1/24 Fujimi Mitsubishi FTO


Well, funny title right? I build this kit straight out of box in less than a week. I want to prove something that is cleanliness is the most important aspect of building a car model. That's why the shine isn't that great compare to my other builds. I have a weird thinking right ?

Enjoy my crappy build :P












My next build will prove Anchor clear coat is good also. ( although already proven by Imran)

:) why don't you try TOA clear (RM6 with bigger can). i think its better than anchor. i've used TOA clear on my gulf evo.

:huh: .. looks ok to me..except those decal and panel lines is too wide...

kalam2b,
i have bad experience with TOA. I can't get use to the hard noozle. I still trust anchor.
still kalam, respect you for being able to use the TOA brand and making a superb finishing evo! B)

pcevo,
it's a tpyical old fujimi kit :P

it looks like ur work, nothing much different ^_^

but i dun understand why cleanliness got anything to do with fast work? :blink:

well
actually i am testing my modeling skills
because usually if you build fast you tend to mess up, right? so i am trying to see if my skills allow me to build the model fast and clean.......

trust me entau, it's not good work .......just hoping to see a cleanly build model... :wacko:

oh..icc

now i get ur point, yes, sometimes when we rush, we tend to makes more mistake/careless :P

and u r testing if u could get the same consistency with a fast built

i was thinking a fast built too, my built are tooo slow... :P

Cham,

I'm no car modeller but the lack of shine is what make this car looks more realistic, especially in the 2nd pic. If it wasn't for the road gravel, I might pass it as the real car.

On another note, you can improve on the panel lines. Looks thick especially around the door handle.

Good build for 1 week effort!

brother cham,

it's not crappy..still look very good to me...any fitting problem while you build this kit? I remember that this is the old fujimi kit right? maybe the quality is not as good as today's fujimi...so i'm just wondering..have a thought of buying a FTO, but i'm afraid of older fujimi cars quality..but it's cheap to get one from ebay too..so my hands are itchy now..haha..

well..since you guys using industrial paint now..i've started to use industrial paint to paint my interior and chassis..but i have a BIG problem!! the paint comes off with the masking tape!!! why does this happen? by the way..I'm using Anchor..I guess it is the only brand that we can trust..

Entau, I believe you can do it !Go go !!

xamel, thanks for the reply man.......appreciate it very much ! B)
regarding the panel lines, i think it's the moulding problem as peter said, it is wide...typical for an old fujimi kit...

unknownuser, it is an old fujimi kit. If I tell you this kit doesn't have fitment issues at all, will you believe ? hehe !! Indeed it's fitment is perfect !
about the masking, i think you didn't sand the parts to let the paint 'grip' on the chassis and interior... trying wetsanding thoroughly....

unknown, did u prime the part? paint sticks better on prime surface too

bro just want to ask something. The side mirror is it after market? because looks big wooo. hehe. Without the clear shine and still looks good. damn i'm jealous :D

entau, sometimes i also didn't prime my parts wor :huh: like my previous evo vii i didn't even prime the body. just slap the white color on it :blink:

sky, original side mirror leh. ini fujimi punya pasal lah...mould besar besar.....
i more jealous you cause you at japan.. awek banyak, kereta model banyak..... :( :P

yah i noticed that fujimi has changed a lot these few years man. Can detect also which one is the new fujimi and the old fujimi kit from the fujimi logo colouring. Their new products improve a lot and more nicer wooo. But i'm still jealous of this finished effect by you hahahaha <_<

Good work Cham. Agree with my brother Xamel that lack of shine do make the car more realistic. Cars with reflective shine is always the ones that gets extra treatment like clear coats, cut and polishing just like what we usually do on model cars. If you observe the mass produced cars, believe it or not there are millions and millions of orange peels because the painting is automated.

By the way, I like my cars extra shine because of the size... the small scale needs extra shine to "pop". :lol:

As for the thick lines, have you tried painting the panel lines first before applying the silver paint? Maybe that can tone down the black lines and might be able to make the lines more realistic. Just a suggestion... :)

not neccessary to prime ur car body if u already wetsand throughly, and if the paint is the same colour as the plastic

but i prime my car is because i want to check for any flaws, it is very difficult to check without priming ^_^

abang sky, yeap, i saw they build the V9 subaru imprezza wrx sti model kit and the panel lines everything are so perfect and crisp.. really a good kit ^_^

druid_99, yeap, even my kenari 1:1 also have serious orange peel.. just as i said, wan prove that cleanliness is important..hehe !

about that tip, i always forget to implement it.... but my panel lines are using the enamel color black,if i do it first, and paint it silver, wouldn't the silver overlay with it and can't see the original painted lines?

you are different class from me, druid. you are the man !! and my master of modeling ! B)


entau, usually if i am building fujimi kits which basic chassis, i will just wetsand and spray flat black directly....

yahoh, i already forget priming is also to check for flaws :P

Bro cham2020, FYI, you started building cars earlier than entau.
what entau can do, you also can achieve.
building cars really need alot of discipline.. there's no way to make short cut and to paint a car kit nice without hard work.


Although I don't regularly do cars, I find even the smallest flaw will show up easily in a nicely clean kit.

For your kit, obviously the room for improvements is enormous..

If you do realised, for doing car kits, the foundation work which is the car body preparation is very important.
And given a basic out of box build, the selection of cars also very important.
As once coined by entau, given a newbie a newest tooling of (say Tamiya) car kit and a super proffessional car builder a 1980s poorly tooled kit (I don't have to name the manufacturer, you probably know better) of the same car model.
And you probably know given the best modeller it's still tough to challenge the newest technology with their bare hands.

So... one can STILL tell which kit is of a better tooled than the other irregardless of how well the poorly tooled kit was built.
The answer is simple, because basically a poorly tooled kit will NOT look nice without modifying the kit itself.

If you really want to test your car building skill, I suggest you take a good tooled car kit and do it.

It's really unfair to you to judge your skills by selecting a already not so good kit.

Just my 2 cents of comments after 10ml of Johnie :P

wah lau klay...10ml mabuk d :lol:

what klay means:

try built a latest tamiya kit i.e the nissan gt-r for example

coz older kits requires lots of preparation work for it to look good. and 1 week is definitely not enough :P

klay really mabuk already :huh:
i also mabuk after eating nasi ayam penyet..damn spicy........

yeap, i do agree that the selection of kits make a huge impact towards the final product of the car. yeap, discipline is very important when building a car. no shortcuts, even painting the Recaro seats with dual tone color is also not easy.

well said klay and entau ! I really agree with this statement! Well, klay, one thing you should know, I am an avid Mitsubishi fan. That's why the selection quality of the cars are kind of poor :( which is a bid sad. ( If we exclude Tamiya Evo and Hasegawa Evo 1 to 3).


Entau, yeap, one week is definately not enough to build Tamiy kits which has lots of details......

what to do, tamiya's production was really slow, almost like 1~2 new kit per year, compare others at least 1-2 kit every month

but tamiya's kit are really sharp & precise, compare to others, though fujimi are picking up with more and more detail kits, i still find their kit lacking those sharp precisions

just cross my hands to see if aoshima's evo x will satisfy me or not. i heard the fitment is all snap and lock one...

it you talking about sharpness of tamiya kits, my advice is to avoid the philipines kit. my friend told me those are rejected molds and the quality is bad. I built one before the Evo VI Rally and lots of fitment issues.. wierd for tamiya right ?

im not surprise that some tamiya kit might not up to tamiya's standard, but luckily its very rare ^_^

cham..i can't believe that an old fujimi kit has no fitment issues!!! that's unbelievable! haha..i would try to get one then..FTO..used to be my dream car when i was a 12year-old boy..it's just sporty...

so..thinking of getting a childhood dream car...yellow FTO will be my first choice..will paint it yellow if i have one..'coz there was once a yellow FTO appeared in my living area when i was 12, everytime my eyes would turn and "scan" the FTO when i passed by..oh my...

well..i did prime the parts before spraying anchor flat black on it..but don't know why..the paint still comes off with the tape.. :huh:
any solutions? sanding job might sand off some details too..

since I've no AB right now..I'm trying to paint the interior using Industrial Anchor Brand paint, which is cheap and reliable..before this I hand painting the interior which the results turn out really bad..