OS giken 510

[LAone]

heres another project i have been working on for a long while. the kit is the revell tuner 510. i bought it roughly 10 years ago. i started on it, but didn't like how it was turning out. so it went into hibernation, now fast forward to feb 2010 and i start to fix what i had done 10 years ago.

just a quick run down.

Edited December 14, 2010 by LAone

[LAone]

[LAone]

oooh mike, do i know that. i'ts very extreme, but meets the oni-kyan (demon camber) look. im bringing shakotan, oni-kyan and hippari with this build. what does all that mean, google for some images. <(for the curious mind)

dave, for this one. i am going to try to show tire wear. it's gonna be tough to get it flat towards the middle, bit im gonna try.

[Brendan]

Like what you've done so far. That's not an easy kit to assemble. Was wondering about the motor. Is it the kit motor or an aftermarket resin piece?

[diymirage]

very cool! i'm with Mike, alot of people arent going to get the wicked amount of negative camber but i think it's cool. something that will help with making it look better will be to sand some flat spots into the bottoms of the tires where they contact the ground so it looks like the weight of the car is on them. you may end up sanding alot of tire away but it really changes the look. try and get at least from the middle of the tire to the back edge to sit flat if you can.

dont you mean the sidewall of the tires ?

i gotta admit, im one of the people who hate this look on the 1:1 cars but you did a great job replicating it, so that gets a thumbs up

[whale392]

While this is most certainly not my style of full-sized build (the 510 is, the WAY-TOO-GOOFY to be anything functional camber isn't), I can appreciate the work that goes into a build like this. Smoothing and squaring the engine bay isn't easy to make look right, but when done right it adds so much to the cleanliness of the overall appearance. The cage looks very well laid out and planned for proper fit and I like it. The OS Giken has to be a FuJimmy resin unit as I don't know anyone else who has one or is crazy enought to build one from scratch! Cool swap so far.

[mookie]

It looks amazing cant wait to see it when its done.

[cazxr2]

love it!!!!

[LAone]

thanks guys, i know for sure that there will be positive and negative vibes about this build. im not a softy, so the negative wont get me down.. so heres a small update.

stripped the chrome off. kinda got the look im going for. just not so gray. gonna give it used look.

rear and front brakes, from an R33 kit

started on the header, runner one and two. there are not that many pics of it, so i made what kinda looked like the one i saw.

re-worked the exhaust to a more subtle type

then this came to mind. it's like a diffuser type of thing that is used on some shakotan style cars. pretty much like an upside down wing.

Edited December 20, 2010 by LAone

[Nick F40]

This is going to be good, I like it so far Very nice work

[LAone]

thanks nick

so, i haven't really done a lot to it. xmas weekend was just lazy! went to sleep late and woke up late, like half the day late.

so i just did some prepping for details. like lines and fittings. the engine bay is pissing me off again. but it's coming along ok. i got the wheels to stop wiggling around so they are set. made glued the strut arms to the control arms, made a rear sway bar, seperated the tranny from the L16 for the MAII, made a collector for the header , an adaptor sandwich for the oil cooler with return line fittin on oil pan, ill be using the "race" style pan on it and just some putty filling and sanding on the chassis.

[Kanedge]

I love it and what you're doing. Where did the wheels come from or were they in the kit?

You've now made think of more kits to buy.

[LAone]

thanks guys.

kanedge: the wheels are made by aoshima, these are the Techno TVR. they have several other kinds, like SSR MKI, MKII, MKII, long champs, reverse mesh, and so and so on. i get them through www.hwjapan.com

i have a bunch of j-tin classics that will pop up during the year. might not finish them, but they'll be around..

[vizio93]

Wo those headers came out really nice !!!

[ajulia]

Wicked cool build up amigo! Someone made one sometime ago and looked really good! Im sure with the detail goin in yours should be outta the park as well. How common or hard is it to get this kit! Any info would help being that im trying to build a corolla to sit on the dashboard of my 82 1.8 at our local meets!Its a far cry but some shaving filling and modifying I think I can pull it off!

thanks for posting this really cool project!

peace

ajulia

[LAone]

Wicked cool build up amigo! Someone made one sometime ago and looked really good! Im sure with the detail goin in yours should be outta the park as well. How common or hard is it to get this kit! Any info would help being that im trying to build a corolla to sit on the dashboard of my 82 1.8 at our local meets!Its a far cry but some shaving filling and modifying I think I can pull it off!

thanks for posting this really cool project!

peace

ajulia

thanks bud. if its a 82 corolla your looking for, there is a kit out there already made. you have a TE72 right? a sedan?

[ajulia]

thanks bud. if its a 82 corolla your looking for, there is a kit out there already made. you have a TE72 right? a sedan?

Hello there friend! Thanks for the reply! I thought about kitbashing the 510 to replicate my 1.8 2dr ht but youve giving me hope on finding a corolla kit! Where or which company offers this subject! Again thanks for the heads up on the info!!

Edited December 30, 2010 by ajulia

[LAone]

great to have this place back!

hey bud, no problem on the heads up. the corolla is a aoshima kit. some what harder to find now. but they are out there. it's a 4 door with square lights. it's a nice kit. the chassi is motorized type, but still workable..

so here is another update.

go some paint on some suspension parts and the body got a few rough coats of paints. the final color is not decided yet.

[J.Wolfe]

looks sick with the burnt brown/orange sprayed the way you did, im sure it wont stay that way but it would be a good "dirty" mud effect if you think about it lol. cant wait to see more as your one of the few building he same styles i like/prefer, and doing it ###### well at that!

[LAone]

thanks justin.

got some parts made up. a new radiator, fuel line with pump. sprayed the one of the final coats of wooden deck tan. its uneven, but thats the way its suppose to be.. more on that later.

thanks for looking.

[gunner]

Looking very good, I will be following this build.

[Guest JamesDE]

This is coming out nice! I like the choice of rims for this one...

[LAone]

well, i have been a bit under the weather lately havent done much on this one, but heres a bit of an update. i painted the chassis, roll cage and front seats along with a couple of red circles. one on each side. but i had to stop there due to me running out of primer for other parts.. oh well, gives me a chance to buy some plasti-kote.

hope to get this done soon. thanks for looking

[Rinseman]

Awesome build. That's some serious stretch on those tires. Looking forward to more.

[Guest JamesDE]

Interior is coming out nice... I like the overall look of this one.... Im working on one myself, but going with the engine from the EVO lol