Suzuki samurai

got this one today its a Fujimi 1/24 suzuki samurai soft top,curbside its LHD one.

Looks good Allan , though I was hoping it would be an earlier model , I have a long history with the 2 (LJ20 and LJ20V- V means hardtop) and 3 cylinder (LJ50 and LJ50V) 2 stroke Suzuki's and would love to find a model of one .

Wow I can just picture a big 427 in this one????

awsome wered u find that mate
cant wait to c wot u do to it lol

ya Tezza43 big block would look cool but not going there,boothy found it in mate's stash of model kit's it's takened me a long time to get him to sell it to me,ya sports850 earlyer one would look good,if I see one will let u know.worked on farm that had 3 cly one as farm car only had right front brake that worked it had no rego.

mny firtst car was an LJ50 still with the 3cly in it what a great car that was it ended up with a Celica motor and gearbox in it at the end. the LJ's would be easy the build as the side's are all flat sheet. have just droped a vg30dd Nissan V6 in to my old 92 short wheel base Vitra talk about go now.
the model is not a bad kit to build even if its a bit basic. what colour are you going to paint it ?

Kynan,will be painting it tamiya Titanium silver X-32 acrylic,seats Buff XF-57.seen one with Holden starfire 4 in it once.

here is the body,

thinking of painting it red not the Titanium silver.

awsome they did well with the body hows the scale compare to others? and i will be wotchin this one

oh and red was a good colour on these

have not seen any other's,Red colour is Tamiya acrylic red X-7 the soft top its clear plastic,comes with is own mask tape to put on for windows,one just paints flat black or any other flat colour,going with black.hope it stops raining tomorrow so I can start airbrushing the colour on.

airbrushed it Tamiya acrylic Red X-7,gave it a clear coat of tamiya clear X-22,but been a cold day and paint the clear has gone milky white, its now a waiting game to see if it goes clear again.knew some thing would happened today.

allan wrote:airbrushed it Tamiya acrylic Red X-7,gave it a clear coat of tamiya clear X-22,but been a cold day and paint the clear has gone milky white, its now a waiting game to see if it goes clear again.knew some thing would happened today.

Just leave it till it's a bit warmer Allan and give it another coat of clear, don't go stripping it just yet.

here is chassis and seats,clear is not milky white its gone clear again yes now me can uncross my finger's.look's like hot deck lamp has help its was 6 foot from model,now me very happy

Kool little kit Allan. I've got a Vitara here that is getting converted into a softtop. Keep the progress coming mate.

Thank' paul,its a cool kit its also half snap tite one,here is underside.would build another one if I find one

here is body before clear coat when on.

just had BIG stuff up with paint on this one,masked the body to paint flat black on it took tape on it stuffed the clear coat up.I had enough of it will be packing up kits,no more builds.

last photo of suzuki,tryed to build it in 24 hour on another forum.

Don't stress Allan, just rub it back and weather/muddy it up!!! she'll be right.


............keep ya chin up, don't throw the hobby away just yet mate!!

have calm down now and striped the paint will repaint it again this afternoon will wait untill the paint hardens before finish it,would be bored if I did not have models tp build.

have re-painted suzuki run out of red found another colour tamiya green X-5,

Gee Allan you're not having the best of luck with this one. Take your time and keep at it bud.

well i liked the red better but the green looks ok as well keep at it mate and im loveing the paint seen at the moment my self i tell ya if the next body i paint stuffs up im gonna start building them in the plastic colour lol but shes looking ok mate

thank's guy's,going to wait a few days before lighty sanding back the bonnet got mark's in the paint,would of like to stay with the red,but its 1-1/2 hour drive to get some more, so the green will have to do.