Fujimi needs to die!!

Well, maybe not, but I got this kit:

Mazdaspeed RX-7 A-Spec Carbon Fiber Bonnet Aero (http://www.hlj.com/cgi-local/hljpage.cgi?FUJ18432)

which is the same as this kit:

Mazdaspeed RX-7 A-spec (http://www.hlj.com/cgi-local/hljpage.cgi?FUJ03465)

except they include a carbon fiber decal for the hood for 200 yen more in the first kit.

Well guess what...as far as I can tell, the carbon fiber decal they include is just a semi gloss black decal cut out to the size of the RX-7 hood..

Yeah, thanks a lot Fujimi! As if I couldn't have masked off the hood and sprayed it myself! :rolleyes:

Luckily, Aoshima includes a decent sized CF decal in their C-west kit, which I'll probably use for the hood. :rolleyes:

Welcome to hell! :devil: :devil: :devil: :evillaugh

It's happened to me too!:rolleyes:

LOL....Reminds me of EVO's coming with the wrong wheels !!.

Yeah, it sucks alright :mad:

you got a CF decal with your C-West??? if so then i got screwed, cause i didn't get shit! lol!:mad: :mad: :( :(

???
Aoshima's C-West did not come with CF right???
I just went to check my kit to find that it was not included...

That's Fujimi....
They get the license and they faster produce so many different decals with the same mold...
Take a look at the Evo 7... So many with different design but all in the same mold... Standard for Fujimi...

Yeah Fujimi are definitely dodgy. Got an enthusiast series Lancia Stratos that has parts of the plastic pieces missing. Appears as though the plastic didn't flow properly through the mold and thus the parts never formed. Fortunately I only want the thing for the engine and those parts are fine.

Phil

Originally posted by S13_Iketani
Luckily, Aoshima includes a decent sized CF decal in their C-west kit, which I'll probably use for the hood.

Why would a CWest kit has CF?

Dude, you're smoking weed again :D

same thing happened to me. i thought that the decal wasn't printed properly, then i realized it was a fujimi kit and that the decal was made to be black.

Yeah, Fujimi sure does suck! Out of my 3 Fujimi models I am making now, 1 is absoloute shit, 1 is pretty crap and the other is alright. The absoloute shit one is the FC Initial D version, in my opinion Fujimi could not of made the suspension more of a bitch to put together! I don't know why they made it all so complicated but they did, and my suspension stuffed up so I have shelved my FC for a rainy day ;) you will see something out of it eventually but I ain't giving no hints! The pretty crap one is the Zeus, i'm having bodykit troubles. The additional Zeus front bar is made out of really poor plastic, as is the whole model. The rear bar is very flimsy and bends easily, as mine came from Singapore it has already been bent! I don't know what to do with it because I managed to snap 1/3 of the front bumper off when I was changing it slightly, maybe I'll have to shelf it too :confused: Can someone give me a pointer here? Ok, to finish it up, i'm going on a bit huh? The S14 Veilside was a decent kit, could do with an engine and it needs ALOT more detail. In Australia Fujimis are going up to the price of Tamiyas! I don't really like either brand because they don't make my type of car, but I know i'll never buy a Fujimi over a Tamiya for that price! Has anyone here done the Fujimi GT40?

Edit, forgot to ask, what is it with models from Singapore? In my FC i got a spare sheet of additional tuner decals, a very big sheet at taht, and none are used on that model :confused: I also got an extra "VIP" series wheels decal sheet with my HKS GTR :confused: My 1994 Lowrider came from Canada, but it came with a 57 belair back end :confused: Uhh?

Hmmm....
Friend...
Model kits from Singapore also comes from Japan...
How did you get your kits?
Through bidding or from a shop?

Originally posted by daggerlee
Well, maybe not, but I got this kit:

Mazdaspeed RX-7 A-Spec Carbon Fiber Bonnet Aero
which is the same as this kit:
Mazdaspeed RX-7 A-spec

except they include a carbon fiber decal for the hood for 200 yen more in the first kit.

Well guess what...as far as I can tell, the carbon fiber decal they include is just a semi gloss black decal cut out to the size of the RX-7 hood..


You could have looked on the web for reviews etc. first before ordering,
eg. my RX-7 kit pages (http://www.xs4all.nl/~erix7/rx7kits/fuj-fd3s.html) list exactly what you found out after buying.

In the Fujimi Carbon Aero kit I have, the hood decal does show a CF pattern, but only vaguely so.

It looks like Fujimi is pretty low on cash, so they do what they can to sell more kits.
Including new wheels and decals is an easy way for them to do so.

-- Eric.

Originally posted by erix7


You could have looked on the web for reviews etc. first before ordering,
eg. my RX-7 kit pages (http://www.xs4all.nl/~erix7/rx7kits/fuj-fd3s.html) list exactly what you found out after buying.

In the Fujimi Carbon Aero kit I have, the hood decal does show a CF pattern, but only vaguely so.

It looks like Fujimi is pretty low on cash, so they do what they can to sell more kits.
Including new wheels and decals is an easy way for them to do so.

-- Eric.

I did look at your page before ordering, and I only ordered the Carbonspeed Aero kit to get the carbon fiber decal, because like your site said there was virtually no other difference between the two kits except for the price tag. And as I mentioned before, the decal is crap! :rolleyes:

I'll take some pictures of the CF decal included in my C-west later, and a picture of the Fujimi decal. :)

srlxy- I bought it from HLJ (http://www.hlj.com)

Oppss...
Sorry...
My question was refering to lowriders4life
as he mention that Kits from Singapore seems to have problems...
I do not recieve this problem, so was wondering where he got his kits from...

Hi Dan,

Sorry to hear about the misfortune you're having there. Anyway, Fujumi is not popular in Belgium and for a while there wasn't even an importer anymore. Apparently there is one again now, but man are they expensive over here. Sometimes same prices as Tamiya for half the quality. So I'm not a fan either and will only by Merc's from them if nowhere else available.

Guido

deng that's dry!!! well, that's why when i buy fujimi kits i always insist to see every part of it before i pay. the new ones i've noticed are more decent and better than their previous efforts like the new toyota estima(previa) it's somewhat at par with tamiya's quality. as for their RX7 FD kits i rather buy an aoshima kit or better yet jus get the tamiya ones, much better.

Fujimi gives you the opportunity to correct the flaws, and make an incomplete kit look better. It's like anyone can make a good looking model made by Tamiya, but not the same with Fujimi or Aoshima.
Fujimi's still suffering from the loss of the people, who were involved in Hi-Mecha series and Enthusiast Model Series, because of their family problem.
Just ask here before you buy any Fujimi kit, or if you already have one, you are the only one who make make it look better than the other, which is put together by someone else.
Fujimi people are very nice, but they need damn good engineers.

I got mine from what I is a major hobbyshop in Singapore, I didn't buy the models, a friend bought them there for me and I am paying him later. I'm not saying they have problems i'm sort of asking if Fujimi kits are meant to come with different things that aren't mentioned or used in them. The decal sheet I got was about half the size of a A4 piece of paper, and all that was on it were tuner decals..So did I score a tuner sheet by mistake or on purpose?

:rolleyes: Actually, I kinda think that we, all, are quite spoiled by The big T (Tamiya):p , because all of their kits are not so difficult to make and look great without too much work on them. Tamiya kits are like the summum of affordable scale modelling.

Then you have the lesser, or let's call them the "more labour intensive" kits made by Revell, Fujimi and Italeri, etc., which can be seen as a challenge to make them look good. I 'm working on a racing F40 right now, made by fujimi, and I have really learned about this modelling experience.

You need to get a lot of reference material, if you want even the slightest amount of details on your model and you think of techniques to make your fujimi model look like a tamiya one:D , sure it takes a lot more time to get there:( , but hey, it's fun, challenging and quite rewarding...:)
So my conclusion is; :D don't kill em:silly2: but love 'em:D , cause they are the real deal to get them right, they are the barometer to see if you're a "gifted":rolleyes: modeler :D

just my two cents :rolleyes: don't have to believe me :flipa:

Originally posted by bigfrit
:rolleyes: Actually, I kinda think that we, all, are quite spoiled by The big T (Tamiya):p , because all of their kits are not so difficult to make and look great without too much work on them. Tamiya kits are like the summum of affordable scale modelling.

Then you have the lesser, or let's call them the "more labour intensive" kits made by Revell, Fujimi and Italeri, etc., which can be seen as a challenge to make them look good. I 'm working on a racing F40 right now, made by fujimi, and I have really learned about this modelling experience.

You need to get a lot of reference material, if you want even the slightest amount of details on your model and you think of techniques to make your fujimi model look like a tamiya one:D , sure it takes a lot more time to get there:( , but hey, it's fun, challenging and quite rewarding...:)
So my conclusion is; :D don't kill em:silly2: but love 'em:D , cause they are the real deal to get them right, they are the barometer to see if you're a "gifted":rolleyes: modeler :D

just my two cents :rolleyes: don't have to believe me :flipa: Couldn't have said it better my self!

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/kaiyao1/cfcompare.jpg

Left is Fujimi, right is Aoshima.

Originally posted by daggerlee
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/kaiyao1/cfcompare.jpg

Left is Fujimi, right is Aoshima. Fujimi needs :help:

Originally posted by daggerlee
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/kaiyao1/cfcompare.jpg

Left is Fujimi, right is Aoshima.

Dan, are you sure you're getting the Aoshima CF from the RX7 CWest?

Coz I and many others sure aint got one from our kits.

Dan, are you sure you're getting the Aoshima CF from the RX7 CWest?

Yes, quite positive. It came wrapped in a plastic bag along with a sprue containing an steering wheel and single racing seat. Perhaps those were additions in order to be more accurate concerning the interior of the C-West RX-7. The sprue says "Hashiriya seat" on it.

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/kaiyao1/aoshimarx7.jpg

Think this is a later production run than the C-wests being built on the forum. I got mine quite recently from HLJ. There's a bright shiny red and chrome sticker on the side that says 'SPECIAL' with some Japanese text I can't read, so maybe I got a special edition?

Originally posted by daggerlee


Yes, quite positive. It came wrapped in a plastic bag along with a sprue containing an steering wheel and single racing seat. Perhaps those were additions in order to be more accurate concerning the interior of the C-West RX-7. The sprue says "Hashiriya seat" on it.

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/kaiyao1/aoshimarx7.jpg

Think this is a later production run than the C-wests being built on the forum. I got mine quite recently from HLJ. There's a bright shiny red and chrome sticker on the side that says 'SPECIAL' with some Japanese text I can't read, so maybe I got a special edition?

Guess you did :sun:

It's still interesting why they would include a CF for the CWest as the real one doesnt use CF hood, at least from most of the photos.

Seems that you were lucky...
All of us with C-West Rx-7 did not have that carbon fiber decal...

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Lowriders4Life
I got mine from what I is a major hobbyshop in Singapore, I didn't buy the models, a friend bought them there for me and I am paying him later. I'm not saying they have problems i'm sort of asking if Fujimi kits are meant to come with different things that aren't mentioned or used in them. The decal sheet I got was about half the size of a A4 piece of paper, and all that was on it were tuner decals..So did I score a tuner sheet by mistake or on purpose? [/QUOT
It seems like you are blamming Singapore hobby shop screw up your money...I hope you doesn't mean that. Because all the Fujimi are direct from Japan. The one screw up your pocket is Fujimi not Singapore, so if you don't mind, please don't keep mention Singapore hobby shop this...and that... Is simply not fair to the hobby shop in Singapore, thanks.
As for the extra decal came inside the models like Initial D, usually, those so called Initial D kit are actually the normal Tohge series, that's why they included the car maker sponcer decals. Keep it for your next tuned car. If you don't like it, I think there's alot of AF modelers don't to keep one...:rolleyes:

Originally posted by hiver77


Guess you did :sun:

It's still interesting why they would include a CF for the CWest as the real one doesnt use CF hood, at least from most of the photos.
I didn't get that extra parts either. It must be that sticker thing.
Anyway, the recent examples do have dry carbon hood. Since C-West kit is very popular, many shops use it for their demo cars.
I wish Aoshima takes just one more step and include the hood with air outlet, or includes a complete Super Endurance racer decal sheet.

Originally posted by hirofkd

I wish Aoshima takes just one more step and include the hood with air outlet, or includes a complete Super Endurance racer decal sheet.

Now you're talking Hiroaki :D :D

Hiroaki, slightly off topic, what are the chances of Fujimi re-releasing the limited edition S15 with aerokits (Garage Mak, CWestin, Esprit, etc.)?

Why don't you guys just buy carbon fiber stickers at your local shops? Or online? I know there "ment" for RICER Vehicles I mean real cars, but I MUCH RATHER see them on a model. hehe

Originally posted by Rtuned
Originally posted by Lowriders4Life
I got mine from what I is a major hobbyshop in Singapore, I didn't buy the models, a friend bought them there for me and I am paying him later. I'm not saying they have problems i'm sort of asking if Fujimi kits are meant to come with different things that aren't mentioned or used in them. The decal sheet I got was about half the size of a A4 piece of paper, and all that was on it were tuner decals..So did I score a tuner sheet by mistake or on purpose?
It seems like you are blamming Singapore hobby shop screw up your money...I hope you doesn't mean that. Because all the Fujimi are direct from Japan. The one screw up your pocket is Fujimi not Singapore, so if you don't mind, please don't keep mention Singapore hobby shop this...and that... Is simply not fair to the hobby shop in Singapore, thanks.
As for the extra decal came inside the models like Initial D, usually, those so called Initial D kit are actually the normal Tohge series, that's why they included the car maker sponcer decals. Keep it for your next tuned car. If you don't like it, I think there's alot of AF modelers don't to keep one...:rolleyes:

isn't Lowriders4Life saying that he got something good. it doesn't sound like he's bashing hobby shops in singapore. :huh:

Yeah, it'd be much better using aftermarket decals.
Here, I have Scale Motorsport, Modelers, Modelers (fine) and Fujimi decal.
http://files.automotiveforums.com/uploads/547724cf.jpg

> hiver77
No, I don't hear anything about tuned S15 reissue yet.