Progress: Honda Integra Type R 1995

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This is the Fujimi model (1:24 scale). I've been working on it for about a week now, mostly sorting out the ride height. I took about 3mm out of it. Today I primered everything.

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In this picture the red rings show where i removed plastic and opened it up. I will put mesh behind these holes.
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Here is the chassis which is painted the colour that the body will be. A metallic green.
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And here are the wheels i will be using. The kränze Cerberus.
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Cool project! This should look really nice next to the CRX you recently completed.

cool project, ill be inerested to see how those wheels look on the itr

Looking likes its going to be a fun build! I like that green on the chassis. What size are those wheels? Are you keeping the suspension stock?

Nice colour:) Do those wheels fit?

Yeah the wheels fit fine. They are 18 inch.
Instead of cutting down the suspension i made holes in the chassis so that the shocks go through those holes and lower the car.

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I have tried shortening socks before but with bad results.

thats a god idea for lowering, i will try this.

Great build

Cool idea on lowering, I should ise it on my next buils on US Teg

As stated, interesting way to lower a model car. I'd like to give that method a shot on my next build. Thanks for sharing your technique.

Thanks guys. I thought you would all say i was stupid or something. :)
It's not the most elegant way to lower a car and I'm sure the detail freaks would like to strangle me, but personally i think it is a very effective way of lowering. I'm not sure if it is usable on a car with an engine bay though, but for curbsides it does the job. I would just say that there are other places that you will have to take plastic from and the swing arms i heated and bent upwards to fit right. I also needed to modify the rod that makes sure the wheels face in the same direction.

Thats an interesting way to lower it. I never seen it that way. Its not stupid at all, Looks highly effective.

ive almost complete this same kit too.........off to a gud start man

Hi Vtak. How far have you got? Everyone should build one of these. Quite a simple kit but looks cool.

Here's where i am so far.
The underside is done. And i have painted the body with the colour and will do the clear coat very soon.
Then i have to finish the interior. Which is dark grey with red accents and seats.

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Whole project looks very nice so far!

nice color! :)

different color for a teg, i like it, you should black out the headlight housings.

nice and clean lowering job and the paint is even better! very original color for a teg

Here is some more progress.

I completed the interior:
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And the lights. First i put BMF in the light clusters because it is better than any silver paint i have.
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Then i looked on the net at lots of different light styles on Integras. I decided to go with these:
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Nice work Matt & nice lights, they look like real 1.1 lights mate.

Mike :sunglasse

Thanks Mike. I've just put some clear on the whole thing. Does anyone else put lights on and then clear coat, or clear coat first?
Then to the horror that is painting the window trim. Da da daaaaaaa!! :eek: Then it is done. Hope i didn't mess the ride height up somewhere along the way. :disappoin

Nice and clean! I love the tail lights :)

Nice colour! Nice tail lights. Are you going to paint the other parts of the headlights black to make it like the Type R headlights? Or just leave them like that like the SiR-G Integra which has the all chrome housing.

i clear coat before i put the lights in

Fantastic paint and excellent look with the lights. The paint looks so smooth and consistent, good job. And as said above, the taillights look just like the real car, hope you're enjoying this project as much as we all are

Nice colour! Nice tail lights. Are you going to paint the other parts of the headlights black to make it like the Type R headlights? Or just leave them like that like the SiR-G Integra which has the all chrome housing.

I did them like this because i thought they looked the best.

Fantastic paint and excellent look with the lights. The paint looks so smooth and consistent, good job. And as said above, the taillights look just like the real car, hope you're enjoying this project as much as we all are

Thanks and yes this is a good project to work on. I was getting a bit bored of model making but this one has picked things back up for me.

Awesome work! Can't wait to see it finished

Wow,
Amzing on the lights!
i still need to find someway to finish mines. just need the clear colors >.<

Thanks guys. I thought you would all say i was stupid or something. :)
It's not the most elegant way to lower a car and I'm sure the detail freaks would like to strangle me, but personally i think it is a very effective way of lowering. I'm not sure if it is usable on a car with an engine bay though, but for curbsides it does the job. I would just say that there are other places that you will have to take plastic from and the swing arms i heated and bent upwards to fit right. I also needed to modify the rod that makes sure the wheels face in the same direction.


So far so good tiki. Im also doing this exact model. This will be my first car to lower. Im still debating on whether to use your method of cutting off some chasis and the melting prosses to bend parts, or the cutting of the shocks to make smaller. I was thinking about how i can melt the parts to then bend. Only way i can think of is to place the part i want melted a foot or so over the stove fire and then reshape the part. How did you melt your parts?

Nice honda so far. Head n taillights look amazing so far!! Keep up the great work man!

yea man for sure, ur car is lookin good...u have great taste in cars too ;) lol...awsome colour also