Nissan Silvia S15

This is a quick project I've started this year.

It's Aoshima's Nissan Silvia Spec. R (S15) kit built almost SOOTB.

Here are some photos of what has been done this last couple of days:

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a328/marcopreto/Nissan%20Silvia%20S15%20_%20iridiscent%20purple/S15_purple_01.jpg

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a328/marcopreto/Nissan%20Silvia%20S15%20_%20iridiscent%20purple/S15_purple_02.jpg

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a328/marcopreto/Nissan%20Silvia%20S15%20_%20iridiscent%20purple/S15_purple_03.jpg

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a328/marcopreto/Nissan%20Silvia%20S15%20_%20iridiscent%20purple/S15_purple_04.jpg

I hope you like it.

Cheers

Marco Preto

Nice colour choice...but looks like you've got some serious orange peel. What colour is that btw? Looks a little bit candy-like. Glad to see more S15's amongst all the GTR's :smile:

Yes, there is a lot of Orange peel! I still need to give it another clear coat. Then it will be the usual sanding and polishing to get a nicer shine!

The color is a mix of a cheap iridencent nail polish (that I "borrowed" from a girlfriend) and a bit of Mr. Color Clear blue and Clear Red, applied over a silver base coat.

Cheers

Marco Preto

Looks good to me, just sand/polish out the oj.

This weekend I've worked on the interior. After some problems with the primer (latter resulting in having to do lots of touch ups) here is the result:

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a328/marcopreto/Nissan%20Silvia%20S15%20_%20iridiscent%20purple/S15_purple_05.jpg

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a328/marcopreto/Nissan%20Silvia%20S15%20_%20iridiscent%20purple/S15_purple_06.jpg

While pulling out all the masking done on the seats and other parts, some portions of the paint were pulled off. I had to do many touch ups but in some places, the messed up paint job is still very noticeable, even under all the paint.

Cheers

Marco Preto

Wow the interior looks flawless, i can't tell where you pulled off the paint. Keep it going.

Nice very nice, love the addition of the seatbelts

Looking good so far!

i agree i cant see the flaw .....but great work i like it

the interior looks great, what did u use for the carpet mat?:tongue:

The carpets were made using the technic you can find on the tutorial section (alternative way to flock interiors). I use it to make the carpets and paint them because I don't have dark gray flock (I'm using flock originally intended for creating foliage on model trees, but under some paint it looks ok and have a rougher texture than "auto" flock which I think is ok for the texture of carpets).

Here are some photos of the (more or less) completed model (I'm still trying to minimize some of the orange peel):

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a328/marcopreto/Nissan%20Silvia%20S15%20_%20iridiscent%20purple/S15_purple_07.jpg

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a328/marcopreto/Nissan%20Silvia%20S15%20_%20iridiscent%20purple/S15_purple_08.jpg

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a328/marcopreto/Nissan%20Silvia%20S15%20_%20iridiscent%20purple/S15_purple_09.jpg

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a328/marcopreto/Nissan%20Silvia%20S15%20_%20iridiscent%20purple/S15_purple_12.jpg

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a328/marcopreto/Nissan%20Silvia%20S15%20_%20iridiscent%20purple/S15_purple_14.jpg

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a328/marcopreto/Nissan%20Silvia%20S15%20_%20iridiscent%20purple/S15_purple_15.jpg

Cheers

Marco Preto

Definitely lower the rear, it looks a bit wrong to me. Maybe also because the wheels don't seem to sit flush with the body (which btw, apart from the orange peel, is gorgeous!). I love what you've done with everything else but for some reason it's just the wheels that look odd. I also like the slight weathering you've done on the chassis.

Wow, to me the wheels look fine. I really love the heat shield below the muffler, and the weathering. This almost looks finished, you know we have a completed section, get that beast in there.