Silver and Blue Subaru Sti

well here is my latest project, its gonna be box stock apart from rims and paint.
here is a pic of the proposed paint
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and here it is with a coat of Ts30. gonna rub it down again and start the masking off for the tribal flames.
gonna be fun i think, lol.

the hoops that the baby is sitting on are Fujimi Andrew Goltdish

please, please, tell me your gona do something performance wise to back up that paint! Looks like it'll be sweet.

probably just a nice hks style exhaust i think. nothing too over the top, plus the kit is a lot like the 350z, very limited as most parts are molded in. and has metal rods for axels

How about a nice front lip with a front mount intercooler and that exhaust would set it off.

Looks like it'll be a difficult masking, but i think you can handle it. Good luck.

not if he uses 3/16th's masking tape, draws the design, cuts and removes what he doesnt need.

just leave it silver, looks better that way...and no wing!

chris, how about doing the a trible flame on the top of the wing in blue but leave the rest silver?

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Chris,
Nice idea for a project Scobby, but what about those mold line in the front bumper uner the headlight, you really need to sand them out first...Slow down dude :evillol:

He can't hiro, he's got to finish before his girlfreind kills him.

He can't hiro, he's got to finish before his girlfreind kills him.
Yeah keep this one on the DL:uhoh:.


Cool idea, can't wait to see the paint. I was waiting for someone to do an impreza that has big chrome wheels and cool paint rather that performance with a sidedish of performance!:bigthumb:

awesome project idea... hope to see a good finish :)

I was waiting for someone to do an impreza that has big chrome wheels and cool paint rather that performance with a sidedish of performance!:bigthumb:

What's wrong with performance oozing out of every crevice of the car? Usually Chrismcgee's cars are nice, but they don't really pique my interest because they're more show than are my taste, but for some reason I really like this one. Is it the paint? Is it the rims? Both? Not really sure, but man you're good at paintjobs so this car is gonna be superfine. Can't wait to see it!

nice work Chris. Cool project! are you finishing the kit for your 1:1 customer? :rolleyes:


I think the most difficult part is the blue flame pattern and the bodykit.


Also, everytime you have new projects, someone will be interested with the rims you used.

It is kind of cool to see many ppl interested in the rims I sent to you. My Fabulous profound was all sold out because of this reason. :D :grinno: :iceslolan

sweet can i get some sponsorship then joe???? lol.
Hiro boy i just needed to get a lick of paint on it so i can pretend its always been in the cuboard, lol. gonna be rubbing the whole body down with 1200 grit. then get a nice smooth paint job on there.

for the masking i have taken a leaf out of the vinyl signs buisiness, cut the pattern out on the flat, then add another piece of tape to the back to allow positioning. then remove the tape, simple realy. i think??????

Not gonna go with a front mounted intercooler this time but this is far from my last impreza!

the wind that i have used is the standard wrx sti spoiler, i quite like it as its very sharp and not too big,

Looks like its going to be a sweet project. Keep us posted. I can't wait.

been playing with sorting out the ride height, think i have sorted it. will go take some pics and post em up.
Gonna give the car another smooth coat of paint even tho its monsoon conditions outside! in the shed again

I may be late, but take care with TS-30... this paint is very fragile and your tombs will show very easily..

but good project

been playing with sorting out the ride height, think i have sorted it. will go take some pics and post em up.
Gonna give the car another smooth coat of paint even tho its monsoon conditions outside! in the shed again
Looking good Chris - autumn/winter in the uk is a b***h as regards spraying

Wow! That paint is amazing!! You'd better make it left hand drive though!! It'd be a sin otherwise!!! :eek7: Keep up the good work!!

the drivers seat is gonna be on the right hand side where it always shoulf be! lol.
gonna try and spray today as the weather isnt too bad.

went to halfords yesterday and the guy there let me loose to mix up my own paint! how much fun is that, like being a kit again. made myself a gold pearl top coat. so i can spray a light amount over all sorts of different colours, used 50ml of there most expensive superfine gold pearl!!! and a load of thinner lol. they normaly use tiny amounts of it. he also agreed to do me anything i want for less than the normal price! top bloke. gonna get loads of candies for my babies, hmmmmmm cansy red enzo maybe?

chris, this may be off topic, but can you give me the measurments for that gold top coat, I think it would look sweet on my gold/red color changing enzo.

60% gold to 40% clear carrier fluid. that way it is nice n thin and can be misted over

sweeeet. gonna be awesome on the only color changing enzo here, I trashed the yellow idea, this way i get em both, yellow and red, with gold top coat.

sorry to inform ya dude but i am having a rage flip paint made up at the mo which is like my slammed skyline, ultra flippy and very cool in gold to red. just waiting for it to turn up.

here is the car at its new lowered height, not too much. just enough in my opinion

That's sweet and low. Chris, I think if it was a blue/violet to red paint with that gold you mixed in the tribal style on top of that silver, it'd be awesome.

gonna be uploading some pics after i get back from the gym (4hrs time), interior is done and looking sweeter than i could imagine. its in matt black and desert sand. will have to wait to see!
body has been rubbed down awaiting final coat of silver finaly.
all smooth, then im going to start tomorrow on making the masks for the tribal flames. should be interesting!

also i changed the wheels to the nissan 350z wheels. they seem to look much better tucked up in the arches than the goltdish wheels.

How bout you show us.

Excelent project!

I will see all the progress, pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! :loser:

Ride height is perfect to match the rims

Can't wait for some pictures chris.

here are the latest pics. might still go back to the goltdish rims.
its getting closer to having the tribal put on.
then its gonna have a million coats of laquer on it.

I think that you posted the wrong pics?

thats bloody weird, i posted my subaru pics. then posted my workstation pics for another thread. now my whole gallery has duplicates of this lot! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh going mad. why doesnt the galery lock the pics. why the hell is it overwriting everything!!!!!!!

http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=3015/6923211.jpg
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here are the pics, had to stip my gallery bare and slowly re load all my pics. hope it works until i get my web site

those look so much nice on that suby chris, it's unbelievable how well they go.

NIce!!! I like that color. awesome blossom job on the interior :) :) :) :)

cheers guys. all comments are most kindly recieved. lol.

this kits is great. i would recomend it to anyone looking to get into or back into modeling.

as a box stock kit it would be a lot of fun to put together.

but as i am me, im gonna put a chris stamp on it!

already lowered it and about to have some mad paint!

sweet cant wait to see the finished project btw nice interior i like the radio

i bought that tamiya paint specificaly for that little purpose! hahahhaha, also bought green as well!

makes it seem that little bit more real i think

What color is that paint on the radio?

the colour is tamiya X-14 sky blue.
i bought it solely to paint sterio faces.

Looks cool dude. I like the "real" stereo feel. Nice blue dude.

Stick with the 6 storkes rims and make it wide-deep look.

Looks awesome so far!! The Z rims give a more performance-oriented feel to it and the go well with the silver. The interior is top-notch!! :sunglasse :sunglasse You're gonna make me start on mine soon! :p

cheers joe. whats the progress on the enxo pe set?

am covered in masking tape doing the tribal logo.
damn this is hard hard work

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here is my latest pic of the masking

Looks good Chris - I reckon it's going to be the db's

damn you chris! j/k, your jsut way too good for your own know how. Love that design, so what's the top coat color gonna be anyway?

ok so i forgot to take one thing into account, ts50 is a very thick paint.

when i peeled off the mask it too a lot of detail with it :banghead:

going to attempt to hand paint them back in, if not strip it again and airbrush the tribal and not spray can it

Tough luck man. Same thing happened to me with my trueno. Im slowly touching it up by hand.
Good luck fixing it. Cant wait to see it done.

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here it is at the moment. will probably get pissed off with it in a day or two and re spray it all. until then i will do my best to rectify it.

dont worry it will all look smooth soon. plus its gonna get about 10 coats of clear coat!

well the patern look really great, but as ia say before, the ts30 is a very hard pait to work with if you dont put clear coat before. and if you do so, the color change a lot

still, i'm sure you will work around this and make a stuning work

i have left the first lot of touch up paint to dry and will give it more coats tonight. then loads of clear coat.

can the whole group keep their fingers crossed that i will pull this off!

It looks good so far. Just the touch up. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you buddy. I can't wait till this car is done.

nice paint chris, it must be a lot of work on that. The blue is glossy without clearcoat now as shown in the pics.

that's sad to hear about the car chris. It looks well enough to pass for me, i got my fingers crossed for ya buddy no problem.

Nice job with the masking.. I think the one in the picture is a box of Uncle Ben's.. If you keep it stock bodied it should turn out fine :smokin:

Looking mighty fine to me.