Tamyia Toyota 86 GT5 Verison

[martinfan5]

Starting this one next, its the Tamiya 2012 Toyota 86 Japan Version , this is one of three different kits on this car that has been released. This car will be sold in the US under the Scion name. My plan for this one is doing like I have it in the game Grand Turismo 5

This is what I am going to try and build

And the body

Edited August 20, 2012 by martinfan5

[cobraman]

Cool car. Good luck on your project.

[crazyjim]

Good looking car.

[streetmachine11]

ive been looking at getting this kit. ill be wathing your build for sure.

[Mooneyzs]

Jonathan.... This is going to be an awesome build bud!!! Great looking car. I look forward to progress on this one.

[Bennyg]

Cool idea.

Ben

[martinfan5]

Getting some paint on the body, I am using Model Master Chrysler yellow lacquer, it has a few mist coats , waiting for the Humidity to drop and waiting to see if its going to rain again before I do the wet coats

and the chassis

[captin]

i like, i work at a toyota dealer ship and those cars in person are super nice except in america they are scion FR-S but i love what youve done with it so far looks great cant wait to see more

[martinfan5]

So it appears that I got the chassis wrong, I found a pic of the bottom of a completed one ( guessing by Tamiya) and the chassis is a mix of body color and black

[martinfan5]

Getting some work done on this, here is what I have done

This the top bottom half of the engine and front wheel well piece

and this is the top part of the engine detail

[JesseJames]

...black n' yellow!

[Rob Hall]

Looking good...good choice on that yellow.

[martinfan5]

Working on the chassis and getting it painted

[Bennyg]

Cool, can't wait to see it done.

Ben

[lanesteele240]

Just cant figure why they just dont make an engine for their kits. Would love to see this thing with the hood up. Billions of kids dont even know that models have engines.

Any way your build looks great.

[martinfan5]

The chassis is almost done

and here is the engine detail

and started working on the interior

[martinfan5]

Been working on the interior, I used flat black and semi gloss black, I shot dull coat over the semi gloss

Here is the engine detail almost done

and chassis is finished other then the brake rotars , but I am waiting tell the wheels I bought get here before I put them on.

And now the not so good update, the paint needed to be wetsanded and polished, everything was going good, but I burned through a few spots, but didnt catch it tell I was polishing and that made it bigger

I was going to try and fix the spot, so I masked the body and sprayed that area, well that didnt work, and I left the making tape on too long, so the body was covered with the tape residue . So I am stripping the paint and going to start over

Sometimes I just want to give up building models

[martinfan5]

Here is the start of the body mods, I add a strip of styrene to the side of the body on the inside so the bondo has something to stick to , and did the same on the front bumper as well

[Bennyg]

Cool bodywork. Can't wait to see more.

Ben

[Kmidd65]

Man, that was looking sweet! Instead of stripping next time, give good old WD-40 a try first. That stuff is great for removing tape residue. This build will be cool when finished!

[martinfan5]

Man, that was looking sweet! Instead of stripping next time, give good old WD-40 a try first. That stuff is great for removing tape residue. This build will be cool when finished!

Thanks for the tip, I will try that next time

[martinfan5]

Making a little progress, getting closer to getting the ground effects done, its not going to be exactly like the pic, but close enough for me

[VintageJDM]

Nice body work.

[Bennyg]

Sweeeeeett! Shaping up real well.

Ben

[martinfan5]

Thanks guys

I am getting closer I think, I just got done filling some holes and sanding some lines out of it, going to hit it with some primer again and see if I am ready to paint it