Progress: Garage MAK Silvia S15

Decided to dink around with this Fujimi kit while deciding on some ideas for my 350Z. I glued the resin parts on which were all undersized due to resin shrinkage. I have added styrene strips and putty to begin correcting the size problem. I also added the hood vents from the Pennzoil Skyline which is donating several parts to a few projects.
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I opened up the front grill which had a resin intercooler molded in.
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I had to split the rear skirt in half so that it would fit all the way across the body, therefor the putty in the center to fill the gap.
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Nice project. :wink:
how about rear spoiler or wing? are you planning something?

Nice project. :wink:
how about rear spoiler or wing? are you planning something?

The kit supplies a white metal GT Wing, but it doesn't look as good as Aoshima's or SAS so I will use one of those.

Neat work! Despite its problems, i like this kit.

Can't wait to see more progress.:bigthumb:

Looks like you went for a different alternative than I did. Yours looks easier but looks great, maybe I should've done it your way. :uhoh:

Well too late now. I'm finished with my body work and I've painted it up.
It's got a shine and all the decals. The tail lights and headlights are on.
And it's painted in a deep dark blue paint but not too dark.

But I wouldn't suggest it. I sort of regret it and wish I'd given it the yashio factory look. :frown:

Yours looks great, I think every kit has that problem of the rear shrinking cause I too had that problem. I can't show pics for awhile though because the computer that I load pictures into has a slight problem at the moment.

Cool! :thumbsup: Can't wait to see your treatment of it!

What type of putty is that? It looks like toothpaste. :P

I have been looking for this kit for a long time now. I hope it works out nice.
BTW if anyone knowsof an online store which has this please PM me

When I ordered mine from HLJ recently, it was out of stock, a few days later they had it again. Apparently they can get them when they want to.

I noticed the other day that its discontinued again http://www.hlj.com/cgi-perl/hljpage.cgi?FUJ18612

Looks great! I pulled mine out to compare and it has the same problems as yours; shrinkage suxXors!!

Got first coats of primer on after lots of tweaking the body kit with putty. I think it's going to wear AVS 5's and a rear wing from Tamiya's WRX. The wing sort has some of the same shapes found in the body work, and keeps the car looking low to the ground. Don't know what color it will be yet.

Still have more smoothing and tweaking to do.

I like your project, the air intake suits well.........

The Penzoil hood and WRX spoiler are real nice touches. I can see the finished piece now, possibly one of your best!

Looking very good
you done a good job now but where the body kit??

I like the wing, but IMO, a racing one would look much better. Nice work.

I like the wing, but IMO, a racing one would look much better. Nice work.

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That looks really good. Keep us posted on how it goes.

I've decided to go with these wheels, to me the car looks racey, and so do these BBS rims. It's wearing the final primer coats and will be painted a two tone aqua and light gunmetal with gunmetal wheel color, if I like a test shot of the aqua.

All your hard work finally paid-off :smokin: The body kit looks sweet! Keep us posted!

looks good, i like it so far!

Got the base coats of Modeler's Aqua on, it sprays on really smooth like Tamiya TS paints. Two coats over the white primer covered plenty good, now onto masking and spraying the gunmetal portion on.

Great work:eek::eek::eek:
Good to see anothe s15 on AF:wink:

Looks great!

How about some interior pics?
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:smile: Great color. Cant wait to see some more.

Yeah i like that color too!

Got second painting phase done, I used Finisher's CLK Silver instead of gunmetal. The aqua really comes alive in daylight. Lot's of work left to do, just starting on the chassis and interior, it's going to be a challenge to get an intercooler behind the grill!. :banghead:

Impressive paint job! I like it.

Looks good. When I first heard two tone though, I was thiking S13 style two tone.

Awesome wheel color/choice.

oh my gawd!!! Thats so cool!!! That looks way better then mine....you make me look bad with that .... my silvia is a peice of crap...i'm order a new one

Man, that looks awesome. Can't wait to see it finished.

Man, that looks awesome. Can't wait to see it finished.
Very well stated!! I agree!! :biggrin: :cool:

This project just gets better and better Brian :wink:

Usually I am not a two tone kinda man, but that paint scheme is cool. Well done This is turning into an awsome project.
keep up the excellent work.

Very nice indeed :smokin: Gets better and better

Stunning work Veyron. I was a bit worried about that two tone thing but you really pulled it off. This is gonna look sensational when complete :bigthumb: :bigthumb: