Well unfortunately for my hope of having a unique body, some shops pre-ordered some for themselves to sell later on and one of my fellow club members managed to get one. This irritated me enough that I had to go out and find something that would be truly unique for at least a little while.
This led to much internet searching to see what bodies were available and hard to find. What I found was that there were very few bodies that I liked that were "limited" and of those that were limited that I did like, they were in the most popular shops which basically defeated the purpose. So I decided to create something.
Before showing the pics let me state that the company that makes the bodies that I hacked up to create something unique has probably the most expensive bodies. So one way that I hope this will stay unique is that nobody will be willing to risk hacking up two of the most expensive bodies on the market. The other is that most modelers in my club aren't willing to go to this sort of extent to create something.
I started with one of these, a Yokomo Koguchi Power S13 180:
And one of these, a Yokomo PS13 Silvia:
And combined them into the Sil80 (silvia front + 180 back) you see here by taking the front of the Silvia and grafting it on to the front of the 180. There's still more details to add and some things to clean up but I figured I was long overdue for a new post so enjoy (hopefully).
Main Body:
1. Base: Ultimate Racing Pearl Base
2. Main Color: Ultimate Racing Daytona Yellow
3. Backed with: Ultimate Racing Basic White then Ultimate Racing Basic Black
Hood:
1. Base: Tamiya Lame Flake
2. Main Color: Ultimate Racing Basic Black
