Crazy Newbie with a Supra project!

Hi everyone. My name is Jeremy Moon, I'm a 19 year old Navy Machinist's Mate Third Class (SailorMoon now makes sense, doesn't it). I've built a few plastic models back in the day with my dad, and moved onto rockets and finally RC airplanes. If you think this hobby is expensive...

Anyway, I wanted to pick up a model to put together to keep me sane and take my mind of the crazy hard school the Navy has me in. Turns out I have a friend who has a birthday coming up in a month, and who loves Supras more than almost anything in the world, and has been looking for a die cast Supra. I thought that there would be no better way to suprise her than to build her a beautiful 1:24 scale Sup. Luckly, I found the Tamiya Supra at my local Longs drug store.

Now that I'm catching up with the hobby, it's getting a little overwhelming. I already knew what basic hard materials I needed, but first model jitters are kinda getting to me. I'm gonna take my time, even if I don't finish it by her b-day. Also, it doesn't help that I'm madly in love with her. So a little drama to help me get started. Just to make everything a little worse, I have no "full scale" (as we say in the RC plane world) car to get to the hobby shop for paints and misc. things I'll need as I go.

As far as the model goes, I'm just gonna do a basic build up, nothing crazy or custom. I really want to do the body in "Quicksilver", which is a stock Toyota color that my friend loves. So I need to track that down too. Hopefully I can get it from an autobody or automotive paint shop fairly easily. I'm gonna pick up a new airbrush (the old pasche is beat down), take a bunch of notes from this forum, and go at it. I really, really want the body to come out well, I think that would be the coolest thing to get a beautiful, shiney, realistic looking paint job. One can only hope.

I'm sure I'll be around asking all kinds of crazy things. If it goes well, I'll make sure to get a thread in the progress forum, and keep you all updated. Until then, happy modeling!

welcome to AF.i hope this goes well for you.everything you should have qustions is in the FAQ so just go looking threw there and you'll find it.if you cant find what your looking for there is a seprate forum that has left over/older FAQ's.thats where you will find other stuff that isnt on the FAQ list,again hope this goes well for you and welcome to AF.

Welcome! :)

Hi. Welcome.:)

Welcome to the board. I get the sailormoon thing now.

WELCOME, faqs and how to threads will be helpful

Welcome :)
building a kit for a birthday gives it a far more personal touch, all the best with the build..

I will definately be all over the FAQ's and search function, I know how annoying it is to answer the same questions over and over and over.

http://www.winthrop.org/includes/spotlight/welcome.gif on AF!
Very nice choice for a starting project! :thumbsup:

Welcome to AF!

Welcome, and good luck with your project...

Welcome aboard:) Excuse the punn;)

Big WELCOME, to you, man

welcome!!!!!!!