Jhedir6 Posted February 7, 2020 Posted February 7, 2020 Newest release from NuNu (Platz). Audi R8 LMS GT3 from the 24hrs of Spa. This car qualified on the pole and finished in 2nd place over all and the sister car (Red car #1) finishing down in 21st place. This is a quick overview of the parts in the kit (including the Detail UP set, sold separately). Body : Looks very crisp and clean no huge or noticeable mold lines. A bunch of support bars to be clipped of to give the body rigidity for shipping. I do see two huge injector pin marks underneath the rear wheel arches that will be needed to clipped (these were present on many parts on their BMW as well, mostly on the chassis pan), otherwise body looks great. Chassis: Very nice, no flash, no injector pin marks, looks to be minimal clean up on all parts to prime and paint. Brake rotors look very good even without the extra PE in the Detail Up set. Interior tub: Again very clean. Tub has lots of pre drilled holes for locating detailing parts. Roll cage looks well detailed. Now the kit does not have a full engine but has an engine bay that has a lower block molded into it with other parts to attach to the top. Through the rear deck, there will be lots of detail visible. Interior/Engine: More interior and engine bay detail parts. And NuNu's molds are very nice ( I got this kit right after it released so this is a first run so they haven't had time to damage the molds .....yet) Wheels, light buckets, glass, and chrome and tires. I did not open all the bags as not to damage the glass or lose the polycaps, but nothing looks bad and the glass is very clear, at least as good as Tamiya. The chrome looks good and is very even in the plating. Instruction sheet. Very good, nicely detailed, not as good a Tamiya sheet, but detailed and straight forward. (Just a sample, didn't photograph the whole thing) Decals: Three sheets of decals just in the kit itself. Diecut, crisp, on register. Colours look good and if they're the same quality as their BMW kits the decals should lay down with no issues. Transfers: They also included a nice little metal transfer sheet. Everything here looks perfect and will look 100x's better than a decal would for the badges. Detail Up Set: This is NOT INCLUDED in the kit. Like the BMW kits, it was separate. There are 3 sheets of carbon fiber decals, a PE sheet, some cloth for the seat belts a metal antenna and a 2 sided instruction sheet. Apologies for the couple of blurry pics. I was rushing to get this done before getting started. There will be a build thread up later today ( I hope).
Ben Brown Posted February 10, 2020 Posted February 10, 2020 Nice, thanks for posting! I really enjoyed building their M6 GT3, and I look forward to having a go at this one and the 911 RSR, too. Now Nunu needs to get cracking on a Huracan GT3 to go with all of these nice GTs they’re producing! Ben
bisc63 Posted February 11, 2020 Posted February 11, 2020 Looks really nice out of the box, but how is the fit and finish of these kits? I'm not familiar with this manufacturer.
Ben Brown Posted February 11, 2020 Posted February 11, 2020 12 hours ago, bisc63 said: Looks really nice out of the box, but how is the fit and finish of these kits? I'm not familiar with this manufacturer. The M6 was pretty good, I’d say in line with a Hasegawa kit, a step or so below a Tamiya kit. Engineering was good, with a few minor fit issues that were easily addressed. Most parts had fine mold parting lines on them, but removing them didn’t really add much to the prep time. I enjoyed building it so much I’ve bought another one. I expect Nunu’s future offerings to be at least as good as the M6, if not better. Ben
bisc63 Posted February 11, 2020 Posted February 11, 2020 Hey, thanks for that info! I am really liking the look of this, even though it's not my normal cup of tea, and I may yet have to add one to the stash.
Jhedir6 Posted February 12, 2020 Author Posted February 12, 2020 I started on the kit. No update yet, tomorrow. But I have most of the pre assemblies done and so far the fit and finish is really quite good. No flash, no real gnarly mold lines or sink marks. There are a few injector pin marks in some odd spots but they're easily clipped out and cleaned up. As far as engineering goes, definitely not Tamiya, easily on par with Fujimi/Aoshima but the plastic is a bit softer. Still a definite improvement over the M6. On the first release of the M6, they molded in the place number on the windscreen right into the clear plastic thus making it hard or impossible to do anything other than a Blancpain car as they're one of the few series that has those number windows on the windscreen. On this car, another Blancpain GT car, they did not mold that window in, it's a decal like it should have been the first time around, so NuNu definitely listened to the complaints on that, and in subsequent releases of the M6 they re did the windscreen to delete that box. I should have a wip update posted tomorrow. Everything is ready for primer and paint and I'll post up some wip pics after that.
Ben Brown Posted February 12, 2020 Posted February 12, 2020 Looking forward to your WIP! I'm not looking forward to removing the place number mount from the windshield of my M6 so I can build an IMSA car. ? Ben
niteowl7710 Posted February 12, 2020 Posted February 12, 2020 8 hours ago, Ben Brown said: Looking forward to your WIP! I'm not looking forward to removing the place number mount from the windshield of my M6 so I can build an IMSA car. ? Ben FWIW any of the other 3 versions of the M6 (Falken, Team Italia, or the just releases Schnitzer Macau) all have regular windshields. The windshield with the number board in it is correct for the 24hrs of Spa cars the kit represents so I can't kill NuNu for that.
Ben Brown Posted February 12, 2020 Posted February 12, 2020 1 hour ago, niteowl7710 said: FWIW any of the other 3 versions of the M6 (Falken, Team Italia, or the just releases Schnitzer Macau) all have regular windshields. The windshield with the number board in it is correct for the 24hrs of Spa cars the kit represents so I can't kill NuNu for that. True. I just went with the Rowe kit again because it was the least expensive one I could find. I’m such a cheapskate! ? Ben
Jhedir6 Posted February 13, 2020 Author Posted February 13, 2020 8 hours ago, Ben Brown said: True. I just went with the Rowe kit again because it was the least expensive one I could find. I’m such a cheapskate! ? Ben On the back of the instruction sheet there is some contact info for NuNu, not in English, but you can read the email address. Try emailing them and see if you can get a clear plastic tree from one of the other kits? Can't hurt to ask. I got some painting done tonight before work, so I'll have an update in on the wip tomorrow once I'm home.
Ben Brown Posted February 13, 2020 Posted February 13, 2020 I'll probably do that. I'm afraid the area where the number mount is molded will leave a flaw, no matter how careful I am removing it. Ben
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