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Two-tone job and chrome all look fantastic. I saw an exact color combo Nomad few weeks ago on the road. Superb!

Fantastic build! Getting all the chrome bits must've been a lot of work, but it looks super tight!

Superb looking paintwork and trims!

Beautifully done restoration! I love how the pre-restoration model also kinda looks like a typical barn find cars!

Very sleek build! Green glass and light pink scheme surprisingly goes well together.

Thank you all! Aoshima has a lot of well-proportioned 'pedestrian' models spanning all across from 70s to 2000s. The downside is that they're mostly all curbside models and underbody/interior aren't anything special.

Love the color, finish, white sidewall, interior, basically everything!

In 2009, I bought a few Aoshima "bosozoku/shakotan" series kits, as they offered additional aftermarket wheels and extra decals. I actually had painted and polished the body (Tamiya Mica Red (TS-39) and clear, polished with Tamiya three-stage compounds) and buried it in my closet in 2009 and picked it up again a few weeks ago. It's a curbside kit with very basic underbody and interior, so I focused on just finishing it up with BMF. The front grill was bit tricky, in retrospect I should've painted it in black, then dry brush the silver, not the other way around. Thank you for looking!

Thank you all - Looking forward to share more projects that I recently finished!

Great work! Looks amazing!

Colours and maskings are on point! I've built a few Aoshima kits and they all had disappointing clear parts.

Beautifully done!

Hey all, Here's my first post sharing the newly finished model since I stopped building scale models for 10 years! I started with a couple of kits that I bought back in 2010 - This particular Tamiya kit (produced in 1995) comes with lots of detailed parts such as fabric carpet, metal transfer for moldings, with higher part count than typical 90s Tamiya products. Engine, underbody and interior was joy to build, but getting all the chrome moulding with BMF, and attaching metal transfer were too challenging for me (I ended up super gluing thin chrome stripes and supplementing with BMF), and applied BMF got messy when I was attaching windshield and windows to the body, as well as when attaching the body to the chassis which were both unusually challenging for Tamiya. I'm a bit disappointed that my skill didn't do justice to this amazing kit, but it was overall enjoyable experience. Photos hide a lot of imperfections and next time I'll try to shoot with narrower aperture to capture all the details. Thank you for looking! Build details: Straight box build Exterior: Tamiya TS14 w/o clear, polished with Tamiya compounds(coarse, fine and finish) then applied BMF Interior: Tamiya TS-33 dull red and other Tamiya acrylic colors

Awesome work and equally awesome shots!

Love the cedric! Older JDMs with straight six makes amazing sounds. I built a few aoshima kits consisting 70-80s JDM and found getting the chrome bits right was always difficult, as Aoshima molded most of them to the body.

Awesome work! Such a clean masking job and opaque treatment looks bang on!

Hi everyone, My hobby started with 1/24 Tamiya motorized kit when I was about six or seven (mid 90s). Since then I pretty much played with all cars in scale, such as Tamiya Mini 4WD, 1/12 RC, Tomica 1/64. I was born and raised in Korea so Japanese toys were very easy to get at cheap price. After moving to Toronto and during the university years, I discovered Italianhorses.net and built bunch of 1/24s(mainly 1/24 sport cars from Tamiya and Fujimi) looking at Alex Kustov's tutorials. Then I stopped making them for about 10 years because I was so focused on my 1:1 car - which I still have it after all these years (91' BMW E30) and life got really busy. Now that I'm working from home, things are a bit more manageable and I recently started building all the kits that I bought back in 2008/2009, and that's when I stumbled upon this forum after searching for Alex Kustov's more recent works, spending hours looking through amazing works from all of you! Here are some of 1/24s that I built between 2009-2010, and I'll soon share out couple of projects that I built recently.