I am kind of stuck on a fully detailed build, so I knocked out another curbside kit to make it feel like I am accomplishing something.
This kit is the first time where I chose the wheels first. Let me explain that a bit.
I was watching a lot of Miami Vice about 6 months ago, and I like to design things. So I designed the wheels you see on this kit in Solidworks. Then I printed them out and painted them up like you see. So I call them Retrowave because I styled them with a 1980’s Miami vibe to suit the TV I was watching at the time.
Once the wheels were done and painted, then I chose a kit based on how it would look sitting on those wheels. It is backwards, but it worked.
And another reason I picked this kit in particular was the first generation Nissan Pulsar was probably the most common car at my high school in the early 1990’s. I had one, and 3 of my friends had them. And I can think of 2 other ones that were in the high school parking lot as well. So this car fit well with the wheels, and had a spot in my heart as the previous owner of one of these.
Now the kit itself.
Aoshima always makes a good car kit. These curbside kits always have nice detail, they are pretty accurate, they are very well engineered, and they do this all while simplifying them just enough that they are easy to put together. And because they are easy kits you can focus on adding a bit of detail, and having fun with the paint work.
Another cool thing about Aoshima kits is they make generic parts trees. What this means is the parts trees are made to fit 3 or 4 different car kits that are very similar. So lets say a car that was made for 6 years, but there were trim changes like early cars had round headlights, but later cars had square headlights. The parts for both are in the kit. This means you can customize the cars a bit.
Ok, enough words. Here is my Retrowave Nissan Pulsar.
NOTE: I took the photos and then realized I forgot the wipers. So the finished kit has wipers on it. HAHA
