Project "XMS" GT-R: Part Duex
 

Another one of the projects out of my Summer 09' Project List is the "XMS" GT-R. For those of you who don't remember, AznKevin4eva had the original Project "XMS" GT-R. In a trade not too long ago, I picked up this GT-R, and a couple other things from Kevin. Initially, though it may not look like much, after a short period in time, the XMS Graffiti letters grew on me. i really appreciated the work done by kevin on this. I was half tempted to just leave it be, but seeing that this was my first GTR I had to do something.

True to my word, i carefully traced the XMS letters with a marker and tracing paper. I promised Kevin no matter what this new GT-R is in his honor and creativity. So With the traceouts, I created stencils, these stencils will be for the future paint job. Once done, I proceeded to sand the rest of the body, and started with some putty. Along with my Z, I sanded the GT-R tonight, so here's the project.


This GT-R's body kit, is inspired out of pro-street. Some of the design aspects will be incorporated into my project, but the kit you're about to see will NOT be the exact kit going onto this GT-R. The Airdam is just about the only certain thing... Enjoy

No vinyls, no cookie. Dress it up along with the RC one dude.

hey, not everything needs the stickies! (j/k) I kind of like the clean look,but then again, it needs something.

Cool so far, putty work seems to be coming along nicely.

pretty neat. you should make it all blue with a few splashes of orange and XMS on the doors. that would look great IMO.

i'm liking how it looks already. your projects never cease to amaze me.
i'll be keeping an eye on this ;)

Im lovin what you did man it looks pretty sweet...... Seems everything comin together. Cant wait to see the finished project!!!!

Another clean design, I'm diggin' it.

Update #1:

So I finally got time to touch this up again, I cleaned up some of the existing putty work and dremeled a bit more into the shell, putty just got put on so here's a preview of what imma clean up tomorrow or monday.


I hope once the putty dries that this will be almost done. I'm not gonna do much more to this, I'm considering changing side skirts to something moderate but I dont know yet.

Update #1b: Sanded

Kaze, i LOVE it!
I cant wait for this and your Z to be done! :3

Just a quick putty update on trying to make things symmetrical. Its not sanded i just applied the putty today with all the otehr projects, this ones a done deal too though, just sand, paint. GG lol

My guess is that... There's a cat in the room and it has two glowing angel eyes!

It looks like you made halo lights. They look great. Great job onm the body work by the way.

Nice work, the halos will certainly set it off from the rest. Did you have luck sorting out your decals?

Someone else did Halos a while back. Not sure who.
Was it you?

I remember it was about a year ago, I think...

I believe it was Skysthelimit on his marshmellow camaro. There were a couple other halos since, but this is the first on a GTR...

Yes, SkysTheLimit as far as I'm aware made the first set of halo's, and it was on his camaro. These halos are a variant of his tutorial that he made. (i've never seen other halo lights surg, but i'd like to see how they turned out)

Thanks, If you look at the picture with the putty on it, the lights are in there already. It's really interesting how the car looks stock with em, unless you look really close you can't see the halo housing inside the stock headlight bucket.

As for the decals, I don't have a great color printer, so i never got around to trying too much. I want to make some but idk how well they'll come out, thanks again for you help with those.

EDIT!!!
Before i forget, Taiwanesekid had the happy ball, and SkysTheLimit has the sad ball, well Only I HAVE...

I can't remember who else did them, but I window shop a lot of forums.


You might just give Kinkos a call...see if you brought your own speciality paper in if they would run it. Also ask if they are using Xerox equipment to print color copies, if so, let me know and I will tell you how to format it for the optimal print depending on the model (probably a dc3535, WCP3545 or WC7345).

Old! You showed me all of this already. I feel Special :)

very nice halos it is going to make the car look great in the dark, i cant wait to see this finished project(any idea on where i can buy halos. or how to make em?)