[in progress] Toyota Celica...

Hi people, i gave a lot of thinking then i decide to put this 'progress thread' in the forum. i didnt take photos from the beginning. so sory if you people got lost.

Just a brief note, this celica is a Tamiya's one, and im gonna paint it blue. not sure what shades of blue, but after quite a while, metallic blue (ts-54) and mica blue (tamiya's as well, but cant recall the code) are the options. So far, the metallic blue giving me quite an aura.. haha. well, not really... the reason is that the shop that i used to buy my supplies is actually running out of mica blues. so, yea... i have to be happy with what ive got. nevertheless, i've never try metallic blue before. so its kind of a trial for me.

anyway, back to the car. i was thinking to do it box-stock, but then i want to make something different, which is to lower it. cos celica is a sport car, and sport car is no good to sit sky high. need to be lowered. so yea, flick pages and pages in AF, then found this lowering trick without cutting the suspension. what i did is to make a new mounting on the frame for the suspension so they sits higher, thus making the ride lower. had a lot of trouble doin this.... even now. im still thinking of attaching the rear wheels assembly solid. cos what i can do now is that it can be wiggled around.

STOP... CUT THE CRAP OUT!!!! GIMME PICUTRESSS..... yep, pictures. These are all i can get at the time being. more photos will come.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v255/sugarfree2/rakitan/Toyota%20Celica/FrontSeats.jpg
^ Front seats theme.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v255/sugarfree2/rakitan/Toyota%20Celica/BrakesSuspensionassembly.jpg
^ Brakes & suspension layout (note the suspension seat).
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v255/sugarfree2/rakitan/Toyota%20Celica/WheelsBrakesassembly.jpg
^ Wheels & brakes layout. Anodized red caliper.... yummy. :biggrin:

Thats all for now.... but bear with me. im quite a new modeller (doin my 6th car).

The seats look awesome!

I love the seats too! Look fantastic!

Looking to be a cool project!! Keep us posted on the progress!!

Those front seats are stunning. Keep us posted.

nice color scheme on the seats.

ur a tease w/ the pics

Nice seats!!
BTW, tamiya made quite a few celicas, which one you are building??

nice build sofar. Your writing always humors me :)

Nice work so far. Love the seats & the red on the calipers. Those are the stock wheels right, they are really tiny, dare ya to throw some bigger wheels on it.......!!!

Mike :sunglasse

Those seats look verry cool! :bigthumb:

hey... cheers for the comments. very very supportive. hehe.

seats, first i sprayed with flat black. but doesnt look 'flat' enough... so i brush paint the middle section flat black acrylic paint. turned out not too bad, brush marks are still visible, but not very obvious. red paddings are (i think) flat red acrylic. paint it quite a lot of layers, tho.

it made me crazy to choose the interior theme. first, i was thinking of some dark grey, but i cant manage anything excep nato grey, so i went back to my earlier (or last resource) plan which is flat/semi-gloss black. here u go, turned up not too bad.

still no progress today... so, hopefully 2moro is better than 2day.

Nice seats!!
BTW, tamiya made quite a few celicas, which one you are building??

im pretty sure it's this one...... (can't b bothered to go down stairs n check the tamiya number on the box).

http://www.hlj.com/images/tam/tam24215box.gif

ur a tease w/ the pics

cheers..... u made me blush.... :smile:

Nice work so far. Love the seats & the red on the calipers. Those are the stock wheels right, they are really tiny, dare ya to throw some bigger wheels on it.......!!!

Mike :sunglasse

cheers bro.
yep, they are box stock with some modification to 'satisfy' the car's mod. but still retain the tires width to normal. i'll get some more pix of those.
however, i just wanna try first, havent even got any idea whether it will work or not when i start. so i just keep stuff standard.... i dont aim for a very high quality n detail, but just for a practice to lower a kit. and, its not easy...!!!

nice build sofar. Your writing always humors me :)

cheers. good on that. hehehe. well, at least some people can understand my english since its not my 1st language. hoho. im gettin there....... :grinno:

nice progress so far

A little bit of progress..... well, not really. very little, infacts..
by the way, please have a look. some comments or suggestions are very welcome:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v255/sugarfree2/rakitan/Toyota%20Celica/RearSuspension.jpg http://www.prostreetonline.com/pso/images/products/SKA34-AUB00_m.jpg
Rear suspension. Tein's theme... anodized green.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v255/sugarfree2/rakitan/Toyota%20Celica/CentreConsole.jpg
Centre console

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v255/sugarfree2/rakitan/Toyota%20Celica/SeatsConsolemockup.jpg
Seats and centre console mock-up

Hopefully more updates by the end of today (if im productive enough...)

Hey,

Nice work on the seats, console, and "tien" springs. Are you making this rhd or lhd? Good luck and keep up the nice work.

Frank X.

wow those springs look like they could work!

looks great so far! i like the red stitching on the shift boot... nice detail!

Thx for the comments, guys....

blubaja:
I'll be making this one RHD... cos i'm a JDM freak. hahaha. :)

SupaMan89T:
:P They gave me a lot of trouble painting and black-shading the inner core. but its rather pay off in the end, a little bit rough but not too bad. great effect came out of them. if my camera allow me to go closer, maybe the roughness will show up. hahaha.

freakmech:
I used art pencil (stole it for a few minutes from my brother... haha). not too bad.... i need to sharpen it a little bit more to reach the cleavage of the boot. but yeah, its my first try.. so i think i will do this kind of trick some times later. btw, i forgot where i saw this tutorial. if memory serves me correctly, i think its from brian's model car web page.

Thx for the drop ins, every one..... i cant post anything today since not much being done. went to see my friend had some coffee and ended up went to the movie (cheap ticket today... cant miss it NZ$6.95 compared to $12 /adult).

Great job!! those springs are awesome!!

Thanx all for the comments.

Today I made quite a few improvements. hehehe. Rear wheels done, exhaust are curing now... nevertheless, i tried to use tamiya polishing compound on krylon chrome paint, and its just got foggy. but im not gonna fix it.

here are some pictures:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v255/sugarfree2/rakitan/Toyota%20Celica/Exhaustsetting.jpg
Exhaust pipe looks now. i gave it a little bit of free flow type... more sporty.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v255/sugarfree2/rakitan/Toyota%20Celica/RideHeightmockup.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v255/sugarfree2/rakitan/Toyota%20Celica/RideHeightmockup2.jpg
The ride height of the car without the side skirt. not too bad for 1st try lowering it.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v255/sugarfree2/rakitan/Toyota%20Celica/RearSuspensionassembly.jpg
The rear suspension set up. the wheel hub and the arms are not that solid, meaning the hub are a little bit wiggly, but as long as i dont touch them, they will b ok.

and.... the interior. i put them up together. turned out satisfy my eyes enough....
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v255/sugarfree2/rakitan/Toyota%20Celica/Interior.jpg


As usual, enjoy and comments are more than welcome.

:22yikes: Wow that interior looks fantastic! Top marks for detail!

:22yikes: Wow that interior looks fantastic! Top marks for detail!

hey, thanx for that. so far chassis & interior are done, left me with body alone to be done.

well, its not that mint tho... i wreck up the centre part of the dash... i was about to spray it, but cant find any titanium silver spray. so i just brushed it... and i did some crappy stuff on it. but yea... lucky that it turned out not that bad.

hopefully more updates tomorrow and thinking to finish this thing off by mid of nxt week or end of next week.

Interior is stunning there my "follow kiwi" !!