Subara Impreza WRX STi

Today I picked up a new project beside the VW Samba Bus.

I found this Subaru Impreza WRX from Tamiya, which is a very nice kit.

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/inhoud_001_%28Medium%29~27.jpg

The kit contains a lot of nice details like multipiece rearlights (which are molded in clear plastic) windowmasks and metal transfers.

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/inhoud_002_%28Medium%29~27.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/inhoud_003_%28Medium%29~27.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/inhoud_004_%28Medium%29~25.jpg

The original wheels looks O.K. but some aftermarket wheels will fitt better :wink:
These Aoshima Enkei GTC 01 wheels will suit the car best.

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/inhoud_005_%28Medium%29~23.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/inhoud_006_%28Medium%29~21.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/inhoud_007_%28Medium%29~19.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/inhoud_008_%28Medium%29~18.jpg

The bodywork will be painted with a VW/Audi paint. This is Blue Anthracite mixed at Hiroboy.

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/inhoud_009_%28Medium%29~16.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/inhoud_010_%28Medium%29~11.jpg

For some extra detail, I ordered a PE set from Hobby Design.

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/inhoud_011_%28Medium%29~6.jpg

I hope to start tomorrow.

Kris.

nice color cant wait to see the build come together

I like the wheel choice.

Ohh, Enkei's on an Impreza, just magnificant!

Yesterday I primed the body after some sanding and scribing the panellines.

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/primer_en_kleur_001_%28Medium%29.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/primer_en_kleur_002_%28Medium%29.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/primer_en_kleur_003_%28Medium%29.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/primer_en_kleur_004_%28Medium%29.jpg

Today I painted the parts and body with 2 layers of color.

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/primer_en_kleur_005_%28Medium%29.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/primer_en_kleur_006_%28Medium%29.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/primer_en_kleur_007_%28Medium%29.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/primer_en_kleur_008_%28Medium%29.jpg

Maybe I'll add some nice decals (just a few) or i'll just clearcoat it without decals... :)

Kris.

It would look cool if you put a flat clear on it, for something different

Nice color for the body, do you plan to paint the rims also different?

Right car.. right rims.. right color.. for sure i'll folow this thread!!

Beautiful car, and nice styling choices. Looks really good so far

Man i thought youd already painted it blue, cant beleive tamiyas mold is that shinny
Cant wait to see more

Man i thought youd already painted it blue, cant beleive tamiyas mold is that shinny
Cant wait to see more

Haha I heard that comment often :lol:
To bad there are some ghostlines in that molding, cause the plastic is a bit metallic likely.

Anyway....

Today I added some Enkei decals on the frontdoors and also added the metal transfer on the thrunk. I also added the STi decals on the foglight covers.

The wheels are also clearcoated.

The clear I used is Zero Paints 2K Clear.

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/blanke_lak_001_%28Medium%29~7.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/blanke_lak_002_%28Medium%29~7.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/blanke_lak_003_%28Medium%29~7.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/blanke_lak_004_%28Medium%29~6.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/blanke_lak_005_%28Medium%29~3.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/blanke_lak_006_%28Medium%29~2.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/blanke_lak_007_%28Medium%29~2.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/blanke_lak_008_%28Medium%29~1.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/blanke_lak_009_%28Medium%29~1.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/blanke_lak_010_%28Medium%29~1.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/blanke_lak_011_%28Medium%29~0.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/blanke_lak_012_%28Medium%29~0.jpg

When it's fully dry, I'll polish some minor dusts away.

Kris.

very nice!!

Last weekend, I had a 24 hours during groupbuild.

I first started with polishing the body. After that I masked of the body, and painted the windowtrims. I think I never ever have painted them so smooth.

There was some bad light, so I couldn't make any nice pics. They are a bit to dark.

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/body_polish_001_%28Medium%29.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/body_polish_004_%28Medium%29.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/body_polish_005_%28Medium%29.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/body_polish_006_%28Medium%29.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/body_polish_007_%28Medium%29.jpg

I also painted the windows.

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/interieur_001_%28Medium%29~11.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/interieur_002_%28Medium%29~11.jpg

The interior got some Tamiya primer by airbrush:

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/interieur_003_%28Medium%29~10.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/interieur_004_%28Medium%29~11.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/interieur_005_%28Medium%29~11.jpg

For the interior I used the original colors Tamiy mentioned in the instructions. Seats are a mix of xf-1 and xf-63 and the middle is painted xf-8.
The sidepanels, dash and midconsole are painted xf-63.

I used some light grey flocking, and addes some pe on the midconsole, pedals and displayconsole.

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/interieur_006_%28Medium%29~11.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/interieur_008_%28Medium%29~10.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/interieur_009_%28Medium%29~10.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/interieur_010_%28Medium%29~10.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/interieur_012_%28Medium%29~8.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/interieur_013_%28Medium%29~6.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/interieur_014_%28Medium%29~4.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/interieur_015_%28Medium%29~4.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/interieur_016_%28Medium%29~4.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/interieur_017_%28Medium%29~3.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/interieur_020_%28Medium%29~1.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/interieur_019_%28Medium%29~1.jpg

Kris.

I've done some things last days.

I started painting the PE plates semigloss black. When it was dry I sanded them so the logo's will be silver. A bit of clearcoat to protect them, and then I glued them on the original plastic plateholders.

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/body_af_001_%28Medium%29~6.jpg

I cutted out the plastic grille and replaced it with a PE version. Then I painted it semigloss black, and added the logo. I also added some PE mesh for the radiator/intercooler.

The headlights are first painted semigloss black after some liquid masking. After removing the masking I got some nice chrome areas. Now I added some glasses and did the same with the foglights. I was not sure if I must use the foglight covers, but in the end I did used them...

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/body_af_002_%28Medium%29~6.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/body_af_003_%28Medium%29~6.jpg

The body received some lights:

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/body_af_005_%28Medium%29~6.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/body_af_006_%28Medium%29~6.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/body_af_007_%28Medium%29~6.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/body_af_008_%28Medium%29~4.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/body_af_009_%28Medium%29~4.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/body_af_010_%28Medium%29~3.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/body_af_011_%28Medium%29~1.jpg

The hoodscoop assembled:

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/body_af_012_%28Medium%29~0.jpg

And a dryfit so far:

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/body_af_013_%28Medium%29~0.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/body_af_014_%28Medium%29~0.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/body_af_015_%28Medium%29.jpg

Now on to the chassis. Which is almost completed now.

Kris.

that looks awesome man, great rim and color choice!

what color/paint did you use for the interior to get the very good looking, fabric-like, flat paint, it looks awesome!

Hello Kris,

that is one clean and stunningly detailed model, sir! Perfect everything: paint, interior, choice of wheels, stance... A joy to watch!

May I have the leftover original wheels? Trade? Price?

Cheers
Sebastian

that looks awesome man, great rim and color choice!

what color/paint did you use for the interior to get the very good looking, fabric-like, flat paint, it looks awesome!

For the interior I used tamiya acrylic paint. Maybe it will be so flat cause I used a 0.2 nozzle and needle in my airbrush for this job?

Kris.

Hello Kris,

that is one clean and stunningly detailed model, sir! Perfect everything: paint, interior, choice of wheels, stance... A joy to watch!

May I have the leftover original wheels? Trade? Price?

Cheers
Sebastian

Sebastian, thanks for the kind words :)

As for the wheels.... I want to trade them if you want. I always search for nice wheels so pm me what you got :)

Kris.

Hi Kris, I rarely comment your wip but I always appreciated your style and skill.

Lovely Impreza, very cleanly done. I like the wingless look and the rims.

Bravo !

Robi :)

:eek2: NICE JOB! Man, I'm looking forward to recieve the same kit, so I could start on a Replica Wip for my cousin..
I really love how the wheels look, and the colour looks grat, but I prefer Mica Blue on the Subi

JAMES!

It´s a nice built .. despite the mold lines on the rear bumper.. perhaps you could work better on this problem on the next model :)

Congrats...

It´s a nice built .. despite the mold lines on the rear bumper.. perhaps you could work better on this problem on the next model :)

Congrats...

the moldlines are renoved of course, but sometimes they show up again after clearcoating the body. I dont know why, but it happends.... Nothing to do about it unless you can tell me a solution for it? It's to much work to remove the paint and start from the beginning...

Kris.

that's weird, the mold line doesn't seem to appear on the prime body, it must be frustrated to see it appear after gloss coat. any recovery will take too much time, let's pretend we don't see it (actually i don't see it until it was mention) :rofl:

It took a while, but I managed to do something to this model :)

I wanted to lower the rideheight, so I had to do some little modifications on the chassis. It was pretty simple to do, so after that, I could go further with the ''normal'' work.

First I did the brakes. I could chose between ventilated or normal PE discbrakes. Of course I used the ventilated :)

I also added some Brembo logos on the calipers.

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/onderstel_001_%28Medium%29~0.jpg

The wheels got painted wheelnuts, and I added some decals on the wheels.

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/onderstel_002_%28Medium%29~0.jpg

Now they could be glued on the chassis. I also painted the exhaust further and made nice exhausttip on the lathe of my dad. I also wheatered the chassis a bit, but it was hard to do on the smooth clearcoat.

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/onderstel_004_%28Medium%29.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/onderstel_005_%28Medium%29.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/onderstel_006_%28Medium%29.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/onderstel_007_%28Medium%29.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/onderstel_008_%28Medium%29.jpg

The interior was already finished, and was glued on the chassis now.

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/onderstel_010_%28Medium%29.jpg

http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/albums/coppermine/albums/userpics/10027/onderstel_011_%28Medium%29.jpg

Now everything is finished, I only have to put the body on it and wax it another time.

Kris.

the moldlines are renoved of course, but sometimes they show up again after clearcoating the body. I dont know why, but it happends.... Nothing to do about it unless you can tell me a solution for it? It's to much work to remove the paint and start from the beginning...

Kris.

Yes i can, there is a glue called Jet, this is a kind of special glue used by dentists, you can apply under and below the area that had a panel line, it will avoid retraction. I´m not sure if you can find this product with this name, but if you want i can try to find the composition and then you can look for it or for something similar.

Please don´t take my comment as personal, i liked your model a lot, if you post it here or whatever you show it you have to be opened to receive any kind of comment.

Regards

Cris

such a great build to this.