Tamiya Calsonic Impul Z WIP

[robertgreen94]

Howdy all,

This is my first post so hopefully I will not make a complete hack of. I was looking for the Xanavi Nismo GT-R R35, and came across this little beauty. I have not seen many of these in the forums so this should be something of a change. Still want the Xanavi when I can find it



I also picked up the Tamiya PE Nismo Z kit, as well as some SMS carbon fiber to spiffy the model up. Here are some picks of the kit to start with. Sorry about some of the quality of the picks, I am using my wife's point and shoot, while mine is getting cleaned.

Instructions




PE Kit


SMS Carbon Decal and Paint, and yes its that blue!


Metal Base
For those of you who have experiance with Tamiya's 1/48 scale millatary series the metal base will not be a big surprise. This is the first one I have done in 1/24, and I think we will see a lot more of these from Tamya. The metal base definitely adds some heft to the model, and it makes it interesting to build





Decals,



Spruces







Anyway thanks for looking and more pictures as I go along. This will be mostly OOB, but not quite. Please feel free to comment, any constructive criticism will be welcome.

[mrawl]

I think I'd rather this one to the Xanavi. It'll look fabulous when done.

[robertgreen94]

So more pictures coming soon of the painting and progress so far. This is my first attempt at some carbon fiber decals, both on the outside wings and the interior. So far its been interesting and I have learnt that there are right ways to do this, and then there are my way to do this. Bet you can't guess which one turns out better. Anyway you have to fall down before you can learn to walk, and get the cookies so we shall see.

I do need help from the experts here. There are very few interior shots of the Super GT cars, but what I have found shows two things. One they like carbon fiber, and two they seem to use some interesting materials. Take a look at the shot below, especially at the top of the dashboard. Based on the bolts at the top front of the dash, it is something placed on top of the original item.





The material looks very much like non slip paint you find on militery vehicles. Does anyone else have any ideas what this is, and how one can go about replicating it. The instructions say paint with Tamiya XF-1. Now I know there is no way its going to turn out the same as the photo, so help please, any ideas.

Comments as always are welcome

[gtziaf]

Good luck..
I 'm not Japanese car fun, but I follow this. It 's looking interesting...

[mike@af]

Originally Posted by robertgreen94

The material looks very much like non slip paint you find on militery vehicles. Does anyone else have any ideas what this is, and how one can go about replicating it. The instructions say paint with Tamiya XF-1. Now I know there is no way its going to turn out the same as the photo, so help please, any ideas.

I believe what's on top of the dashboard is flocking. We frequently flock our CF dash's and other glossy parts in the cabin to reduce glare. It's been a long time since I've flocked anything in 1/24 so somebody may have a good suggestion of what to use. Personally I believe most scale flocking is way out of scale and prefer to use flat color paints.

Hope that helps!

[robertgreen94]

Thanks for the suggestion GTMike400 on the flocking. Looking at the picture some more I thought it reminded me of some fine sand paper, so I thought why not see if it works. Here is close up that I had to crop down to post. Sorry about the noise on this I had it set at 1200 ISO by mistake.



Here is the original and the sandpaper side by side.


What I am looking for is the texture. The sandpaper is 400 grit. I think some where around 800 should be ok. Puts a whole new meaning to using sandpaper on a model

It is held on by double sided Tamiya tape at the moment so it sits proud of the item.

Experts of the modeling world, please hear my cry and partake upon me some wisdom!

Or for the rest of us, do you think this will work? Or am I

comments please.

[hirofkd]

Alternatively, you can airbrush coarse primer from a little away than the usual distance.

[jla]

The sand paper route should be a pretty interesting approach, plus it'd make it a lot easier just to layer it on to replicate the access panels on top.

I personally would still spray it a flat black maybe mixed with a bit of grey, it looks like it'd be a bit of a pain wrapping the paper around the corners and top edge in spots.

[robertgreen94]

So small update for today. I have been working on the interior and playing around with CF. I must say this is not as easy as people make it look. If anyone has any good tutorials or walkthroughs that they can point me in the direction off, I would be very grateful.


So here is the roll cage and seat area separate and combined.



Roll Cage in Car


Rear Wing



That's all for tonight, more to follow as I work on the body and wait for more CF to come in the mail.

as always, thanks for the comments

[xpeed]

Nice! I got to start on mine sometime this summer as well. It's been sitting in storage for over a year now.

[guiwee]

The sandpaper idea looks cool to me.Ialso think the silver seatbelts are a different twist on the everyday.

[gasdriverca]

Sandpaper...interesting!!! & yeah decaling inside the tub(cockpit) is a pain but looks good in the end result!

[robertgreen94]

So its been a while since I posted, so here is an update. Everything was going swimmingly until I put the first coat of blue on the model. Not sure what happened but I ended with a globby, streaky, mess . No problems I thought, I will remove the paint and try again. Since i was using lacquer paint I decided to use lacquer thinnner.

Well let me tell you, they don't make lacquer thinners the same. Let us say that the thinner did not stop with the paint. By the time I realized this, somewhere along the lines of, "what is this blue flaky plastic stuff in my hands?" the paint and the car had become a sticky melted blobby thing.

What I should have used is something called "Saclecoat II Wash Away" This is some green liquid that takes of paint beautifully and leaves the model behind (what a novel concept!).

Yes, I had read this, but until you learn, you don't.
So I decided to call Tamiya and order a new body. It is on its way, sometime to arrive this year, maybe...

After a few weeks I decided, I wonder if I could fix the body, no loss if I fail. Well so far after the 4th coat of primmer and sanding, its starting to look a little better. Sure there is a long way to go but all its costing me is sanding sticks, primer and time. Some areas are coming out very smooth, others are still iffy.

Here are some pictures of the progress, lots to work on but we shall try to fix this.







So what has this told us.
1. People should listen to advice (well we will not learn that one..)
2. Lacquer thinnner is not all the same. Tamiya is not the same as Home Depot, or should I say that the other way arround.
3. Don't give up; primer and sandpaper are the duct-tape of the modeling world

I look at it this way, its a model; worst comes to worst, I buy a new model, learn from this episode and go on. Its a hobby, I know some people may disagree, but I hope to have fun, and in a way I still have/am with this one so, eh..

as always, comments are welcome

[KevHw]

I'm very sorry to hear this mishap to your project. I found out the dangers of using lacquer thinner on plastic the hard way too. From what I can see it's good that there still appears to be some body details that escaped 'melting' and I'm sure if you persevere you can rescue it to a good degree. Since you've ordered a new body, at least you can use this one for a future project. Hope your new body arrives soon.

[guiwee]

Well since youre here in states you could have used some 91% alcohol and stripped it
that way..Also maybe you could have drilled out the holes in your roll cage.I think your ref. pic. showed them open. I too am working on this model(just painted so far)
The blue is lovely!! When you called tamiya and told them what happened did you have to pay to get them to ship you a body? If so how much? Is this their normal policy? I didnt know you could just call them up like that.