Built mainly OOB, this is the plain white version of this kit (love this idea, just add the colours of your choice) to which I’ve added the Studio27 “Flying Lizard” IMSA 2009 decals. Painted with Tamiya TS-49 Bright Red and TS-76 Mica Silver, with details picked out by hand. The wheels are the nice FG resin replacements (separate wheel-nuts made painting easy) which unfortunately have slightly the wrong offset at the front, and I used some of Studio27’s p/e for the wing stays, tow hooks, seat belts, body clips and brake disc faces. The front and rear undertray plus the wing end plates and the back of the seat are covered in Scale Motorsport 1/24 carbon fibre which, as usual, laid down perfectly. Brembo caliper decals are Crazy Modeller.
Fujimi have really excelled themselves with this kit. The fit everywhere is perfect, such as the undertrays mating perfectly with the body, and the windows are a good enough fit to click in without glue. The surface detail is really nice, and there are very few sink or release marks. The only minor criticism I would have is with the door inners which are plain as they should be more 3D. Body colour is correct for the door inners for this car, so I just added some door-pulls made out of looped masking tape. The floor has moulded-in wiring which, when picked out with paint, looks quite ok after the body is fitted.
The only thing I found with the excellent decal set is one of the American flags appears to be printed backwards and I may have used it in the wrong place. Loads of options on the sheet more than make up for this.
A quick build with no problems. I’ve got the plain Z4 with some decals on the way and hope it’s up to this standard.
