FUJIMI 98' Honda Civic Hatch

[Musclecarbuilder]

A buddy of mine told me to build this kit when we were shopping at a local hobbyshop here in TN. I figured "Why not?" It'll be fun! 

 I started trimming all the body parts off the sprue trees, this is all the parts in the kit!!

 After trimming all the parts of the trees, I started to do the usual trim-sand-file-repeat of all the parts to ensure that they fit together correctly. 

The backs of the racing buckets had a huge hole/dent type of thing that drove me insane, so I filled them in.

After doing that I moved on to the dash. There was an option in the kit to make it a manual or auto, but there's no pedals in the kit! (Of course I chose the manual option) I made some custom style pedals out or aluminum sheet.

This shifter needs a new look

Much better?

I started doing a little bodywork last night, and this morning I got the car all primed up and ready for paint!

I had to do a little wet-sanding due to the ungodly amount of dust spots that appeared on this kit.

So hopefully tomorrow I can get her painted, which reminds me...

I decided to go with this color purple: (The bottle of paint on the right is a colorshift purple) 

That's all I got right now progress-wise. Thanks for looking!!

 

Edited October 12, 2024 by Musclecarbuilder
Accidently posted the same pic twice

[TopherMcGinnis]

What paints are you using? 

[Musclecarbuilder]

scalefinishes 

1 minute ago, TopherMcGinnis said:

What paints are you using?