well first of all, i'd like to give a huuuuge thanks to MidMazar for sending out these wheels to me so i could finnaly start this project! thanks man!:cheers:

Its been a long while since ive done some modeling so im trying to find time to get back into the hobby!

I decided to start it off by painting this car ts-45 pearl white. tamiya sprays are awesome, its one of my first trys using them and now im sticking with it. they polish out real easy too!

heres what I have done so far, ive been trying to do a little here and there in between work in school.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v343/atmdc/subaru%20sti/DSC01496.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v343/atmdc/subaru%20sti/DSC01505.jpg

its really hard to get this color to show on camera, but i think it looks good.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v343/atmdc/subaru%20sti/DSC01543.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v343/atmdc/subaru%20sti/DSC01544.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v343/atmdc/subaru%20sti/DSC01539.jpg getting ready to paint the interior.

thanks!

btw, if you notice the mr2 in the background, its almost done, i'll have a completed thread soon

No problem, the paint looks great. Keep us posted.

got some interior work done , not glude together yet or finished though. just a mock up so far
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v343/atmdc/DSC01545.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v343/atmdc/DSC01547.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v343/atmdc/DSC01548.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v343/atmdc/subaru%20sti/DSC01550.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v343/atmdc/subaru%20sti/DSC01551.jpg

Sweet at first i thought the blue was painted, looks great with the blue two tone!

So is this a rally car that you are making into a street version? That is really cool.

Alex

yea im going to e leaving out all of the rally stuff, so it looks like a street car that also does some track time

new update! finally... i decided to do a panty hose carbon fiber hood since i was short on carbon decals. I think I actually like this method better though.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v343/atmdc/subaru%20sti/DSC01565.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v343/atmdc/subaru%20sti/DSC01564.jpg

very nice job!
pearl white is awsome!
also very good interior

is the body polished?

how did you make the carbon hood??

yeah body is already polished, i just did the hood after wards so the hood is not polished yet. I painted the hood using gloss black, light gun metal, and some panty hose. then i clear coated it.

If i was you i would cf the vents on the hood also. The panty hose cf came out excellent, i have to try that method. It porobably works good on complex curves and irregular parts.

You sprayed the black, then covered with pantyhose and sprayed the gunmetal, right? Or was it the other way around? I plan to use this method for the large undertrays of DTM/Le Mans cars to save decals.

Alex

yup sprayed the black first and then the gun metal.

I like the vents to be body color, youll see where its going when im all done :)