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Old 03-21-2005, 06:33 PM   #13
snk33y
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Thanks for the encouragement guys, anyway here is a quick update,all seems to be going as planned, although encountered more some more problems as you could see from the pictures below. These Fujimi multi media kit does seem to have a lot of fit problems and will require a bit of work to make it look right. Here i was wanting a quick build, was i wrong, that said im actually having a bit of fun doing this project.


It was time to cut the side sils and part of the intake vents, again pretty boring stuff but a bit of care is required so that the panel cut is straigh otherwise the resing parts will not sit straight in the bottom of the door sills.


Yay another problem!! not as drastic as the front end but easily fixed, as you can see the resin was moulded short so i had to put in some sheet styrene to compensate for it, if left alone the door lines will not line up properly since the shape of the MR2 doors has a complex curve that leads into the side air intakes. The front of the side skirt also falls short so some more styrene is stuck on to line it up with the front wheel arch.


Here it is after its been glued and with a slight sand,perfect fit, undecided if i was to scribe panel lines to separate it later on, im also filling the side molds to give the car a smooth clean line.


Now to the rear end, pretty straight forward cut since it was just a straight cut, big difference compared to the standard bar, i have a few ideas that will be carrying out on this at a later stage.


Well what do you know another problem! the rear bar falls short and will require some styrene and a bit of putty work should be an easy fix.


Just placed some sheet styrene here to line it up with the wheel arch, the rear back is just a fraction out so it will require a small amount of putty near the tail lights to tidy it up
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