Project: Crimson Skyline

[Songha]

PROJECT: Crimson Skyline


I've decided to work on my Nissan Skyline R34 since my Yellow Lancer project failed. Gonna take this one really slow, so it comes out perfect. Going with Krylon's Banner Red. I'll update often.

Meanwhile, check out a video of my poor Lancer Evo and my ghetto set up for the R34. :]

Yellow Lancer Video xD

Failed drifting!

CLICK SHOW SPOILERS FOR PICTURES! ! ! !
I find it a bit irritating to scroll up and down. Haha.

Spoiler for Ghetto stuff to ease the painting (3 pictures):

Body on the ghetto stand.

Rear shot, notice the skirts.

Front and Rear have their own stands too.

Spoiler for Extras just for you guys. (1 picture):

This beauty is waiting for her older cousin. Lowest I could get her and loving the drive-ability. ;]

CRIMSON UPDATES

Spoiler for Update 1: Paints& a surprise not mentioned. (4 pictures):

Primer& Red, Testor bottles for the wheels.

Wheels painted black. :]

Surprise! Red lip!

Testing the rims on my Fairlady. <3

Spoiler for Update 2: Primed and another surprise. (5 pictures):

Body.

Hood.

Rear Bumper.

Front Bumper.

SURPRISE! Eyelids. ;]

Spoiler for Update 3: SuuWooop? LOL. JK! Crimsoned up. (4 pictures):

Redded body.

And again.

Front Bumper.

Rear bumper.

Made a custom spoiler to give her that professional "drift" look.

Spoiler for Update 4: Drift Spoiler? (1 picture):

Haha!

Spoiler for Update 5: Putting the pieces together. (3 pictures):

Angled front shot, she's beautiful.

Side shot, black w/ red lip, "drift" spoiler? (Held on by poster putty, LOL, works good for me.)

Rear shot, look at that.. exhaust.

Spoiler for Update 6: License Plate! (2 pictures):

Resized and stuff, Adobe Photoshop.

HD shot of front end w/ the plate (Low on ink), I love my mom's Sony Cybershot!

Spoiler for Update 7: Shiny black lip! (1 picture):

As suggested, and it came out great. I like it!

Spoiler for Update 8; Carbon Fiber hood. (1 picture):

Found it in the closet, paint the latches red and put it on. I like!

Spoiler for Update 9: Extra coating came out great. (3 pictures):

The difference is very very noticable in person. LOL.

Second.

Picture for comparison.

Spoiler for Update 10: Custom Wing redone after I accidentally broke it. (1 picture):

A piece snapped off so I remodeled the spoiler.

Spoiler for Update 11: New Wing (2 pictures):

Cat hair on the hood. LOL.

New Wing.

Spoiler for Outside Pictures (11 pictures):

[Bananabrain]

Looks a great start too a new project. Also, doesn't the tail lights come off of the skyline? I would check but my two skylines are in a box & I don't feel like gettting them out.

[Songha]

@ Bananabrain: Yes sir they do. I just filled it with putty cause I don't wanna spray a bunch of red into it.

[Kot]

make sure that putty doesnt stick! LOL. im interested to see how it turns out

[Songha]

@ Flipsoulja: Haha, it's only poster putty. It'll be a bit annoying to get out but it comes out.

[pinsk17]

Looks like a sick project, can't wait to watch the progress. Keep us posted!

[Songha]

@ pinsk17: Haha, thanks, as of right now I just need to get the primer and paint. Won't hesitate to keep this posted for you guys.

BTW, I updated my first post. All updates will be in there. I thought of a method using "SPOILERS" to hide pictures so you guys won't have to get annoyed of scrolling up and down like I do. Hope you guys like it. I'll being doing updates using "SPOILERS" edited to my first post. For ex. "Spoiler for UPDATE 1 (? pictures)" and so on.

[Bananabrain]

Cool you got the paint. Also those wheels look good.

[Songha]

Originally Posted by 'Aug. 4, 2010"

@ Bananabrain: Yessssss. I've primed the car up too. Will post pictures soon.

Pictures posted. And she is coming out GREAT!

Looking for some more ideas to add on to her.

[Kaze]

Originally Posted by Songha

Looking for some more ideas to add on to her.

R34's usually have that Flat black front lip. Maybe you should find some flat black paint and go over the lip.

Example:

See the bottom of the air dam there?

[WhiteCharisma]

Originally Posted by Kaze

R34's usually have that Flat black front lip. Maybe you should find some flat black paint and go over the lip.

Example:

See the bottom of the air dam there?

OMG so nice!! Really clean paint lines, great job!

Hey Kaze, I've actually seen some that don't have that lip part painted, but most have it painted. Not sure if they're different between the years but the one in Fast and Furious (the new one) didn't have that lip painted.



And heres another but the lip is partially painted.



but adding a lip on the red car would look very nice


EDIT: whoa! this pic is huge, i'll resized it real quick with photobucket in a min lol

[Bananabrain]

Nice job on the paint. Looks really good.

[FloydfanYodaman]

hey man that came out great...congrats...you should be proud...

poster putty dont fail me now...LOL

[Songha]

@ Kaze&White Charisma: It was black. I just forgot to mask it up. LOL. I have a bottle of testors paint I used for the wheels, they may work.

@ Bananabrain: Thanks!

@ FloydfanYodaman: It hasn't failed me yet. LOL. Poster putty ftw.

I'm thinking of building my own Skyline engine from pictures I'll search for on Google or something.. with, I guess, putty or something. Let me know what'll be good since it'll probably only fit the upper half. LOL. And doing the hood, hinge in the front. That gives me 3 things to add on. 1. Front lip; 2. Engine; 3. Hood;

Lastly, I'd be happy to hear some more ideas!

[Bananabrain]

I think you can find a skyline motor in a model kit, not sure witch one but there are a few members on here who have done that, I would check ebay, might be able to snag yourself a Skyline motor.

[Songha]

@ Bananabrain: Yeahh, I was wanting to find just the engine alone though. I don't mind making my own custom built Skyline engine, it'll add extra unique-ness to her. :] Like that video "Is your project a project?".

Any ideas on what to use would be great. I already have red paint for the valve cover and black for whatever else. I want it to look something like this:

[Bananabrain]

Originally Posted by Songha

@ Bananabrain: Yeahh, I was wanting to find just the engine alone though. I don't mind making my own custom built Skyline engine, it'll add extra unique-ness to her. :] Like that video "Is your project a project?".

Any ideas on what to use would be great. I already have red paint for the valve cover and black for whatever else. I want it to look something like this:

You could use some stryene. (I think thats how you spell it.)

[xmodsNSX94]

hmmm that engine looks good, i am putting a dodge viper v10 engine in it from an old model hahah :P looks great man good to see the progress.

liking the liscence plate. how did you do that ?

thanks
michael

[Songha]

@ Bananabrain: Styrene eh? I'll look into that. ;D

@ xmodsNSX94: I have a thread: http://xmodsource.com/forum/showthread.php?t=19420 ; That has a link for the US states though. I used Adobe Photoshop to resize with the view on actual pixels. And I customized the plate on my Skyline searching "Custom Japanese License Plates" on Google. LOL. Oh yeah, you can't save the picture of the Japanese plate you make, so "Prt Sc" it, paste into Adobe or Paint. "Prt Sc" is the button between "Num Lk" and "Insert".

I got the lip done for you guys, so pretty. Added to updates.

[Bananabrain]

Yea, is plastic sheets that come in different thicknesses & you can use them to cut & stack & etc...to build your motor. Because other members on here have used that too build their own motor. Also I think there is a thread on here or maybe its on XMF? But it tells you what thickness of that plastic is best too use for xmods.

Also the black lip looks really good.

EDIT: here is the link: http://www.xmodsforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=10019

May come in useful for what your doing. Hope it helps.