Fujimi/Testors Mazda RX7 in Titanium Gold over Maroon

[JTalmage]

Just finished this one up. It's an older Fujimi kit reissued as Testors. I always liked the 2nd gen RX7's but not enough to own one without swapping a Ford engine into it. 

Anyway, I painted it Tamiya Titanium Gold and the interior is a rustoleum satin maroon. I built this one to replicate a car a friend of mine used to own many years ago as far as the color scheme goes. 

I didn't particularly care for how the interior and chassis goes together on this car. The body is really nice though. I added some foil behind the rear tailights and behind the front parking lights. I used maroon flocking on the interior floorboard because it was really basic and had no carpet texture... and looked as if it could have been set up as a battery powered car... so no floor detail at all. 

The decals were old and beginning to yellow, and luckily I was able to get the yellow crud off the back of most of them and they turned out just ok. I used some black wash and detailed out the panel lines as well as the wheel details.

Oh, and I didnt realize until after I took the pictures...... my front wheels were on backwards. Whoops. So after I took pics I swapped the rears from side to side since I glued the chassis together already and the front wheels are screwed to the spindles. Oh well, looks better now. But these are the pics prior to that. 

Anyway, enjoy. Let me know what you think.

 

 

[randyc]

Nice.  I really wish I would have bought some of them "back when"...

[JTalmage]

Lol thanks. I got lucky on this one. A friend of mine had it and just got it for trade/sell material, and I always sorta wanted this kit. 

[slusher]

Very nice Jesse..

[spencer1984]

Nice work, I really like that color

[iamsuperdan]

I love this generation RX7. Zoom zoom indeed.