Midnight Purple Silvia S15

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Painted this body last week with Modelcolourworx Midnight Purple, clear coated 4 times, and spent 5 hours polishing out (Jesus that was hard work to get a shine)

I'll take some photo when the sun is out to try and capture the purple pearl.

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I wanted to put Deep Dish Nismo LMGT4 wheels on this build.
Above is the progress for doing it
Fit the tyre and rim to get the amount to be removed
Cut Wheel to required width
Sand up back
Primer added
Alclad2 Black Gloss Paint
Alclad2 Chrome applied
All Fitted togetherNow I need to modify the suspension and brakes to take the Tamiya Male Wheel onto a Aoshima Kit .

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It's been finished for a while, but have been waiting to get the photos.
Paint finish is so much better in real life, but took some outside to try to capture it.

Polished it too much and suffering from static attracting too much dust. :(

Custom made exhaust and wheels turned out to my liking :smokin:

your builds never fail to impress me
you are the man !

wheels are DOPE!

looks great man!

verry nice!! love the wheels

Cool!:smokin: excellent build as always!

greatness.

Great colour, great build. Nothing less than we expect from the (now Global!) HiroBoy. Wheels are a little extreme but I guess that's the point! :)

The master has done it again! Another masterpiece Steve....
I really love the deep dish wheels well done mate!

The Alclad2 Chrome is great.
But what is the advantage of using Alclad2 Black Gloss Paint?

man thats nice!!:sunglasse :sunglasse

Gorgeous model!

Excellent work!

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This is how I modifed the Brakes,

They are the Tamiya Skyline R34 GT-R Nismo Parts (http://hiroboy.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=54&products_id=145)

Take a peice of 3.2mm (1/8") Plastruct tube, This has a hole (bore) of just under 2mm which is the same size as the pin on the tamiya wheel.

I cut a small section of Aluminium tubing (K&S) 5/32" round and inset into the suspension unit, the bore of the 5/32" tube is about 3.2mm so they all fit together nice and snug.

I will cut down the plastic tube to length on test assembly to get the wheel base just how I want it.

Hope that make some sorta sense ?

That's an amazing model!!!

BEAUTIFULL!! I love the 3rd Completed shot. Lots of inspiration for mine.

wow, beautiful work! love the color.

Fantastic build!

Perfect as always!!:sunglasse

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: Wauw, what a car !!!!!!!
I don't know what to say :1:

Grtzzzzz Nissanmotorsport:sunglasse

Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great build, your builds are always flawless.

Are those pegasus 23" sleeves steve?

Are those pegasus 23" sleeves steve?
No they are Aoshima ones from Fabulous Profounds

Wow. As an avid S-chassis lover all I have to is, I'M NOT WORHTY!!!

Amazing build.

lookin sweet dude

Looks great! The color is perfect, and the wheels came out fantastic. That's essentially the same as I did for my Supra's wheels. Someone somewhere needs to start offering staggered offset trim rings in either chromed plastic or turned aluminum seperately from wheels. They'd sell a mint. Also, fantastic way to modify the brakes and suspension! Your models impress me most with their clever solutions.