Tamiya 1989 Nissan Sylvia - An Old Built Up With A New Life

[oldcarfan]

This is an old original issue 1989 Nissan Sylvia built up that I got back when I was on an eBay buying kick. It was nicely built so it went on the shelf, but not long ago I noticed the paint had some boogers in it. Definitely a glue bomb, but I got it apart with some serious persuasion. After that it had a nice spa day in the Awesome Cleaner tank to get rid of the old paint. The window glass was spotted with glue and scratches but it polished out fairly well. I'm trying to practice low stress modeling, so I went for decent not perfect! lol

The color is old Testor's lacquer Royal Blue Pearl from my stash sprayed over Tamiya fine white primer. It's really hard to get a bad paint job with Testor's Model Master and their Lacquer paint systems. I wish someone else would launch something similar. 

I don't know who originally built the model but they primed the interior in grey and used a whole tube of glue to attach the seats and dash. I got it apart with a lot of patience and redid it with the Tamiya white primer and used some Washi tape to give it black and white plaid seats.

So here's how it looks now. It's not perfect but I'm happy with it as I was going for a low budget garage mechanic tuner look. The only variations from stock are that I lowered it a couple scale inches and dug up a set of gold Pegasus M5 wheels and tires to go with the blue paint. The spoiler on the back is from some old NASCAR kit and I think it fits the car pretty well.

 

Edited 8 hours ago by oldcarfan