S2000 widebody WIP

For a long time I've thought about doing a widebody S2000, but wasn't sure how it would look. Then I saw the Amuse S2000 and knew it would look GOOD. I've never attempted a wide body before, but once I saw Appleseed's S2000 I got inspired. It's not the Amuse S2000, it's not the Tracy Sports S2000 either. It's along the same lines though. I started it a few months back, but I just recently FINALLY got myself a digicam. Still a ways to go. Let me know what you think!
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Looks very good, looking foward to see more! :grinyes:

Wow very nice progress so far, going to be a stunner, very clean
thinking of a body color?

Looks great!

Wow very nice progress so far, going to be a stunner, very clean
thinking of a body color?

Actually, I haven't thought about color yet. Maybe Yellow with a carbon hood and deck lid. Orange, graphite, blue. I'm open to any suggestions. I just don't want to do it white.

Great body work !!!

looking forward to more progress. looks great so far!

Brilliant body fabrication, looking forward to see it finished. As far as colour i think this would look great painted Camel Yellow by Tamiya or perhaps other light colors to empahsise the wide body work..

Looking great! I've been seeing this in your sig but hadn't seen the thread yet. I'm super impressed, especially with the little vent by the taillights. Did you cut the front quarter off and glue it further out, or did you fab up a new quarter over the old?

wow. how'd you fab the fender extensions?

Might i suggest a metalic orange with the mentioned CF hood and deck lid, and possible some other aaccent accessories i.e. canards, wing etc.? That would look great to go along with the already great bodywork!

Keep us posted! :)

Looking great! I've been seeing this in your sig but hadn't seen the thread yet. I'm super impressed, especially with the little vent by the taillights. Did you cut the front quarter off and glue it further out, or did you fab up a new quarter over the old?

Yup! I cut the front quarter off and glued it further out, along with some styrene sheet for support. The top sectoin above the body line was styrene, so it would match up with the body. The rear quarters were built over top of the original.

Thanks for the comments guys! I was thinking a brighter color would be best as well, to show of the body work. I've been trying to figure out what to do with the front bumper. I don't want it to look like the Amuse or Tracy Sports S2000. Once I get that figured out and get the side skirts finished up I can get this thing in first primer to look for flaws.

Small update. The side skirts are getting closer to being done. The front fender will also be extended down to the lip on the side skirts.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/S2000ss.jpg
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BTW... do you guys think the side skirts are a little too low? I might trim a little off the bottom. Let me know what you think.

I'm very impressed with the work you've shown. I really like the way the widebody fits the body. I cant wait to see more.

As far as the side skirt, I think it looks a little tall. You could do a few things to change that. Its hard to tell which would fit best depending on the way you finish the skirt. You could add a rocker panel below the door, and have the skirt attach to that. On the other hand you could just make the skirt shorter and make the ride height lower.

Finally started work on this again. Still a little rough, but you get the idea. Started on the front. Still not 100% sure how the front is going to look. The bottom of the fenders won't be sticking out like that either. Feedback's always welcome!
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looks good!

Brilliant body fabrication, looking forward to see it finished. As far as colour i think this would look great painted Camel Yellow by Tamiya or perhaps other light colors to empahsise the wide body work..

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I like what you have going there, looks very tasteful so far.

Looking amazing. I am watching this one with bated breath. The side skirts look just fine for such a heavily worked over, aggressive car.

Thanks so much for the comments guys! Hey Willimo, are we gonna see progress on that sweet Do-Luck Widebody Supra soon?

Little bit of progress, you can see how the front fenders are gonna be now. The front end's cleaned up a bit more now. And I think I've decided on the shape of the vents in the fascia. Advans???? Yes? No? I'm sorta likeing them, but I'm not sure if I want the TE37s or these. What do you guys think?
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Personally, I think the TE37's fit this car better. I think the wide spacing on the Advan spokes compete with the lines of the body kit.

this is going great! plz finish

Personally, I think the TE37's fit this car better. I think the wide spacing on the Advan spokes compete with the lines of the body kit.
I agree, maybe black TE37´s :grinyes:

+1 on flat black TE37s.

I think you guys are right. I kinda like the Advans, but I think the TE37s do suit the car much better. Thanks for the input. I'm hopeing to have all the major body work done by the end of the week.

Im astonished with the work you have done. Very professional, clean, and inspiring. I look forward to more updates.

Awesome work so far, looks great ;). I would go with the TE37s, they suit the car a lot more than the Advans.

looking forward to see more progress

Beautiful work!!:sunglasse Lemon Yellow with the Super Advans painted in a nice charcoal.:)

Keep the Advans! Those rims are sick!

-Chris

Thanks Tonio, coming from you that's a real compliment. Here's a sketch I did to show kinda how it should end up looking.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/S2000sketch.jpg

wow, and you can draw as good as you build!!!! that is very impressive.

I would opt for the TE37's. yellow paint would be nice, but make it a pearl color. white te37's charcoal and ivory interior.

or pearl silver/red 2 tone with chrome paint pinstriping between the 2 colors with mostly dark red and black interior. and hyper silver, or bronze te37

Wow... absolutely amazing!

Woot for renderings, this is going to look very nice as i have mentioned before.
I like the slightly raised fenders over the hood line.
Also the TE37's will look plenty good, maybe add a bit of a lip to them just to be different and it will compliment the widebody nicely. n do em charcoal or like a dark silver gunmetal. :sunglasse
Keep it comin! :thumbsup:

UPDATES!!!! Hopefully just 1 more round of putty before the first coat of primer. Hopefully there won't be many flaws revealed by that first coat of primer, but it's hard to tell.
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Advans are much better choice to big bodykit

I think it would look good if you did it with a spoon paint job.

http://www.s2000.com/tuning/spoon/spoon09.jpg

or maybe the red AEM one. :)

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Very nice build. Te widebody kit is very well done. The front reminds me of th C-West bodykit. As for the color a dark silver, like gunmetal or a pearl yeallow with carbon fiber hood and top would really set it off.

gun metal or graphite is best, and as team_mph said, carbon hood and roof

Color choices!

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Since white's not an option.. (I think it'd look best white) I think yellow is a nice color for the S2K

I love the yellow that Honda has for production S2k's. But this one is special. Orange would really make this car stand out. Orange body with black interior... and maybe even some color matched TE37's!

Either way, this is a sweet build! I want one!

I didn't want white because it would be too similar to the Tracy Sports and Amuse S2000s. But just for fun......
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I'm just curious what editor program are you using to make those pics?
Great work so far! Luvin it!

The original sketch is on page 2, I rendered them with good old
Photoshop CS2.

I normally dont like pink but for some reason that pink with black rim combo actually looks pretty sweet. And then theres that black and white rim combo wich looks sweet too. I say go for the silver or black one..... unless you want a stand out car, then the pink on would be perfect.

I think pink or orange, maybe metallic pearl orange?:grinyes:

hmm this is gonna be a tough one. Its hard because you want it to be different than the big tuners out there, and most of them already have a fair color association with them, Amuse, spoon, Top Secret, Yashio Factory, etc. So idk you have to kinda do somethin a little different for it , well because it is different :D

Id say maybe go with a lighter bronze color, carbon hood trunk lid etc, and black TE37's. And if not then maybe a red with bronze te37's and some accents to tie it in. My :2cents:

My wide body has a similar basic style to the Amuse and Tracy Sports widebody kits for the S2000. That's the only reason I want to stay away from white. Other than that I'm open to most colors. The Bronze with black TE37s probably would look great. Or possibly even a Top Secret - ish gold. DANG now I've got more ideas. It's all YOUR FAULT!!!!! j/k Thanks for the input! Wish I could add those two colors to the poll.

The black photochop of your model looks hard! With the fiber hood and top, and some gold advans, the one of the D1 S15 would look clean! Keep it up! More pics man! Looking forward to see more.

blue with dark gold wheels wil be nice!:D
you are like me..i hate have some model lke another that already exist,itá mine and will be different!:D

Sorry guys. It's been quite a while and I haven't done a WHOLE lot. But the front end is pretty much done. I also rescribed most of the panel lines. Just gotta do some touching up on the side skirts, and hopefully THEN it'll finally be ready for primer.
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The wide body looks so hot, nice progress.

very nice i liek this s2k :) good job on the wbk

Great job, I'll have to stop by on Monday and have a look at the progress in person! As for the colour, yellow with dark TE37s would look sweet (I like orange, but aren't you doing the WRX in orange?)

You should post up some of your other WIP's!!!! :grinyes:

HAHA. I haven't even thought about the WRX in a looong time. I'll have to see if it's salvageable from my earlier customizing attempts. Even though Orange won the Poll, I'm still not sure what color to do this thing. I kinda really like the pink, or the yellow, maybe some other color. Idon't know, but I don't have to worry about that 'til I get the primer on and all flaws fixed. All I for sure have worked out is the bodywork, the c/f hood, roof, and decklid, and the TE37s.

hey is those thing for sale i wanna have one :D

Uh.... is what for sale?

I think he means your S2000.

Damnit, and I thought there was gonna be an update :(

Soon my friend, soon. I've got my evenings free now, so hopefully it'll be in primer soon.