Progress - Fujimi Nissan SilEighty

Something I've been working on in between daily activities and brainstorming on my Super VIP project. First completely new project in awhile. Since I had no Silvias in my collection, I picked up this Sil80.

http://www.quietrage.com/cars/fuj_sil80/sil80_box.jpg

Body painted in TS-58 Pearl Light Blue. Applied some tuner decals on the hood. Ready for many layers of clear. Wheels are Fujimi Work Meister S-2's painted a custom mix gunmetal (Mr. Metal Chrome silver + Mr. Color Semigloss black).

http://www.quietrage.com/cars/fuj_sil80/sil80_prog01.jpg

With open wheels like the S-2's, big brakes are a must. Using Fujimi's big Brembos. Since the stock brakes were molded with the springs, cutting need to be done. Other pieces needed trimming to fit the bigger brakes. Probably redo the springs too, a Kei Office suspension, maybe. Exhaust will be Apex N1.

http://www.quietrage.com/cars/fuj_sil80/sil80_prog02.jpg

No interior pics yet. Drilled out holes for gauges and for an E-01/PowerFC type device. Tamiya R34 seat w/racing harness, and Tamiya R34 intercooler are also going to be used.

Hopefully posting the progress thread will prevent me from dropping the ball on this one.

nice!!!

sexified!! nice color man! what kind of decals are those?

Nice :bigthumb: I like this color.

I can see the sickness coming now!! :sunglasse:sunglasse Off to a great start!!

Cool SilEighty!! I like the paint!

sexified!! nice color man! what kind of decals are those?

The decals are from Laubak. Didn't want to overdo it, so I just used Nismo, Apex, Mines, and Greddy. All applicable, no "sticker on car with none of their products" syndrome.

Nice very nice!!!!! :sunglasse

very cool project!! :biggrin:

Wow looks nice man. Keep up the good work! :smile:

those brakes are going to look awesome behind those wheels

I love that colour - car looks excellent

I love that colour - car looks excellent
:iagree:

I love this car. Hope to see it done soon.

what kind of suspension are you going to try to make?

what kind of suspension are you going to try to make?

I'm thinking Kei Office Type XR. I'm not sure how much detail I want to go into it aside from painting it to look similar.

Finished the dash. Think I might have added too much stuff. Also my scratchbuilt gauges are too big. I'm thinking of ripping them out and building smaller ones. Thoughts? Opinions?

http://www.quietrage.com/cars/fuj_sil80/sil80_prog03.jpg

Except for the gauges the dash looks great.

yeah man make it smaller..everything else looks good! Do you have a picture on those kei office suspension?
Looks good man. keep it up

yeah man make it smaller..everything else looks good! Do you have a picture on those kei office suspension?
Looks good man. keep it up

Pics of the suspension here.
http://www.driftspeed.com/suspension_keioffice_xr.asp

Good detail dash but i would change the gauges.

i agree, change the gauges

gauges too big for me too. make them smaller then off u go.... hehe. nice sil80 tho.

More progress (finally).

http://www.quietrage.com/cars/fuj_sil80/sil80_prog04.jpg

http://www.quietrage.com/cars/fuj_sil80/sil80_prog05.jpg

I replaced the gauges with Detail Master gauges. Driver's seat replaced with R34 seat. Should have pics of it soon. Next up, suspension.

nice progress; very clean built

Interior. Could be cleaner, but passable.

http://www.quietrage.com/cars/fuj_sil80/sil80_prog06.jpg

I'm lovin' it!!:sunglasse

Very clean build and I love it. Hope to see the finish pict soon. But... your plate had a missing text. The text that beside #26-00, is missing.

Rtuned :smile:

Wow, that's a clean 'n nice interior.

Awesome interior! How did you get your headlights to look soo good!

Nice job!

Awesome interior! How did you get your headlights to look soo good!

Nice job!

Nothing fancy. I always paint my headlight and taillight assemblies with Mr. Color Plate Chrome, looks much more realistic, IMO. I strip off the chrome that it comes with (doesn't apply to this kit, since lights molded to body). I then carefully mask the clear parts, paint them from behind, then after the paint dries, wax the front side to make it crystal clear.

Clean build so far, great work on detailing the interior.

JeFF

Looks good so far. :bigthumb:

You're missing a character on the left side of your license plate. There's supposed to be a hiragana prefix before the numbers. ;)
http://www.tigerdude.com/japan/license/pref1962.html

Thanks for the tip on the plates. I'll pick through my spare decal box. I've seen those symbols before.

Looking pretty good so far. Dashboard looks real good, though the gauges could be a little bit smaller. :biggrin:

Forget that last bit. I replied before I saw the other pic of the interior further down the page :banghead: . The interior still looks pretty sweet though :smile:

Hey,
Wow! Looks awsome so far. What is the green sticker in the drivers side fornt window section?

Frank X.

those detail master guages look sweet, i kinda want to get myself some

Hey,
Wow! Looks awsome so far. What is the green sticker in the drivers side fornt window section?

Frank X.

Not sure. Probably some kind of registration sticker. Just followed what the decal placement page said.

If it's like the Tamiya kit, it's supposed to be a representation of the heads-up display for the speedo. You can see the "projector" molded into that corner of the dash...

However, I wouldn't imagine it'd be that bright, not would it be on when the car was still, and certainly not displaying "55" like that one looks like, and like it does on the Tamiya kit...

Great build so far, very detailed, keep up the good work!

Great work, nice detailing ..........!!!

Nice. How do I get one?

Nice. How do I get one?

This particular kit is OOP, but Fujimi did re-release the late Sileighty version with the kouki lights and stuff as part of their Tohge series.
http://www.hlj.com/scripts/hljpage.cgi?FUJ04559

Small update. The car is pretty much done, just some finishing touches and pics. Busy playing GTA:SA, so not much modeling getting done right now.

Its goin' real well man.Looking forward to seeing it finished.