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as if i don't have enough random projects at various stages on my desk, i add another :iceslolan

this is fujimi's toghe series fc rx7. it's a pretty cool kit but it is extremly simplified... it doesn't even have brakes nor exhaust piping! however, it does come with alot of goodies such as a very different fastback option.

anyway, i made a couple of little mods and lowered it a bit. this is one kit that i think fujimi did a real good job on the wheels with. in all honesty, it was the reason why i chose this kit (other than the fact that it was by far the cheapest fc kit on the market! $10 at hlj!).

about two weeks worth of work on this thing off and on and i'm pretty happy with the results. the back end has some touching up with putty on it but that should be done soon. i might just finish this one :lol:

thanks for looking!

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Not bad. DO you know what color you are going to paint it yet.

did the side fenders come like that or did you do it?

It's about time you blessed us with another fantastic build!! The fenders were modified by Appleseed :sunglasse

wow looks really niec!!

btw did that rear come like that or did u make it? it looks like the gp sports rx7

Great work, keep it coming!

you're right! that was actually one of the pictures i found on the web that inspired the front end! but the sides of the bumper where it reaches the wheel arches were'nt to my taste. the gp sports look a bit vip-ish and that wasn't the look i wanted to go for... i also got the vent idea from another car on the web... a bn sports bodykit i believe... that looked more like what i was going for but it was way overdone with the skirts and the bumper overly exaggerated.

i wanted something to go with the smaller wheels and a bit of a streetable drifter look.

i wanted to add a small horizontal vent towards the upper half of the passenger side headlight... or make a headlight conversion to a superg type of headlight with the supplied headlight lenses... but then... i stopped myself for fear of 'overdoing it'.

i already have the colors planned out... a nice pearl white with either a black stock wing or a mid-height wing. i plan on painting the wheel centers a light gunmetal to give it a slight contrast.

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That is soo cool. Great putty work!

Man that is fantastic. Great Bodywork. Loving the Fenders. Very Drifty :naughty:

tell me it WONT be wingless....

as he said in his post "i already have the colors planned out... a nice pearl white with either a black stock wing or a mid-height wing."

NO no wing. It will look soo much better wingless.

that stock black wing will contrast just nicely with the white paint....my bad, I over looked that post.

Nice work so far, not sure about the wheels myself.

Lets hope this gets to the finished stage !!!

yeah methinks the wheels arent that great for this particular car... but it's your model :)

it looks really cool so far

nice,
i keep my eye on you

thanks for the input!

i love large wheels and the nice deep dish look that is prevalent on the forums here but i think that the larger wheels take away from the drift look i would like to achieve. i'll try slapping on some different wheels on there to see how they look... i think anything larger than 17s on this would look like a 4x4... any suggestions?

a.

I actually think the rims compliment the drift look... I think it looks really good.

Good work on the bodykit, looks really well done. Keep it up.

I like the rims with this kit!! :)

I have one of these too, it arrived from hlj this morning. I can't decide to keep it or put it on ebay and make a quick profit....
If I keep it, I think I'll stay with the AMG wheels from the kit up front, but I have some SSR Formula mesh wheels from an Aoshima kit (they come spare in the Jenesis R30, and they are male) I'll sling on the back...

i got a chance to slap on some paint. i tried to put on the pearl paint over grey primer... lets just say that common sense walked out the door when i started to paint... good thing i only shot one mist coat...

i ended up shooting white primer over the body on top of the grey primer and gunze white over that.

the white looks very white! not that you can see it as i took this shot at night. it doesn't have much orange peel... just some slight texture in some areas but the shine is a bit dull...

i'm just happy the bodywork didn't show any ghost lines! i'll sand it down in a couple of days and finish it off with the pearl coat.

http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/502/39429white.jpg

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damn, looks like Hiroboy(steve)'s work. very clean, no lines, awesome car dude!

http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/502/39429white.jpg



I love it!, seriously great job. Looks like it was factory made yet better. lol. Top Notch!

Looks good to me. That's a helluvan effort to get a good white finish, but it sure does look like it was worth it.

More photos please, I do like this.
How did you bend the styrene around the back bumper without it braking.

That is friggin amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Looks great Appleseed! As usual, everything you do looks excellent. But what ever happened to that FTO?

wow that looks great! can't wait to see more of this, i really like the wheels!

More photos please, I do like this.
:iagree: We want more pics.
this is a very clean build you have going on here. Keep it up and make with the pics already.

steve, i didn't bend plasitc strip for the lower bumper. however, i used plastic sheet to just make a rough shape so that i can use putty for the shape. i found it easier to sculpt the shape i wanted out of putty than to bend plasit sheet around it. sometimes plastic just won't do what i want it to do.

here's a few shots of the works in progress that i have... one is the fto.. i might scrap this one and redo it... the casting fiasco never goes away... i cherry-picked the best one, redid the front end and the hood vents as well as each wheel arch... and shaped the bumper to get this... the casting was poor... what i did notice was that the caster who did this for me made huge mistakes on it and backfilled the voids with another a different type of resin than the one he originally started off with... thus i have two resin mixtures in the fto body... however, after i painted it and over time, the crap was still outgassing and ruined the paint job on the rear bumper... i don't know what to do about it now... maybe just start over and call it a complete loss and waste of time... a bit disappointed but what can ya do...

the fc has a few coats of pearl on it... kinda hard to take photos of it... still needs to be polished. i'm not too pleased with the pearl... might have to strip it... meaning all the bodywork might be down the drain too... i'll wait and see how it looks in a week or so..

and then there's the nsx... i just don't know what to do with the engine so i decided to let it sit... if you notice the colors... i guess i'm more patriotic than i thought! =)

thanks for the interest.

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honestly the fto looks beautiful to me. the pearl will probably show better in nice outdoor day light and the nsx looks quite hot. cant wait to see em all done!

Hey Appleseed,
The FTO looks excellent, I love it. You picked an excellent color for it as well, and thr RH rims are sweet!
What color paint is that anyway, Im in love with it, I think I'm gonna paint my next project that color?

Appleseed,
I don't think anyone can do bodykits like you. They all look awesome !
You should sell resin copies of the kits I'll buy one of the FTO and the NSX. It would be great to see these completed, the colours look sweet. Keep the updates coming.

so here's the long and short of it... the panel lines are too shallow and i'm really getting annoyed each and every time i look at this kit... so what do i do... strip the paint and in effect, having to redo the whole bodykit and all. frustrating stuff... even moreso the third time around. anyway, since i was redoing the panel lines and the bodykit, i threw in a few other mods... why not huh? changed the hood as i messed up scribing the panel lines on the stock scoop and decided to add a little flare over the rear wheel arches. all in all i think it looks okay. i intentionally made the hood area a bit larger so that i can add some mesh underneath it to give it some color contrast (i wanted a color matching hood so i wanted something to set off the hood just a bit). so the end result... er... close to the end result is this. i'm going to go over the panel lines once more just in case. thanks for looking!

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Wow...look at that hood.

You build like the madness.

that fc is ultra cool

Your modifications on FC and FTO are awesome!
and love NSX's color. :smokin:

Your modifications on FC and FTO are awesome!
and love NSX's color. :smokin:
stole the words right out of my mind :iceslolan awsome work! :)

... the casting fiasco never goes away... i cherry-picked the best one, redid the front end and the hood vents as well as each wheel arch... and shaped the bumper to get this... the casting was poor... what i did notice was that the caster who did this for me made huge mistakes on it and backfilled the voids with another a different type of resin than the one he originally started off with... thus i have two resin mixtures in the fto body... however, after i painted it and over time, the crap was still outgassing and ruined the paint job on the rear bumper... i don't know what to do about it now... maybe just start over and call it a complete loss and waste of time... a bit disappointed but what can ya do...



Should have sent it to me fella

well, i pretty much wrote off the fto. i don't think i can save it. i guess i should've sent it over to you eh fly? :icon16:

i'm going to dump it into a csc bath and see what i can do to fix it... i' don't expect too much and am prepared for the csc to ruin the resin... we'll see what happens in a day or two...

i've got a few bits and ends to tidy up on the fc and then it should be ready for primer... again...

thanks for looking!

c

ps i started working on the mr2 again... maybe sometime next week the exterior would be finished.

They all look awsome.:)

Great to see updates on your FC! Looks great as always. Sorry to hear about the panel lines. Same happend to my Silvia S14 but i just decided to leave it like that.

sweet cars

thats a nice FTO, i glanced at it and thought it was a aubflug supra :D

Your models are always Stellar!

JeFF

Hi Cal!! I'm glad to see you back around!!

Looks awesome! I love all three! *drooling*

Well its been almost a year and guess what? The model is back in primer as I felt that the panel lines weren't as sharp as I would like them to be. The kit took a quick bath and I had to redo the front bumper and the rest of the bodywork. I decided to remove the skirts from the rear bumper as I think it looks a bit better without them. I guess I like this kit to give up on it just yet.

It looks like there's still a bit of work left to be done on the driver side fender vent but it should see some paint soon as well.

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a288/appleseed415/miata%20and%20rx7/rx7-primer.jpg

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Where have you been? I would like to see your other models like the supra and altessa done also!!

Still looks great. More, more, more.

looks great!

Sweet;)

I love your work, looking flawless

Nice work inside! ;)

I got some time for a quick update and I guess I went a bit crazy with the camera since I felt I didn't use it enough at all :icon16: Excuse the pictures if they take awhile.

Since the compressor is really really dead, I can't do any painting so I decided to do something about the wheels.

Here's what I started out with... a set of Watanabe's by Fujimi. Pretty cool rims but I don't think they'll fit in well with the car though...

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a288/appleseed415/miata%20and%20rx7/wheel_watanabe.jpg

I also have a set of these so... how would these Fujimi RP-F1's look with the larger offsets? They're small but then again, I think the smaller wheels would go well with this car. So lets see how well they go together...

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a288/appleseed415/miata%20and%20rx7/wheel_rpf1.jpg

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a288/appleseed415/miata%20and%20rx7/wheel_trim_front.jpg

The first thing I did was take out the centers from the Watanabes. Not too hard but cleaning them out well might be a bit tedious. The end result of that is shown below.

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a288/appleseed415/miata%20and%20rx7/wheel_ring.jpg

Next we start on the RP-F1's. All I'm really interested in is the face. Thus I trimmed the back of the wheel. It doesn't really matter how jagged the trim is right now as all that is going to be sanded off. I used a rotary tool to sand down to the desired diameter.

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a288/appleseed415/miata%20and%20rx7/wheel_trim_back.jpg

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a288/appleseed415/miata%20and%20rx7/wheel_dremel.jpg

With about 10-15 minutes of sanding (I took my time checking quite often to make sure I don't have alot of slop inside the wheel and to ensure a good fit) we have this.

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a288/appleseed415/miata%20and%20rx7/wheel_pieces.jpg

With a bit of thin cement from behind, the new wheels are finished. Even the colors combination is growing on me now :p I might just go with a silver polished face and a light gunmetal trim.

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a288/appleseed415/miata%20and%20rx7/wheel_back.jpg

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a288/appleseed415/miata%20and%20rx7/wheel_front.jpg

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a288/appleseed415/miata%20and%20rx7/wheel_comparison02.jpg

And a final comparison on the car...

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a288/appleseed415/miata%20and%20rx7/original_wheels.jpg

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a288/appleseed415/miata%20and%20rx7/new_wheels_03.jpg

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a288/appleseed415/miata%20and%20rx7/new_wheels_02.jpg

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a288/appleseed415/miata%20and%20rx7/new_wheels_01.jpg

Only two more to go and I'll call it a day. :rolleyes:

a.

:eek2: Those deep dish RPF1's look sooooo sweet. Some stretchwall tires would look sweet on that too;)

sweet.