General Model Kit Building Thread

[barryf1fan]

Made a start on the body for the Nissan R390 that I built 15+ years ago...

I messed up painting the body, twice, and you can only strip a body so many times before you chuck it in the trash - which is what I did. Found a replacement kit several years ago (for a cheap price...) and figured, eh, why not.

So got the body cleaned up the other night a shot the primer on the top and inside...

Fingers-crossed this one turns out, versus ending up in the landfill.

 

[barryf1fan]

Started decals - and they suck. Rice paper thin and have ripped at least 2/3's of them. Very slow going, but think it's looking okay.
Hope to be able to clear coat this weekend, hopefully.

Thanks for looking in!!

 

[barryf1fan]

Calling it done. Decals bubbled in a couple areas when the clear went on, and figured they would... Oh well.

Thanks for looking!

 

[Pete05]

Calling it done. Decals bubbled in a couple areas when the clear went on, and figured they would... Oh well.

Thanks for looking!

Just wondering. The box for this kit. Is it mostly white or black?

 

[Pete05]

Oops 😬

 

[barryf1fan]

Just wondering. The box for this kit. Is it mostly white or black?

It's a white box with the car on the front... I knew what you meant.

Some Tamiya kits came in a black box with white lettering, but the majority were white boxed kits...

This is the kit I had, from 1997...

and this is the re-release...

I HIGHLY suggest going with the re-re if interested. The decals in the re-pop are Cartograf decals - the ones in the og are complete garbage and a source of thinking about hurting things!