SAS Kaminari Celica Progress Thread

[Veyron]

Lookin' sweet! Find some cooler mirrors for it.

[flyonthewall]

Originally posted by Veyron
Lookin' sweet! Find some cooler mirrors for it.

alternative mirrors

[Focus2000]

It's looking Love the rims, they really seem to suit the Celica. Will the article be accessible via the web? Will we be able to see your friends 350Z?

This is all great for Chris and the success of SAS, the more exposure his kits get the more we're likely to see being developed

[ZoomZoomMX-5]

Originally posted by Veyron
Lookin' sweet! Find some cooler mirrors for it.

Yeah, these mirrors do tend to look like "Dumbo ears", and they don't fit very well either. I'll scratch around for something!

I like Chris's idea too, but more along the lines of oval mirrors instead. Maybe some early Miata mirrors, which have a thin mount and oval shape will work.

[ZoomZoomMX-5]

Originally posted by Focus2000
It's looking Love the rims, they really seem to suit the Celica. Will the article be accessible via the web? Will we be able to see your friends 350Z?

This is all great for Chris and the success of SAS, the more exposure his kits get the more we're likely to see being developed

Thanks for the comments! These rims look tailor-made for this car with this body kit. And the fact that they come w/big cross-drilled brake rotors that will fit the Tamiya suspension, and Tamiya-style pins molded to the rims, they fit like a glove. They are 17's, I tried some 18's but they were too big.

Time will tell w/the articles, it depends on when they get them and when they publish them. I forgot to take my digital camera over there this weekend, but when the Z gets further along I'll get some digital pics too. Right now I'm taking lots of slides since they are better suited towards publishing.

[Verminator]

Nice job, your right about the wing though, the kanimari kit is subtle so good to go with the kit spoiler.

[ZoomZoomMX-5]

The SAS Kaminari Celica slowly comes along, today I wet polished the first coats of blue w/3200 grit in anticipation of respraying it. After polishing, I detailed all the panel lines w/my black .005 Pigma Micron pen. The black lines still show through the successive light coats of blue, looking very realistic. A few coats of clear to seal the blue, later I will add some blue carbon fiber and another round of clear.

I'm very happy w/the stance of the car, it lowered very easily (from Chris' tutorial), and the XS rims/brakes fit amazingly well. Steering still perfect. I also used some old-school GM racing style mirrors, I didn't like the "Dumbo ears" look of the stockers.



More coming in the next week or so!

[daggerlee]

Looking nice! Just wondering, won't the coats of clear cause the panel lines to have a glossy, unrealistic look?

[tazdev]

Nice job.

The extra time and effort put into closing up the pannel lines makes for one sweet looking model.

[tonioseven]

Great work so far! Now that I have the transkit, I gues I should go ahead and buy the Celica kit to go with it! Thanks for sharing the progres with us!