Nissan Skyline R32 GTR

[chaos]

After about 6 years away from the plastic, and smell of paint and glue, I decided to attempt a 'comeback' into modelling. Dusted off this Tamiya kit from a small pile of models I had collected when I was actively building. Having lost all my modelling gear due to some heavy rain, I had to buy all the basics again.

It was fun getting back into it...and frustrating at the same time. Made a number of errors along the way: bought the incorrect nib for the Sharpie and ruined the panel lines, polished through the raised lines along the door and had a weird reaction to filling in the spoiler holes on the trunk (was fine when I applied the primer but then the putty kinda rose up after I started painting - go figure). But I'm putting it down to the 're-learning' process!

Painted TS-8 from the can and added the Hobby Design P/E kit (I must say the amount of after market stuff has sure grown in the last 6 years). I had planned for the hood and side mirrors to be carbon-fibered, but after 2 abysmal attempts at C/F'ing the hood, I decided to leave well enough alone and painted it semi-gloss black.

Apologies for the lousy pix, rather overcast here.

[Veyron]

Nice one!

[stevenoble]

Very nice, love the colour..!!!

[ketje]

Looks very sober, but nice. What problems did you have with the CF decals?

[Hiroboy]

Loving the R32

[chaos]

Thanks guys.

Originally Posted by ketje

Looks very sober, but nice. What problems did you have with the CF decals?

First time with the SMS CF, I fiddled around too much and ripped it. Second time around, everything was fine - however, I left it out to dry and I guess it was too hot and the CF looked like it was almost burnt with small rips all over the place.

[da_ashman]

Looks great in red! Welcome back to the hobby, what are you going to do next?

[Umihito]

Nice looking one with clear finish! Welcome back to modeling!
I like your choice of colors.

What's next?? New GTR?