My Comments:
1. Exterior Cleanliness - 5/5
- Award: full points for overall exterior cleanliness
2. Forward Chassis: 3/5
- Award: Very good paint detailing
- Penalty: most of the kit are off the shelf, no real custom work done for hood, bumper, canards, etc
- Penalty: standard hood hook/stand, should have use the pneumatic hinges to keep it clean
3. Rear Chassis: 2/5
- Award: Scissor doors, you cant go wrong especially here where it creates clean lines
- Penalty: Custom door mod creates a body line that does not suit the car, disharmonious, that is made worse by the placement of the detail here
- Penalty: Massive ugly rear wing that would make Takumi wonder "this guy want to fly?"
- Penalty: Minor body work imperfection seen through light reflection at the rear of the door (not confirm, from the vid)
4. Overall: 3/5
- Award: Overall package is very well done, extremely high marks for colour and detailing
- Penalty: Overall package lacks harmony
- Penalty: Negative change to the body lines
- Penalty: Colour scheme, while good, lacks contrast for the detail which make it get lost at a distance (can be argued that this is a good thing)
- Note: Interior is not evaluated
5. Wheels: 4/5
- Penalty: NOT CUSTOM, if only you cut your own custom wheels
I think its a very good effort. However, do not rest on laurels. This effort is laughable in the face of Re-Amemiya and even the new European modders who do work on Mercedez, Porsche, BMW and others.
RE-Amemiya is a very good example where they create significant custom body work. Another extremely good example is Chip Foose creations - this guy always gets it right and his designs are very good examples of harmonious design (do not use the show Overhaulin as a reference, use his show cars instead)
