The GT race car CBP(now open)

[BMX Addicts]

What was that movie???.... It was something like "You had me at hello"....

[Austin T]

Well I finally got started on my kit, the Tamiya Toyota Celica GT-Four RC 92' safari rally winner. As for my decal problem I coated them today with some liquid decal film to save whats there,once I put them on I plan to make this thing look like if just finished the race covered in mud and dirt. Now one question I have that I can't find with google is the color of the chassis on this car, the instructions say clear orange but I want to see it before I paint it. Anyone just so happen to know what color it's suppose to be?

[sportandmiah]

Small update. Wetsanded with 1000, 2000, 4000, 6000, and Scratch X for a while.

[martinfan5]

Looks great, you did a good job, I give you props

I have one thing left to do on the Minolta and then its finished, I just need to tint the headlight covers, I will get some pics posted soon

I have picked out my next build, since I am back on a Nissan kick, its going to be to the Pennzoil R34 GTR

Ok, getting started on the R34

Body in a quick coat of white primer

and the chassis in aluminum

and started working on the front suspension

Edited June 20, 2013 by martinfan5

[martinfan5]

I have one last thing to do, and that is add an antenna to the roof, but other then that, the Minolta is finished

Edited June 21, 2013 by martinfan5

[o-man]

Looking sweet Jonathan!! Now hurry up on that Mustang.

[Shelby 427 1965]

Still great work here as always! Keep it up lads.

[sportandmiah]

Slowly making progress. Mounted the windshield with smoked windows. To get the proper stance, I had modify the suspension, which again eliminated more parts.

[martinfan5]

Nice stance, that is a race car stance

[maltsr]

Hi Jonathan

Think I'm ready to join in now if I may. My first choice was the Simil R Pescarolo but that can wait after seeing Juan's build , so I'm going with this instead:

I thought someone else had chosen this too, but can't see it being built so I'll give it a go. I don't have any alternative decals so this will be a box stock build, although I intend to use the new Tamiya metallic orange that featured on my Cannonball Run Mustang

Off to the workbench

[sportandmiah]

Nice choice Maltsr. There are aftermarket decals avail from Studio 27 if you want some variety.

[martinfan5]

Paul, welcome, I am happy you are joining us, I really enjoy seeing your builds, I built the MP4 about a month or two ago, decent kit

[2whl]

I'll be joining in on this CBP. Two other forums I frequent are doing a 911 build in honor of the 50th anniversary of the 911. So what I'm doing already fits in with this CBP. A pic of the box art and contents.

I decided to do a chassis stand/jig for possible display purposes.

[martinfan5]

Nice to have join Paul, off to great a start

[2whl]

I assembled all of the chassis pieces together and painted them grey. It's not the color the instructions call out, but I like the way details in the interior stand out with that color. The instructions called for white.

[maltsr]

Great start Paul

[2whl]

Thanks Paul

I did get the basic engine and transmission pieces together also.

[maltsr]

I too have made some progress this last two weeks. I had to finish a trailer combo for my club's theme night, but got some colour on the Maclaren and finished the chassis - good to see it up on wheels but the paint still needs polishing.

The trailer combo featured a race car but didn't qualify for this CBP:

[2whl]

From the pic, that paint is already shiny. If you polish it, it will be blinding !!

I'm going to try p/e belts for the first time on this kit.

I got the first couple of steps done.

[2whl]

Been working on the front suspension. Since the sponsor decals say it has Bilstein shocks, and the Bilsteins I had back in the day were yellow, I took the liberty of painting the shocks yellow. I added the Tamiya jar to get a sense of the size.

[o-man]

That Porsche is coming along great!

[Scuderia]

That Porsche is coming along great!

I second that, this should be a good comm. build. Shades of the general race car build, but nice. I also had a breakthrough with my Shelby race conversion so I should be getting some good stuff going on that soon.

[o-man]

Even though it doesn't have much chassis nor interior detail, I figured I'd go ahead and post some RX-7 pics. The decals were too big for spoiler and ended up cracking.

[hvymtl]

Well i was going to post pics tonite but i seemed to have lost them . But i do have pics of paint and details

i am building the Tamiya Calsonic GTR-35 car so i will post pics very soon .

Michael

[2whl]

Thanks Oscar and Lawrence.

Along with painting all of the front suspension pieces, the rear stuff was done at the same time. So it got assembled.