Tamiya Acura NSX 1/24

Hey guys. Finally bought this kit and am so excited to get started and share with you all. The NSX is absolutely one of my favorite cars ever. I knew immediately I wanted to replicate a sebring silver with black top version once I saw this photo. This car is my inspiration.

http://blog.wheelspecialists.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/nsx5.jpg

So for the paint I went with model master aluminum metalizer. Now I've searched a lot of paints and tried a lot of silvers, even a few Zero paint silvers and I must say I've yet to find one that truly replicated an "in scale" flake that MM aluminum can. You'll find that it's not as bright as some other paints such as TS-17 but some cars have darker silvers etc. The most important thing in my mind was scale of flake.

So the body was primed in Zero Primer, wet sanded smooth. It took about 2 bottles of metalizer and several takes of resanding and respraying, some buffing in between here and there. It was then clear coated with testors wet look clear. I first spray light clear coats with an airbrush to build up a base and then did the wet coats through a can.

http://s28.postimg.org/kwr4w811p/IMAG0592.jpg

For the interior I went with Vallejo air black, flocked with detail master dark grey flocking. I used the spray adhesive method. Superior to the white glue method in a lot of ways. Though I think white glue still has it's place.

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I can tell if I finish this one I will taking a ton of photos. Here are a few mock up shots so far.

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To replicate the wheels I'm going through hobby design:
http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NDgwWDY0MA==/z/AvsAAOxyDo1TjsWQ/$_12.JPG

And since it was a nice day out I had to snap a few of another kit I'm working on...

http://s3.postimg.org/4418k12eb/IMAG0610.jpg

http://s29.postimg.org/p4ol201xz/IMAG0615.jpg


Hope you guys think it's interesting so far. I think this one will be a lot of fun.

Looks great so far! The NSX is definitely one of my favorite cars as well.

looks great! looking forward to seeing it with the wheels on :)

Can't wait to see both with wheels!!!

Great cars those NSX's
I have two JTCC Honda NSX kits and they are fantastic.

Nice work so far!!

modellmaker.