BMW Z3 M Roadster

[titino]

Hello, this is my first assembly post so it will be tedious for me as English is not my native language. The model I want to make is a BMW Z3 M Roadster, so I will start with the Revell model that I got; this kit comes prepainted but they haven't removed the plastic burrs, so it will have to be stripped.

I find the interior difficult to modify in terms of colors so I will see if I can get as close as possible to the color to make modifications if necessary.

I managed to get the instructions for the two Revell models, Roadster and Coupe, and Dragon one.

The decals are stickers so I had decals made with a laser printer.

This is the goal

We'll see how it goes.

[lordairgtar]

I found the Dragon kit. Built up into a nice model.

[Rattlecan Dan]

Modeling speaks the universal language. Betting it will be great.

[titino]

17 hours ago, lordairgtar said:

Encontré el kit del dragón. Lo armé y lo convertí en un bonito modelo.

Hi Gregory, have you posted it on the forum?

[titino]

12 hours ago, Rattlecan Dan said:

El modelaje habla un lenguaje universal. Apuesto a que será genial.

Hi Donato, a thousand pictures are worth more than a word

[tkzwolf]

Watching.

Once upon a time I owned a 98 M Roadster in silver with black interior.  I have a Revell kit waiting to be built.

[Ulf]

Nice, Z3 is a car that I appreciate more today than when it came which is completely in line with my personality...                                      

It will be fun to follow your build.

English as a native or not, I use Deeptranslate and it works well for me(Swedish/English). What is really worth mentioning is that I not only had fun reading on the forum, learned a lot about modeling but also developed my reading comprehension by reading American everyday English which has been incredibly fun.

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Edited September 19, 2024 by Ulf

[titino]

11 hours ago, tkzwolf said:

Watching.

Once upon a time I owned a 98 M Roadster in silver with black interior.  I have a Revell kit waiting to be built.

Hi Tom, I hope this post inspires you.

[titino]

3 hours ago, Ulf said:

Nice, Z3 is a car that I appreciate more today than when it came which is completely in line with my personality...                                      

It will be fun to follow your build.

English as a native or not, I use Deeptranslate and it works well for me(Swedish/English). What is really worth mentioning is that I not only had fun reading on the forum, learned a lot about modeling but also developed my reading comprehension by reading American everyday English which has been incredibly fun.

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Hi Ulf, I use Google Translate.  I'll post my progress soon.

[titino]

Hi, I started with everything related to the chassis, following the steps in the manual, cutting the pieces step by step.

Step 1

Step 2

Step 3

Step 4

Step 5

After preparing the pieces, I painted and glued them

Rear axle

Exhausts

Front axle

While pre-assembling I found this gap, we'll see how we can fix it.

[lordairgtar]

On 9/18/2024 at 10:10 AM, titino said:

Hi Gregory, have you posted it on the forum?

No, I have trouble with posting my own pics to the forum.

[slusher]

Llooking Verry nice!

[titino]

1 hour ago, slusher said:

Llooking Verry nice!

Thank Carl

[titino]

Hello, we started by placing the engine block covers made with a hole punch

we continued by adding the compressor made with the parts tree

with sheets we make the engine block

we give it shape and volume by adding parts

we place the filters, starter and alternator also made with parts tree

Next we make two holes to assemble the intake manifold, made with sheets and 2mm rod

With part of the tree we continue towards the air filter, making the bends of the hose with heat shrink

With 1mm sheet we make two blocks that make up the filter holder

With sheet we make the fan and the radiator.

We see the whole

and what was once a hole, changed

It does not have much detail since the hood will not open.

[titino]

Hello, having finished the chassis topic, we continue with the interior. Looking at the pieces that come prepainted for the interior that are matte red, I see that I have 3 or 4 shades of red, so I will try to remove the paint to unify the color.

[iBorg]

I've never seen this kit before. I'll be interested to see how it builds up.

 

[titino]

5 hours ago, iBorg said:

I've never seen this kit before. I'll be interested to see how it builds up.

 

Hi Mike, I've searched the internet and found very little. We'll see how it goes.

[mrm]

That's a cool model of an underrated car in real life IMO. Great job on the engine you are doing. My approach would have been to get a 1/24 scale Bburago model (they could be found really cheap) and get the engine out of it and detail it. They are not perfect, but are a very good starting point. 

[slusher]

Very nice progress!

[titino]

Thank you very much Michael and Carl for stopping by and commenting, I hadn't thought of that Bburago.

[lordairgtar]

Nice work. Now I want to take mine apart and create an engine following your method

[titino]

14 hours ago, lordairgtar said:

Nice work. Now I want to take mine apart and create an engine following your method

Hi Gregory, go ahead and do it if my work inspires you.

[titino]

Hi, we continue with the BMW, we apply acrylics to achieve a unified red color.
We prepare the pieces according to the following steps in the instruction manual.
Then we begin to color the pieces as appropriate.
Step 6
Step 7
Step 8
Step 9

[johnyrotten]

Very nice work. Looking forward to more

[iamsuperdan]

Wow! I had no idea there were kits available for both the M Roadster and M Coupe!

I need to go searching for these.

 

 

Looking forward to seeing more of your build!