In progress NISMO R32-Drifter

Well this is just a side project from a leftover R32(engine and gearboxand propably wheels used for a 200SX)but I used this as a practise to improve my skills...
The R32 has the NISMO 'bodykit',painted Tamiya Sliver leaf(not polished/waxed),window trim is painted flat black and the underbody is fully detail painted and blackwashed...

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now I have to problems/questions:

Question 1:
What wheels look better on the car?

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a)The stock wheels(I dont really like that option I putted it just in case...)

b)The racing BBS with Yokohama slicks:

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c)The RS Watanabe wheels:

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The wheels I like more are the BBS ones and I'm thinking painting them silver leaf or flat black.However looking at the car pics the white starts grwoing in me...(Another option is crome lip and anodized red mesh)

Question 2:

The bonnet is already painted Silver leaf however I'm thinking of painting it a nice red(Candy red or a bright Italian red)as some drifters do...Thatt might look nice but I think that might attract from the great lines of the R32 which are enchanced with the nismo sideskirts...Opinions???


Ahhh...and one last pic,the car that this model is 'loosely' based(Not going for a exact replica):

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Sorry for the long posts I'm wainting opinions/suggestions...

nice project!

I like the second wheels the most, although, I cannot really see them very clear, but I m just a fan of black wheels on high-performance cars.

and for the bonnet, keep it nice and silver (or some nice carbon-effect.

Olivier

Question 1:
What wheels look better on the car?

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Go with C

Go with C. I think it is better for you to sand the mold lines away. :smile:

I like option C.

I don't know how specific you want to get with this car. With my drifter R32 I used the oilpan and tranny from the Calsonic R33 to make it RWD. It fit perfectly once trimmed. That, or cut the front axles out of the existing kit. It's gonna be hard to convince people of an AWD drifter. Just a thought....

Go for B. the watanabes! :naughty:

Go for C!! and paint them black.

Go B! It Looks

Go for C!! and paint them black.
I'm with this idea.

I like Option a

I think that C black would look the best. Keep us posted on the build too.

I fell in love with the rims in the first pic, so I'm stuck with C too!

First of all thanks for the reply and the feedback!!!

Go with C. I think it is better for you to sand the mold lines away. :smile:

You are right of course..But this started just as a side project for fun so I forgot sanding the moldline...Now with the paintjob dinished and the window trim(big pain!!!) in place I don't think I have the power to go back strip-sand-repaint-retrim!!!! :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

I don't know how specific you want to get with this car. With my drifter R32 I used the oilpan and tranny from the Calsonic R33 to make it RWD. It fit perfectly once trimmed. That, or cut the front axles out of the existing kit. It's gonna be hard to convince people of an AWD drifter. Just a thought....

Thanks for the info but in this project I'm not so concerned about this kind of details!!!The car is missing both engine and gearbox so the left overs from all-wheel drive are just a small detail!However thenaks for the valuable info...I think I might use it in a future project! :smile:

Also 4WD cars can drift!!!It's not a previlege of rear wheel drive cars!!!


As for the wheels I'm also stucked with the C wheels(In person look even better!)but not sure about the color!!!
The majority says black which was my original idea...however I'm thniking how they might look with chrome lip and gold or red mesh!!!

Once again thanks for the suggestions and I'll be back with more(blury :uhoh: ) pics soon...

I think the gold with chrome lip on wheel C is a very good pick

The C wheels are definately the best. How about red wheels with red bonnet, roof and boot? I think that'd look cool. Probably a silver spoiler with that I think the a red spoiler would blend in too much with a red boot.

Also 4WD cars can drift!!!It's not a previlege of rear wheel drive cars!!!

It's possible in all cars to let the forces of nature take a hold of the car but drifting an AWD is too hard. Some cars have the ability to disable the front wheels but that doesn't qualify as AWD drifting. The best drifters don't use AWD and there's no AWD in D1 Championships. That leads one to believe that it is a previlege of RWD.

I will go with the C wheel

C on the front, b on the rear.

It's possible in all cars to let the forces of nature take a hold of the car but drifting an AWD is too hard. Some cars have the ability to disable the front wheels but that doesn't qualify as AWD drifting. The best drifters don't use AWD and there's no AWD in D1 Championships. That leads one to believe that it is a previlege of RWD.

I have to agree with you that drifting a 4WD car is more difficult however drift=controlled slide so every car can drift if you have the skil!!! :smile:
Also I have to agree about D1 and thats because best drifters are RWD cars...They offer better control and look much better drifting.But we shouldn't forget that WRC cars(all of them are $WD)drift in many cases...specially in muddy tracks!!!! :smile:


Now on the sybject I don't really know what I should do with the wheels....I'll use the C wheels but they should be flat black or Chrome lip/gold mesh???? :banghead:

Bad things happens...

I used Gunze compuned on my R32 but I hadn't clearcoated the window trim.So black with silver paint mixed and I had a real mes instead of the great silver paintjob! :mad:

However this gave me the opputinity to sand the mold lines out and to choose a new color(since I had no Silver leaf left!).Black was the first choice,a color that looks very good on Skylines and it would create a perfect model matched with the gold mesh/chrome lip rims!!!Then I thought of Chrome Yellow a very nice color unique for a Skyline and a good match for the drifter theme...But the last moment I chaged my mind and sprayed this awesome COSMO paint which is something between Blitz CRX's Cooper and the new Nissan 350Z color(I don't rember the exact name!).
I like a lot how it looks and the gloss of the paintjob is amazing...I hope you can see it.I shoot the photos with almost no sun light but the model kept looking like the paint was wet!The color is very unique(I haven't seen another one) and looks great in person...The bad thing is that the old rims now don't look so good(the car screams for TE37 or Nismo alloys but noway to get them...).What you think about the new paint?


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While the finish was perfect and the the paint look so gloss I had a small problem on the roof.It look likes it was going to creat some small rinkles there but I don't know what to do?Should I shoot another coat of paint and then compound?Or should I use the compound now and then clear coat???

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Color looks awesome. I still like the wheels in A

Color looks awesome. I still like the wheels in A

I agree with all of that. Looks great.

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I think polish lightly with compound should fix it. If put one more clear coat, the paint may look too thick, and does not look accurate. just my one cent.


hey also about the rims, I think AVS5/BBSLM/OZ tourismo should look cool.

for wheels go with C, just paint them either gloss black or silver, cuz you don't want to distract from that original color! i like the color a lot! looks very nice and different!:iceslolan just use some rubbing compound and you should be A.O.K.

Hello Mythos!

Afou ftiaxneis DRIFT Machine mia einai h lysh RS Watanabe!

Den to syzhtw... :naughty:

problem I see with rims C is that the offset will not have a drift look....

whaT?
I think anything with an offset makes a 'drift car' look good.

id go black bbs lace on the front an the dodgy 5 spokes on the rear ;) for that drift look

Well the car is almost finished...(LoL changed color again!!!)and looks nice but still I haven't found the perfect wheels...
I'll post some pics after I finish the 200SX...

Thanks for the good comments...

What's the new color??

Well the new color is a mix of the great Tamiya Italian red paint and the great metalic paint that the skyline was previously painted...I think it looks like a very deep metalic red...In person is great!

Some new pics...

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Any comments are welcomed...(Still I haven't ended up with a wheel choice since color changed...LoL)

nice red X's

WORKING PICS

Sorry for the red x's something I did wrong with the AF upload...Hope you like them :disappoin

nice color, looks real good.