WIP NSX- really wwwide and speedster

I begin the project some month ago, like a bodykit on NSX (old kit>brake fluid etc.): do you remember old porsche speedster? '80 ones (tamy kit) was an inspiration to me. Some beginning and updated steps.
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c159/gionc/nsx2.jpg
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c159/gionc/nsx3.jpg
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c159/gionc/nsx1.jpg

and now sawwwwwww

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c159/gionc/nsx6.jpg
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c159/gionc/nsx5.jpg

I mill down F&R fenders in order to create space for huge wheels :iceslolan
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c159/gionc/nsx7.jpg

and now first basic shape of "speedster style"
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c159/gionc/nsx8.jpg

I fill some panels line: I want just two shells (like most of Gr5) front and rear (openable), and in the middle only two doors (or at least 1 should be sufficient :evillol:)
expected finishing: pearl white with RA272 livery, a couple of red cyrcle #11 number and may be a couple of BAR colors shapes (greengrayred) stencils. However that beast is intended as a street supercharged.
updates soon with a big snorkel, roll bar and a supercharged VTECV6 with huge exausts and other jokes
Oh: I'm enjoying so much that project: hoping you also.

I like what you have going there, looking forward to the finish!

Neat! Keep this up, it's going to be awesome.

This is going to be great!

LOL, it might pick up road kill or be a snow plow!:)

I like what I see, this is going to look brilliant :)

nice idea!:)

wow that thing is lookin great. Keep up the work...........*Ryan*

nice idea!:)

thank'lot everyone, guys I'm really happy that this "joke" is welcome to you

and amusegt1: I've a big secret new for you: the nsx is intended as a training to allow scratch skills come back(also I intend to finish that soon to check the fantastic pearl white), so if you intend to do a s2000gt1 or a carbonR JUST RUSH:grinno:: I'm planning that soon and I'm collecting the few refs I find right now!:smile::smile::smile:(I'm just hardly impressed by my drift on both in gt4)
so if everyone like to help me in these refs (I just found out Dalle Carbonare's fantastic pics) is welcome for sure

nice idea, like the wide fender flares, on another note, if you're looking for ref pics of the amuse Carbon R i do believe the magazine JTuner did an article about it for their november issue, i havent found it in stores yet being im in canada and its a british magazine, but if you can find it there should be some good pics of it in there

some few updates: when I said big snorkel I tought it really big:iceslolan
I begun to model up the body with epoxy putty, then I reshaped almost all with tamy putty.

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c159/gionc/stuccogrezzo.jpg
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c159/gionc/stuccogrezzo2.jpg

when I had the basic shape I bgun to find a new way to do the rear bonnet/body intersection: I drawn that, like a ying/yang inspiration, so mainly round shapes in this funny!

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c159/gionc/design.jpg

Then I made the snorkel armour with plasticard shapes, glued by 2-part glue.I also havy reinforced the inner body junction (basic nsx body and new 1 seater bonnet) with 2 part glue in order to avoid putty cracks

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c159/gionc/snorkel1.jpg
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c159/gionc/snorkel2.jpg

May be architecture univ. helped me: a lot of building's relief model on my dusty attic:iceslolan

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c159/gionc/row1.jpg
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c159/gionc/row2.jpg

And now hard sand works: I'm seeing myself as a mason then a modeler

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c159/gionc/sanded1.jpg
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c159/gionc/sanded2.jpg
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c159/gionc/sanded3.jpg
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c159/gionc/sanded4.jpg
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c159/gionc/sanded5.jpg

and next days a lot of fine putty, sanding and finishing
I don't know for now if this shoul be a curbside or not: lot of milling inside in case:banghead:but i want firmly this snow plow with a Tcharged V6Vtec
Thanks everyone, guys, for enjoy with m this crazy stuff

Man... this car looks perfect!! Nice Work!!!

wow, nice masonary!

my god man, that is insane work. You are good with the good'ol putty. keep it up .

That is lookin great my friend. Nice job with all that putty work. It's startin to take shape man. good job..............*Ryan*

Amazing putty work, wish I hd the confidence to use this stuff with that sort of confidence!

This is some cool project! You're making an entirely new car... fantastic!

If possible, put an engine in!

Wow! thats excellent putty work! I'm very impressed by your skills!

Dude. I would have to say you are crazy. In all honesty, that is some amazing putty work. You have created a whole new vehicle! It looks incredible. Cannot wait to see the finished product. Any ideas on color yet?

thanks'lot guys I really appreciate yours comments (strange as the project:iceslolan) I'm not expected before all this support to my crazy barchetta: it's feel good:smile:

just a little update:

1st fitting test with chassis and rims (I mill down enough fenders from inside to happy marry my nsx with F50 tyres) rims are from the moment rays kinds by a R34JGTC. Chassis interfere somwere with new body and put itup for approx 1mm: at least should be lowered enough: I just want to try a "racing" camber setting

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c159/gionc/test1.jpg
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c159/gionc/test2.jpg
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c159/gionc/test3.jpg

basic work by mill tool on snorkel intake and in the inside of windshield: nex finishing work by hand. Don't worry by interiors: that're almost 15 years old at least, I may remde in racing look

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c159/gionc/interiors.jpg

Some ideas to fill the selected sace? spare big tachometer? Nos meter? Hamburger?
I'm playing with the idea to cannibalyze and transplanting in this nsx's belly a mugent heart by JGTC nsx (also Tamy should sell next the '03 arta so I could sacrify my castrol) and relate push-rod sunspension: I'm only worried by the milling work on inside and by the finishing work to make post bonnet presentable: so first test
Artknok784: pearl white...

so how do you open the engine lid?

so how do you open the engine lid?

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c159/gionc/design.jpg

rotating by rear: like GT40 style:naughty:

Hmm thats looking really really sweet. Cept, i would drop it a little so it looks more like a Audi R8 or that type of lemans car. Its really looking like that already!! NICE WORK!

can't say that i like the front lip.
i prefer my speedsters in that old 70s super sleek cigar stylee.

This thing is crazy cool looking!!! Keep up the awsome project!

Amazing!!

more please!

Looks incredible! You are doing great justice to the idea of "speedster".

In that cockpit space, why not have a heads-up display? It could show tach, boost guage, N2O meter, etc.... Should be easy enough to make from clear plastic.
You can do it!

Hi friends: time for few updates and... some shopping at mugen over WE:grinyes:
with order:
- Ok I need a tuned engine, I choose that (thanks nismo400 for sharing refs)
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c159/gionc/NSXC32B8.jpg
looks well to me 450/480 psi in my speedst. belly: with those air duct
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c159/gionc/NSXC32B.jpg
ok at work: I keep the engine from castrol nsx, I cut stock's air ducts
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c159/gionc/eng1.jpg
I'm impressed by Mark's texture research in his "super7" so I try to mach my badger, testors enamels (not metalizer this time, since I need a thick paint) and a low pressure trought my AC, I simply search a casted alu appeal
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c159/gionc/eng4.jpg
2 alu shade, 1 darker for gears
Here's the detailed pulleye cover
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c159/gionc/eng2.jpg
and here the tuned head
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c159/gionc/eng3.jpg
the result
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c159/gionc/eng5.jpg
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c159/gionc/eng6.jpg
oh my God, a mugen V12?
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c159/gionc/eng7.jpg
air duct/base for variable geometry's ducts by evergreen tubes milled to correct inner diam (at least I know how do frames for my ducatis)
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c159/gionc/duct.jpg
I LOVE YOU SAKAMOTO SAN
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c159/gionc/duct2.jpg
those sakatsu stuff are just lean to the duct, needs some adj.

and now my beast need to breath better, snorkel may not be suff., so I plan to enlarge side's intakes: i cutted original, bond vertical surfaces and add horizontal plastic shapes, then I fill with putty
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c159/gionc/presa1.jpg
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c159/gionc/presa2.jpg
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c159/gionc/presa3.jpg

and now.. plumbing and wiring this rocket

Wow this build is really shaping up! It's hard to say what eh end result will look like with all the different colors of putty and stuff, but I'm sure its going to be a stunner. awesome work on teh motor, it looks like a great replica.

Boy what a puttyjob!
I was thinking of the area above the instrument housing..
An idea would be to cut it out all the way down to the original edge and put in a small transparent windshield with the same curvature as the shape it has now.
Not so easy perhaps...

Looks incredible! You are doing great justice to the idea of "speedster".

In that cockpit space, why not have a heads-up display? It could show tach, boost guage, N2O meter, etc.... Should be easy enough to make from clear plastic.
You can do it!

OH:screwy:
MartinS's post remember me that I forget to thank you for the cockpit idea: I like it so much and I playing with those: it's quetly hard to put a square HUD on my round cockpit but i'm thinking something abt graphics on plexi, led light and sides milled alu supports (someone have in mind group C car supports of rear spoiler? something like those)

wow, great work!

what ever happened to this? sitting uncompleted?

I don't know, why don't you PM him and find out, and bump this thread again when you get an answer?

how long did it take you to sand that thing down?

this car is UNBELEIVABLE holy crap your like pro. i love the look your going for too. btw what kind of putty are you using..is that tamiya? thanks

:eek2: :worshippy :worshippy :nutkick:

Jeez Gio!!! How did I miss this????
Ball breaking, amazing job! I quit modelling and sell my stash now ;)

O god this is sick, how did I miss this.

Woow, this modification is crazy, i think! Looks great! I can't wait to see it finished!

Really crazy project! Can't wait to see the finished car!

oh my god !!! your amazing !! where do you come up with you ideas !! lol the deatil is spot on !! i cant wait for updates !!!!! :p:p:p:p

...............im in LOVE!!!...............

i really cant wait to see how this turns out. Looks insane. I compliment your putty skills and overall knowledge...impressive

very cool project

very cool project

uups: someone say him that people unlike bump! :D LOL btw I've an update almost ready.... stay tunbzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zz zzz z bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

This is really something. I love the evolution of the body. The engine really stands out for me here, excellent use of the paints to make it so realistic.

uups: someone say him that people unlike bump! :D LOL btw I've an update almost ready.... stay tunbzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zz zzz z bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Sod that! I really enjoyed looking at it again!!

My jaw hit the floor for the second time - sort of liek "doing it twice" LOFL ;)

sweet nsx man. i nearly fell off of my chair and stared at this for a good five minutes

any updates, this is amazing :thumb:

any updates, this is amazing :thumb:
should be cool to be banned at first post LOL J/K

BTW I done something more but I'm far from a new update: a couple of project to finish before;)

looking good. :evillol:

should be cool to be banned at first post LOL J/K

BTW I done something more but I'm far from a new update: a couple of project to finish before;)

I'm sorry im not sure what you mean, why would i be banned for asking a question ?

I'm sorry im not sure what you mean, why would i be banned for asking a question ?

Because we're mean and nasty here. :grinyes:

Welcome to AF. No worries, you're in no danger of being banned. This thread has been inactive for a while- Gio last updated it in late November, and there's been no traffic in it for two months. It's certainly not prohibited, but by convention most experinced members here usually don't post in inactive threads until the builder 'reactivates' the tread by posting an update. While I'm sure he appreciates your interest and enthusiasm in his build, Gio tends to like for his threads to stay on topic, and has been known to vent at inconsiderate hijackers. :rolleyes:

Feel free to start a new thread and introduce yourself in the general Car Modeling forum.

(Don't worry, Gio- if you ask me nicely, I may delete this hijacking later :wink:)

it was needed from 3:18 to 8:14 PM to understand the looking good joke LOL

ommyuk: just kidding ;), welcome

Because we're mean and nasty here. :grinyes:

Welcome to AF. No worries, you're in no danger of being banned. This thread has been inactive for a while- Gio last updated it in late November, and there's been no traffic in it for two months. It's certainly not prohibited, but by convention most experinced members here usually don't post in inactive threads until the builder 'reactivates' the tread by posting an update. While I'm sure he appreciates your interest and enthusiasm in his build, Gio tends to like for his threads to stay on topic, and has been known to vent at inconsiderate hijackers. :rolleyes:

Feel free to start a new thread and introduce yourself in the general Car Modeling forum.

(Don't worry, Gio- if you ask me nicely, I may delete this hijacking later :wink:)

ok no problems, thanks for the heads-up

:)