Builder Spotlight: Raees Amien

After some thinking and wondering, I have came to the conclusion that I have not done a "Spotlight" on Raees. Sure I have featured many of his wonderful builds and have even done a small intro about him, but I have yet to do an actual "Spotlight", well here it is.

Raees hails all the way from Cape Town, South Africa, that is almost 10,000 miles away from Cali, where I live. He has been at the mercy of styrene since the tender age of 8 and has built some great looking models since. He also likes taking long walks by the beach and listening to jazz....ummm nah not really, but he sure loves to put in time on all his builds. Some taking a couple of weeks, with long hours to others that have been on stand by for years. We all have that one or several builds that take more time than usual. So what if OCD kicks in, we'll get back to it. Eventually...

The SPC forum, some emails and the occasional Facebook comments are the ways we communicate to share one of the passions that we have in common and that is model car building. His style of building is one that catches my attention in many ways. From digi-carbon fiber camo pattern on the Amuse R35 Skyline or nicely detailed SR20 under the hood of his silver beauty 510 to the slammed trio of VW golfs, the details are eye catching. The attention to detail in each of his builds are amazing. Plenty of time goes into them to get them that way and the patience he has is something that many need to have in order to build any type of model. It's the key to the door of the this hobby, well time and money is another key factor that come into play, but thats another story..haha.

He has been building models not only for himself, but for others as well. I have featured the finished ones on here and he has more to come in near future. Just recently he finished a VW beetle that was featured on the cover of Speed and Sound Magazine out of South Africa. Not only did he build a scale replica of that beetle on there, but there is an article about Raees himself and his builds in that issue. His builds have caught plenty of attention from many and I can see him getting more in the future. The man has skills for what he does. I have seen plenty come into the hobby only to leave it behind, I can say that Raees is here to stay. now if we can only get ourselfs to finish those unfinished WIP's...

Heres some quick info:
Full Name: Raees Amien
Age: 23
Time Building: Been modeling for 14 years
What Got Him Here?: I started with small aeroplanes
Firts Time?: First modification was cutting a Ferrari testorossa and a plane to make a dragster.
Goals: Now I mainly focus on cars 1/24 scale and 1/12
Favourite build/s: Datsun SSS and KPGC10/Hakosuka

Here are just a few of his builds.

Not only does he have skills in building models, but he also has skills in taking some great looking photos.



All pics were taken by Raees Amien.

Well I hope you have enjoyed this, thanks for stopping by.
Happy Motoring.

MK1 Factory PT:1

Raees has been working on some more MK1 Golf's for customers. Its calle the MK1 Factory and so far he has 2 going at the same time. one is a flat black with chrome steelies and the second one is going to be red. as of 2 days ago, he finished the black one and I think it came out pretty sweet. he is now working on the red one.

And here it is done.

"I was finally able to finish the matt black mk1. This was a fairly quick build. I am qute pleased with the outcome."

Specs:

Fujimi mk1

Dropped
Aoshima steel wheels

Red interior

Flocking

Matt black paint

Smoothed out body

All pics were taken by Raees Amein.

Thats all for today. thanks for stopping by.

VW APPROVED!

I have a soft spot for these little cars. when I was in high school I had a freind with a 80something Golf GTI. it didn't look as good as this, it was a bit busted actually, but it was a form of transportation and for a HS student that was good enough. we had some fun  times it that beater until the engine finally gave out. for Raees it's a bit different. being a owner of a clean VW MK1 himself he already nows what it needs to make it clean and sweet. this "quick" build, well at least it was suppose to be quick took a bit longer that it was suppose to. but like many of us in the hobby know, some things don't always go as planned or we like to take on other projects or life takes up most of the time in the day. either way, we don't finish them as fast as we wanted to in the first place.

I like this Golf, it has some character that is just subtle and mellow. it's lowered, has some stretched tires with deep offset wheels and the paint is just clean, what more would you want in a daily driver?? well thats if it was to be your daily driver. well have a look for yourself and see what you think.

SPECS OF THE V.A.G:

Fujimi vw mk1

Tamiya gloss aluminum

Carbong fibre stripe

Dropped

SSR Focus wheels with tan centre

Front head rests removed

Rear wiper and sunroof smoothed

Indicators removed

Smoked lights

Cross hairs in the front

Tan an black interior

 

All pics were taken by Raess Amien

 

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