Funkychiken

A funny looking Lexus at the top of my road today, the M5 competition is always there...

This kit didn't come with any decals, its quite basic, so I'm going to use some from this decal sheet and use some of the metalic stickers too. I have enough Mustang kits to make use of these!

My first use of thinned Tamiya LP-71, and it sprays OK, maybe not as nice as Zero Paints, but the finish is very nice - an in-scale sparkle. its Champagne gold need to mask and do the bottom half in Tamiya X-10 gun metal grey, then clear coat.

So this is going to be the colour of my Silvia

Thanks for the interest guys, and it is 24th scale!

Thank you a for the comments and interest...! I started to prep the body shell for trim, but ended up scraching the body - had to do another round of sanding and polising on a body panel. I've primered the dash, steering wheel, grills and tail lamp body panel, then given them a few coats of tamiya X-18. i'me going to add a little detail to the dash. What I'm worried about at the moment is how to do the tail lights. I'm probably going to mask & spray silver base then clear red... its going to take time. in the meantime, i need to try to dave the interior.

Love the colour! Fantastic build so far!

Nearly everything is painted now, only really started to build little bits - like the dash. This week i'll focus on the engine and chassis, then probably have to go to sanding and polishing the coachwork. As said before, everything that was chromed was stripped using Dot3, then the black stuff was finished with Tamiya Semi-gloss. the chrome is with Tamiya semi gloss as a base, then Zero 1K Clear & alclad II chrome light misting. I have noticed that the Alclad II does not grab very well onto Zero 2K clear, so some bits have to be re-done. Other metalic colours are Alclad II Aluminium and Tamiya Titanium, a bit of white in there too...

i've only spreayed the chassis (its a flat undercariage - but I painted it because the front lip and side edges show. (not pictured) and also completed the wheels Alclad II Aluminium with a coating of Zero Clear 1K. they look better now than they did in black...

Literally only cut the interior to get better front seats in. Not worth doing TBH, but the moulded in seats are tosh.

I was on a roll a few weeks ago I clear coated my Mustang with Zero 2K, it came out fairly good. With that one I used 50% Mr Levelling thinner for the thinner part. For this one, I thought I'd try and use 100% thinner for the thinner part of the mix. It turned out great. the smoothest finish I've had so far. Biggest problem was dust - and this may have something to do with the retarder in the thinner. It's going to take a lot to sand out the bits of dust, so I'm going to focus next on the chassis and engine.

That's a stunner!

The carbon decals are looking great! Bad luck with the pair coming away with the templates... Still coming along nicely!

The coach had a split in the rear left hand corner, so I glued in the interior door card to hold it together, and then went through a few rounds of filler and sanding. then the body parts were primered in Zero grey & base-coated with Zero interior cream. I'm not looking for authenticity, it's just a paint I had lying around, and it looks good!

I used the body again as a jig to pre-assemble the 2 bits for each of the Left & Right sides of the engine cover. I had wanted to put a piano hinge on it, but that would have been too much hassle and beyond my skill set, so thats why I added the magnets. the fitmets points are not great, without doing this, it would be wonky

Wheels were stripped of chrome, I used Zero 1k clear over Zero black & the silver trim is actually Alclad II chome - just too many layers of it. I wanted a more silvery look as there is so much chome on the car it would all look the same...

Chassis was assembled using the body as a jig, its not got great attachment points for the cross members, so I did this pre-painting to ensure I stood half a chance of a strait and square chassis

I've stipped all the chrome from the kit, and there was a lot of it! lots of awkward sink marks like these to deal with

Great tip with the cables, and love the frankenstein type build... how many ferrari does it take to make a ferrari?!

Lol!

I've also added magnets to the engine cover, i've had too many hoods/bonnets fall off cracking the paint to not do it...

Its a big kit for 1:24, but probably about right considering how big the original is, here is the body shell pitched against a chassis for a 1:25 Ferrari 250 GTO

I bagged this off eBay a while ago, and whilst its a detailed kit, it has its flaws - especially with the sink marks & injector pin marks. I'm pretty sure I've seen this very car - if not one very similar in Henry Ford's Museum in Michigan. I remeber it being a beast. so its a nother build to hone the skills, looking forward to getting a good shine in 2K clear - even if that's either considered out of scale, or not appropriate for this age of car.

It's a great mash up, ford should have done this in real life...

That's a cool truck!