I will still be posting the wip pictures of this build, although the kit is now completed. I manage to finish this 2 cars in 2 weeks, my best personal record for car so far.


this kit have no engine, should be able to build it fast


Chassis done.


while waiting for the kit to arrive, I've draw the fire patterns in Illustrator. thanks Peter Chan for lending me his G-35 as a sample. I print the patterns on paper then add a layer of tape to strengthen it.


After nearly 3hrs of cutting, the fire template is done.

Fire template on car


I custom mix the car paint, with copper and florescent red. the bottle in the middle is the mix result.


I've never try this kind of masking template before, so I tested it on one of my testing kit. Result are promising.


the result before any touch up. Metallic paints can never be touch up by hand brushing.


The coper color painted and mask applied.

2 tone color painted.


First layer of clear coat.


front grille modification.


result after 3 layers of clear coat.

windscreen tinted with Gunze smoke


Result after 4 layers of clear coat and 3 stage polishing (rather then the usual 5 that I do due to time constrain)


Lights are painted and light cover tinted.


Rims painted and waiting to final assembly and painting.

Finally after many sleepless night the 2 cars are completed. Picture are taken on the car while it's still "clean"

Thanks for viewing, any form of comments, suggestions and critics are welcome.

BV,
the tinting with Gunze smoke is airbrushed? Does it fog up?

Yup, air brushed. It did not fog up but takes bit more time to dry. It's not dry even after 3 days.... bty it's gunze acrylic.

Very nice build Vince. The 2 tones paint job is very cool.

caya la lu vince.....superb job B)

two tones came out nicely

nice car! i love it much, especially the fire masking! wow..how amazing..congrats bv for doing such a good job! thumbs up! :D

Wow BV.... within 2 days a lost of post from you..cool~! B)

Really admire the effort on the 'flame' effect... still recall u cut them one by one in the progress... then later the 2 tone painting... :wacko:

understand there're some fitting problem on this kit but i think you don't have overcome the difficulties after looking closely at your G35... bravo~!

YG,
Thanks for the nice words.

Mat selam,
Terima kasih, nasib baik masa tu tangan steady.

Unknown user,
Tq very much.

Peter,
There is some fitting problem, the wind screen and the rear lights.... the flame thing is my first try and it's only concept in my mind before I apply it.

respect... 2 car with flames in such a short period :P

good job BV ^_^

entau,

thanks, with a template, I can use one stone to kill 2 birds.... :P

i just back from watching f&f4... wah the car u built was almost the same....!~ nice build bro... can teach us ur masking techniques ar?