A few questions

I'm starting my Tamiya Mitsu GTO today. I'm not gonna paint it cause the body looks good already, should be a fun easy kit, a nice break from the torture of the lightning. Anyway, does anyone know of any other companies that make a GTO/3000GT/Stealth? I hope someone makes a kit of the extremely rare 3000GT Spyder but I highly doubt it, and it'd be nice to find a kit that actually has an engine!


Also, has anyone built the Tamiya S2000 kit without painting the body? On the exterior, the body looks great just the way it is out of the kit, but there's all these crappy little lines on the back corner of it and really all over the body when you look really close, so I'm gonna paint the whole body. What do you think? Blue maybe? silver? I think it'd look really good in a non-stock met blue though.


Also, my Fujimi 348-tb arrived yesterday (yay!) Holy shit its a nice looking model! Gonna need airbrushed paint on though cause the body comes a really dull red color and looks too plasticy. As always though, its one of these japanese kits I pay a fortune for but still doesn't have and engine. Does fujimi make any ferraris with engines? I'd love to build an F50 next with the engine visible.

Last question: How do you guys get the little details on the body when you have it all airbrushed, like grooved air intakes for disc brakes or tiny grilles or the edges of the windshields painted black? Do you use a really fine tipped brush to put it on? The windshields i guess you could put scoth tape all around then cut out what you want to paint with an exacto knife. With kits that call for lots of these little details though I always avoided them by not paying attention to them or painting the entire body black anyways, LOL.

I'm not gonna paint it cause the body looks good already, should be a fun easy kit, a nice break from the torture of the lightning.
:eek: I hope you rethink this decision..

Anyway, does anyone know of any other companies that make a GTO/3000GT/Stealth?

Revell makes a Dodge Stealth, don't know of any 3000GT Spyders. You could always hack your own.

Also, has anyone built the Tamiya S2000 kit without painting the body

No matter how good the plastic looks, it will look 100x better when painted. The plastic will never make the car look realistic enough, it will always look like a toy with just the plastic. Please rethink your decision on the 3000GT :)

Does fujimi make any ferraris with engines? I'd love to build an F50 next with the engine visible.

Usually Fujimi Enthusiast kits will includ the engine. Tamiy's F-50 includes the engine.

How do you guys get the little details on the body when you have it all airbrushed, like grooved air intakes for disc brakes or tiny grilles or the edges of the windshields painted black? Do you use a really fine tipped brush to put it on? The windshields i guess you could put scoth tape all around then cut out what you want to paint with an exacto knife. With kits that call for lots of these little details though I always avoided them by not paying attention to them or painting the entire body black anyways, LOL.

In my experience there's no such thing as an easy kit...you're just going to have to sit down and spend the time necessary to properly mask everything, and put the little details in. Sorry :)

Originally posted by Ranger_X
I hope someone makes a kit of the extremely rare 3000GT Spyder but I highly doubt it, and it'd be nice to find a kit that actually has an engine!Nope, the 3000GT Spyder would have to be a custom job... Hope you have losts of reference pics... ;) I know theres at least one owner on the board...
Originally posted by Ranger_X
...so I'm gonna paint the whole body. Good. :devil:
Originally posted by Ranger_X
What do you think? Blue maybe? silver? I think it'd look really good in a non-stock met blue though.Check out the colors offered by Honda in Japan:
http://myauto.honda.co.jp/php/cyb/quote/redirect_cyb.jsp?model=s2000
:eek: I like that dark red color! :D
Originally posted by Ranger_X
Also, my Fujimi 348-tb arrived yesterday (yay!) Holy shit its a nice looking model! Gonna need airbrushed paint on though cause the body comes a really dull red color and looks too plasticy. As always though, its one of these japanese kits I pay a fortune for but still doesn't have and engine. Does fujimi make any ferraris with engines? I'd love to build an F50 next with the engine visible.If you're dying for a 348 with an engine, look for the Hasegawa kits. They make (edit: *made*) both the tb and ts. I have (at the moment...) both the Hasegawa and Fujimi 348ts kits, and it seems that the quality of the Hasegawa kit is far superior. Full engine detail, plus a set of photoetch parts for the emblems and grills. :cool: Hiro has a write up of the Hasegawa kit he did:
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~xr2h-fkd/scalemodels/gallery/348.htm
Originally posted by Ranger_X
Last question: How do you guys get the little details on the body when you have it all airbrushed, like grooved air intakes for disc brakes or tiny grilles or the edges of the windshields painted black? Do you use a really fine tipped brush to put it on?I cheat and use pens when possible... ;)

yah, your totally right about the plastic never looking as good as a painted body, I've just had some really shitty experiences painting over the past week and I just wanted to leave it alone on one kit but it really isn't an option in this hobby. I really have never seen plastic as nice out of the kit as on this GTO though! But the GTO is my dream car (well, one of them) so i gotta put my nose to the grindstone and pay my respects so I make it look good. I think I'm gonna give it a deep carbon charcoal paint job.

As for choppin the top of the GTO to make a spyder, it won't work cause the spyder has a retractable HT which makes it look WAY different from the 2+2 coupe. compare here: http://users.ntplx.com/~ike/spyder.html and http://www.cardomain.com/member_pages/view_page.pl?page_id=206212&make_type_query=make%3DMitsubishi&model_brand_query=model%3D3000GT&tree=Mitsubishi%203000GT

thanks for the advice though, time to get to work.

Originally posted by Ranger_X
As for choppin the top of the GTO to make a spyder, it won't work cause the spyder has a retractable HT which makes it look WAY different from the 2+2 coupe.Well... It could work, but it would certainly be a challenge. The roof itself seems like it would be easily modified, but the back hatch would have to be replaced with a much flatter window and the rear deck lid would have to be totally scratchbuilt... ;) How bad do you want one...? :p

hahaha, I don't want it that bad. I'd probably screw the entire thing up and have to scrap it. I'm not a super-ninja scale modeler... at least not yet!

amt as make a dodge stealth I have the 1995 twin turbo and the 1992 pace car they are good kits.
if you have the 1992 gtocheck the taillights correctly cause they can broke easily (it as happen to mine)

good luck
mario

AMT made 1/25 scale Dodge Stealth, and it comes with the v6 engine. It would be too small for tamiya kit, but I think you can use some of the parts. Sorry, I couldn't find any picture of the engine component on my hard drive.

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~xr2h-fkd/scalemodels/gallery/stealth1.jpg
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~xr2h-fkd/scalemodels/gallery/stealth2.jpg
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~xr2h-fkd/scalemodels/gallery/stealth3.jpg

hey I have the same but it is fully riced out
:rolleyes:

That is the car I'll own IRL someday.....:D

Oh, another reason why the spyder project won't work is cause all the kits are of the 1st gen models (unless i got the 95 stealth, but they didn't make a stealth spyder) while the spyder is a 2nd gen, which has a much different hood/headlight/airdam.