**Completed! Scale Auto Style 350Z! hella lot of pix!

Well, here it is! Its finnally completed.
I've included the entire build in this thread, in case you guys would miss the original thread. You can see the "process" pictures in all the stages of mounting, moulding, primer and final paint. Great kit by tamiya, Awesome body kit By Scale Auto Style (Chris aka Flyonthewall).

kit: Tamiya 350Z
body kit: Cwest full body kit from Scale Auto Style
colour: Custom mixed airbrushed White+Silver+babyblue+gunmetal+pearlecent blue pearl+blue pearl+red pearl+yellow pearl!!!!!!!!!
Wheels: Andrew Racing Dish painted gunmetal
Interior: Purple Pearl + gunmetal+ flat grey+ semigloss black colour scheme.
Mods:lowered suspension, the SAS bodykit, custom made rear bumper valance, rerouted exhuast, GT wing, blacked out headlamps, mesh in grills.

Phew..that was a mouthfull..well pictures tell a thousand words..so here goes:

comments expected!!! hope u guys like it as much as i do. :jumpie:

process stages:

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primer stage

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the finished product!

the camera doesnt pick up the pearls very well!! =(

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Very very nice.:eek2: :eek2: :eek2:

Look awersome ! really like the interior !

I can't wait to get this kit !

looks sweet! I really wish I had the stuff to make kits like that, it takes me SOooooooooooooooooooo long to build my kits from scratch, this would cut my modeling time in HALF ( of course I would still have to build a custom original to mold the kit after.)

:eek: :eek: :eek: I love it. This is one of the nicest 350Zs, and there have been a lot built. Very nice work.

Looks good are you planning to add panel lines?

I don't see what the big deal is with panel lines. No offense to P-Man, but I don't think it makes the model look very realistic. When you look at a car, you don't notice big black lines. I think if you do them, do them in a darker shade of the body color. I think that would look better than black. Just my oppinion.

no you don't notice BIG BLACK lines, but there ARE black gaps in between the seperate panels on a car. you will NEVER see a car where the paint flows seamlessly throughout the whole car, so panel lines are the best way we have so far to replicate the gaps to make the car look as realistic as possible.

porkchop - good job on the car. the rear wheels stick out a good bit! does the paint have more of a color-flipping element on the back, because i seem to see some hints of yellow in the back bumper that look to be the same color as the resin.

Originally posted by mhpspeed
Looks good are you planning to add panel lines?


I am debating that..if i can find a grey permanent marker then i will add panel lines..not paint..i dont want to risk destroying the paint job. I like it the way it is right now tho! :p

Originally posted by S13_Iketani
no you don't notice BIG BLACK lines, but there ARE black gaps in between the seperate panels on a car. you will NEVER see a car where the paint flows seamlessly throughout the whole car, so panel lines are the best way we have so far to replicate the gaps to make the car look as realistic as possible.

porkchop - good job on the car. the rear wheels stick out a good bit! does the paint have more of a color-flipping element on the back, because i seem to see some hints of yellow in the back bumper that look to be the same color as the resin.


Yes the paint is the color flipping kind in certain light. The yellow u see is the yellow pearl i added..i guess the lighting when i took that shot showed it..its all over the car..and its not resin

I think the color does not suit the 350Z. But nice kit though.
Some parts seems to have a bit of greyish color.

whao, that thing is crazy lookin, I like it. BUt if I built it, I would have mixed more blue and silver in the paint, it would'ev gave it more color. But it looks excellent !

Im sure Chris well be proud of another body kit :D

Great looking job on the car and good thread also.

PS....I'm not gonna say another word about panel lines :finger: :finger: :finger:

:D

Originally posted by integra818
whao, that thing is crazy lookin, I like it. BUt if I built it, I would have mixed more blue and silver in the paint, it would'ev gave it more color. But it looks excellent !

yeah i love blue, most of my cars are blue..i was trying to move away from that, so heck..a really light shade of blue seemed to be the answer hehehe...theres alot of silver pearl in it..the camera doesnt pick it up

I think it's a really light shade of blue and it does'nt show it in the pics. The 2002 mercedes s500 comes in a realy light blue, it probably looks like that does'nt it? I don't know if you've seen the mercedes, but if you have, then you know what I'm talking about. Or does it look like the backround color of this post????? :D

Or better yet, the backround color of THIS post!

Forget that last one, THIS HERE , the backround of this post !

Originally posted by integra818
Forget that last one, THIS HERE , the backround of this post !

hahah i really cant describe the colour..theres so many shades in it..it looks silverish blue in the sunlight light jade green in darker light..grey in other light...........

:p

Nice!!!

Very unusual colour for the 350. Them wheels make the car look pretty mean tho!!!

I'm not a great fan of japanese cars but this one is sooooo cool :eek:
I like it very much.
I'll call it: bodybuilded Z

Deedlit

Originally posted by SuPeRcAr_MaN
I don't see what the big deal is with panel lines. No offense to P-Man, but I don't think it makes the model look very realistic. When you look at a car, you don't notice big black lines. I think if you do them, do them in a darker shade of the body color. I think that would look better than black. Just my oppinion.

Agree :rolleyes:

Another Af member who's done me proud!:)

Great job on this, like the colour, wing suits it well, particularly like the mod to the rear, not so keen on the wheels though!

ps - I wonder which of our Z's would win in a race?:D

pimp:smoka:

Done a great job with the model, I hope mine ends up looking half as good, got the body kit from sas just waitin for hlj to deliver the donor kit:)

PS How do you post so many pictures at one time and get them to show, have used the method in faq and ended up with a load of links showing and not the actual pictures, some of them came out as redx's (will try again) but in the mean time maybe a clue as to how you put your pics on this post:confused:

use the IMG button the vB Code bit above the main text box and you will get this



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To Hiroboy

Then what? will clicking on that button show the image rather than the link address? Sorry to ask but im new to this:cry:

Originally posted by RONALD SOLE
Done a great job with the model, I hope mine ends up looking half as good, got the body kit from sas just waitin for hlj to deliver the donor kit:)

PS How do you post so many pictures at one time and get them to show, have used the method in faq and ended up with a load of links showing and not the actual pictures, some of them came out as redx's (will try again) but in the mean time maybe a clue as to how you put your pics on this post:confused:


all u gotta do is jus keep posting links like so to get multiple shots:
(i purposely left a space in the [/img] for it to show.)
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Originally posted by flyonthewall
Another Af member who's done me proud!:)

Great job on this, like the colour, wing suits it well, particularly like the mod to the rear, not so keen on the wheels though!

ps - I wonder which of our Z's would win in a race?:D

hehe, thanks for the comments man, you know this car will be nothing without your skills!! Hmm..which one of our cars will win? wider wheels means wider traction right? heheehehe :p

Originally posted by njh
I think the color does not suit the 350Z. But nice kit though.
Some parts seems to have a bit of greyish color.
I agree. The model itself is well built, but the color doesn't say "Look at me". But overall a good job.;)

Originally posted by SpoonMan Dos

I agree. The model itself is well built, but the color doesn't say "Look at me". But overall a good job.;)


thanks!, i know i know..the color doesnt scream look at me! i was going for a more realistic, sutle look. :D

Originally posted by .porkchop.


hehe, thanks for the comments man, you know this car will be nothing without your skills!! Hmm..which one of our cars will win? wider wheels means wider traction right? heheehehe :p

Yeah but he's turbo'd. :)

Originally posted by Jedi801


Yeah but he's turbo'd. :)


haha, true....damn! gotta add intercooler

Great work.The blue pearl looks amazing.

Great choice on the color!

looks good, but i cant say the same for the color, why not try some thing like orange>?

:eek2: That is uber nice!!!!!!!!!!!!

Quite a weird colour after mixing so many colors together...and as usual, the same old SAS bodykit...:o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o

Originally posted by bibendumz
Quite a weird colour after mixing so many colors together...and as usual, the same old SAS bodykit...:o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o


yeah werid color was waht i was going for..=) same old SAS kit??? there hasnt been that many? has there? isnt mine the first completed? hehe and the kit has been modded..front lip added..rear bumper valance totally changed

looks good....is it a light pic or the color is that light???

Originally posted by zangief
looks good....is it a light pic or the color is that light???

the real colour is pretty close to what you see!

Very nice.:sun:
Tom

You should see what it looks like now, so much better!

He fixed the paint. The paint became soo yellow so he was dissapointed, he reapainted and now IMO it looks waaaaay better.

Do a search on it.

Good jobay.

looks good. How hard was the SAS kit to put on? I only ask this because I got one coming for my 350Z.:D

Scott

wow! I was surprised to see my old thread come back up,
and to answer the few questions, the kit was very easy to put on, with no problems what so ever. It is just a matter of cutting the existing pieces off and putting the new ones on, which a little bit of sanding and puttying to clean it all up.

oh, and yes, i repainted it because of a bad experience with testors, and here are the pictures...

(i also painted the wing to match, but its not shown in the pictures)

thanks for the comments once again!

.henry.
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I liked it then, and I like it now!!! I' going to start on mine pretty soon!:)

looks great but i dont like the color

Wow looks great.
One question where did the rear bumpers bottom piece come from?? Was it from the S.A.S kit to???
Great Job:)
Tom

Originally posted by Deejay360
Wow looks great.
One question where did the rear bumpers bottom piece come from?? Was it from the S.A.S kit to???
Great Job:)
Tom

The bottom piece is a custom made addition my me.:D It did NOT come with the SAS kit

Thats cool.One last question how much did the shiping cost???
Tom

How much did it cost for the shiping from the S.a.S. Just woundering from California and woundering how much would it cost??

Originally posted by Lan_evo
How much did it cost for the shiping from the S.a.S. Just woundering from California and woundering how much would it cost?? Take a look at: http://www.scaleautostyle.com/shipping.php

Which 350z did u get the 350z "Track" or 350z?? Just woundering.
Tom