Today I went to the Elmia car show in Jönköping Sweden, which I think is the largest car show in northern Europe. There are four halls filled with cars of every vintage. This year was the 40th anniversary so there weren't any special guests like usual, unless you count the poor, riced out, beaten up cars from the various Fast & Furious movies. They had the Charger, Supra, both Eclipses, RX-7 and the R34 Skyline. The cars are even more disappointing in person than they are in the films. The front of the R34 has had a light coat of gray sprayed on it to simulate road dust and the like from driving and it was done so badly that it even has some major runs in the paint since they sprayed it on so thick.
Anyway, I picked up a new pair of shoes there, Sparco Esse in blue/white. I got a pretty good deal on them, roughly $20 off of regular price. They're not the competition shoes that are fireproof and all that, just regular sportswear type shoes but should be pretty good for driving.
Here's a pic I found on google that will have to do until I can take some pics of my own.
It's been a while since I last posted, not a lot has been going on but I did manage to paint up a new body for the RC drifting I do. It's a limited edition Nissan R31 Skyline Wagon. It was actually produced for R31 House which is a Japanese tuning shop that specializes in, what else, R31 Skylines.
Usually RC bodies come with a ton of stickers for every little detail like the black weather strip that goes around the windows and things like that but this body only came with a few decals for the headlights/taillights, door handles and the intercooler in the lower grill opening. So there is a lot of little detail work that I have had to do to it and I am still not done but I figured it was time to post something and this is what is new.
I still have to paint a thin black pinstripe trim line between the blue and silver, install the led light kit, install a muffler, install mirrors and a bunch of other little details before it is finished.
For those interested it was painted with the following colors:
Tamiya PS-49 Aluminum Sky Blue
Faskolor FasPearl Silver mixed with FasBlack to create the lower gray
Tamiya PS-53 Lame Flake backed with Faskolor FasBlack on the hood
If you want to see another version of this body in action check out this youtube clip of an R31 Wagon versus a Volvo 850 Wagon.
