Hello! Today I will digress from the football theme and tell a little about my hobby.
For a long time I could not start working on this model, which by the way was acquired in early May. Then the hands did not reach, then there was no mood, then there was no time, and then it was summer, I did not even mention the assembly here. And so, finally, on one beautiful rainy day of August, I chose the time, I downloaded the series "Game of Thrones", recommended by many friends for viewing, and started to work. I like to collect models for some series, so as to combine business with pleasure. So do not get hung up on the assembly, make less mistakes, again, the collected models have their own little story, and looking at the assembled car, it's nice to remember that this model was going to be "Lost", another one under "Breaking Bad", the third under "Prison Break" , the process of assembling is remembered, and it is not a sin to reconsider))
The beginning of the assembly was preceded by the study of the materiel. Even before the acquisition of the model, I climbed the entire Internet in search of photos of almost every detail of the car. For a long time I could not decide on the color, I went through a lot of options and in the end, reviewing a movie "Suicide squad" heard the song Purple Lamborghini there, and thought: "Why not?"
And now, when everything is ready, actually the story itself about how I collected this beauty:
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Just want to note that I wanted to break the story into several posts, since there will be large time gaps in the process of assembly, but then I thought and decided to combine everything into one story.
22 august. Let's go!
For starters, a couple of words about the recruitment from Aoshima. The interlocking details are good, the quality of casting is elegant, there are certainly places of mold joints, but there are not so many of them, and they are quickly eliminated by sandpaper. Perhaps the only minus of the sets of this company (before collecting two models from Aoshima) is a very thin plastic in comparison with the same Tamia and Revel. Therefore, it is necessary to grind every detail carefully, so that it does not accidentally crack. Especially this applies to the current model where the connection between the front and rear of the body is essentially held by two thin plates.
The photos are already after the side skirts are glued, even after that the model did not become stronger. Also to the pluses of this set, you can also include several options for the engine hood.
Separate from the gates details that will be needed in the very near future, we also paint them. There was no acute need for filling the parts and the body. After the surfaces of the parts are ground, you can start to prepare them for priming. The details are thoroughly washed, dried, and then grounded. Since the car was purple - not too light and not too dark, I chose a white primer. This is to ensure that the color of the car after painting has become more saturated. The last models I had were mostly in light colors, and so I bought a white ground last year from MrHobby.
On this model, this cylinder and dried up. It sufficed me for three models.
In parallel with the priming process, and while the primed parts dry, I began to collect the engine. It's going to be quite easy and fast.
Then the engine is painted and pasted into a special bath for the engine. Somewhere in the bins there was a sheet of decals of the Carboniferous, which was suitable for simulating a carbon insert on the engine cover. The standard decal given in the set did not really like.
After the first layer of soil it is worthwhile once again to walk through nazhdachkoy, preferably granularity of 2000 to eliminate all the jambs formed during the priming and at the same time once again polish the body.
While the second layer of soil dries, I began to paint the salon. By the color of the car's interior, I too could not decide for a long time, and eventually stopped at the two-color, black and beige. The main color is black, and I used Tamia's spray paint "Matte black", it is applied in one layer, it dries smoothly and a perfectly flat black surface is obtained. It dries for about three to four hours. While you can watch the show and paint something else.
For the time that the body parts dried up in the Game of Thrones have already managed to kill the hero of Sean Bean, the only character who wanted to empathize. It looks like Jack can not do without ...
Well, the nerve cells are restored, you can continue. The component part of the dashboard is painted in beige with a brush, paint from Revel. The paint is good enough, but it needs to be diluted with a special diluent for the paint to make it more liquid and better laid on the surface. But this is not all, here, too, will need to highlight some parts in black, the spray here does not help.
After painting the torpedo, we paint the seats and doors in the same colors. Then glue the decals and wait for the metal stikers, which should soon come from Japan together with a set of photo etchings.
Meanwhile, the soil on the body is dry, you can start painting. The first layer. After painting, the first layer was a day, the hands did not reach the model, the mood to do something was not there, but in the evening, after all, he allocated several hours for painting the second layer and finalizing the interior.
The body is dry, it comes with a grain of 2000 grains to eliminate shag, and this process is better performed under the water jet, after which the surface becomes smoother. But due to the fact that the body is too fragile, I will manage without water. It was done without shoals, when the shag was smoked in some places of the bend of the body, the paint peeled off. After all this, check the third layer.
A few days later, when the body is already sufficiently dry, we proceed to the most difficult part of the painting. It is necessary to add a black color to the main color of the car, and for this it is necessary to carefully seal and close the already painted part of the body. To do this, in the course goes paint tape and mask, left in the bins from past models.
Masks do not allow paint to leak to the painted part of the body and very well restrain the paint, which, incidentally, can not be said about scotch tape. Therefore, at the very junction of the two colors, I glue the mask, and all the rest with scotch tape. Scotch does not happen much)) But it also ends, therefore, in order to save, took two cellophane bags and closed the rest of the model, the paint there is unlikely to get, but it's better to be safe. And now, after the model is packed, you can proceed.
All according to the old scheme. First the first layer and wait a couple of hours. The paint has fallen down quite well, so you can limit yourself to two layers.
The same must be done with the doors.
And, now we wait, when all will dry up.
Most of the details of the model are already ready, I have not taken it yet for the bottom and suspension, as here you will need the details of photo etching, they will also be needed to simulate the air intakes on the body, so a break, until the moment the set comes. And then the show does not let it get bored, the next murder of the key character, this time John Snow, and I probably would have gone into drinking-up after this series, if I did not know that he would be resurrected (at one time on the Internet, moment, and I did not manage to dodge spoilers).
In the yard on September 14th. I finally received additions, which means that you can continue the construction process. For the time that I waited, and this is about 1.5 weeks, I varnished the body and left to dry. And also prepared glazing.
Slowly assembled the suspension, the air intakes were replaced with photo etching.
Here I and the metal sticks were useful. Very useful thing, it gives realism ...
And that's what we have at the moment.
It remains only to put everything together. It seems very simple, but it turned out to be quite the opposite. This, perhaps, is the most difficult process of construction. To begin with, we glue the body parts - air intakes, engine cover, headlights and rear dimensions.
Next, we glue the interior and engine into place. Everything is simple. Next come the doors, and now they have added to my trouble, because they must be opening. The design is not easy and should be well glued, here you need a second glue.
They did not want to get back in their places. It turned out that there was a small jamb: I did not fully understand the design, I glued, as it turned out incorrectly, well that the second glue did not have time to grab the part (as usual), and I managed to fix everything in time.
Well, it seems like everything is in place, although it was of course necessary to sweat, and the most crucial moment comes - the connection of the two halves of the model.
It remains very little, glue the rear of the bottom of the car, the exhaust pipe, rear glazing, and the rear spoiler. Glue the side windows. And now, another exciting moment - put the car on the wheels.
Today, September 20, I finished the assembly. Errors in the process of assembly was very small, which I am very happy. And here it is actually the result.
It all took about a month. It remains to add that the set was not easy. 190 parts, a large number of fragile parts, moving parts. But for me it was a special model, because the last assembly of the car from Aoshima - Lamborghini Murcielago SV at me was absolutely unsuccessful, and here I wanted to be rehabilitated. It seems like ...
Thank you all for attention, I hope it was interesting.
Many thanks to those who read the post until the end and was happy with me for the result.
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You sir have an insane amount of patience and a steady hand! I started building a Tamiya 1/24 scale model of a Nissan Skyline GT-R. I got about half way became fed up with myself and dumped it. I then bought the real thing, much easier to work on! Great post though
Thank you! Tamiya is nice to build, the quality of their sets is excellent. With a real machine, its problems are enough))
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Very Good Post, thank you. I like to build kits like this, but like you say "there was no mood". Great work.
Thanks!
Awesome! Started from nothing and finally, you end up building this beauty. Wow! it took you almost a month and a lot of hard work. But it was worth. It is beautiful.
awesome~!^^