Brian's Nissan Skyline GT-R R34 from 2 Fast 2 Furious

[harti20]

Hi all

 

In my McLaren Senna thread I promised to show you why I didn't make that much progress in the last two weeks. This project is the reason why  My son asked me a few times why I wouldn't build Brian's Nissan Skyline and I always answered that to mee this car was just boring. He always gave me a mixed look of disappointment and "you don't now what looks good" after that 😅 A few weeks ago I decided to build it for him, but without telling him, so I will only be able to work on it when he's outside playing with his friends or when he's at school.

For this build I'll use Tamiya's Nissan Skyline GT-R together with USCP's transkit. The body parts from the transkit took me quite a while to remove from their supports, but in the end they fit really well. Here you can see the body assembled, primed and with a few layers of Zero Paints' Platinum Pearl.

Together with the body I also started work on the undercarriage

According to Tamiya's instructions the silver parts should have been painted in Tamiya X-11 Chrome Silver, but when I took a closer look I had the impression that these parts should depict heat shields, so I decided to use MFH's heat shield foil instead. That was the first time I used it and I really like how easy it is to cut and apply. The only downside is that you can't really press it into crevices as the texture is quite fragile.

 

The rims have first been painted with Alclad Duraluminium. Once the paint had dried I masked the center part and painted the outer rim with Molotow Liquid Chrome.

That's it for today. I hope to have piqued your interest and am looking forward to your comments, criticisms and plaudits  
Urs

[harti20]

Hi all

Since the motivation for the carbon decal work on the McLaren Senna was not too great lately, I made quite some progress on this build  

The dashboard was painted and has already received the first decals

The NOS bottles were painted and assembled

The seat has been painted and is now waiting for.... exactly: a carbon decal on the back 😅

And the doorpanels were also painted

Then I wanted to apply the first decal to the body and chose the left side with the stripes. However, I soon realized that it didn't fit at all in terms of size 👎 If the position around the rear wheel arch fitted, then the stripes in the front area ended far too high up and if I had them fitting at the front, the decal would almost have come over the entire opening for the wheels... So now I'm masking the body based on pictures from the internet and will paint the stripes afterwards. So far I've done the masking for the upper part of the stripe, now I have to tackle the lower part and repeat the whole thing for the other side...

All in all, I've come quite far and am now waiting for the bodywork to be finished. Most of the rest is already finished and waiting for the final assembly 🙂 
Urs

[Mattilacken]

Nice project!