Atmobil Posted December 14, 2014 Posted December 14, 2014 This is my latest finished model, finished it on Monday but was not able to take pics before today. Painted in gold as base (over red primer) with clear orange and clearcoat on top. Built pretty much out of the box. The interior was painted according to the instructions (or as near as I could get as I don't have Mr Color paints but Humbrol). Very nice decals for the instruments come with the kit. This is a very good kit, not much flash or moldlines. Had an accident when istalling the bed. It is quite tight and the back part is over the edge of the bed and the front is under the roof so you need to bend the body to make it fit and I pushed bit to hard when trying to fit it and the paint on the B-pillars cracked. I found some decals to put over it. Also made a mistake when painting the taillights as I managed to paint the wrong part orange (the orange bit is supposed to be on top) so I guess it is a wise thing to take care that one has the correct orientation on the parts before painting. Built it as a semicustom, restored in recent years and modified with lowered suspension and special paint. The paint got a bit to thick so the small edge for the tiny chrometrim in the windshieldrubber dissapered. So only black windowtrim on this. Selected the full chrome frontbumer and mirrors that come with the kit but is marked as not to be used in the instructions. Found some English plates to use on this. Not sure if they where ever sold in England but this could have been imported at a later time. Only modification from the out of the box model is that I made my own aluminium plates to stick the registrationdecals on as the kitsupplied ones are quite thick. But all in all, a very good kit and I built it faster (just 1 month) than I have built any other models since my son was born two years ago.http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y223/Atmobil/1979NissanSunnyGB121/IMG_5660.jpg http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y223/Atmobil/1979NissanSunnyGB121/IMG_5579_cropped.jpg
crazyjim Posted December 14, 2014 Posted December 14, 2014 Nice looking little truck. Cool pin striping. Excellent SHINY :)
peter31a Posted December 14, 2014 Posted December 14, 2014 Cool little truck. Nice clean build. Love the colour. Kudos!
Ridgeback Posted December 14, 2014 Posted December 14, 2014 Fantastic truck. No, they never sold them in the UK. (Pity ) I would imagine it would have been sold in Australia and JDM.
Atmobil Posted December 14, 2014 Author Posted December 14, 2014 Thank you very much guys, I can highly recommend this kit for someone that want cool and easy project
DeeCee Posted December 15, 2014 Posted December 15, 2014 That is one very tidy little Dato, (they were called Datsun's here in OZ ) great job.
426-Hemi Posted December 15, 2014 Posted December 15, 2014 NICE work! AND its a right hand drive truck! Has that look about it too.. NICE job! Love the color and the location of the mirrors!
Atmobil Posted December 17, 2014 Author Posted December 17, 2014 Thank you very much for the comments guys Yes, it is right hand drive. In my eyes a sad thing because I could have wanted a left hand drive version. Maybe Hasegawa will release a LHD version in the future.
kilrathy10 Posted December 18, 2014 Posted December 18, 2014 Great job on this one.....Has to be one of the worst looking pickups, ever, but you've done a great job bringing it back to life in scale....
AC Norton Posted December 20, 2014 Posted December 20, 2014 sweet little piece....those curbsides are fun, and this looks great...the ace...
hobbybobby Posted December 20, 2014 Posted December 20, 2014 Very nice truck, great details, i like it!
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