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[moonlite5hadow]

First up is Tamiya's 1/24 350Z NISMO Version. a few hiccups along the way, but it was my second car model after about 10-12 years of aircraft modeling.

Sorry for the poor lighting. my house is FULL of lights and windows, but i can never get good lighting.

and next is their same scale Mercedes-Benz McLaren SLR

(unfortunately, this car has since been cannibalized...)..and not as many pics. my first car in amlost 12 years

Currently, i have a couple works in progress.

Tamiya's Nissan 300ZX with an RB26 motor from their R32(?) Skyline (with bigger twin turbos)

and (BLASPHEMY!) that same Nissa Skyline that donated its motor will have a "reverse Tokyo Drift", and will have a big V-8 from a Shelby GT500 shoehorned under the hood.

I'll being doing WIP updates on those two for sure.

Edited February 21, 2008 by moonlite5hadow

[VictorSmalls]

Welcome to the forum. I like both of the builds you have done so far. Are you into modeling mostly newer cars? I love them in the 1:1 scale, but cant get myself to build a model yet.

Keep up the good work.

[James2]

Welcome back to modeling and to the forum!

[Nick F40]

Those are great, I really like that Nismo 350Z, I love the real car and the color is like I painted my 350Z. Also, your plans sounds like it should be awsome, I have just finished the stock 300ZX that I should be posting up soon, and that Skyline, yeah buddy, can't wait!

I'm gonna follow those.

[moonlite5hadow]

thanks guys! yes, VictorSmalls , I will be building mostly new(er) cars, from thelate80's to early 90's and up. when I first started off in this hobby way back before I was 10 I did older cars, mainly low riders a 'stangs. I tend to gravitat to cars that I like, but would never be able to afford unless i had a six-figure salary!

for Nick F40, that skyline will be a beast. i did a pseudo mock-up last night with the Shelby motor and the skyline body shell, and its going to look like hell... in a good way. the motor is going to have the velocity stacks and the ridiculously tall intake manifold/plenum, so the stacks go almost taller than the nissan. and that RB26 going into the 300Z almost seems like it was made to fit. I'll have pics of those up later in the appropriate forum!

and a note of the 350Z: it has since had a wash added to the panel lines, so the lines are a lot more defined. all those pics are on my laptop though.

[Nick F40]

and its going to look like hell... in a good way.

that's funny

Well, I know this guy that did that to his 300ZX, it was a track car but a single turbo RB26, it made like 435 horspepower.

That Skyline will look nasty, some people might think that's wrong, putting an engine like that in a Skyline.

[moonlite5hadow]

exactly! i gotta be at least a little edgy and controversial! pics should be up in 30-40 mins!