Fujimi Porsche 356C 2000GS Convertible

[GeeBee]

Put on another coat of wax this morning, the body has now been put away in a sealed container for safety, the wheel were sprayed using Tamiya TS-50 Silver leaf decanted and used through the airbrush

[Cato]

What's you plan for the panel lines Geoff?

[GeeBee]

What's you plan for the panel lines Geoff?

I have some Tamiya Panel Line Accent color on order from eBay, never tried it before, so lets see how it turns out ....

[jaymcminn]

Geoff, that's gorgeous. I wonder if that "panel line accent" color is just re-packaged Smoke?

[mitchell]

tamiya panel accent is very thin. Might be thin down from black. Once u get a hang of it, very easy to use.

[GeeBee]

Geoff, that's gorgeous. I wonder if that "panel line accent" color is just re-packaged Smoke?

Reading on some military model forums, it's enamel based .....

[CrazyGirl]

Nice Nice build !!!!! I just googled that panel line paint , seems you can't get it in the USA

[GeeBee]

Nice Nice build !!!!! I just googled that panel line paint , seems you can't get it in the USA

You can't get in the U.K either, which is why I had to order it from Hong Kong ....

[CrazyGirl]

I wonder why that is , to make a product you can't get , so who is buying these paints

[GeeBee]

Cleaned up the tyres, they seemed to have a dusty white coating on them, a little warm water and washing up liquid got them looking like rubber, compared to the original silver colour them came in, I think they look much better with the Tamiya TS-30 silver leaf

[GeeBee]

I wonder why that is , to make a product you can't get , so who is buying these paints

It's usually due to the fact that the importers doesn't want to bring the products in, we can't get the Tamiya enamel paints over here either, years ago I wanted a filter case that Nikon makes, but Nikon U.K doesn't import these items, I managed to pick one up in New York while I was over there .....so it seems different countries have different products

[David G.]

Excellent work as always! Though I don't often comment, I do enjoy following your work.

David G.

[Foxer]

Now I remember why I bought a couple 356 kits .. those beautiful rims!!

[mitchell]

the drums are even more impressive than the rims. Too bad Tamiya rims are casted with the drum and I felt they are better than teh Fujimi ones. the one I am talking about is the one from the beetle and the karman ghia kit.

[GeeBee]

the drums are even more impressive than the rims. Too bad Tamiya rims are casted with the drum and I felt they are better than teh Fujimi ones. the one I am talking about is the one from the beetle and the karman ghia kit.

Your right, the drums in the Fujimi kit are just superb, they even have the brake linings inside .....

[WizPorsche944]

Looks great so far, where did you find that paint ?

[GeeBee]

Looks great so far, where did you find that paint ?

For the body ?? I had it mixed by Paints4u, http://www.paints4u.com/ I've been using them for a few years now, and can pretty much any shade I want, they even managed to mix up some of the metallic blue that Carlisle trucking use, luckily I managed to get the colour code, and they found it, cost's me £11.99 for 100mls, either cellulose lacquer or basecoat.

[WizPorsche944]

For the body ?? I had it mixed by Paints4u, http://www.paints4u.com/ I've been using them for a few years now, and can pretty much any shade I want, they even managed to mix up some of the metallic blue that Carlisle trucking use, luckily I managed to get the colour code, and they found it, cost's me £11.99 for 100mls, either cellulose lacquer or basecoat.

Great, Thanks for the info.

[mitchell]

that is why I chose the drum over the disc when I build the B.

[doggie427]

Beautiful work on a great model Geoff !

You can't get in the U.K either, which is why I had to order it from Hong Kong ....

It's available at my LHS here in Canada.

I think different countries have restrictions on what chemicals and paints can be imported. Here in Canada sometimes the biggest hurdle is the required bi-lingual packaging !

[Tompidom]

Have you clearcoated the body or have you polished the paint? And if you have cleared the body what kind of clear have u used.

[GeeBee]

Have you clearcoated the body or have you polished the paint? And if you have cleared the body what kind of clear have u used.

No clearcoat was used, it was painted in cellulose lacquer, like the real thing would have been painted back in the 60's, and was wetsanded and polished.

[GeeBee]

Got the chassis/fllorpan masked up over the weekend and sprayed this morning, I'm still not 100% happy with the floor, as like the 911 Fujimi mold the floor as though it has no carpet or covering on it, as you can see all the strengthening ribs in it, I may make some panels out of sheet yet, as most 356's had a rubber covering on the floor and carpet around the sides, although it might be a lot easier just to flock the complete interior ....

[GeeBee]

Well I had a look for some flocking to match the interior, but I didn't have any in stock, looking on the 'net, what I needed was some 'Buff' coloured flocking, no one in the U.K had any in stock, so I've had to order some from BNA Model World, so I will start building the engine up, just a few small parts to paint before I can do that, so I started to work on the dashboard, top dash rail was masked off and airbrushed the same colour I had mixed up for the seats and door cards, then the dials were done using BMF, when the decals go on, you'll only see the chrome rings, a little bit of detail painting yet before it's finished

[Gluhead]

Beautiful!