'Shakotan' S30 Fairlady Z

[slowlylearning]

Finished it up tonight. Tamiya silver leaf, Tamiya purple with Tamiya pearl clear over it, Aoshima wheels, pretty standard stuff. The pearl doesn't show too well with my LED lamp thing so I'll take some outside pictures at some point to show just how glittery it came out. Coupla mistakes with the masking, it was sitting masked for a few months so that didn't help. I'm happy enough with it. The wipers go straight up the windshield and I didn't like that so I just put a couple of pin heads in the exposed holes.

[B61 MACK]

Great job on it only you said purple I would of said nice dark blue, Purple is one of the hardest colours to get good photo of.

[Luke]

jawdrop Well done mate.
Great to see you complete a build, paint work looks like decals

Love those wheels are they Kakou Tecchin type 1 ??

Also what does Shakotan mean again.



Look forward to seeing what shows up next from you're bench

[slowlylearning]

Cheers, Albo. You're right about the purple, although I think the pearl clear did turn it a bit blue.

Luke, yeah man, thems the Tecchin type 1's, I love em! Nice and utilitarian Shakotan means 'Car with lowered body', in Aussie that means 'lower than a snakes bumhole'

[sandboarder]

I was waiting for this and it looks awesome!!! Great work really like the paint scheme

[Bear]

Sweet as mate.
I got this kit to do a hill climb car in SA, guess what colour?

[bodgybro]

Sweet as mate.
I got this kit to do a hill climb car in SA, guess what colour?

pink with purple polka dots?

[Bear]

Dahmnnn you're good that's exactly right.
Just change the pink to purple.
Picture it....... purple with purple polka dots.
And not in different shades....... the same shade!!!
GHOST POLKA DOTS............. oooooh scary.
Think I may have gotten a little sun today

[bodgybro]

Dahmnnn you're good that's exactly right.
Just change the pink to purple.
Picture it....... purple with purple polka dots.
And not in different shades....... the same shade!!!
GHOST POLKA DOTS............. oooooh scary.
Think I may have gotten a little sun today

I LOVE that idea, purple on purple... be like that story i once heard about a bike builder.
guy came in wanting ghost flames... so the painter did silver flames on a darker silver base... guy complained you could see the flames, so he did them darker which was barely visible, guy complained again that you could still see them. so the painter did the whole thing in the 1 colour, customer was happy. THAT's how you do ghost flames.... true story bro

[Bear]

I don't doubt it either.
I don't have the skills for that sort of stuff unfortunately.