugly line asked for some putty.
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The interior tub also has some ugly pin holes.
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Finally for today, the bottom of the car receive also some brushed paints detailing(some difficult task) and to seal everything up some trick I learned at my IPMS local group stay...The Dry brush technique.
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To be continued...

Great work so far! Cant wait to see more!

i do love a countach build!

lookin good so far

Great work so far!

Nice! I also had this kit. Great kit to work with. Are you going to add the driver in? I decided not to do that.

No, this one didn't came with the driver. This is the 2007 reissue. Look tomorrow for the update, since I already almost finish with the interior tub.


Nice! I also had this kit. Great kit to work with. Are you going to add the driver in? I decided not to do that.

Update time...



Since the plastic has a sort of cream-leather plastic, in order to cover it with the flat white paint, I had to made a good mix to avoid the bleed through. I mixed Gunze Sangyo's Mr. White Surfacer 1000, Mr Color white, and Mr Color flat clear. After I shoot the color, I masked everything up, including the dash...

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This is how it turned out at first sight with any retouch...Black details over white are alway deficult!

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The dash is supposed to have a silver face, so, I decied to use a bright one. I selected Gaianotes Star bright silver,but, there's a problem with this one, although its very bright...Its to grainy...

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How I resolved it?, I used their T-09 Thinner for metallics. This is a thinner that when you use a liltle bit more thinner than paint ratio and leave it about 5 minutes,the thinner disolves the metallics particles and gives you a smoother surface, something like Alclad's chrome. Here can be seen the thinner working..

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How the dash turned out...

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After all the silver paint section was finished, the thinner still continued disolving the paint...

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This is the dash and the center console after some detailing...

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The rear wheel after the Alclad coat and how they looks on the model...

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to be continued...

nice progress
nice dash detail
i look forward to more

Hey, you're completly right, it comes with a driver!...I haven't noticed that. But,...A driver for a well known street car!..Weird, isn't it?


No, this one didn't came with the driver. This is the 2007 reissue. Look tomorrow for the update, since I already almost finish with the interior tub.

Update time...

A quick overall view before I attached the dash:
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Dash in on plus seats:
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A better view to the dash:
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The tub assembly already on the chassis:
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Looking good..keep it coming.

After I finished with the chassis, bottom of the car, exhaust system, and the interior tub, I will move on to the last part…Body painting. I airbrushed 2-3 coats of the Scalefinishes Acrylic Enamel Gloss Black.


The paint session was perfect, just some minor dust on the hood area.
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After some light sanding I have a surprise. To me, enamel its supposed to be thick, but, this great paint performed like lacquer and after a 48 hours drying period it was thin as lacquer and when I sanded the body I went through the paint to the primer in some spots. So, I had to give a couple of light airbrush coats.
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This time I got a perfect buffing and a great gloss on the paint..No clear needed!
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After I finished with the buffing of the body, then, I moved to paint detail it. I used of my favorites paints to color the semi gloss black areas, Gunze Sangyo semi gloss black. Here I started to mask the side scoops:
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...The windshield mouldings, scoops, wing supports, etc:
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This was probably the most difficult section to detail, the front direction signals. I think it could be easier if it was molded as a separate part, a simple square to glued on or, perhaps it could be sanded but….this is a Box Stock, so, I won’t altered anything like this. I had to mask and use even aluminum foil for the body, due it was already polished and with some wax already.
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This is how it turned out…
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Side scoops were painted and polished, masked, then, detailed with semi gloss black.
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The scoops and the rear wing where glued to the body, so, this is a picture of how everything looks until now. Now, I just have to detail the engine cover.
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This was also a little bit tricky. Tamiya tape as always to the rescue…Instruction sheet call for some semi gloss black, but, since the paint turned out so glossy a contrast is hard to see. To resolve this, I mixed some semi gloss black with some flat clear and I got what I wanted:
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Here we can see how it turned out. A simple model with a great aggressive look…
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More pictures in the Completed Projects/Gallery