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When all those long hours add up... and you get close to the end of a project... It starts to give rewards.



One of the rewards for me is the cool imagery. A bit of theater is necessary and you may notice more than a few links The Netherlands in this build.


www.RC-PIPES.com hooked me up with a few choice items over the past few months.


And this one is another gem. The P!PES V1 light kit has selectable patterns right from your controller. I use the thumb switch on the MT4S.


The ribbon bar makes installation very simple. We all want to change something, so I would like a little more length on the rear ribbon, but that's it.  I use these small clips to hold the ribbon... You can make your own with thin alloy and double-sided tape.


One thing I kept from my 180sx build was this beauty.  Just the right spot for it too. 


I have a diffuser planned for this body, but for now, the dump pipe looks good enough hanging there.


So there it is ... 90% complete. I'll add a few more shots without the lights.


It was a bit too early in the day for outdoor shots of a white car.


And a bit too dark inside... But you get the idea. White with subtle effects.


Gold/Pink side is a bit darker 


The Silver/Green/Purple side is very subtle... but lights up better.


Stance is 0.5mm perfect and the guards can trim themselves. I'm lazy.


I did make a mistake on the front small light holes, But as the front end is not scale anyway, I just rolled with an offset "Nagano" plate to cover the mishap. You may remember Nagano from the winter olympics. So in some ways the snow white is appropriate. 


My custom Black OD DRB has plenty of lock and the scrub radius comes nowhere near the edges of the guards. Zillion knuckles installed.


So there you have it...

I'm gonna run this as is, but there will be a dash and the rear diffuser added.

Accentuating curves in white, there's nothing to hide.



The Rx-7 is coming together slowly. but like all things, you need a plan. I roughly taped on the fenders to get a basic idea of offset.


I'm running on a Custom DRB chassis, +6 up front is perfect and +9 on the rear. this may sound a bit narrow, but the chassis is wide track already.

On my other DRb, +11 is the setting all round.


www.RC-P!PES.com Black Series dump pipe is perfect for this machine. Mounted on the chassis.


Bonnet vents suck! it takes sooooooo long the get the edges perfect. Front lights have been "lowered" I took about 5mm out if the center. Opened up the rear section and now they are sitting where they should be.

For anyone building an FD3s shell, you have to open up the rear for the covers to work the way an FD does. The pop up headlight pivot point is not right at the back.


you can start to see the subtle paint effect. Gold and Silver in light. pink and green in other lighting.

rear wing is magnet.


But most of the time you can't see it at all. Just how I wanted it.


So there's not much left to do... front number plate to cover the terrible drill holes where the drill caught on the super soft demi works lexan and moved before slicing through before I could even think.

and then a dash.

and a few stickers.

and the diffuser.

I'm not going to pin the fenders in place unless somesome crazy urge takes over.

Almost ready.... waiting waiting.