What is up fellas, let's build a beast. Aaaand The builds starts with prepping the body First I outlined the mold lines with black marker. and then removed the bulk material using curved scalpel blade. A medium grit sanding stick took care of the rest. To key the surface I used fine sanding sponge. I used double sided tape to attach the small details to some handles for easier painting. For the body and the floor I used Mr. Surfacer 1500 Gray primer. I apply the primer using inexpensive airbrush with 0.3mm nozzle and 0,7cc cup.
You can find a link to this airbrush in the description. also there you can find links to most of the tools and materials I use. Allright, the body is ready for paint as soon as the primer is dry. In the mean time I will remove the parts ftom the sprues and store them in a box. As usual most of the parts need clean up. For this I will use files, big and small All done and ready for primer. For this set of details I'll use mr.surfacer 1500 black. For many of this parts the primer will be the final paint I am going to apply the same primer on some areas of the floor, that I want to be black. Same goes on the rims.. hmm that surfacer is addictive. Alrighty then, the next step of the body painting process is a nice coat of sliver paint. and no this is not the final colour of the car. For this I am using a dedicated airbrus that I use only for metallics.
This is the oldest airbrush I have and I use it for more than 10 years. So far so good. On the bottom I will paint the body coloured parts, the gearbox and the engine and the brakes. Now lets practice some masking… there will be A lot of maskung in this build… don't worry though I won't show you all of it. Time for the main color and it is bright red. As Bob Ross will say, you can use whatever colour makes you happy 🙂 I am using mr.color paint thinned with leveling thinner in approximattely 1:2 ratio It is essential to lay the color down in many thin layers untill you reach the desired opacity.
Now a shameless self promotion 🙂 If you want to see the WIP blog of this build for FREE visit my patreon page You can consider this a demo of one of the benefits that you will get as a patron. The exhaust system received a coat of Dark aluminium. Let's get rid of all that masking stuff By carefully scraping off the red paint we get nice brembo sign on the front caliper Now that all the details are ready lets start the suspention and underbody assembly. Being a tamiya kit everything goes together smoothly. And the level of detail is not bad at all. It is important not to forget about the poly caps I am pretty happy with the way this looks. Lets do the shiny stuff. After a light tack coat I apply a few wet coats of Super clear 3 The dilution ratio is roughly 1 part clear to 3 parts leveling thinner.
Good, while this is drying I am going to deal with the interior. First comes light gray for the seat inserts. A coat of accrylic glossy varnish will give the parts that are supposed to be plastic… well plastic appearance I guess. This was done to some of the dash panels as well. After another masking excercise a coat of darker gray paint goes on the rest of the seats. The glossy finish looks more like leather so a coat of matt varnish should tranform that into fabric. I want to do some flocking so I masked everything but the floor and the rear parcel shelve. Using hairspray as adhesive I applied the flock and all that was left to do was to assemble the interior The one and only decal for the interior…. Tamiya could have done better here. I wanted to make the buttons a bit different from the rest of the plastic so I applied a bit of dark gray. This is an older kit so unlike the newer ones there are no masks included.
I had to paint the black outlines somehow so I went ahead and masked the windows myself To do this I used thin strips cut out of fine line vinyl tape, masking tape and masking liquid. After I sprayed the black outlines I decided to do some tint to the windows. I think this gives much more realistic appearance than the plain clear plastic. For the tint I used Clear varnish with a drop of clear green paint. I havent included the footage because the difference is hardly visible. To paint the trim of the body first I had to mask the rest so I don't damage the paint.
I chose to paint the trim in Satin black… in the BMW world this is called "shadow line" The brake lights and the turn indicators got painted in clear red and orange. OOOOOKKKKKKK, lets do the final assembly. It is such a joy to build a kit that fits this good. Dont forget to leave this video a LIKE And come back next week for the 4K video gallery of the finished model. Thanks for watching and untill next time, Happy modeling..
