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Sweet build! What color are you going with?

Sweet! Will be following! Have some extra Tamiya E24 635CSi parts if you want some. building a Fujimi E24 my self!

Cool build!

Beautiful work! Nice color on that beautiful body!

Nice build! Nice scratch building

Cool build!!

Epic! I immediately recognized the paint job and the looks! Great build! Btw love the looks Of the road kill Camaro as well.

So i have been doing some test fitting to see what needs adjustment. And the chassi was a bit too much forward. The aligning pins in the front was not centered and so wasn’t the chassi according to the rocker either. So some sanding on the top part of the torpedo amd some sanding in the back moved everything backwards 1mm. Just hope to the gods that this was intended so the whole interior still fits.. ?? The suspension is a kit in it self.. 7 parts including the drive shaft just to assemble one side of the rear drivetrain with suspension! Just wanted to se if my move of the chassi affected the wheel placement and it seems to be working I also test fitted the grills. And one of them, the left one was really badly cast. Allot of flash in between the bars as well as a crocked lower bar. Some knitting and bending with the exato made it better but not perfect. I also sawed the hood and trunk of the sprues and fitted the hood bracing. The kit comes with 3 different options for trunk spoiler. I will go with the one that seems to be made for body color and having the biggest kick. I also removed the rear bumper chrome and glued the parts together.. will se what I do there. An other more complete mock-up with my planed wheels, I like the low stance they can give. O and the rocker panel is not there yet. And the wheels I had planed for the Tamiya. Sits to high in my opinion. And they are slammed in the front. What’s your thoughts on the wheels?

I where at my family in Brazil during the last month. And in Rio you don’t se manny cool or enthusiast cars, but when you enter the garages you can find some. Here is a couple I found. Modified beetles are common.

That’s a Beautiful build! Good work!

Okay, I have also seen the stock build here on the forum that was available for purchase for a while but they have a long backlog I have heard and they say that once and a while they pop up at the bay. It’s kind of interesting that Salvino’s haven’t made a Chevelle since they have the Buick al ready, even though also they would be nAscar spec.

Really cool! Any full scratch project is really cool and ambitious! Will be following!

Sweet! Nice work on the door!!

So I got the resin copy from @gks1964 in the mail and unpacked it the other day! A really nice cast with the different options. Thanks allot m8! Will source an other monogram GM nascar to use as a chassi donor even for this street car project, I like my rides to be low and aggressive with coilovers like race cars for the street. ?

That is right! @gks1964 made the cast. A good one in my opinion! I have now his Resin copy, a original release, and a Pepsi from 2013. ?

Sweet build! Great weathering and the pealed of part looks great! Funny your comment about the frame and the picture below showing it! Amazing that they don’t get pulled over and forced to fix or scrap the truck!

So for this years CBR I chose to start a Tamiya 635CSI, but I was not satisfied with the looks, some thing was of. So on a hunch I bought the Fujimi version of the M635CSi, and man I am impressed! The level of detail is Beyond anything that I have seen in 1/24! For the ones, like me not familiar with the kit I ad the sprues further down. my plan is to build a CBR entry for my birth year which is 1987. It will be almost built straight out of the box with some CBR changes. I am leaning to a turbo set up, just love that kind of setup on these bmw motors since they can handle allot! Side note, my friend ran a E34 turbo converted 3,5l with around 700 whp. I will also do som minor upgrades along the way. Like fuel cell for the long CBR. Seat belts, shifter and steering wheel I believe. I will most likely remove the spare tire location and ad a big fuel cell bellow the floor, and move the exhaust exit to the side, I am not a huge fan of center exhaust as these have. This also means that I will need to smothen out the lower part of the body work, more like a Alpina. (This is still OTB for me ?) The stock wheels are so good looking so I believe they will be used even though I have a hard time leaving stock wheels on a build. But I think I will leave the center caps of and maybe order some nuts to ad on the kit supplied studs. The plan is a deep dark metallic blue paint with. The bumpers will be painted to match and I will keep a minimum of chrome since I believe it does not fit that well on these. At the moment, the grill trim is the only chrome I will keep. Initial mock-up: Some detail shots of the beautiful parts. I attach pictures of the sprues, from Super-hobby.com they also have the Instructions’s. Here is one of the inspirations I have. And here is the side by side comparison with the Tamiya kit. The roof on the Tamiya is much taller which looks wrong in my eyes. First is Tamiya with same wheels and after is Fujimi. And as always! Comments, ideas, and any thoughts or suggestions are very welcome! //Anton

Awesome right! It have hood bracing that glues on separate and the kit even comes with insulation material to put in there! And as you can see on my photo, the cabin fan area is empty, because you have the parts to put in there and a cover! It also come with great trunk detail, the famous bmw tool hatch is there, so if you want to go super detailed it would be easy to cut it open and put tools in there! The wheel hub comes with studs, and is separate from the brake disc and dust plate!

Yes it is! Its a great kit of what i have seen so far. Extremely detailed with details far beyond what I am used to. Parts are also cast with beautiful details.

The Toyota GT1 also had to apply for the luggage compartment rule but some how they managed to say that the fuel cell doubled as a luggage box according some sources.

My changed CBR project, BMW M635CSi

Yes i can agree on the stealth part. And that’s what my friends have been doing for years. Running that 4dor body with 700-1000hp engines, no one expects them to be super car killers! My friend smoked a R8 v10 when they where brand new, with four friends drinking beer in the car. The kit though needs some work to the bumpers to look right. And since I want a engine there would be that part trying to convert the Tamiya 635 chassi and engine to the 535. And it seems that the hood is a bit of a pita to cut open, so that’s a project further on.

Inzane! Thos seats looks the part! and with a neutral enviroment no one would belive this was a model!!

Mine to. So some insomnia gave me an opportunity to glue the engine together. This kit is a beautiful one. Some filing and such but the parts are so crisp and beautiful. Head is only tacked on Enjoying this so far! Will start painting at next opportunity.

#1.. So I have a dilemma. The Tamiya kit is,as some one mentioned, strangely proportioned, the roof is actually 2mm taller than the Fujimi 635 which looks right to me. Since I have a hard time with kits that look of I won’t build the Tamiya one. So question being.. should I build a rather stock 635 of the fabulous, super detailed Fujimi kit or should I build the M5? Making it with a engine would definitely not make it to a M5 but a 535 with the single cam head from the Tamiya kit… While typing this I made a mock up to be able to say what to build.. the 635 definitely looks suuper good, definitely turns my juices on for building it. While the other one need allot of work to look right. So I will be building a stock M635CSi.. first time saying that I believe.. What’s your thoughts? Btw I ad In some comparison shots with the tamiya. Not strange that I had a hard time with liking the looks of the Tamiya one. And yes it can probably be corrected by chopping the roof 2mm since that’s the height difference but it feels like there are other things that does not strike me right away that’s wrong with that one.