W.I.P. Honda NSX

[paulyrichard]

This is my latest build I've started, and one of my all-time favourite cars! The body has had it's paint, TS-8, and has been polished, no wax yet, as I still have to paint in the window trim. This is gonna' be built with some Work Meister S1 rims, and I think i'll paint the centres black or titanium gold, don't know yet. For some reason my camera finds it hard to deal with the colour red. Look at the left headlight, that is not a paint error, it's some kind of pixelisation abnormality from my camera.



Finished paintin' in by hand the window trim, front and rear bumper trim, panel lines and indicators. I always hand paint window trim and other areas, by usin' 50/50 thinned down X-18, these areas have 4 coats of the thinned down paint, and a rock-steady hand.



The chassis on this baby calls for Flat Aluminium, so I primered it and shot it with some Alclad II Aluminium #101. I love this paint, it's jus' callin' out for some weatherin' now! The other day I bought a 9B (ultra-soft) Graphite pencil and a medium soft charcoal pencil, these two items will work well weatherin' this chassis, along with my customary washes, as the chassis has a matt finish.

[paulyrichard]

I'll post more pics tomorrow!

[yogi]

nice hobby,i honestly think i will start doing this as a hobby

[NSXType-R]

Wow, it looks great! It's one of my favorite cars too.

[paulyrichard]

The chassis has been weathered! It's a little bit monotone, I guess that's how it is under there. The exhaust unit calls for X-11, so i'm contemplatin' a proper Alclad II Chrome treatment.

[Dino Scuderia]

Looking great so far!

[250 GTO]

Amazing work so far!

[paulyrichard]

Here is the finished back-end of the chassis. The heat stains were painted usin' a mix of GW Chestnut ink and X-19 Smoke*, and the same for X-23 Clear Blue mixed with X-19 Smoke*. All the Tamiya colours I have in my arsenal, I have the same colours thinned for airbrush. Whenever I hand paint pieces, I always brush-paint the airbrush colours, because the paint settle's like water, I never get brush marks. Admittedly they need more coats for coverage. *These ink colours were carefully blended into the chrome paintwork.

[Matra et Alpine]

Not so sure about the weathering on the suspension arms.
You sure about the colours ? "dirt" on arms tends to be more on the lower surfaces. ( I'll try and post some pics ..... )

BUT good work.

[Guibo]

That chassis looks great. Looking forward to the rest of it.

[whiteballz]

that weathering is pretty neat well done

[Matra et Alpine]

Take it back.
Forgot the NSX is alloy arms

( Still not sure about the look of the weathering, but hell a DAMN site better than I get !!! )

[Esperante]

The exhaust is wonderfully done.

[paulyrichard]

I've completed the chassis! Yesterday I had a big problem with the fitment of those Workmeister S1 rims I specified. They cannot be made to fit this car, due to the Honda stock rims not havin' a boss on the inside of the rims, where the pin sits, the boss on the inside of the workmeister rims has to be sheared off to make it the same fit as the Honda rims. This cannot be done with the Workmeister's due to the inverted centre of this rim, it doesn't allow for it! So now I've settled for some Gartmaier's instead, such a shame about the Workmeister S1's though! I think, any other car, they would have fitted OK!

[carsnut]

damn, how do you weather the uderpanel, and how are you so good at it? do you do that to every one of ur cars?