[SkylineFan]

This Tamiya kit build up will be featured in Model Cars Magazine in the May/June issue I am told. I have to have it complete along with the article by the end of April!! This is why my POC pontiac has been put on temporary hold.

Here is the real car..... what a ride!!!!



Since I am pressed for timne, I quickly worked it into paint this weekend. I cleaned and sanded all the body components with 600 and 1000 grit paper. Then I primed it all with tamiya grey surface primer followed up by duplicolor white sandable primer so the color will be nice and bright. I wish tamiya primer was not so costly. The stuff is so smooth!!!

After a few days of curing I hit the parts with Cobra Colors Rosso Corsa Ferrari red. This was cleared with 3 coats of Dupont Croma clear 7500S. It still needs to be polished (few pieces of trash) but I find the Dupont to be real easy to work with and dries to a fantastic wet look shine. More to come soon......



Finished polishing all the body parts. I even decaled the bonnet. I was dying to see what it looked like!!!







This is the chassis underpan. All the CF is SMS decal cleared with 3 coats of future applied with an airbrush. I replaced all the molded kit bolts with PRO TECH .030 PE bolts...... I imagine the entire belly is CF on the real car but I like the contrast of the black along with the CF.... makes for a nice appearance in my opinion.





Wheels were [ainted Tamiys TS-29 Semi gloss black. Decals were applied from the kit sheet for the red outlines (just like a cup car!! 8) ) I added inspection dots that are in pics I have seen of the real car. The center nuts were painted silver and then hit with a few coats of clear red topped with tamiya decals.



Finally all panels are polished and assembled for a test fit..... its looking like an FXX!!!


The most time consuming part of building an enzo is the tedious carbon fiber decal application. Especially as complex as the enzo is.... Here are a few pics of the dash using regular weave 1:24 decal from SMS. I cleared the decals with Future. The dash bolts are from Pro Tech and Model Car Garage. ( I need to flip one of them over... shows the blue side!! 8)




Alot of work went into the interior floor pan, bulkhead, and rear inner firewalls along with the sides of the chassis. All done in Regular weave CF by SMS all cleared with a few light coats of future.. Here are some mocked up pics with the dash





Finally the beggining of the engine. I primed it lightly to give it slight texture and then shot it with alclad aluminum.





More updates soon!!

DaveT