WIP Hasegawa IMSA Toyota

[bvia]

Originally Posted by p9o1r1sche

Really clean build. Are the rims painted, machined, or something else? I have the TakaQ liveryied version of this same chassis. One day I'll get around to building it.

Porsche,
the rims are the stock Hasegawa styrene pieces painted with Model Master's Metallizer gunmetal. A really nice, deep, flat color with very small pigment. It really is a simple build with no surprises!

Thanks for the kind words,
Bill

[bvia]

Originally Posted by Ferrari TR

Looks good.

The centerlocks should be red on one side and blue on the other...
I forget which?!?!?

I've got another (the ND car?) if anyone needs one.

I always thought a street car version would be cool... Maybe the Supra 2020... lol

I hope you're wrong...;-)>

but I'll have to recheck the manual. I knew that some teams did this, but thought it really didn't take off until the Le Mans GT1 years...

Thanks for the comments!

Bill

[bvia]

Originally Posted by RallyRaider

That Hasegawa kit looks to be a beauty and you've done a great job with it thus far Bill.
Great pics too, my favourite is the backlit photo, really cool effect.

Thanks Phil!

I was looking for a way to show the silhouette AND my many hours of wet sanding and polishing ;-)>

Bill

[Vric]

very clean built.. I love it

[willimo]

Wow! Fancy! How are you going to incorporate the coming PE? Are you going to just disassemble it? Gorgeous, I love this thing.

[sportracer02]

Originally Posted by bvia

Micha,
I tried that, but the black was almost too shocking of a color. I think I'm going to try various shades of grey until I find something I'm happy with. Thanks for the tip!

Bill

Hi Bill,

try some black ink you usually use for a pen. It can be thinned with water to a grey shade and then fits the white panels.

Micha

[bvia]

Originally Posted by willimo

Wow! Fancy! How are you going to incorporate the coming PE? Are you going to just disassemble it? Gorgeous, I love this thing.

Willimo,
I'm betting the PE set will be mostly external(fasteners, wing end plates, etc) + seat belt and radiator screens. This should allow me to easily incorporate them as the body has yet to be glued to the chassis...you can just make out the masking tape holding everything together...;-)>

Thanks for the comments!

Bill

[MidMazar]

excellent build

[Doug E Fresh]

The model is beautiful! What a stunning paintjob.

[Technoman]

Great build, awesome car. Strangley one just popped up on eBay too..

[willimo]

Originally Posted by bvia

Willimo,
I'm betting the PE set will be mostly external(fasteners, wing end plates, etc) + seat belt and radiator screens. This should allow me to easily incorporate them as the body has yet to be glued to the chassis...you can just make out the masking tape holding everything together...;-)>

Thanks for the comments!

Bill

And here I thought that was the, erm, aerodynamic tape raceteams use to cover body panel gabs. I guess that's how much I trust your models!

[123yokomo]

great