I don’t know what it is with those little buggers, they seem to have a biological live and reproduce … here are all my current cars, starting with the Carson (and Radioshack) XMODS:

White Supra Gen1 Chassis with Mini-Z Tires

Yellow Nissan Skyline Gen1

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… I have been a bit lazy with this site. The reason for it is simple, I am creating content for my new site Mini-RC-Tutorials. Besides creating the content there is quite some other things to manage, especially getting the design ready.
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The Skyline of the previous post was not meant to sit on the AWD chassis, but it can be a nice fit and a nice drifter as well.

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Jepp … I had to have it. It’s just the best of the Skylines there is. Also for the Mini-Z Chassis. Just for you, here are some images of the Body still sitting on it’s dummy chassis:

Silver Shakotan-Boogie Jun's Skyline

Silver Shakotan-Boogie Jun's Skyline

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Over the last couple of days I di fit the body kit for the skyline so that the huge gaps in the body lines may disappear. It took quite some sanding and refitting to get where it is now:

Skyline Body left side

Skyline Body right side

The Nissan Skyline will be the first X-Mod Project I am doing. The final car will be based on the well documented demo car of Focus Auto Sales. The car is a 1999 R34 Nissan Skyline GTR Vspec in the factory colour Lightning Yellow with white rims and some subtle body modifications. The guys over at FAS allowed me the use of images but in exchange they want pictures of the finished X-Mod …
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Somehow those mini-rc cars seem to multiply … You all know my Kyosho MR02 and the Mini-Bull, now there are some X-Mods here as well. During the Christmas period one of the german online sellers had a special offer where you could buy 3 for €90,– which by itself is a good offer. One (a ‘65 Mustang) was given as a gift to my brother-in-law while the other two remained with me. I am talking about a Nissan Skyline GT-R V-Spec and a ‘06 Mustang.

X-Mods Nissan Skyline GT-R 1

X-Mods Nissan Skyline GT-R 2

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… was very eventful, I think for everybody. Besides the all encompassing financial crisis a couple of traditional modelling companies went out of business and shook the world, mainly that of the model railway fans. But the sum ups are better left to other people.

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The IPMSStockholm gives a nice web-zine on their Internet site http://www.ipmsstockholm.org … you might ask yourself if your Swedish language skills are enough to understand their web-zine, but don’t worry, they have a large English section. The Nordics are a bit better in English language like many other countries, largely, I think due to the fact that they do not dub their movies.

But back to the facts … the site is online since 1997 and does have a quite extensive archive of articles about plastic scale modelling. They do offer the web-zine in Swedish and English, a news section, some helpful tips and more …

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Most of you will have followed the “long” negotiations between Gustavo and me about the loan of the original Taisho kit here. and some might be quite exited about the closure of the deal. The kit is now ready and I got a first copy (OK … part of the deal).

Head with helmet

Detail of the face with it's features

So, for those of you who are interested in purchasing this kit it is available on E-Bay by Gustavo under his seller name “miniatnapoleon“. He does have quite some other good figures listed there as well, so if you are interested in figures and are looking for some great and inexpensive figure kits, pay his auctions a visit … it’s well worth it. Even with the very moderate (!) shipping costs on top you get a great kit for a fraction of the price of an original!