mitchell Posted July 17, 2013 Posted July 17, 2013 while the site was down, had a chance to finish up a few cars. This is an Aston Martin from Tamiya. Great kit but the pity is that it only has a half engine and it miss a few detail under the hood. Still manage to add some wires and pipes to make it more realistic. This car was a mistake from before. painted it metallic black and the paint was ruined by a mistake. So stripped it and painted it metallic red. This is a well proportion model. Looks stunning. Thanks for watching.
o-man Posted July 17, 2013 Posted July 17, 2013 That's hot! half an engine or not its a great looking build.
Scuderia Posted July 17, 2013 Posted July 17, 2013 On 7/17/2013 at 3:23 PM, o-man said: That's hot! half an engine or not its a great looking build. I agree that looks great, real nice job!
Kennyboy Posted July 17, 2013 Posted July 17, 2013 Beautiful job under the hood Mitchell. Looks like a full engine to me. Also, looks like a lot of time was spent on the interior. Very nice attention to detail.
ScaleDale Posted July 17, 2013 Posted July 17, 2013 (edited) I have this kit on my shelf for a rainy day build. Engine details set aside, some of the best injection molding I have ever seen. even the chrome is great.Love your choice of color.BTW: Saw the 1:1 of this car on the street once. It made my jaw drop.Dale Edited July 17, 2013 by ScaleDale
Harry P. Posted July 17, 2013 Posted July 17, 2013 How did you do the stitching detail in the interior?
Helix Posted July 17, 2013 Posted July 17, 2013 On 7/17/2013 at 10:58 PM, Harry P. said: How did you do the stitching detail in the interior? X2! Nice build!
mitchell Posted July 18, 2013 Author Posted July 18, 2013 the stitching is done by white paint with a needle. it turn out decent enough but painting with a needle is a pain in the butt. Also the details on the dial is also done the same way. Going to try another way next time in doing stitching and piping next time. I base this build on this reference picture.
Jim Whalen Posted July 19, 2013 Posted July 19, 2013 Hi, Nice job on the Aston! I've built one of these as well and found some of it a bit tricky for a Tamyia kit - did you have trouble getting the decals to stay on?
mitchell Posted July 20, 2013 Author Posted July 20, 2013 (edited) Jim, the decals are extremely hard on this aston. Need several application of the decal softener to make it lay flat. But once it's flat, i also painted it with clear. The effect of that is really good, it brightened it up by a few notch. Other than that, I find this kit extremely well executed. Everything fitted well but the body repair on the rear wing is a bit of a pain the butt. Other than that, compare to older kits, everything fits perfectly especially the clear pieces. I did change the tires out to a lower profile tires to make it look a bit lowered. Edited July 20, 2013 by mitchell
mitchell Posted July 21, 2013 Author Posted July 21, 2013 (edited) went outdoor and took some picture of this car. This one is how I treated the carbon brake disc. I did not want to use a PE brake disc because it fits a cast iron disc better. With some metallic grey paint and and soot smeared on it, it look more like a real carbon disc under use. Not shown on the picture, but i did drill the vents on the middle of the disc. Edited July 21, 2013 by mitchell
mitchell Posted July 27, 2013 Author Posted July 27, 2013 had a chance to borrow a professional photo studio and took some pictures with a good camera, it turn out pretty good and like to share it with the forum.
CJ1971 Posted July 27, 2013 Posted July 27, 2013 Beautiful work Mitchell! Love all the little details you added. I've also built this kit & had the same dramas as everyone who's built this kit had... The decaling & those **** metal transfers! :-( I have another 2 of these kits, 1 regular & 1 with the Aber PE detail kit. Luckily I got true 1:1 colours for them before Hiroboy/Zero Paints stopped being able to ship Internationally ;-) Astons have to be my most favourite "exotic " cars ever! Looks like there's going to be some serious AMs in the future as they've just announced a partnership with Mercs AMG division.... Now if we could only hope/pray for them in kit form.... :-) Once again... Great build mate! Cliff
mitchell Posted July 27, 2013 Author Posted July 27, 2013 this is low version with only the tamiya PE. But i normally don't like to use that much PE. But with this one, i might need to get a extra aftermarket PE just for the dash and seat control details. Decals was ok in my opinion, but those metal transfer drove me crazy too.
geetee66 Posted July 27, 2013 Posted July 27, 2013 Nice job on the Aston, Mitchell! I've seen plenty of these in London and yours sits just right. Your decision to change the tyres really paid-off. It looks very convincing. Looks like you had much better luck with the red paint. Very nice work.
Modelbuilder Mark Posted August 12, 2013 Posted August 12, 2013 On 7/21/2013 at 3:04 PM, mitchell said: went outdoor and took some picture of this car. This one is how I treated the carbon brake disc. I did not want to use a PE brake disc because it fits a cast iron disc better. With some metallic grey paint and and soot smeared on it, it look more like a real carbon disc under use. Not shown on the picture, but i did drill the vents on the middle of the disc. Did you paint it black, then the metallic gray, or just mettallic grey with the soot weathering?
mitchell Posted August 13, 2013 Author Posted August 13, 2013 the brake disc surface is just hand painted metallic Grey then weathered with a bit of silver and soot. hand painted the center black and highlight the bolts with silver. Also drill the vents on the brake surface. In my opinion, it looks more like carbon disc with this method than PE parts.
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