Fujimi Kits?

[Deckerz]

Iv been building model cars for a while now but iv only ever build revell kits, on the odd ocasion amt kits.

I am thinking of buying a fujimi skyline r34 nismo but i don't know the quality of the kits...they any good?

[JamesW]

Fujimi kits are VERY WELL molded and detailed (with the exception of no engines). Very few of their kits had engines. They are very nice kits to build.

[highway]

Fujimi kits are VERY WELL molded and detailed (with the exception of no engines). Very few of their kits had engines. They are very nice kits to build.

The newer ones are great, but this is an old reissue of a battery powered toy that has a junk interior, the floor pan touches the steering wheel!

There was also a 79? Camaro that has the same junk interior.

[Deckerz]

Alright thanks guys, i think the r34 is a newer one but if this is true about missing engine i might have to find a revell one.

[highway]

I think this one is the R34 Nismo, I know it's a Nismo, but not sure on the R34:

This one is from Tamiya, and is a very nice kit, no engine, just curbside.

[Guest 85Biarittz]

There is a R35 made with an engine. I don't remember an R34.

[highway]

There is a R35 made with an engine. I don't remember an R34.

Both Tamiya R34s I have are curbsides, but I do have a R33? (maybe R32) Skyline from Tamiya that does have a full engine.

Edited April 18, 2010 by highway

[charlie8575]

If they weren't so flippin' expensive, I'd seriously consider buying a Fujimi kit or two. One of the guys at MassCar builds them by the boxcar load, and they're very well-done.

I agree with the whole "for that price you should get an engine" thing, but because they're as well-executed as they are, I'm willing to reconsider my position just to build one.

Charlie Larkin

[crispy]

As was mentioned the newer Fujimi kits within the past 5 years I'd say, are really great to work with. Engineered very well and look fantastic built out of the box. With that said, most are curbside. The F430 with its showcase engine cover gives you a great illusion of the engine, and it's only a few pieces but looks great. Fujimi's Enthusiast kits have an engine, but also a huge amount of parts.

The Skyline kits, if you want an engine, would be the Tamiya R32. A really nice kit. Aoshima and Fujimi's kits don't have the engines. At one time Fujimi did offer a kit with a resin engine but that has been long discontinued.

I've built two Fujimi Skyline kits recently, the R32 and R33 in S-tune trim. They are perfect for what I wanted, eye candy on my shelf.

Chris

[MyBradKeselowski]

Fujimi kit's are nice, but my pick is Aoshima kit's over any of the

japanese kit's.

IMHO I think Aoshima's are a modeler's heaven, they are to me!!!

[Deckerz]

The one you have Matt is a r34.

[highway]

The one you have Matt is a r34.

Thanks, Deckerz. I love the look of Skylines, but the numbers confuse me sometimes! That's just like one of the earlier ones I have that has an engine in it, I can't remember if it's an R32 or R33.

[nutboltu]

Am i the only one who had a defective Tamiya R32? It had one A pillar coupla millimeters shorter than the other, meaning the glass would never ever sit right. So i had to cut the shorter A pillar and lengthen it to make everything fit. But yeah, rest of everything is brilliantly detailed and accurate.

Edited June 3, 2014 by nutboltu

[JPS_Lotus]

Back in February, I was in the process of building the Fujimi Brabham BT46B F1 kit, but I never finished it after a problem I had with part of the body. Fujimi's coloring uses Mr. Color paints so I was unable to figure out what to use for the red of the body since my hobby shop only carries Mr. Color jar paints, not their spray paints. I used Tamiya Bright Red but did not like how it came out. Wound up switching to Italian Red. Long story short, I became too ambitious with what I was doing and I needed to strip the entire kit, but due to how much detail they put into the moldings, I was never able to get it stripped completely, and wound up sanding out many of the fine details in my lost effort. At some point I do plan on rebuying the kit and redoing the body. The Alfa Romeo flat 12 looked very similar to the real life pictures I had, and I was amazed at how awesome it looked when completed.

With that said, as mentioned, Fujimi does an ace job with details on their kits. It's incredible. It's very much because of their details that I will rebuy the kit since I wound up sanding off riveting work on the body, and I did not want to lose that. The one problem I had with the their kit (I'm not sure if this was just this kit or is the case with others) is that pieces fit very tightly. Priming parts, and then painting over them will affect the fit more than any car kit I've tried to date. Tamiya doesn't fit as tightly as Fujimi, nor does Revell and Ertl. I had to sand back to the bare plastic in order for some small parts to fit flush in the joints whereas I didn't have to bother doing that with other kits.

Here are a few pictures of the engine from the kit just to give an idea about the details. All of the intake trumpets are individual pieces.

Edited June 3, 2014 by JPS_Lotus

[Scalper]

If you like Porsches then you will like Fujimi kits.

[jbwelda]

if you like Revell kits you will be pretty astounded at most Fujimi kits, with the exception of the missing motor. but truthfully, even without the actual motor in there, the undersides look very detailed and the oil pan/exhaust pipe areas are well done. what I usually do is make a small black out plate out of styrene to fit above the engine portion of the undercarriage and paint it flat black. here are a Nissan silvia and a skyline I did some time back, both have extensive body kits and mods though. enjoy the kits!

note these weren't high hour builds, I probably had about 30 hours each into them.

jb