** In progress ** Fujimi 1/12 Skyline GTR R32 Nismo (updates w/ pix)

[skylinehks]

Hey all, I finally recieved my order from Hobby Link Japan yesterday, and today when I woke up, I decided to take a look at this beast of a kit Hiroboy once took pictures of his 1/12 GTR as well, and I can say that it is exactly the same, except since mine is Nismo body kit, then some parts are different of coruse, but the over all parts are more so the same. To me this looks like a BIG BIG version of a Tamiya R32, so I started building today, the engine RB26 itself took me about four hour to complete... well because I was painting and working as a I go, and of course looking at reference pictures slow you down alot too.





Right here are the two shots I took of the engine. I still have lots of work and detailing to do on this engine before I move forward on this kit... I used all metalizers in this engine block, judging from the reference pitures and the color call outs from the kit, I made my decisions to use what color on where and how. For instance, the Starter is also on the block, but to differenciate that, I airbrushed the metalizer on it to give it a not too black look, but the Starter, I used a brush to set it on.

Personally, I believe that the airbrush fade between the two metalizers are great, because they look like how it is in the GTR book, from japan town here in San Francisco. So, I am very happy with the results. I used black, aluminum, gold, and steel metalizers on the engine block, like for the Garret Turbos, I mixed one part gold, and one part steel metalizer to give it the distinct color that the turbos look like, and then used a small sponge to press on the turbo as I sprayed to give it a texturing effect.

Since it was a Nismo GTR afterall, I sorta got creative with the block cover, and used Red instead of black as a intention to mimic a JDM feel to the engine.



Fitting of this kit is a tough job, this kit, as it is big has many detailing that you can do and its nice, but sometimes the bigger kits, have harder molding I believe, so the fitting is not so good, I had to sand a lot under the hood to make it fit to the right size, atlease now there is no gap between the fender and the hood.

Neither the less, I took the opportunity to sand away at some of the mold lining on the plastic on the front.... I will slowly progress through to the back as I go. The car will be primered with black automotive primer, and then sprayed Nissan's real Gun Gray, I ordered from a automotive shop, color code is KH2. But I don't see myself doing that untitl next week more or so, but primming will be done this weekend if on shedule.



Lastly, Here is a comparison between my 1/24 baby R32 to this new 1/12 Scale R32... pretty mean eh? Parts are more so the same, execpt more engine detail, many things can be done with this model, I got all the wires to do the engine braking system, and some plastic hoses to link with certain things. I will reference more when I have time and match with pictures.

Thanks for dropping by, comments, advice, and questions are always welcome in my book.

[tc3house]

I dont believe I'm the first one to reply
Great looking GTR you got there.

[Hiroboy]

I will be following this thread with baited breath

I so want to get started on mine but I'm waiting for a R32 Referance book to come from Japan. I know the kit will take months as I want to fully detail the engine bay, thus scratch building 100's parts.

[bigfrit]

Very interesting progress thread,and well done! I can see you take all the neccessary steps like reference searching and so on , so this will be a beauty!

Keep it up, and us informed!
Olivier

[Schnitzermann]

Very interesting !!! Is it any quality in the parts and detalis? Course I´m into getting one of those 1/12 Big Skyline kits.

[flyonthewall]

Kewl! Look forward to seeing the results.

[Valentino]

[skylinehks]

thanks for the reply guys, I will try not to let u guys down.

ok, I forgot the formalities for the kit, so imma go ahead and introduce some stuff that I thought was astonishing or something new and "fresh" that I see from this kit...


the box is huge, when I first saw it at my door steps I was like... whao...
** comparison is the router and cable modems on the top left **


Regarding the kits nature, it is not all screws and bolt on, there are parts that must be glued. At the end of the day, the instructions are great, and they do not compromise the detail and they let you see more in a kit at this size. For example, the vents and holders on the engine are all seperate, the engine valve covers, so you can paint each one, and not worry about messing up on the paint when you prepaint everything before you snap or glue them down.


The plastics that they use, I believe is ABS plastic? It is written all over the box, and some parts on the body, when you add the extra nismo kits and spoliers, they ask you to use ABS glue, so I still need to get some of that stuff sooner or later.


The decals are something that was astonising to me, well one they are not water applied... they are stickers? I thought this was really crazy, because they got stickers for everything in the car, from the VIN plate, to the stickers on the speakers, and detail in the engine, brakes, individual stickers for the gauges and even Nismo sponsered decals for the model too.

The smaller stickers, are metal transfer stickers for the GTR sign on the back, the skyline sign on the hood, and the side GT markers too, all metal transfer

The black stuff on the right, are the window masks, you modellers all know, the part we hate the most, the window black painting stuff... NO fear Fujimi has helped us through on this one.

On the top left, that is actually the silver foil that has been precut so you can stick them to the headlights instead of painting them.

Lastly, the big blue block up there... is sorta mindful of Fujimi to think about, so then people who can't really paint the seats can use these... This is the two tone blue cloth on the black seats with the Nismo GTR... crazy eh? So just spray the seats Black, and then stick the stickers on the located areas and its done... simple eh?


These are some of the parts, that are ingenious, but I think a hold back to us modelers, because I would rather paint them clear red and orange, instead of them factory molded in this color, so modelers also have a choice to clear corner the side blinkers or anything in that nature. But I most likely will have to repaint them with the clear orange and red, but Im not sure how the nature of the two colors with mix... I hope it will not turn to dark or thick.


The quality of the plastics are good, nice detail and thought through for the modeller who wants to finish without doing anything scratch built or of that nature, the kit itself was for modelers who want a professional finish without painting or anything advance, I don't call this kit a kit for advance modellers because if one was to build one box and bone stock, it will be easy to do by the instructions. However, this is a Advanced modellers kit because there is so much room for personal touch ups and super detailing that the sky really is the limits. The engine detail, opening doors can reveal detailed pedal for the gas, brake, and clutch, you can do manything in this kit, just depends how how far you want to go with this kit.

OK, that is the formalities and introductions.

Thanks for dropping by

Peter

[Ghost_9418]

Wow, looks a like a really neat kit. How much did that cost?

[skylinehks]

Including shipping cost for UPS 3-5 days, and the kit from Hobby Link Japan

www.hlj.com

the total comes to a fee of 135 dollars, which is not bad at all for this kit, I feel that I got what I paid for.

[freelunch]

Let's see the wheels!

[bah humbug]

Looks great!

Man, the 1/24 version is really small.

[crismag]

wow! i want this kit!

[njh]

I be waiting to see it completed.
It really looks like a giant beside the 1/24 one.

[hobbes874]

WOW :22yikes: that's a huge kit!! It'll be awsome though the finnished version will be beastly awsome