Lamborghini Aventador - Fujimi 1/24

[mattbacon]

Next up on the bench, the new Fujimi Aventador. Very crisp mouldings, and excellent fit so far. There have been a fair few complaints about the fact that it's "kerbside," but I'm going to treat it like the Hasegawa Miura, which I thought was absolutely fine.



I've fitted together the "body in white" - the bits that will be orange, rather than black/grey/carbon, so that I can spray it in one piece after addressing the fine mould lines. The sills fit great below the doors, but actually don't need the moulded recesses for the tabs ahead of the rear wheel arches, and need to be shimmed out. I have a cunning plan relating to the kerbside nature of the kit, which the chap in the seat is part of. Who is he? Some say he drinks a pint of MEK for breakfast...



It's going to be the deep orange, so, I shall be using the black wheels. The front tyres have been criticised, so these have a pair of Pegasus replacements for the fornts, which are lower profile, and stretched slightly to go over these rims. They look OK to me...



And this is what's taken most of the time so far - chain drilling and opening up all the vents for fitting the photo-etch mesh parts. There are more in the engine bay and floor pan, which I've also done. Not much fun, and I'm now wondering how much they'll need to be blanked to avoid the "see though" look as well. Time to look more closely at my pictures of the real thing...

bestest,
M.

[corvettekid_7684]

Awesome...I'll be following this one

[denilsonvm]

Originally Posted by corvettekid_7684

Awesome...I'll be following this one

me too!

Also, a nice start.

[agamo]

Interesting!!

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[hisgodchen]

subscribed! i'll be watching this

[carl63_99]

Awesome! I've got to get this kit! I'll be watching this build closely. My guess is the Stig driving?

[nugundam93]

this build i gotta follow. checking out the manual over at 1999.co.jp's definitely got me curious about this kit.

and is that the stig's MEK-chugging cousin?

[auw12]

This kit literally drove me crazy after a quick mock-up. I'm sitting to be inspired by your process, good luck mate~

[countach79]

sweet!
i got mine the other day, i've been waiting to see the first AF build up

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[rallymaster]

Will follow the build too.
took a look at mine, cleaning parts to put PE is indeed a though task promise !!
But the model is absolutely beautiful and realy agressive as I like to see it in sports cars and Fujimi did it well.
And for sure you're on a good way with it too.

[mattbacon]

At last... some progress worth reporting. There has been a lot of priming, polishing, coat after coat of orange etc, and it seems to have been going quite slowly until suddenly lots of bits started to come together.



Body and panels primed with Halfords white plastic primer and polished with 4000 and 6000 micromesh. I've actually started the base coast today, but it's not ready to photograph yet.




Did I mention the orange? Lots of coats of Vallejo Game Colour Fiery Orange to get this far. The cabin is very simple - only 9 parts - and only two colours, really. I tried to make it a little more interesting with varied shades of black (the majority is Vallejo German Grey) and some washes. The decals work well.



The engine bay. I'm confident it'll look fine underneath the segmented rear window. It would be hugely complex to engineer the rear chassis and suspension and a full engine, and make it very hard to build and get all four wheels on the ground as well. Personally, I'm glad Fujimi took this route or I'd still be doing it next year! I need to see exactly how it fits into the body and decide whether I need to build some gizmology underneath the grilles...



Stig -- "mostly 'armless". I need the driver to be turning left, so I knew some modification would be needed. I used some softish aluminium tube to pin arms, having first chamfered all the joints so they could move more freely. I firmly fixed the tube with superglue at one end, and let it slide in the hole at the other. When I was ready to set it up, I used "90-second" epoxy to give me time to adjust everything to fit. When he was fully set in the cockpit, I removed him (I'd left the dashboard press-fitted in place so as to be able to remove him easily)



Good old Milliput is perfect for filling the gaps and re-sculpting the figure. Ready for painting the rest of him, now. And that darn visor!



...and finally for tonight... the front brake discs. As you can see, I'm going for the full Clarkson... more on this later!

bestest,
M.

[da_ashman]

Awesome work so far!!! Love the Stig figure, but you can see his face... who is he...?
Ive wanted to do a project with glowing brake disks but havnt found the right one yet, these look great & I cant wait to see the colour coats!!!

[corvettekid_7684]

Great work!! I love the idea of this model being "in action" ...very cool!

[countach79]

looking really nice mate!
i watched that top gear episode the other day, insane!!

[auw12]

WOW haven't seen anyone done this before, now I'm looking forward to see some blue stuff there~ lol