Tamiya Nissan 350z Version Nismo

Hey, this is my first post, will be doing the 350z in Ts-56 Brilliant orange :biggrin:
I'm fairly new to this though :frown:
After priming i did the rear diffuser and side skirts first(in gun metal), then the rest of the body with 2 mist coats and 2 wet

After two clearcoats:
http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg514/Paul_Grobler/IMG_1268.jpg
http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg514/Paul_Grobler/IMG_1269.jpg
http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg514/Paul_Grobler/IMG_1270.jpg

Got quite a bit of orange peel going on there, will post pics after i finished polishing
http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg514/Paul_Grobler/IMG_1272.jpg

Thanx for looking :biggrin:

Paint looks nice & smooth!

Great color choice, I'll be watching for more updates! Cheers!

hey nice spray job, that should buff out quite nicely !

Hey guys, thanx for the comments :cool:

A quick update: Started polishing the roof!

Just a close shot of reflection of lightbulb on the hood showing how bad the orange peel is:
http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg514/Paul_Grobler/IMG_5705.jpg

Took the shots at night so not much reflection can be seen.
After lightly wetsanding with 3600 and polishing with tamiya coarse, fine and finish:
http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg514/Paul_Grobler/IMG_5703-1.jpg

There is still some dullness in the corners but im afraid ill polish through the clearcoat if i try to remove that :mad:

Thats all for now. Thanx for looking!

wow, now that's shiny. 3600 was your only grit for wetsanding? how long did it take you?

wow, now that's shiny. 3600 was your only grit for wetsanding? how long did it take you?

Yea only 3600, took about 15 minutes, i just sanded very lightly until i could see that the surface was dull but smooth

Paint job's looking good after the polish!

Hey guys thanx for the comments.

Finished polishing:

http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg514/Paul_Grobler/20120228_223038.jpg

but now i cant decide between smoked or regular headlights, any suggestions?

http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg514/Paul_Grobler/20120228_222721.jpg

http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg514/Paul_Grobler/20120228_222711.jpg

Also, what color would be best to do the panel lines with? Any suggestions will be appreciated :lol2:

Thanks :biggrin:

I would say a wash of brown for panel lines. and regular for the lights !

i'm gonna go for smoked lights (both front and rear) and a medium gray panel line wash :)

Half Phil... half Nungundam.. :)

Brown for panel lines
Smoked lights!!

:)

Very nice! I spent 30 hours wet sanding & polishing my Countach! I like the smoked lights very much. Not sure about panels lines. I'd say a slightly darker shade of orange

Hey guys, thanx for all the comments, sorry I took so long but I was quite busy at university. Ok so I used brown for the panel lines, I think it turned out alright, but I should have deepened the panel lines but I don't have a tool for that :disappoin

Ok, so here is the front, I only smoked the bottom half of the headlights, otherwise the indicators would disappear in the smoke

http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg514/Paul_Grobler/front.jpg

And the rear (the paint kept bleeding through when doing the window frames even though I used a toothpick so flatten it down, I read that you must paint clear beforehand, will try that next time)

http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg514/Paul_Grobler/rear.jpg

And undercarriage:

http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg514/Paul_Grobler/undercarriage_above.jpg

I don't know if the exhaust looks right though:

http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg514/Paul_Grobler/undercarrige_angle.jpg

I know it's curbside and everything, but that exhaust pipe looks ridiculous from the side :nono:

http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg514/Paul_Grobler/undercarriage_half.jpg

Anyway feel free to add suggestions and thanx for looking, will try to update more regularly :)

looks great, yeah massive pity about the exhaust!

Ok, so today I started on the dash. Sprayed the whole dash TS 82 Rubber black, then masked of the center console and painted that the suggested mix between semi gloss black and flat white, the contrast is a bit extreme but ah well:
http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg514/Paul_Grobler/dash_masked.jpg

The steering wheel has 3 switches located on both sides:
http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg514/Paul_Grobler/07_nismo350z_interior.jpg

So I cut out rectangles from the tamiya logo to put on the steering wheel as switches:
http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg514/Paul_Grobler/decal_cut.jpg

Result:
http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg514/Paul_Grobler/SteeringWithSwitches.jpg

And the finished center console:
http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg514/Paul_Grobler/dash2.jpg
http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg514/Paul_Grobler/dash1.jpg

Also finished the doors:
http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg514/Paul_Grobler/Doors.jpg

Still need to add the speedo and tacho but I'm waiting for PE parts, been waiting a month already :nono:

Thanx
:grinno: