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 Light weight, powerful engine, tight but functional cockpit and eye catching
style are Mazda's answers to the early 90's sports car market. The FD3S was a return
of a pure sports car, and the car has been continuously updated. Now, the one
available in its home market features 280 HP engine. Model kits were released by
three Japanese manufacturers, Tamiya, Aoshima and Rosso, and they all are curbside.
Tamiya later added the left hand steering dashboard and engine details that sits on the
lower half of the engine. |
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 The red one shown here is the Tamiya
kit, and I omitted the optional parts such as the front air dam and rear spoiler because
the car looks fine without those parts. The body was painted with custom mixed
Pactra water based paint, and Testors gloss coat was used to protect it. The clear
markers were painted with Gunze's Mr. Aqueous Hobby Color. The tail garnish was
painted from the back, using Tamiya's smoke, leaving the part transparent. |
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 The engine is heavily modified by
referring to a lot of magazine articles and the dealer brochure. The wiper blades
and arms are Modeler's photo etched parts.
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 This black RX-7 is the Aoshima's
curbside kit, and the body seems more accurate than Tamiya. Tamiya's RX-7 looks more
dynamic in comparison. This kit was built to represent the home market version with
all the optional parts. This kit comes with photo etched badges. The body was
painted with Dupli-Color gloss black, and this caused a disaster. It crazed the
surface because the primer layer was too thin, and the surface turned coarse. |
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 I used sand papers in various grades to
smooth the entire body, then I continued using the Dupli-Color spray. Fortunately, this
resulted in extremely strong adherence of the paint to the body, and after polishing the
body, it created a highly glossy black finish that I had never achieved before. I
omitted the gloss coat, because I thought it was unnecessary.I almost gave up on finishing this kit, but it turned out better than my average model after careful recovery process. |
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