'15 Lamborghini Huracan

[Simo5555]

Hi  

Time to start another build! Porsche is done and Firebird is almost done (i promise ). So what should i build next.... Felt like i should do another boring supercar build. I'll take it as a kind of warmup build for the upcoming Revuelto. I also have the infamous Huayra at the bottom of my stash - that one really scares me. I also have a really cool paint for it, but i just don't dare to try it yet. Maybe one day. If i can put that thing together, then i've earned the right to call myself not a beginner anymore.... i think. But enough of that rambling  

About this build, so i've already built the Gallardo, the Murcielago and also the Aventador. So the Huracan should fit right in. So this is what i'm going to build - The Gallardo's younger sister, the Huracan!  


Kit itself is from Aoshima. Seems like a nice quality kit. Seems like its not the easiest to put together, but i'll try my best. Paint wise, i guess the red or black should look really cool on it. Or yellow? Maybe even orange? But then again, wheres the fun in that? So it won't be none of those.  

So lets see how this one goes.
Thanks for following!

Simo.  

[Cool Hand]

I will definitely be following along with interest, might be the inspiration and motivation I need to get my stalled LBWK Huarcan back to the bench for completion.

Looking forward to seeing what you come up with.

[Simo5555]

So, about this kit...... I haven't had that much experience with Aoshima kits, but some things stand out to me. First, the body - whilist the revell likes to mold its bodies as a single unit, the aoshima likes to make them as multi piece parts. As for the aoshima, its not always obvious how the parts supposed to glue together. Revell is easier - theres usually a rather large glue area or lip - just put the glue here and push the part there - no biggie. Aoshima isnt that way. The lip or area you supposed to put the glue on is very small (or there isnt one at all). So first, i layed down all the body parts to see what goes where:


Another issue is that the instructions calls for the bodypanels to be glued on after the paintjob. I don't like it. I like to glue most of the body parts before paint - this just gives it a cleaner look in the end. But it takes a lot of testfitting and planning to make sure the kit will still go together. So this is what i did - a lot of testfitting. I'm pretty much sure i can glue the front bumper and sideskirts on without issues. The rear bumper must be glued after the paint or else the taillights wont go in.  


Then the panel gaps..... aoshima usually has them pretty well done. But not on this kit They were really narrow and shallow. So definitely needed some touchups. So i grabbed my trusty old scribber and went to town. 


Wasn't as easy as it looks. Scribber jumped out at one place so will have to do some putty work later on.

     
But still, i really do like the Huracans. Should fit right in with its two sisters (well, almost)

[Mattilacken]

Those are cool builds! Great start

[Simo5555]

Usually the aoshima kits doesn't have engines in them. Well, atleast based on my limited experience with them. But seeing a full engine on this one was a nice surprise


Its not the best looking engine, but still, its a fully molded one. One can do lots of awesome stuff with it. Sadly i'm not that skilled


But it looks pretty awesome inside the engine bay


So yeah, pretty cool surprise



Also the sidemirrors in this kit is in two pieces. I don't know why - seems like its just for making it more complicated than it has to be. So, i definitely need to glue them before any paint. But how to do it so they don't look off once everything is painted?

Easy - just take a blob of bluetac and stick it inside the body


That way, you can securely stick the stem? to the body


Then you can glue the mirror on to the stem


And repeat on the other side. And voila! You have a nice and symmetrical mirrors that you can just pull off from body and ready for a paintjob :D 

[seanyb505]

Brilliant thinking on the mirrors