Mr.Zombie

And the last batch of pics. Thanks for looking, and until next time, happy modeling.

Hello, Just before summer holiday I purchased this kit on sale at "my" hobby store and I planned to take it with me and paint some in the evenings at a summerhouse. I managed to give it a coat of white and to start with the rust before the departure, but didn't take it with me in the end. I picked it up recently because I had an idea for the chrome strip in the windscreen seal, and simply finished it. The kit is close to perfect as is, and there is not much I had to add. I used Highlight Model Studio photeteched sets for the wheelweights, and for the wipers (though I modlified the latter, and am still not sure if I'd rather have them scratchbuild as I usually do), I added the wooden lining on the bed, made the keyholes in doors and the fueldoor a set of numberplates (Hasegawa doesn't add numbers to their decal sheets), a telescopic antenna (works) and I ended up painting the word NISSAN freehand on a piece of white decal, and then transfered it on the truck letter by letter. As for unusual techniques, I opted for not painting plastic bits that are plastic in real life too, like the bumper ends, the grille, dashboard and some other bits on the inside. The kit is very easy, and besides the headlight glass where I wasn't sure how to attach it, and the hubcaps that had to be masked, whereas in Hasegawa's Honda these are separate bits that are way cleaner to attach, there were no issues at all. I highly recommend it if you feel like building out of box sometimes.

Hej, when/if you should make a copy please count me in for one! So awesome!

Cool idea. I'd cut the headers a bit though.

Oh wow...

Very nice. Is it the new Revell kit?

More than the model itself I like the idea for a car like that. Never seen a tube shotrened this way. How awesome is that? This is a car I’d like to own in real!

Looks cool. 20 years ago it was a top build I imagine, but even today it ain't half bad considering it was an experiment of different techniques. Awesome idea with the electrical tape!

Thanks!

I'm not a fan of Ebay. Could be that it's been ordered thru some of the Japanese mailorder websides, in that case I'd be interested which.

Supercool. I am hunting this one too. How did you get it?

In that case it is a hopscotch: It's just a simple baseplate that I made for the Citroen...

I thought it’s pics of a real car!

I would tell you if I knew what a hopscotch is? Thanks guys, I’m glad you like it.

The detail and the finish is just off the charts. Wow!

Thanks for looking, have a great evening.

Hello, There is a wave of great weather right now in Denmark, so I felt like playing a bit with the camera. These are all previous builds that I showed here before, except for the vending machines. The scale is of course 1:24, the Citroen is from TAMIYA, the little Honda is from Hasegawa, and the Taunus is from Air Trax resin. The fridges come from Doozy Modeworks which is recently distributed by AK Interactive and a bit easier to come by than when it was avaliable in Japan only. The quality is a bit worse than it was before AK started to produce it, but it's still quite high. The decals are perfect, and the items/subjects are incredibly interesting. The only sad thing is the prices which are sky high, but oh well... In a nearby future these things will end up on a diorama together with 2-3 cars, and some other junk I'm working on. But for now, they are just fillers in-between other projects. Please enjoy. All pics are made without any tricks, the only thing I did is to crop them so that you can't see the edges of the little displays the cars are standing on.

Thank you very much, I'm glad that you like it. That makes me happy, as I try to aim for this realism while building.

I'm more tempted to put them together with some of the Doozy items like a vending machine, an ice box, maybe some old fridge, stuff like that, somewhere in the field. I have a set size for my diorama display things, and would not go bigger. The Isetta I'd love to have, maybe some day I can score that kit too. We'll see.

And the last batch of pics. Thanks for looking.

All in all I’m really happy with how it turned out. I’m thinking if it should go on a little base together with the Honda, the colors and details of these two complement eachother really good, so maybe. We’ll see.

Hello, This is my newest build. After my son was born I had no time for modeling, and for about 10 months I haven’t touched anything I started. Exactly a year ago I picked Gunze’s Messerschmitt from my stash thinking that it’s so simple, I’ll be done with it in no time. What I didn’t take into account was how demanding it is, nor the odd plastic Gunze used for their kits. Demanding especially because of the glass canopy, it’s a one piece deal, that needs to be masked, painted, chromed, and there is a dozen pieces out of plastic and rubber that need to go on (in and out), of course all this nneds to be glued with super glue because nothing else will do, but in a way so that the inside is as good looking as the outside. Because of how difficult it is, I started with the cockpit thinking that if I don’t ruin it, everything else will be a piece of cake. I didn’t know though, that the Gunze plastic won’t take the lacquer I usually use for my model kits, and whatever I used for primer, the paint would wrinkle really bad. The thing is, that clear parts can’t be stripped of paint, so I had to go with it, paint a thicker coat of lacquer, and then sand the wrinkles “flat”. Because of that, I sanded down all dashboard detail, painted it, sanded, polished, and build everything up from scratch. But I had to build a bunch of stuff from scratch anyway. The kit was a stripped down version of the High Tech kit, and was missing a bunch of elements and interior details like the shifter and other small bits, sadly also the photoetch emblems. Therefore I had to build the chrome moldings, the wiper, numberplates and some other bits and pieces. The interior seemed so empty, even after I added my gauges, buttons and shifter, so I populated it with some self made books and magazines, boxes and a fantastic photoetched toolbox and tools from Highlight Model Studio.

YES!