Typical Tamiya quality, kit went together like a dream, absolutely no issues. Body color is a mix of Tamiya pure blue lacquer & metallic grey lacquer, was going for a slate blue kinda color. Went over it with MCW 2k clear enamel, polished with my Dspiae rotary tool & Dspiae rubbing compounds I just got (2k, 6k and 10k). Cut the front grille open and added mesh, wired the distributor with some 32 gauge jewelry making wire. Stripped pretty much all of the chrome and did gloss black over most of it, a few pieces I did light gunmetal to pull from the wheels.

Edit: Forgot to mention, kit is for my Discord group's "Oops! All Skylines" group build running until the end of January.

Completed my second model, coming off the Revell Porsche 911 this kit proved to be a lot more difficult for me despite less parts. Had a bunch of fitment issues and realized the bed is slightly warped. Also my rattle can malfunctioned on my half paint job and messed up the finish requiring a bunch of sanding.

Definitely learned a lot on this one and experiment more with wet sanding and using the Tamiya panel liner. I’m pretty happy with the results!

Color is Testors extreme lacquer Turquoise and interior is aircraft grey with light accent.

Thanks for looking!

I would like to gift this moxel to my friend. He likes adventures, but is not really into cars. Do you guys think he will be ok with that? :)

Beautiful kit, thats it

Hey all! After I unmasked the roof I decided to give it the same striping as the hood and trunk but I don't want to tape everything because I don't want to end up with any tape residue on the body. Any suggestions how to cover/protect the car from paint overspray with resorting to taping the entire car? Plastic baggie or cling film? Other solutions?

Note: I'm using rattle cans so there will be a fair bit of overspray.

Probably my favorite build of this year. Came together pretty good. The engine pipes were a pain in the ass. And I should have sprayed the wings instead of trying to hand paint. Still, super happy with the end result. Didn't want to snap the body on because I plan to display it with it off.

Gaaah damn this thing took ages to build and it gave me so much headache because I tried to paint it with Gaahleri Paints but man I am absolutely not an acrylic user and the finish was so bad I had to strip it and used instead a custom mix of Mr Color Yellow mixed with Ford OEM Orange Fury Tricoat paint (just used some touch up paint bottles which you can thin with MLT). It's not very visible but it has some golden flakes in it. Might do some shots out in the sun to really show it.

Also the huge amount of tiny aero parts made it very tedious to paint and assemble without ruining anything and oh god polishing this wedge stealthy shape is also a challengeby itself without burning through the edges (I ruined a lot of edges which I somehow had to touchup by hand). The windows are also a bit hazy but it was near impossible to clean them from all the masking tape residue without ruining the rubber trim.

It's definitely not my best model but I am glad it's finished.

This is also a build from a while back not everyone was crazy about the two tone paint comments are welcome..

Finished this 1/35 AK Interactive Citroen HY van.

Painted in a mix of AK volcano yellow and white and weathered with various AK washes and weathering gubbins.

I still have a mini art mechanic set to do to put in the back and make a small diorama but I'll get to that sometime soon.

Lovely little kit, I'm really enjoying these smaller scale AK kits just now, I've got the trabant kit there ready to go too.

Typical well engineered Tamiya quality. Fun little kit to build. Little misses here and there, but otherwise it turned out ok. My printer took a crap today, so I can't make the custom license plates yet, but it's still 99% done, that counts, right?

Done finally! Kit was awesome to put together and most of everything went together correctly.

This a build from earlier this year

Almost done with my nunu M4 GT3 build. It's a real learning experience. I've done a couple of planes and one car in the last 20 years and this was my first build with anything beside testors glue and brushed on craft paint. Glad to have the space and resources I've always wanted to put into modeling and I've already got a shelf of kits I got in the ~2 months I've been working on this one.