Funkychiken

Beautiful start to a stunning car!

Tamiya make fantastic kits, and yours is looking great! you could have over-coated the interor with satin clear if you didn't like the full-on matt finish.

Interior completed. I didn't like how the mig panel line stained the door cards, so I didn't do the seats. Still not up to the precision of a Tamiya kit, its a bit toy like, but its still an enjoyable build (so far)

About to chuck it, then I decide to carefully sand it down & re-spray. with Zero grey primer. a few small cracks appear. So I sand down & spray again with white primer. looks of deep cracks appear! So i've bought some Dot 3 & i'm going to soak it for a while and see if it removes the Zero 2K clear thats underneath. I'm guessing its the Tamiya Acrylic thats causing the cracking...

I meticulously went through the Tamiya sanding grits, then the same with micromesh & finally polish compounds. At each stage, I washed the body shell & changed the water. It all looked fine until polishing. The paint looks mottled, dull, hazy. So I repolish. no difference. I try wax, doesn't help.

A beautiful set of lamborghinis! Perfect builds too!

This is an excellent Tamiya kit, beautiful colour!

Fantastic build so far, it out a beaut of a kit, following with interest! That inherit looks amazing with the orange accents

The buttons on the steering wheel are metal studs from Hiroboy, painted clear red...

Dash & steering wheel complete!

the kit is quite detailed, but the mouldings are not sharp or crisp making it look slightly toy like. I've removed the "ferarri" script off this piece and added photo etch. the silver highlights are probably not true to the original, but anyway...

First problem in the engine cover is wonky, it will annoy me when its finished, so I tried a technique I learned in this Forum - peg it in an opposing twist and leave it on the radiator - i had never done this before, but it worked. Too much ast first, it twisted a lot the other way, I then did a moderate twwist back - and now it sits a lot better. Not a perfect fit because its a Revell kit - the details are not quite there for a perfect fit, but good enouth for me.

Got this cheap on the evilbay about a year ago, probably about £25 for the box set. As the box is so big, I don't want to keep it long - so its next up on the bench. Its going to be painted in a dark metalic red. I'll be mixing a metalic red with a black to darken it - both Zero paints. the interior will be cream and red, I'm also going to try to flock it - which I'm normally too lazy to do as its messy and never looks right for me.

Amazing quality builds, love all your cars!

stunning modded cars, beautiful finishes, you are an artist!

Wow, that's photogenic, absolutely amazing build! I like your subtle mods, thanks for sharing!

that's super cool! I didn't know Fujimi made this kit, I'm currently fighting with the Revell version. Superb finish inside and out...

A beautiful collection for 2023!

seriously cool builds here & fantastic finishes!

micromesh 4000 here, you can start to see some shine come through. I think I'll complete a 6000 grit run before going into the polish - I might do this with Tamiya polish, I've being using Nuvous so far...

then Micromesh 3200, then 3600 shown here

then 1500 grit, and 2000 shown here:

Started sanding this body shell significant amount of sanding with Tamiya 1000 grit

Whilst completing the interior, I ave been thinking about the headlights. they are featureless. plan A is to bore out a hole, add an aluminium tube and top with PVA for a lens, then paint a black area & maybe use a file to create the shark gilles streaks, then use a piece of cut chocolate egg packaging plastic as lens covers. plan b is to clear up my attempted mods with filler & just coat with clear smoke to give the appearance of blacked out lights. I can'tremember what my plan C was, but I'm gunning for plan A to work!

Wing mirrors are on, they are from an early 90's Corvette that I got from eBay but was a glue bomb mess, and just use for parts. I always struggle with applying wing mirrors, this is my technique - using bluetack & a glue bottle to steady. I use PVA or gel like CA.