Updated NSX Pics

i remeber when i built a nsx, gloss black, its the revell one. everything was black, rims, calipers, disks, interior, tinting, exaust, tires, spoiler, lights, everything except engine, that was chrome

looks great heath. cant wait to see the finished kit

joe

Hey Mike, how ya been? Ain't seen ya around in a while!! Here's a pic of the engine and interior.



close-up of eng



I'm going to be putting up some finished pics next weekend of her as well. Everything else was a very pleasing build. Unfortunately while trying to strip the chrome from the rims and firewall, I destroyed the pieces, and I had to order another kit. Which was good, 'cause I had to replace a couple of decals (I'm entering box stock). It's tough building straight out of the box! This will be my first completed kit ( and first decaling job) since I started back modeling. My 2nd complete in my whole life!! I think overall, I learned a tremendous amount, and I will treasure the build, even if it didn't turn out like I had hoped. Now, I just have to wrap it up!!! LOL easier said than done!!!

Hey kik,
Pretty sweet lookin man..!!! Theres something about the NSX w/ that paint job. She sure does look good in those colours!!
By chance do you have any pix of the interior and especially the engine area. From the pix of the engine, it looks tough!!
Overall how is the build besides the decals?
Flaps up, Mike

thans for the link proosen, those are much better pictures than what I found.

Here you have some pictures of different NSX's. Very little of the interior though, but some useful pics afterall. Just check the gallery, it's mainly in japanese but that doesn't matter if you wan't pics http://www.museumcollection.co.jp/

Niclas

I found a few different pics of NSX's, not all of them are the NSX in the kit. And good luck with those interior pics. I couldn't find any, and I had to fly blind!!!! If you e-mail me I can send ya some of those pics (you can't send pics through the FSM link and they don't give out your e-mail address, until you send a message to a person).

Hey Kik36, I dont remember the link to that page, but now that you explained how the painting goes im sure the builder did paint the body. I was under the impression he did not because I did not realize that some of the body needed to be painted white. Did anyone find any refrence material on this car, especially pictures of the interior?

Its interesting reading about how other people decal. I'm quite brutal with decals. I flood the area with MicroSet (and occassionaly sol) keep the brush I usd to flatten the decal down very wet with the stuff. If its a compound curve I will often use a hot hair drier directly on the decal and if its a real problem then I will wet a finger in Set and rub my finger across the decal to get it to conform (heat and pressure). Works for me but its about 20 years practice now.

Hey guys!
Here's what I did to my NSX, No primer on the body or anywhere else for that matter, just Humbrol paints all over in appropriate colors. I dont know what kind of problems you encounterd with Micro sol, I haven't had any problems what so ever on my NSX-decals!? But if you feel it's gonna foul the decals try using only Micro set and maybe some hotwater on a rag, the heat usually gets the decal a little softer and lets it snuggle down easier.

Good Luck on your project, please show us som pictures as it's coming on!
Niclas

Yes and No. The Front and Rear Bumper assemblies are supposed to be painted blue, and do not get covered completely in decals. The main body piece (the piece before you assemble it) gets painted white. The white shows through on the doors mainly, and it kind of highlights a few of the decals. I'm not sure if you could get away with just decaling it, as I've never heard of someone not painting first. You got a link to the site? I'd like to check that out. Oh also, the headlight pieces are supposed to be painted blue as well as the Wing pieces. Basically only the body piece is supposed to stay white.

havent spent much time in Ramona...for obvious reasons. Its kind of similar to valley center. Hey I was just looking at a buildup of the NSX on some website. Unfortunately it was in japanese or something so I couldnt read what was being said. But it looked like the builder didnt even paint the body, just applied decals. Do the decals cover the body completely? I havent given it a serious look yet.

Cool, I grew up in Ramona. Had to get outta there though. Too boring for me, so I still work up there at the airport, but I live in San Marcos.

I grew up in Escondido. Originaly Im from ND, but my family moved out here when I was still a baby.

Yeah, the only good kit I found at Hobby People was the Tamiya Enzo Ferrari marked down to $28.00...it was some sort of sale. Where'd you grow up at? Are you from San Diego?

I got the kit at value craft, also went to Hobby People but I didnt end up getting anything there. They seem to be a little pricy with the Tamiya kits.

Ohhh, that will definately be a blast from the past!!! Where'd ya pick up your kit at?? I was at Hobbytown earlier today picking up some paints.

Ok cool, I didnt really want to doing any additional priming unless absolutely necessary. Im not positive, but I think in the case of using acrylic it would be better to have a primer coat. I think it would help to get better coverage, but I could be wrong. I use mostly enamels anyway. I will remember not to use microsol when I get to the decals, I havent had much luck with that stuff anyway. LOL...the Beavis picture I thought was hilarious, I guess they are putting that show back on TV sometime soon.

Casey

Personally, I didn't. But I used enamel paint, not acrylic. I'm wondering if that would make a difference. Since most of the black parts are supposed to be flat or semi gloss black, I just figured that primer would be a waste. Like you, I generally just primer the body components. Just don't use Micro Sol!!!! Use only Micro Set!!! BTW Nice Beavis pic!!!

I just got this kit today. Usually I only prime the body and the wing etccc, but never the enginge, suspension or any of the other smaller parts. Since alot of the parts are molded in black would it be best if I just primered everything.

Yes, that's the right order to use Microscale's product's. If you read on the bottles you will see that normaly you use only Micro Set both before and after applying the decal. Only if there is a double curved surface you should use Micro sol to get the decal snuggle down nice and smooth. I had no major problems with the NSX, the only thing that happend was that it took a while before I started clearcoating and by that time some of them started to peel of in the edges. No big problem thou, it took a little clear to get them down and some touch ups in some areas. The main key is to not tamper with the decal after using Micro Sol as it most likely will ruin it.

Niclas

Ok, my two cents worth :) .... i did the same kit, and i have problems with the decals reacting with the micro sol, but not the micro set. i would usuall apply a bit of micro set to the area the decal is going on to, an then use the microsol if the decal has to conform to a compound curve. but then i would leave the kit for a couple of days so teh decal could dry thoughly. worked 99% of the time.

looks fantastic though, good luck with the show

Ok, my two cents worth :) .... i did the same kit, and i have problems with the decals reacting with the micro sol, but not the micro set. i would usuall apply a bit of micro set to the area the decal is going on to, an then use the microsol if the decal has to conform to a compound curve. but then i would leave the kit for a couple of days so teh decal could dry thoughly. worked 99% of the time.

looks fantastic though, good luck with the show

Micro sol and Micro set are too different products for 2 different things, although they work together. If I have it right apply a little Microsol to the body work where you going to place the decal, this will then make the water on the decal dissapate quicker. Once the decal is in place then apply the Microset, it is this which will get the decal to conform.

The other problem I have found very occassionally is that the Micro products are just too strong, and the decal starts to squanch up if this is the case then I apply only a little and then use a brush dipped in water to smooth everything down.

Still looks real sweet though.

Good luck at the comp.

WOW!!! Glad I'm not going up against you!!! Your version is 10 times better than mine!!! I'll use your rim as an example of posting pics. You did a wonderful job on the rim, as I didn't even paint the wheel nuts like you did. Any ways..... open your image on the site. Then I right click, select properties, highlight the URL, and then copy. Next when you're ready to post the pic here, you insert the URL between: [ img ] and [ /img]. So you'll paste the URL that you copied in between them, remove any spaces (If I was to remove the spaces right now, there would be a red X) Let's give it a shot with your rim:

Some sites don't allow you to share pics, and I think that you're site might be one of them. Sorry about that.
As for the Hind, I'm loving it!!! It's so huge!!! LOL I haven't been able to do anything the last couple of days, but I plan on trying to start out on the panels this weekend. Including putting a map of my city on the Moving map screen!!! Thanks for the gloss tips, I'm gonna be starting that on monday after I wrap up my touch-ups!!

Thank's for the kind words!

I must say that it differs from time to time how many layers of clear I put on my cars. On the Fiat 500 it's only two layers and on the other side of the scale is my DTM Mercedes that has some fourty layers of clear, with additional sanding between the painting sessions. After polishing I'm currently using Tamiya's Model Wax as a final treatment. On the Mugen NSX I did put on a whole jar of Modelmasters metalizer sealer in one session, so by now it's probably two jars on that body I have put out some pictures of it among the others. By the way as I'm no masterhacker on HTML-code I couldn't figure out how to post pictures directly in the message. Can you please tell me how? After reading the help section on the forum I realised that it didn't help at all. I studied the code on your post but I didn't get any wiser Tried to copy it but I couldn't see any pictures when I prewied my own post!?
Anyway, here is a link instead. http://niclasproos.fotopic.net/c147251_1.html
I took a glance at your site and was thrilled to see a Hind in progress how is it? Worth spending your hard earned bucks on? Dumb question as you obviously already has done that I'll be checking in to see the progress on that baby.

Have a nice day!
Niclas

Thanks for the infor Niclas, I got the X-3 and have been using it as touch-up. the biggest problems I've been having is wrinkling decals, but I figured out that the problem is that the decals are having a bad effect to Micro Sol. As long as I don't mess with them, they seem to lay down perfectly. Great photos on your site!!! How many clear coats do you put on before you polish??

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I'm currenlty building the same NSX and I didn't have any major problems with the decals. If there is a need for touch up's I recommend the above mentioned Tamiya colour, as it's almost a perfect match to the blue decals. I have put on several coats of clear and is now trying to sand and polish it out. Maybe I will post some pics if it turns out ok. I have som other stuff if you are interested on this adress. http://niclasproos.fotopic.net


Good Luck and happy modeling!

Niclas

X-3 Royal Blue