**Completed! Scale Auto Style 350Z! hella lot of pix!

[.porkchop.]

Well, here it is! Its finnally completed.
I've included the entire build in this thread, in case you guys would miss the original thread. You can see the "process" pictures in all the stages of mounting, moulding, primer and final paint. Great kit by tamiya, Awesome body kit By Scale Auto Style (Chris aka Flyonthewall).

kit: Tamiya 350Z
body kit: Cwest full body kit from Scale Auto Style
colour: Custom mixed airbrushed White+Silver+babyblue+gunmetal+pearlecent blue pearl+blue pearl+red pearl+yellow pearl!!!!!!!!!
Wheels: Andrew Racing Dish painted gunmetal
Interior: Purple Pearl + gunmetal+ flat grey+ semigloss black colour scheme.
Mods:lowered suspension, the SAS bodykit, custom made rear bumper valance, rerouted exhuast, GT wing, blacked out headlamps, mesh in grills.

Phew..that was a mouthfull..well pictures tell a thousand words..so here goes:

comments expected!!! hope u guys like it as much as i do. :jumpie:

process stages:










primer stage





the finished product!

the camera doesnt pick up the pearls very well!! =(














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[TURBO_EK4]

Very very nice.

[Vric]

Look awersome ! really like the interior !

I can't wait to get this kit !

[Mean_B16]

looks sweet! I really wish I had the stuff to make kits like that, it takes me SOooooooooooooooooooo long to build my kits from scratch, this would cut my modeling time in HALF ( of course I would still have to build a custom original to mold the kit after.)

[SuPeRcAr_MaN]

I love it. This is one of the nicest 350Zs, and there have been a lot built. Very nice work.

[mhpspeed]

Looks good are you planning to add panel lines?

[SuPeRcAr_MaN]

I don't see what the big deal is with panel lines. No offense to P-Man, but I don't think it makes the model look very realistic. When you look at a car, you don't notice big black lines. I think if you do them, do them in a darker shade of the body color. I think that would look better than black. Just my oppinion.

[Suislide]

no you don't notice BIG BLACK lines, but there ARE black gaps in between the seperate panels on a car. you will NEVER see a car where the paint flows seamlessly throughout the whole car, so panel lines are the best way we have so far to replicate the gaps to make the car look as realistic as possible.

porkchop - good job on the car. the rear wheels stick out a good bit! does the paint have more of a color-flipping element on the back, because i seem to see some hints of yellow in the back bumper that look to be the same color as the resin.

[.porkchop.]

Originally posted by mhpspeed
Looks good are you planning to add panel lines?

I am debating that..if i can find a grey permanent marker then i will add panel lines..not paint..i dont want to risk destroying the paint job. I like it the way it is right now tho!

[.porkchop.]

Originally posted by S13_Iketani
no you don't notice BIG BLACK lines, but there ARE black gaps in between the seperate panels on a car. you will NEVER see a car where the paint flows seamlessly throughout the whole car, so panel lines are the best way we have so far to replicate the gaps to make the car look as realistic as possible.

porkchop - good job on the car. the rear wheels stick out a good bit! does the paint have more of a color-flipping element on the back, because i seem to see some hints of yellow in the back bumper that look to be the same color as the resin.

Yes the paint is the color flipping kind in certain light. The yellow u see is the yellow pearl i added..i guess the lighting when i took that shot showed it..its all over the car..and its not resin

[njh]

I think the color does not suit the 350Z. But nice kit though.
Some parts seems to have a bit of greyish color.

[integra818]

whao, that thing is crazy lookin, I like it. BUt if I built it, I would have mixed more blue and silver in the paint, it would'ev gave it more color. But it looks excellent !

[primera man]

Im sure Chris well be proud of another body kit

Great looking job on the car and good thread also.

PS....I'm not gonna say another word about panel lines :finger: :finger: :finger:

[.porkchop.]

Originally posted by integra818
whao, that thing is crazy lookin, I like it. BUt if I built it, I would have mixed more blue and silver in the paint, it would'ev gave it more color. But it looks excellent !

yeah i love blue, most of my cars are blue..i was trying to move away from that, so heck..a really light shade of blue seemed to be the answer hehehe...theres alot of silver pearl in it..the camera doesnt pick it up

[integra818]

I think it's a really light shade of blue and it does'nt show it in the pics. The 2002 mercedes s500 comes in a realy light blue, it probably looks like that does'nt it? I don't know if you've seen the mercedes, but if you have, then you know what I'm talking about. Or does it look like the backround color of this post?????