In progress - Honda S2000

[bkvj]

wow it looks awesome! i loved the exhaust when it was grey, the black made it al bit less, but its your car...

keep it up man!!1

[mickbench]

The Honda S2000 is not dead. Rather it was me that was ill. I had to take a break as I was pretty ill, but yesterday I made a fresh start, and started to mask the entire body off ready for trimming.



I turned the body upside down and sprayed the inside black, in attempts to deepen the yellow.



I then carefully sprayed semi gloss black to all the car trim, and underseals.



Once dried, I pulled the tape off, and was plesnetly shocked when I saw no tape had leaked. I also polished the body again (again..!!) and also applied some wax. It needs another wax, as I am leaving finger prints all over it, as I work in the details etc.



Looks good with the black roof. Now, who ever decided that the rear lights were to be mostly painted on the body needs shooting. Its so damn hard to get it right. After hours of work I’ve come up with this sorry effort.. Best I could do. Still need to mount the rear light lens, and lens covers. One is on for show but not fixed down.



And finally a side shot of the body with the trim, light covers etc.. Not bad for a total armature.



That its, still lots more to do.. Will my Honda ever be completed..!! Hope so..

[Feint Motion]

Nice!

[Merkava]

Every man is his own worst critic. This model is simply gorgeous! Your "attempt" on the rear lights is fantastic, so keep at it and finish! The members of AF should get to see this yellow beauty.

P.S. Congrats on not having any bleeds in your trim-painting. Even the most advanced modelers sometimes still screw that part up.

[klutz_100]

awsome job! your TLK is reaping huge dividends as this comes together. a really clean build - well done

[Wheelin75r]

Everything looks so clean! Keep it up.

[mickbench]

Originally Posted by Merkava

Every man is his own worst critic. This model is simply gorgeous! Your "attempt" on the rear lights is fantastic, so keep at it and finish! The members of AF should get to see this yellow beauty.

I'm working on it, and I hope to be finished soon. I've still got a lot to do. Rear lights need some parts fixing in, plus a bit of a tidy up. Front lights need attaching, body metal transfer etc..

Also need to flock the carpets, and fix all the inside together. Also need to paint the windows etc.. Might be a simple kit, but some of the painting isn't easy. The lights are VERY hard to paint correctly, and the underchassis has a complicated fuel tank to mask off.

Thanks for the comments guys. Hopefully, this Yellow S2000 will be making it's debut in the Completed secton soon enough.

[crisjr]

it´s a really nice s2k!!.. if you are amateur.. i don´t know what i am!!!..

Cris
www.scaleimportracer.com

[sjelic]

Fantastic work, to bad you had so much trouble with side indicators, I had a lot of trouble with those kind of things in the past, but now I do only one way, body gets full acrylic treatement and all other colours that go on are MM enemals, you can paint, wipe of repaint, wash, and wipe it all of again with no problem.
But this yellow of yours is perfect, I don't think I could pull it out like that with acrylics.
Nice job.

[mickbench]

Another update, this time I’ve done the front lights. Which have not gone too bad. Hard to paint the black trim, but I did it. Looks nice, I also did the indicators orange.



But, I’ve done the rear lights, and I’ve right pi***d this up…!! I think I could have done a better job if I was drunk. I had no idea that the silver behind the rear red brake light would show once mounted. I did a test fit, and it fitted all right. I can’t get it back out, and now I’ve got a silver ring around the brake, and not a very nice silver outline showing around the rear brake lights on both sides… What a total mess..!! I left the other side in attempts to make it match.. Hasn’t worked…!!



I tried to get the part out again, but it won’t budge. I tried blue tack, toothpicks, everything, it’s well wedged in… I didn’t push it that hard either, it’s tamiya and there fitment. They fit really well sometimes, so well you don’t even need glue. Don’t know what I can do, as I tried to paint the silver black, but this made it look even worse, as I can’t paint a perfect circle around the brake light part, so after a few goes, I gave up. Problem is I like it to be PERFECT. And this is far from perfection.



And, to make matters even worse, I got some black paint on the rear panels, when painting the almost impossible rear light backings… So I used a bit of compound to remove it… Didn’t notice at first, but once I have mounted ( and swore at the rear light parts) and then waxed the whole lot, there is a small amount of white primer showing.. Argh..!!! This is turning to rot..!!

I’ve now decided that any attempts to fix any of this will only make it worse, it always does, so this is it. Buggered up rear brake lights, and a small burn through with the bodywork paint. It was one of those nights when I should have just walked away. But I’ve learnt from this, when it does bad, walk away and go to it the next day. Another lesson learnt.

[D_LaMz]

Wow, looking very good!

[mickbench]

Another update, done the metal transfers, decals etc..



I don’t know what I did wrong, but the S2000 badge on one side just wouldn’t stay on. I cut the transfer, applied and rubbed on as per instructions. Did nothing different then what I did with the rest of the transfers. In fact done this before with other builds, but it just fell off. Defective perhaps? The backing paper wasn’t stuck down to well. And it did have a small crease in it, so perhaps it was buggered from the start. I don’t know. Anyhow, managed to bodge it on using white glue.. Hope it stays on..!! What else could I do. I guess I could order replacements from Tamiya spares. I’ve got the kit again, but what a waste for just one small transfer. I would rather get a spare, or if it does fall off, just forget it..






And a few shots of the body mounted on the chassis. A little high, as I have not clicked the body into place, so it won’t be this high when completed.



Also managed to tidy up best I could the rear lights. Feel a little happier but this isn’t going to be the show model I really wanted.



I’ll do the windows next, then that’s it, I’m stuck until I get some black flocking. It’s on order, but I’ve not got it yet. I may as well have a go at flocking. Got to learn, as now this model is not perfect, it won’t matter much that the flocking is a test attempt. Who knows, it might turn out really great..!!

[KTem]

Wow! This definately looks great! Really, you shouldn't be too harsh on yourself... it looks good!

[AstroRide44]

looks very good, esepcially the lights.

[crisjr]

Uou!!. you´re doing a great job.. rear lights it´s not bad as you think!!.. IMO..

I don´t know about you.. but usually i use BMF instead painting with silver.. why don´t u try it..

Cris
www.scaleimportracer.com