2 civic progress thread with pics

I got to buy 2 Revell Civics at a hobby shop up in Michigan for $4 each, so i got a HB and a 2 door

Heres the progress

Im using Tamiya Mica Blue on the HB as u can see in the pics, i dont have any of the coupe, but im painting it Gunmetal

There wasnt too much paint in that Tamiya can :disappoin so any thing wrong with the paint is gonna have to stay wrong untill i make an hour long trip and pay just under $6 to get another can of it, which isnt gonna happen...

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im using the front piece from the HB for the Coupe.

any questions comments and suggestions welcomed, id type more and get more pics but school and homework is taking up all my time

i will also have a how to in this thread on how to lower model cars, well at least the way i do it, since a few of you wanted to know how i do it...

Cool progress! Still lovin that eclipse though! Can't wait to see it finished! or them...

Nice color...what rims are you planning to use?

JeFF

looks good. Like the chrome on the engine!

man...there seams to be nothing wrong with that paint from what the pic says.

sweeet

paint job looks real good, as well as the engine, nice job.

paint looks sweet, what you should do tho, is just stock up on paints when your there

paint looks sweet, what you should do tho, is just stock up on paints when your there


usually i just use Paint from walmart, like Duplicolor, Plastikote, and testors...

Tamiya is too much for me to pay for a can of paint that small, especially since it barely got 2 coats on that entire car

so whens the tutorial coming...:) im workin on a civic coupe and i want it slammed...(pics to follow soon...lookin sexy so far)

Cool. Great to see your gona do a tut. I've picked up an eclipse, and Im gona drop it a little more than your green one. Now, when do we see the coupe?

i should have a tutorlial, i cant spell excuse me, when i ever i start on suspension, i will probably paint the suspension tomorow, so id say possibly friday night or some time saturday, im busy on friday and most of saturday, but ill have it by sunday night i swear.


ill have pics of the coupe hopefully tomorow, im thinkin about getting some pink paint and doing some thing for me and my GFs anniversery but idk.

Im getting a real car some time in the next few days so thats also gonna take up some of my time.


thanks for the great comments, and about lowering the eclipse, if u want it lower than mine youre gonna have to cut out the wheel wells :smile: im serious tho....

The pink civic sounds cool, as long as you pack some heat under it :naughty:

Can't wait for the tutorial... i really needa drop this 'clipse

BTW,
What kinda car you getting?

Im workin on the same too, gonna slam it with the feels kit thoe just think it would look good slammed wit that body kit.. but were not talking about my car we are talking about yours, good job on the paint job.

1990 Honda Acccord 4 door

5 speed
no radio or tape player
the body is in very bad contion

engine has 160,000 on it, and gets around 35 mpg, the thing thats atracting me to it lol

only paying $400 for it, it will need a new clutch in time, i know a guy that can hook me up on that, when i start getting embarased of the body ill have my bro work on it, and since my anniversery is soon, im gonna ask my GF to buy me a good CD player for it.

it will be here some time tonight, im not that good at using a 5 speed yet, so tomorow after school, if i even go, im geting sick, ill be driving it around the neighbor hood to reteach my self. It will be a whil ebefore i have insurance and that good stuff, insurance is gonna be so high, probably around $3000 a year considering i totalled a truck after having my license for 2 months, and had about $50,000 in medical bills...

i have no plans to do any real mods to this car in the future, i just need a beater

Looks great. I am working..or was working..lol on the civic hb. Finished the coupe a yr ago though. Godamn, i work so slooooooooooooow.

heres a few shots i just took a few minutes ago

i just slid the body on and the front piece to see how it looks, tomorow i should start on the suspension and should at least take some pics for a good lowering how to. and have it posted sooner or later

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the hood got messed up in the painting process and i will "try" to put the CF decal on it, if i mess it up, i guess the car will go hoodless

Nice beater. HAAH! u get 5mpg more than i do on the highway. Good to see youve got a car, even if it is a beater. The civic is looking good. Nice blue.

Nice beater. HAAH! u get 5mpg more than i do on the highway. Good to see youve got a car, even if it is a beater. The civic is looking good. Nice blue.


theres a guy with a truck that has air ride on it in my area, on the back it says, the lower i go, the more your mom likes it

i think im gonna get enough stickers to put what my sig says on it.

my family goes up to michigan all the time, my moms chevy truck has to be filled up about 4 or 5 times on the way up, my brothers fixed up accord on air ride had to be filled up 3 times on the way up, this one would only need it once after leaving on a full tank of gas.

I learned how to drive a stick back when i was 13, but since then i havent till today, so besides stoping on a hill ive been doing pretty good, i just need to get a tag, insurance, and ill be able to drive it legally, and find out how big the back seat is :evillol:

How to lower a car, id have some pics with this but with these civic models, you cant really lower them using this process.

Glue THe brake Discs to the wheel.

Dont connect the brake discs to the rest of the suspeion, but instead, glue the wheel to the wheel wale.

Now on most Revell Models, and some of the tamiya models ive made, this works really well, and gives it a really good low look

BUt with this civic you cant rell the difference

Im not good at describing stuff so if it doesnt make sense, ill try to get some pics of.

Yah i tried to lower my revell civic and ending up screwing my car up. :p

ive lowered mine by cuttin the suspension thanks to a dremel... im tucking wheels now. pics soon.

im not soo technical and picky that every thing i make has to be exactly like the real thing, especilialy if you cant see the difference any way.

its not that i wanted it correct, its the fact that i didnt want my wheels to fall off everytime i picked the car up...gluing them to the wheel wheels isnt exactly the most secure way to do it.

its not that i wanted it correct, its the fact that i didnt want my wheels to fall off everytime i picked the car up...gluing them to the wheel wheels isnt exactly the most secure way to do it.


im gonna have to say that its about a 50/50 chance their gonna fall off

either u dont u enough, or you use too much

once you glue the wheels to the wheel well and they dont fall off after a few hours, then it means that theyre probably never gonna come off with out some work, but as always, glue the wheels on the wheel well, at a point when u can rest all four wheels on a level surface with out moving it for about 1 hour


but i wasnt calling you being technical, but more of a large mojority of people on this board that are like that

yea, i understand what you mean. dont worry, im not a big fan of all that technical stuff. i think as long as it looks good in the end, then that works for me. i dont care what i have to do to achieve the look im goin for, im gonna get it. today my civic should be done.

im gonna have to strip the paint on the coupe, while on the other hand the Hatch Back should be finished with a little bit more work.