Progress: Garage MAK Silvia S15

[Veyron]

Decided to dink around with this Fujimi kit while deciding on some ideas for my 350Z. I glued the resin parts on which were all undersized due to resin shrinkage. I have added styrene strips and putty to begin correcting the size problem. I also added the hood vents from the Pennzoil Skyline which is donating several parts to a few projects.




I opened up the front grill which had a resin intercooler molded in.


I had to split the rear skirt in half so that it would fit all the way across the body, therefor the putty in the center to fill the gap.

[kunta]

Nice project.
how about rear spoiler or wing? are you planning something?

[Veyron]

Originally Posted by kunta

Nice project.
how about rear spoiler or wing? are you planning something?

The kit supplies a white metal GT Wing, but it doesn't look as good as Aoshima's or SAS so I will use one of those.

[flyonthewall]

Neat work! Despite its problems, i like this kit.

[Midnight Racer]

Can't wait to see more progress.

[bah humbug]

Looks like you went for a different alternative than I did. Yours looks easier but looks great, maybe I should've done it your way.

Well too late now. I'm finished with my body work and I've painted it up.
It's got a shine and all the decals. The tail lights and headlights are on.
And it's painted in a deep dark blue paint but not too dark.

But I wouldn't suggest it. I sort of regret it and wish I'd given it the yashio factory look.

Yours looks great, I think every kit has that problem of the rear shrinking cause I too had that problem. I can't show pics for awhile though because the computer that I load pictures into has a slight problem at the moment.

[Jay!]

Cool! Can't wait to see your treatment of it!

What type of putty is that? It looks like toothpaste. :P

[Hiroboy]

I have been looking for this kit for a long time now. I hope it works out nice.
BTW if anyone knowsof an online store which has this please PM me

[Veyron]

When I ordered mine from HLJ recently, it was out of stock, a few days later they had it again. Apparently they can get them when they want to.

I noticed the other day that its discontinued again http://www.hlj.com/cgi-perl/hljpage.cgi?FUJ18612

[tonioseven]

Looks great! I pulled mine out to compare and it has the same problems as yours; shrinkage suxXors!!

[Veyron]

Got first coats of primer on after lots of tweaking the body kit with putty. I think it's going to wear AVS 5's and a rear wing from Tamiya's WRX. The wing sort has some of the same shapes found in the body work, and keeps the car looking low to the ground. Don't know what color it will be yet.

Still have more smoothing and tweaking to do.

[Towelboy80]

I like your project, the air intake suits well.........

[flyonthewall]

The Penzoil hood and WRX spoiler are real nice touches. I can see the finished piece now, possibly one of your best!

[Toyotagt1]

Looking very good
you done a good job now but where the body kit??

[RyanGiorgio]

I like the wing, but IMO, a racing one would look much better. Nice work.