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Originally Posted by 7th_skyline
I've ordered another one from HLJ and I'm going to redo mine, because my paint looks ok in photos but its horrible close up (funnily enough, it reacted really badly on the first paintjob in metallic dark blue tamiya paint, then when I stripped and primeredit it was ok in tamiya primer, but with the candy lime it reacted and cracked on the roof and bootlid...).
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I'd just go for automtive paints. I don't often have problems with them providing you paint carefully and lightly for the first few coats ...and make sure the primer covers all the bare plastic
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Originally Posted by 7th_skyline
Also, on the problems with the kit, did you have troubles with the body sitting too high on the chassis when you first fitted it up? I had to mess around for ages to get it to sit down right, it originally sat about 4mm too high up :o And yeah, on the next one I'm going to fit the passage GT projector lenses in, I had them ready but wimped out this time.
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Yeah, if you look at the pics of mine in some shots you can see the edge of the chassis below the sill. It wouldn't go in that last 3-4mm without a lot of re-engineering of the interior so I didn't bother.
I just lowered the suspension enough to make up for it. It really isn't a very good kit. This one was the Tommy Kaira kit but i suspect most of the Fujimi R31 kits are probably the same. Does Aoshima make an R31? I haven't had a look to find out.
I think if I did it again I'd probably make some custo headlights with clear, non-textured lenses and multi surfaced reflectors like some modern cars have. Trick to make on such a small item but it'd look cool.
