Tamiya s2000 with hardtop progress pics.

[Vric]

Originally posted by Hiroboy
So far so good, except that Nitrous bottle is way to large.

maybe this car is for terrorist that want to blow a peice of america ? ok ok i'm off

[sengming]

change in plan for my s2000. I don't think i'll stick with teh roll cage idea, and i'm gonna trash teh bottle or put it in a civic, add the second seat, giving it a stock look again.


Maybe if i feel up to it, i'll mod this car when i'm done: eventhough it's a bad idea right?

I'm looking foward to starting a civic project, you know that feeling you get when your working on a current car, but inside of you wants that other car.

[SuperStreet reader]

nice car N2O bottel too big

[73superduty]

sengming, it looks great! Build it how you want it, it's your kit.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I think that if you keep up with what you had planned that it will turn out better than expected and most on here would probably agree.
Good Luck!
Chris

[454SS]

Originally posted by 73superduty
sengming, it looks great! Build it how you want it, it's your kit.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I think that if you keep up with what you had planned that it will turn out better than expected and most on here would probably agree.
Good Luck!Chris

[hondaaccordboy21]

The nitrous is like 3 times to big. But everything else is nice. Good paint job.

[sengming]

ok..thanks for the advice..i decided to add teh roll cage after all. BUT i didn't stick the the cupper wire..it was too hard, funny looking and time consuming. I wasn't too good at it, and the fumes are . I instead chosed to use the platic tree parts from the model. They were cut then heated to be bended in shape. I did try to weld them but the fumes froms the platics is so i glued them in place. I'm very lazy, that's why i did not prepare them and so you can still see some left over pieces from the tree. They just need to be primed and painted. I'm also gonna change my exhaust with a homemade apex n1 style one.

[sengming]

this is made out of a straw and the housing of a pen.

[454SS]

Originally posted by sengming
this is made out of a straw and the housing of a pen.

on the exhaust very cool idea cheap and easy..but come on man u can do better than that with the cage.

[sengming]

Originally posted by 454SS
on the exhaust very cool idea cheap and easy..but come on man u can do better than that with the cage.

hehehe yea true. So what can i do to make it look better? well for starters: vut of the left over peices and sand it down. I think i wanna get some epoxy/putty, it seems very fun to mod and add stuff to your models. It ca also be used to join peices together LIKE my roll cage. But it's like $11.00 CAN soo like around $7.00 US. A bit expensive for a small tude. Can i just get any type of putty i find at the art store?

the exhaust is looks alittle big on the 1:24 scale models, BUT looks better on a 1:18 scale. I guess a smaller might looks better but i don't have anymore idea of how to make it smaller. I can't seem to find any of that strylene stuff and y LHS and don't like using the net to buy things.
thanks

[454SS]

for the cage strip it down instead of glueing your rear bars on top of the bulkhead glue them to the back(make sure you remove all the melted plastic i have a pic i can show you of my 8pt cage i built for my skyline it should help ya.

[sengming]

ok i've ditched the whole roll cage/race look idea. I've grown board of this project and just want to see it done, because i was just tryin the body on the chassie and it LOOKS SWWWEEETT enough to me. BUt i did mod the exhaust system by swaping it with a Ti (hehehe) apex N1 style exhaust. It should be a straight pipe which i spainted black and the tip is just silver with a coat of laquer(sp.) It's now a single tip instead of the dual exhaust set-up. But i LOVE single tips. here's a pic .

I'm just waiting for the paint to harden and then i will polish it and finish up the detail.