S13 Silvia with Bodykit

As the weathers stopping me from doing any spraying I thought I'd make a start on this one - it's the recent Aoshima release with engine. It's slightly disappointing as it's only a 1/2 engine but what there is is nicely detailed and should look ok. So far I've roughed out the bodykit with plastic sheet & Tamiya epoxy putty -the front will need lot more work but the general shape is there.
http://members.aol.com/jonesandy898/S13.JPG
http://members.aol.com/jonesandy898/S131.JPG
Thanks for looking
Andy

Half an engine is better than none:lol:

Looking good so far. What rims are those?

Half an engine is better than none:lol:

Looking good so far. What rims are those?
They're one of the Luxy sets from Aoshima - sorry I can't remember the number - with Racing Hart CR trim rings.
Cheers
Andy

looks great, I'll have to watch this one. what body kit are you using as inspiration/duplacating? I like the looks of the front bumper.

Looking GREAT so far!! Can't wait to see more!

looks great, I'll have to watch this one. what body kit are you using as inspiration/duplacating? I like the looks of the front bumper.
It's roughly based on this Origen kit
http://members.aol.com/jonesandy898/origin.jpg
Cheers
Andy

I love Origin and Uras, looking forward to see more!!

damn good looking refferance too! this thing's gonna be killer.

Another one of your killer cars in the process. Looking forward to more progress!

I always love the rims you choose.

sweet any pics of the molded engine?

so are those the wheels u settled on? It would be sweet if you can get the "stance", the negative offsets and negative camber =flush wheels.. something i think alot of the silvia modelers fail to capture on these jdm cars
like this http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y197/poopoo220/Picture044.jpg

Looking forward to seeing more of this one Andy.

Looking great so far, i'll be waiting for updates ;)

Looks good so far. That one you're basing it off of is awesome!

[QUOTE=hypertek]sweet any pics of the molded engine?

Here you go -
http://members.aol.com/jonesandy898/s134.jpg
http://members.aol.com/jonesandy898/s133.jpg
Cheers
Andy

please don't take offense to this, because it isn't your fault. that motor is just something to get pissed off about!!! yeah, the details that it has are good, and it is a motor in a S13, but wow is that depressing!!!

I do like the the underhood details, are they all seperate pieces, or moulded in? you are doing a fine job on this, and I am very excited to see it finished. keep up the good work.

Should be easy enough to modify it so it doesn't look like an after thought. Mine should be arriveing in a couple weeks. Can't wait to open it up! Keep it comming Andy!

Engine doesn't look too bad, nice progress.
I would also like to knoe if its molded in?

Engine doesn't look too bad, nice progress.
I would also like to knoe if its molded in?
The engine bay's engineered as an insert into the stock Silvia S15 chassis with the 1/2 engine seperate - I'll post some pics over the weekend
Cheers
Andy

Haven't make much progress as the front bumper is proving difficult to get right but here's a couple of pics of the engine/engine bay as promised. The engine itself in in 3 pieces. It'll look better once all the bits and peices are added to the engine.
http://members.aol.com/jonesandy898/s135.jpg
http://members.aol.com/jonesandy898/s136.jpg
Cheers
Andy

the engine bay detail is really nice, and I must say that the engine too is nice for being as low detail as it is. it should be able to be detailed quite nicely with some wire harness, fuel/brake/clutch lines, radiator & hoses. if you get everything in there for details, you may not even be able to see the fact that it's a half motor.

how does the undercarriage look? suspension details, drive train? sorry for asking for details that are obviously going to be shown, I'm just trying to justify the $50 it's going to take to get it to my house.

the engine bay detail is really nice, and I must say that the engine too is nice for being as low detail as it is. it should be able to be detailed quite nicely with some wire harness, fuel/brake/clutch lines, radiator & hoses. if you get everything in there for details, you may not even be able to see the fact that it's a half motor.

how does the undercarriage look? suspension details, drive train? sorry for asking for details that are obviously going to be shown, I'm just trying to justify the $50 it's going to take to get it to my house.

It's just the standard Aoshima S15 chassis with moulded in bottom half of the engine & transmission/part exhaust. The front & rear suspension are seperate.
Cheers
Andy

so they put the S15 chassis into the S13? this would mean that the S15 is going to be available with the Sr20 soon as well?

i jus picked this model up.. with plans to put the engine bay/engine in my fujimi 180sx.. and i have a r32 model that i lost the interior pieces so i might jus make a Skyvia with those..

This Aoshima model, has some nice things over the fujimi.. Better interior ext.. The chassis /suspension must have been carried over from the S15 models.. The real cars are basically alike so there wouldn't be any noticeable differences. In fact, some people put S15 subframe rear ends on S13s becuase they got improved geometry so consider the suspenion modified =) .

The engine bay tho, the strut towers dont look simular to the real car.

Andy Jones- would be cool to see you simulate V-mount intercooler on yours =D

Very nice bumper, great work!

Looking good.

looks awesome! the front bumper is coming out fabulous! I may need to get one of these, maybe.....if I can find it REALLY cheap.

Its looking good Andy. You sure do have patience to do the scratch building on the front bumper. Keep up the excellent progress!

front bumper looks great!

I threw this one back in the box at the start of the year because I just couldn't get the front bumper right. Anyway I've decided I'll have another go - still needs a lot of work before I'm happy with it but now everythings in primer it's given me the push I need to do some more work.
http://members.aol.com/jonesandy898/s138.jpg
http://members.aol.com/jonesandy898/s1310.jpg
Hopefully it won't be another 3 months before I post some more progress. :shakehead
Thanks for looking
Andy

the only thing I see wrong with it is that the side skirts are a little to thick and the wheels don't look right sitting that low/far in, but I'm sure the wheel issue will change during final assembly.

the body kit looks really good. I can't wait to see what you can do with this one.