Another Aoshima S15 Silvia Aero In Progress

Kit arrived today and I have to say I'm impressed:
Chromed lights & brakes, seperate interior panels, front bumper moulded open, rear lights moulded in red/orange & so far fitment has been spot on so far. I've modified the front bumper slightly by cutting out the license plate and middle support and filling in the lower edge with Tamiya Epoxy Putty. The side skirts are from the recent SAS transkit (I think the SAS front bumper would also fit with only minor modification although the rear would require some cutting of the kit bumper).
http://members.aol.com/jonesandy898/s15.jpg
http://members.aol.com/jonesandy898/s151.jpg
Cheers
Andy
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Looks Awsome! :)

Nice!

Looks great Andy! Keep it up :)

Nice! :evillol:

Should Come Out Another Winner.

looking good so far!!

thats goin to be HOT!

I'm shore this will be another awesome project!

Good progress so far.

You like the kit too, huh? It is a nice kit. I left my front bumper as is except for cutting out the side vents.

What color are you gonna do? I have some trouble deciding what color mine is going to be (which is unusual). I was leaning towards Silver Leaf.

Good progress so far.

You like the kit too, huh? It is a nice kit. I left my front bumper as is except for cutting out the side vents.

What color are you gonna do? I have some trouble deciding what color mine is going to be (which is unusual). I was leaning towards Silver Leaf.
Byron
Yep I think it's a vast improvement on the Fujimi kits - the drift series Sylvias' should be good too - like you I'm struggling to decide on a colour at the moment - perhaps Mica Blue ?
Cheers
Andy

It would be interesting to see a photo comparing the Fujimi and Aoshima kits?
Andy this is going to look cool! How about Yellow with black rims?

I too would like a photo comparison. I really like how they molded the headlights as a seperate piece. Cant wait to see more progress Andy. Keep it up.

JeFF

Nice stuff

Rob & JeFF
Couple of pics as requested. Fujimi Garage Mak compared to new Aoshima
http://members.aol.com/jonesandy898/s15comp.jpg
http://members.aol.com/jonesandy898/s15comp1.jpg
Cheers
Andy

Looks great Andy! Im surprised its not a resin kit :lol:

:naughty:
NICE !!!

looking good. did you paint the CE28N?

looking good. did you paint the CE28N?
They were sprayed with Humbrol enamel no.56
Thanks
Andy

Looks great Andy! Im surprised its not a resin kit :lol:
Mike
Don't think my lungs could take another resin kit :lol2:

Looks sweet...can I ask where you ordered the kit from? HLJ, or another source?

Looks sweet...can I ask where you ordered the kit from? HLJ, or another source?
It was preordered from HLJ
Thanks
Andy

Decided to take advantage of a nice dry sunny day (you can never be sure of when the next one will be over here in the UK :uhoh:) and sprayed this one Tamiya Mica Blue over a silver base.
http://members.aol.com/jonesandy898/aoshima.jpg
Clearcoat to follow.
Thanks for looking
Andy

Looking great as usual Andy, nice paintjob, & i love those wheels :naughty: !!!

Mike

Color looks great on the Silvia. Nicely:)

Coming along very nicely.
I have just had to swap both my Silvia kits for parts for my 1:1 Skyline so I've ordered more from HLJ, so it'll be a while before I get to work.
Oh well I watch yours instead :)

That looks awesome Andy, can't wait to see it finished!!

It may just be the angles of the pictures, but looking at the Aoshima versus the Fujimi it looks as if the Aoshima kit's greenhouse is overall bigger except shorter than the Fujimi's, and is more in line with the sides of the body than the Fujimi. The sides seem a little shorter, though.

Have to get some measurements to see which one is accurate, but the Aoshima looks a lot more correct. Good to see that they nailed the prettiest coupe in Japan.

A bit of progress on this one - the paints been polished out and lights etc fitted up. Thought I'd messed things up as although the instructions suggest adding the aero kit last but I always add it before the colour coat and suddenly realised that there might be a problem with fitting the front light unit. However panic over as you can just slide the unit in from inside the body and twist it into position. Just thought I'd mention it as a heads up for anybody building the kit. The rear lights come as 3 pre-coloured lenses although you have to paint the black surround yourself. All-in-all I'm pretty impressed witht the engineering of the kit so far and haven't come across any problems - anyway here's the pics of where I am currently.
http://members.aol.com/jonesandy898/pro.jpg
http://members.aol.com/jonesandy898/pro1.jpg
Thanks for looking - sorry the pics aren't too good - grey & raining over here as usual :mad:
Andy

i like what u had done to the headlights....very realistic...what did u add/do to them in order to achieve it ?

Wow looks awesome, Love the paint job

That's coming along very well. You could outline the headlights with a black marker and that would enhance the realness NOI

i like what u had done to the headlights....very realistic...what did u add/do to them in order to achieve it ?
Just painted the areas around the lights satin black and painted Tamiya clear orange on the indicator lenses.
Cheers
Andy

Smart stuff Andy!

Smart stuff Andy!
:1:

That looks tyte! :smokin:

That looks awesome Andy!! Great build!!

very,very nice.nice paint and wheels.

great paint job! looks awesome

Those headlights are killer! Sweet paint also!

Great build Andy, the colour works perfectly and the wheels set it off nicely. Well done!

ive missed the progress on this one, looks really good, and you did a kick ass job with your MAK

Excellent progress!!:sunglasse

Looking real good, Andy. I like the color.

This new project I have going on put my S15 to a hault. I'll finish it one of these days....shame kinda, it's nearly finished. meh......

That's friggin cool :eek:

wow thas freakin beautiful! one thing tho... can you put tamiya epoxy putty on resin kits? i recently bought an SAS kit in san gabriel and they have some chips and i was wondering if u could contact resin with water.. i heard you couldn't but i'm not sure... any ehlp would be great...
~nate

Stunning work so far

wow thas freakin beautiful! one thing tho... can you put tamiya epoxy putty on resin kits? i recently bought an SAS kit in san gabriel and they have some chips and i was wondering if u could contact resin with water.. i heard you couldn't but i'm not sure... any ehlp would be great...
~nate
Nate
I've never experienced any problems using Tamiya epoxy putty with resin - one of the things with resin it that it's "inert" and doesn't react with putty, paint etc. - hope that helps
Cheers
Andy
PS/ If you're interested the completed thread is here
http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=326632&page=1