UC: Drift Nissan Sil-80

Been working on this for about 3 weeks so far. Got the front bumper (Thanks tonioseven for supplying it) molded on, and the sideskirts done. The rear of the side looks a little weird since its not all the same color. Im going to try and put as much detail as I can into it, but not motor :sly: Paint ideas are Candy lime green with black hood and roof. Ill be using the Vienna krisis rims. Ill try and keep you updated.

http://img1.photobucket.com/albums/1003/Camber/SIL80.jpg

http://img1.photobucket.com/albums/1003/Camber/sil803.jpg

http://img1.photobucket.com/albums/1003/Camber/sil804.jpg

i like it! should look good in green! :smile:

Nice choice of wheels :bigthumb: Should look pretty cool when it's done.

nice, make sure you post pics of how it turns out, can't wait to see. I love the sileighty. :icon16:

Thanks... Motorer1- is that your 1:1 sileighty in your avatar? Id love to
see bigger pictures if it is :iceslolan

Nice car, I don't see a front end conversion, or was it done already? The wheels you have underneath it look pretty good.

Nice car, I don't see a front end conversion, or was it done already? The wheels you have underneath it look pretty good.

Thanks. It's the fujimi sil80 kit, which comes already converted. So they
did the hard work :icon16:

Looks good. Keep us posted. It should look pretty good in green.

That is very cool ! That green would be good but No black hood.
But hey this is my opinion. :smokin:

Got the other skirt done today.. Might need to trim a little on the bottoms (mainly on the back) to make it even with the other sides i think.. looks OK :sly:

http://img1.photobucket.com/albums/1003/Camber/sil806.jpg

http://img1.photobucket.com/albums/1003/Camber/sil805.jpg

S-13 C:sunglasse:sunglasselness!!

S-13 C:sunglasse:sunglasselness!!
what he said^

Candy Lime Green, so far my favourite Tamiya color, its a nice color, but when you use different color primers, it makes it a completely different car, i would suggest useing grey primer, it will make the color a tad darker and a bit richer, which will complement the black hood/roof thing, when you use white primer with it, it comes out and will burn your retina's if you look to closely, deffinatly a good color choice :sunglasse

Candy Lime Green, so far my favourite Tamiya color, its a nice color, but when you use different color primers, it makes it a completely different car, i would suggest useing grey primer, it will make the color a tad darker and a bit richer, which will complement the black hood/roof thing, when you use white primer with it, it comes out and will burn your retina's if you look to closely, deffinatly a good color choice :sunglasse

Thanks for the advice! I will do that :biggrin:

Good progress! Can't wait to see it painted!

You've got a really nice and clean looking body setup there, and the Vienna Krisis wheels look surprisingly good. And candy lime green will indeed look stellar. I've never seen a green Sil-Eighty.

Though, whatever will become of those bad@ss looking deep dish five spokes at the back of the car in the first picture? I think those things are too sweet. Got all four?

Looks great, can't wait to see some more.

Nice work Camber!

There is a Cany lime green Sil80 at my local import place....thats where i got the idea for my Peugeot.

cant wait to see more

Looking good,I've built that model,go's together easily enough.Nice wheel and colour choice.

You've got a really nice and clean looking body setup there, and the Vienna Krisis wheels look surprisingly good. And candy lime green will indeed look stellar. I've never seen a green Sil-Eighty.

Though, whatever will become of those bad@ss looking deep dish five spokes at the back of the car in the first picture? I think those things are too sweet. Got all four?

Thanks..

Those rims came with the Drift series FC3S kit I got a year ago. Im not
sure what the name of them is. I have all 4, but I cut the centers out
of two of them in order to make some deep dish watanabes, but failed,
so am working on some R32 centers in them, which seem to fit well. Just
need to sand it out and assemble it.

Great progress.Can't wait to see it sprayed.

Nice sil80 man. I've got the same kit. I can't wait to start mine. This is a thread I will be watching closely.

black roof and hood with a green paint job, that surely would look awesome!

http://www.bn-sports.co.jp/2door/image/180sx_t2_rear.jpg

I've always liked Vienna Kreis on drift cars.

nice my sil80 is still in progress, its tamiya light blue pearl with black bonnet an roof, i also painted the stock mesh wheels black with chrome lip an slammed it hard :)

lookin pretty sweet so far.

About those 5 spokes.. I built the suspension on my trueno today, and
when deiciding on rims, I chose these mesh rims on the front, and the
deep dish 5 spokes on the back. Still cant decide if I should paint the
centers black or not on both, any opinions?

http://img1.photobucket.com/albums/1003/Camber/tueno.jpg
http://img1.photobucket.com/albums/1003/Camber/trueno2.jpg

Wow you have a great line up of cars being built!

As for the rims, I like the silver, but black in the center would like good as well, so I duno its really up to you! (guess that didn't help) :biggrin:

I think the trueno looks good, who makes this kit?? I love the silver 5spoke rear rims, are your fronts from the ITR revell kit? IMHO, If you had some of the 5spoke rims from the revell kit, they'd match up better with the rears, but it's truely up to you.

Those rear rims look like they are off the revel mercedes amg? Am I right?
They look choice. As for colour I'd say go for hard core drift look, front wheels gold with silver lip and rear gunmeatal with silver lip.
Just a suggestion.
:smile:
Keep up the good work

Those rear rims look like they are off the revel mercedes amg? Am I right?
They look choice. As for colour I'd say go for hard core drift look, front wheels gold with silver lip and rear gunmeatal with silver lip.
Just a suggestion.
:smile:
Keep up the good work

Thanks.. No, they're from the Rx7 fc3s drift series kit. Gold fronts and dark rears was another combo I was thinking of doing. I might have to do it that way now.

86 SR5- No, theyre not from the revell itr kit, they came with the fujimi sil80 kit. The revell rims are shitty so I dont think ill be using them.

Thanks.. No, they're from the Rx7 fc3s drift series kit. Gold fronts and dark rears was another combo I was thinking of doing. I might have to do it that way now.

86 SR5- No, theyre not from the revell itr kit, they came with the fujimi sil80 kit. The revell rims are shitty so I dont think ill be using them.
Well, it was just a suggestion, I can agree with the shitty part, just thought they'd match up with the rears a bit more.

Lotta nice projects man!! :sunglasse

Well, it was just a suggestion, I can agree with the shitty part, just thought they'd match up with the rears a bit more.

Dont take it offensively, I understand what your sayin :biggrin:

I didn't, just so you know.

That Trueno looks too cool! Ideas on colors?

That Trueno looks too cool! Ideas on colors?

Thanks. Ill probly paint it white with flat black bumpers and black hood.

After painting them gold and black, I was'nt crazy about it so did them
both black. I'll just do a double progress thread with the trueno and the
sil80, so I dont need to make 2 different threads which is pointless in my
opinion. Heres some photos of the rims, Next Ill be painting the body.
Stay tuned. As for the nissan, I still didnt make any progress besides
rounding the side skirts in the back to fix the boxy problem.

http://img1.photobucket.com/albums/1003/Camber/trueno3.jpg
http://img1.photobucket.com/albums/1003/Camber/trueno4.jpg
http://img1.photobucket.com/albums/1003/Camber/trueno5.jpg
http://img1.photobucket.com/albums/1003/Camber/trueno6.jpg

The Trueno looks cool, but I think you mounted the front spoiler a bit low, I might of done mine wrong but I am pretty sure the number plate wont fit in yours. (not that it really matters :p)

May I suggest opening up the front grills? I sanded out all the plastic behind the grill to make it look open, but the grill ended up breaking half way through it, so I fully cut out both of the grills and replaced them with stretched sprue. I don't have any pictures as the batteries in the camera ran out, but I will try and get some soon.

The Trueno looks cool, but I think you mounted the front spoiler a bit low, I might of done mine wrong but I am pretty sure the number plate wont fit in yours. (not that it really matters :p)

May I suggest opening up the front grills? I sanded out all the plastic behind the grill to make it look open, but the grill ended up breaking half way through it, so I fully cut out both of the grills and replaced them with stretched sprue. I don't have any pictures as the batteries in the camera ran out, but I will try and get some soon.

Thanks.. Im not sure, I might of mounted it wrong. It was a pain in the
ass to get on right so I dont think I'd want to play around with it now.
After seeing yours I was thinking of opening the grille and putting some
mesh in. I might do that. I have a question about yours. How did you get
your Trueno sign on the front bumper done so cleanly? It looks pretty
tuff since the letters are so close together. Any tips ?

By the way, I forgot to thank tonioseven who supplied the kit!

Clean Trueno. Can't wait to see how it comes out.

Camber, that's a clean kit. nice, I like the rims black, looks real old-skool kewl! Ok, 1 ? did you make the front lip, or was it supplied in the kit, if it was I mighta missed that you said it.

Camber, that's a clean kit. nice, I like the rims black, looks real old-skool kewl! Ok, 1 ? did you make the front lip, or was it supplied in the kit, if it was I mighta missed that you said it.

That lip comes with the kit. Good thing a few other members were
building one when I got it, because I did'nt know one was supplied, and
I wanted a lip on it so I was just going to make my own. This one looks
better then If I made my own, so Im glad it came with one :biggrin:

Got the white paint on the trueno, painted tamiya pure white. It
looks like its still only the plastic but It wont once I have the panel
lines and black bumpers done. This picture sortof sucks, it's a lot
shinier in real life.

http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=502/44842trueno9.jpg

Got the white paint on the trueno, painted tamiya pure white. It
looks like its still only the plastic but It wont once I have the panel
lines and black bumpers done. This picture sortof sucks, it's a lot
shinier in real life.

http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=502/44842trueno9.jpg
purdy paint, I got a ? for ya, again, hate to bug ya, but after seeing gunluvS14's fc with the ''loaded'' headlaps, partially up, I was thinking of doing on my fujimi togue one when it comes in, what do you think of that, do you know how to do it?

purdy paint, I got a ? for ya, again, hate to bug ya, but after seeing gunluvS14's fc with the ''loaded'' headlaps, partially up, I was thinking of doing on my fujimi togue one when it comes in, what do you think of that, do you know how to do it?

It's pretty basic. Cut the headlight out on the body. Cut it clean because
you'll need to use it again. The headlamp part comes with the kit, to use
for pop up lights. Get that part, and glue them in the space where you
cut the lights out, but as low as you want the "sleepy" look to be. Then
get the top part you cut out and place over the lamps. Thats the way I
would do it, not sure if thats the way gunluv did it.

It's pretty basic. Cut the headlight out on the body. Cut it clean because
you'll need to use it again. The headlamp part comes with the kit, to use
for pop up lights. Get that part, and glue them in the space where you
cut the lights out, but as low as you want the "sleepy" look to be. Then
get the top part you cut out and place over the lamps. Thats the way I
would do it, not sure if thats the way gunluv did it.
Thanks, that's the exact look I want. Can't wait to get it so I can start on it. You all call it sleepy, I call it ''loaded'', because the car looks like it just popped 8 muscle relaxers heh-heh. thanks again for the info.
Just to clarify this will be done on a 8-6.

Got the black bumpers and hood on the trueno. I have a few bits of
advice from experience for two tone painting. One, dont use the last of
the roll of tamiya tape, and always clear coat the body to seal the tape
edges before painting the black on. I used the last of the roll on the
front and rear, and on the front I got a ton of bleed through on the
hood. Of course it was ok since I painted the hood black too, but I
would be screwed if I didnt. I then used a fresh roll of tape, and some
clear coat to seal it on the hood, and it came out nice a clean. Anyway,
heres the pictures. Just have to paint the blinker or w/e it is next to the
headlight.

http://img1.photobucket.com/albums/1003/Camber/trueno10.jpg
http://img1.photobucket.com/albums/1003/Camber/trueno11.jpg

So clean. Can't wait to see it completed.

So clean. Can't wait to see it completed.

Thanks!

Here's 2 more pictures.. It's snowing, nothing to do, Extremely bored, so
I took some :biggrin:

http://img1.photobucket.com/albums/1003/Camber/trueno12.jpg
http://img1.photobucket.com/albums/1003/Camber/trueno13.jpg

Looks hot. Keep us posted. I'm building a car kind of like this, and I'm not sure on what I want to do with the paint. Maybe I'll just do it black and white.

Looks hot. Keep us posted. I'm building a car kind of like this, and I'm not sure on what I want to do with the paint. Maybe I'll just do it black and white.
Very nice and clean camber, I'm thinking of doing mine panda now, but I dunno. Eugene, your building an 86? BTW, wheres the rock crawler, sorry for the hi-jak camber.