Miata

[appleseed]

Its been a while since I picked up a kit due to work and such. But I finally found some time in the past month or two to start on what I considered a neglected kit... the Tamiya Miata. I saw something like this on the street once and I thought... pretty damn cool!! So here's my version of it by memory. I wanted a bolt on look for the flares. It was a bit tedious to go back and forth with the putty to get them rounded to the shape I wanted. So far I think I finally won the battle between me and the putty on those flares

The wheels are courtesy of Tonio! Thanks!





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[alphalanos]

Thats looking very cool. awesome wheel and fender choice . this should be sweet

[aN4rK1]

Oh nice kit man and sweetass widebody! Keep up the sick progress!

[Merkava]

Kick-Ass!

I love those flares, and the wheels are absolutely great. It looks so much more muscular, like it's ready to race Trans-Am or something.

Any thoughts on color yet?

[stefaan]

A friend of mine modeled (3d) something like your version a while back. http://www.deviantart.com/view/11325718/

And i must say your car looks damn nice. Good job mate.

[Honoturtle]

Well what do you know, appleseed is back!

The body kit looks magnificent. I especially like where the overfenders wrap over the front bumper.

[appleseed]

Originally Posted by stefaan

A friend of mine modeled (3d) something like your version a while back. http://www.deviantart.com/view/11325718/

And i must say your car looks damn nice. Good job mate.

Your friend did a really good job on those! Maybe I should have did a bit of internet 'research' before I made the kit purchase.

Well... late than never... I just did a search on the internet and came up with these... wish I had checked before I bought the kit back then but... next project anyone??







and for the drift fans...



I'm planning on putting a mild hood vent in place before I spray primer on it. The color plan so far is to have it white with a black top. For the wheels, the plan is to spray them either gunmetal or maybe even a red (the color of the plasitc is growing on me )

Thanks for looking!

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[modder]

looks sick man i like it...........

[circuitR]

What a cool looking MX5! I'll be watching this closely as I am building the same kit

[ImolaEK]

OMG, thats sooo nice its makes me want to cry

[willimo]

You saw it on the street? Was it on its way to a race? This think is cool, man. Like Honoturtle said - dig the detail yummyness!

[mike@af]

Awesome fender flares! Very sweet!

[Feint Motion]

AppleSeed dose it again. That MX5 looks very Mean!

[appleseed]

Originally Posted by willimo

You saw it on the street? Was it on its way to a race? This think is cool, man. Like Honoturtle said - dig the detail yummyness!

Okay you caught me... it was on a strech of California highway 101 somewhere near San Francisco. All I can say was that it was something that I don't normally see out on the street/freeway over here so it definitely caught my eye.

It was probably either coming back from Sears Point Raceway or going to some night race somewhere. Who knows. All I knew at that point was that there was inspiration rolling next to me. Wish I had a camera at that point!

It had a pretty cool cage in that thing as well. I doubt the driver appreciated me staring at him driving home that day though

Anyone have any good race interior shots of a Miata? Perferably one with a roll cage and not just the roll bars behind the seats?

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[blubaja]

You made a miata look almost like a manly car. hehehe. Looks really cool man! I like it alot. Keep up the great work.

Frank X.