well i've been a bit bored chillin at home, though i've got some anime i could watch.
i got this for my brother as a gift a while back and its been sittin here collecting dust. I hit up google and searched for a forum of model builders, to get some help.
This place is great, after starting this project and reading numerous How-To's, FAQS, other WIP's, finished products, i'm seriously interested in persuing more builds.
This again is my first build and i'm learning alot while i go. The FAQS have been a huge help and i wanna say thanks to all those who've contributed.
Its a FUJIMI model, and the body kit is made of aluminum/body is plastic. I had to remove the side skirts and rear bumper if i wanted to use the veilside kit. Fitment wasn't too big of an issue, i was careful removing the plastic parts.
I masked the area just in case the dremmel slipped a tad, and hacked off the bits. I then used a finger nail file to sand down for an exact fit. Took it out to the garage and got a few coats of primer on it.
When that was done, i used modeling spot filler to clean up the itty bitty spaces. Had to wait for it to dry before sanding and a getting another coat of primer.
I wet sanded it going from course to fine, getting the imperfections out, along with smoothing out the body filler. Then applied a bit more spot filler for final touch ups.
I put this away to dry and attacked the underbody and interior pieces. I cut out every last piece and hot glued them to wooden chopsticks so i could spray them down with primer.
decided to go with a satin black for the interior and some red for accent bits. The undercarrage, dash, center console were finished first
and 1 disk, cause i wanted to see what it would look like :laugh:
I plan on painting it Arctic Blue Metallic, and have already applied 4coats of "Pure White" paint so the blue wouldn't be so dark.
I personally wanna thank GTI1800 for the "How-to: Make Wide Brimmed Wheels" I added a bit something so the rim had a nice slant into the lip.
Took a strip of stryene and sanded down the edge on one side. So it kinda looked like this < , then got a straight edge and cut the slant off the strip. After attaching the lip to the wheel, i then glued in these slants to have a nice gradual slope, instead of a harsh edge.
This alone took me half a day
i plan on priming and painting them tomorrow.
I'm also going to apply the first coat of Blue tomorrow and am lookin forward to it.
Thanks for looking, any comments and/or suggestions are more than welcome