R34 Nismo Z-Tune

[circuitR]

91p10nizmo: The carpet comes with the PE kit.

sportracer02: I use scale motorsport PE harness kits, they come with seatbelt material.

Thanks for looking, hopefully I will have the red base coat on this weekend.

[Wheelin75r]

Keep it commin'!!

[circuitR]

I couldn't help myself, I had to see how those rims looked. I can't wait to get this painted, but this will be my first car that I will be painting with an airbrush, so I need to go to a car painter to get some laquer paint.
Sorry about the first 2 pics as it was late in the afternoon.
I also did the intercooler mesh with the nismo stencil. God damn it came out better than I thought!



Comments welcome

[g00eY]

rims and intercooler look great!

[Feint Motion]

Looks Great so far. I think you should Beef up that FMIC.

[blueboost]

sweeet

[thewhiteguyone]

nice progress...i have some questions. how are you airbrushing the exhaust to make it look that way...i've been trying to figure it out for a little bit now. also, how did you black wash the PE parts?

[circuitR]

thewhiteguyone: Firstly I painted it chrome silver and then using a fine nozzle I freehand the joins and dump pipes. To get the feathered look I held the pipe upright and sprayed from side to side.

As for the PE parts, I did'nt weather the brake disks. But the pedals I just used semi gloss black and wiped the excess off with a cotton bud.

I hope that helps you.

[circuitR]

Heya guys, finally got a chance to paint the car.
Now this is the first car I have painted with my airbrush. I used PPG Deep Black.
I'm a little dissapointed as there is quite a bit of orange peel, but I did'nt wanna get paint runs. Also it has showed up the putty marks that were not visible on the primer where I filled the spoiler holes.







Now for a question. Should I sand it with 2000 grit to get rid of the orange peel? Or do I just compound the crap out of it?
Cheers
Blair

[Feint Motion]

Wet sand with 1500 grit then work your way up to 2000 grit.
Nice color.

[circuitR]

That's what I wanted to hear. That's what I'll be doing tomorrow.
Then hopefully I will get a clearcoat on tomorrow.

[ImolaEK]

Originally Posted by circuitR

That's what I wanted to hear. That's what I'll be doing tomorrow.
Then hopefully I will get a clearcoat on tomorrow.

Yea, i'd just wet sand it down with 2000 grit. Hopefully once the clear is on it will be more even Seems like the paint was too hot for the putty Happens all the time. This mishap is a perfect reason why this baby needs a spoiler

[MidMazar]

Looking very nice, the peel isn't that bad nothing 2000 can get out. I wanna see this one done, the intercooler came out super clean.

[circuitR]

Originally Posted by ImolaEK

Yea, i'd just wet sand it down with 2000 grit. Hopefully once the clear is on it will be more even Seems like the paint was too hot for the putty Happens all the time. This mishap is a perfect reason why this baby needs a spoiler

Being a newbie to mixing my own colours, I'm guessing too hot means to much thinners?
Thanks for looking

[circuitR]

Well I have basically got no fingers left as I have been sanding and polishing for hours.
First of all, I sanded the car back with 1000 grit to get rid of the bad orange peel, then I used 2000 grit, gave it another coat of black. Rubbed it down again with 2K grit and then polished it with Mr Hobby super fine compound, quite pleased with the result.
It just needs a clear coat now. If I still have an arm.




Thanks for looking.