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Old 03-25-2005, 05:32 AM   #31
snk33y
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Hi guys, the weather has finally cleared so i was able to spray the car with Tamiya white primer, its not the most glamourous part of the build but the model's overall finish will depend on the preparation before laying down the paint. The first primer coat will always show imperfections,bumps or small scratches.

I wasnt surprised to see that the surface was still a far from perfect, i wanted to give the car a clean look so i puttied up the side strips that runs through the side of the car. After the primer was laid down it was ovious that i didnt do this properly in some areas.



After looking over the model i wasnt really happy the way the front end looked it just looked too long, i think this front end wasnt to scale it also looked plain. I decided to put the car under the knife again and cut out the retractable lights just to break it up a bit and was considering giving the car a "sleepy eyed" look.



Looking at the car for sometime i still wasnt quite happy so i decided to have a bit of a dig around my parts box and found some neat projector light housing, it was from an NSX by memory, i found some spare brake discs and calipers which should look nice and will complement the TE37 wheels that will be used on this car.



I also added some sheet styrene to break up the huge mouth on the front bar,never been a big fan of the huge gaping front mouth on the veilside kits,simple adition of this piece makes it look better, the radiator now looks right before this modification the radiator leaves a huge gap in between.


This build up wasnt really suppose to get this complex but early fit problems made it so, but im really enjoying it. Thanks again for the feedback and encouragement, will try to post as much info and pics every few days.

Last edited by snk33y; 03-25-2005 at 07:07 AM.
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