Nissan Skyline 2000 GT-R (KPGC10) "Hakosuka"

[Deadmau5]

Hello guys, This is my project of my favorite japanese classic car: the Nissan Skyline 2000 GTR (KPGC10) "The Hakosuka". Hako (ハコ) that means box in Japanese, and suka（スカ） is short for Skyline (スカイライン; Sukairain)

My subject of choice is this Hakosuka, modified by a japanese tuner called RS Start

One of my favorite things about this special Skyline is the use of carbon fiber in the hood. I´m not a big fan of the carbon fiber hoods on cars but for some reason in this particular car it seems appropriate to me...

The Kit




The Hakosuka is available in kit form from Tamiya and Fujimi, I preferred the Tamiya one because it depicts a full engine detail and the Fujimi is curbside

In the box It's all you need to build a classic Hakosuka but the wheels are stock, so if you want to build it with the classic Watanabe wheels, you have to get them from Fujimi

The Watanabe wheels from Fujimi have a very good mold and come with propper Advan 15" tires

Some progress in the engine...

[Marianitem]

Looking niiiice!

I´m actually on 60% progress of a Fujimi Nostalgic Racer kit, and using those "speedhunters" pics as reference.
Where did you get the side fenders and front lip from? I had to make the lip myself.

I´m following.

[crisjr]

Very nice project, i also intend to build this model .. very soon btw, i would appreciate if you could post some pros, cons, issues.. and what you did to fix it

I'll follow this one..

[CrewDawg15]

Nice. This kit builds really well...I built one when they first came out many, many years ago. The front spoiler and overfenders looks really good.

Jimmy

[MidMazar]

Heat staining is top notch.

[chaos]

Will definitely be following this one.

Originally Posted by Marianitem

Where did you get the side fenders and front lip from?

I'm curious to know as well. Did you scratch build them?

[Deadmau5]

Originally Posted by chaos

Will definitely be following this one.



I'm curious to know as well. Did you scratch build them?

Hello, Thanks for your comments.

The front lip and front side fenders are from another kit of the Skyline 2000 GTR KPGC110 (Ken & Mary) from Fujimi, it comes with a "full works" kit of fenders, wheel arches and spoilers that I´m not using to build it, so I modified them to fit the Tamiya Hakosuka in the front wheel arches, the front lip in the Fujimi kit is actually wider so I cutted in half, trimmed like 3 mm and then it fitted well.
The rear wheel arches are included in the Tamiya kit in black plastic, so only the front ones needed to be replaced.
Also I´m planning to use the air funnels for the carburetors from the Fujimi kit, because the Tamiya doesn´t included them in the box. I tried to make it from scratch using copper tubes widening one end of the tube, but the results where not that good , but is an option when you don´t have anything else...

[rollin80s]

sweet looking hako. keep up the great job.

[Deadmau5]

After a quite busy week, some advances with the Hako...
I started with the Carbon fiber hood. I decided to use SS (super small) carbon decals fron Studio 27, I think that is more scale accurate than the 1/24.

Because the front mesh was molded in plastic, I cutted away for a metallic mesh replacement

Here is the body with the carbon hood in place, a very good thing about this kit is that the body parts fitted very well without big modifications.

Engine distributor cables and some copper tubes for the throttle linkage.

Wheels color is a combination of copper and magnesium from Alclad, using some reference photos.

[chaos]

Very nice progress on the engine and body! What paint have you used for the body?

[Deadmau5]

Originally Posted by chaos

Very nice progress on the engine and body! What paint have you used for the body?

Thanks Chaos!,
I´ve used "Silbergrau" DB-180, a 1970's silver paint, From Zero paints...

[corvettekid_7684]

Really nice work!!

[crisjr]

sweetness !!.. love de engine, the hood, the paint job!.. this is so perfect!!

[MidMazar]

The hood and the strip around the fenders are sweet.

[nugundam93]

everything is just so awesome!