Skyline – the project

Klaus Weitzel — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:41:25 +0000

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 …

Lets first of all start with some of the images I am allowed to use:

FAS Nissan Skyline GTR - front left

FAS Nissan Skyline GTR - left side

The work on the X-Mod Skyline has started by getting rid of the previously mentioned “imperfections” and paint stripping all over.

X-Mods Nissan Skyline GT-R 2

Skyline GTR Body stripped and primed

Jacko L. of FAS has given me following info about the body modifications:

Our car has a Top Secret hood, and Garage Saurus carbon fiber front diffuser, side skirts, rear spats and Nissan factory carbon fiber rear diffuser.

Those changes are mainly small additions to the existing Skyline body which should not be to hard to recreate from what I can see. The Top Secret Aero Bonnet will be the most difficult piece to model. It is a recession with a “spoiler lip” around it.

Since the rest of the car is stock and the original wheels seem to have been used that area should be done by preparing and painting the rims which are with the X-Mod Kit.

X-Mods sighted

Klaus Weitzel — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:07:05 +0000

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

The Mustang is still in box, but that won’t be forever. Unfortunately for you that is the reason why there are no pictures yet. instead you can have a quick glimpse at the chassis, which has been upgraded a bit with alloy parts in the area of the rear end.

X3200 Chassis (evolution type) 1

X3200 Chassis (evolution type) 2

What stroke me a bit is the bad finish of the product … OK … thy are painted but that paint job is far from perfect. The rear bumper of the Skyline had a fingerprint on the inside (yes, now I can identify the culprit …) and the there was a huge grain of something enclosed in the painted windscreen.

Then there is a red Hummer H2 which I bought yesterday … again it has some imperfections in the paint job, but I thought all the excess plastic scrape-off in the gearbox was a bigger issue. It showed up when I installed an AWD Upgrade to the trucking chassis.

Trucking Hummer H2 1

Trucking Hummer H2 2

These “imperfections” I think where the reason that the price dropped by half in just a few weeks. Overall they are no reason not to buy them little machines and also nothing what a little bit of paint stripping, sanding and painting can not fix.

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Skyline – the project

X-Mods sighted