Mitsubishi late-90's evolutions

My projects this year will still be Mitsubishis. Since most of them will start from the same Tamiya evo6, I will build/post them at the same thread. The cars getting built are the evolutions from the later part of the 90's, namely 4, 5, 6, and a 6 TME.

The 4 is a Hasegawa kit. Modifications will be done in hopes to improve some details.
The 5 will be a tamiya WRC kit with 6 interior and original OZ wheels from fujimi.
The 6 will be pretty much box stock.
Since I have no access to any TME transkits, I will have a hard time building an exact replica of the TME. Seats will have to be left decalless. Wheels won't be original.

I have about a month left to build all four of them so I will need some prayers to finish them before school starts.

Started with Evo 4 body mods. Old tamiya evo 6 parts modified to fit. Headlight lenses shaped from fujimi pieces. Styrene card door handles. I tried to lower the headlights a little bit and expand the holes since the original looked a bit too small. Major surgeries done just to make the tamiya interior fit. I can't believe hasegawa used a evo1-3 chassis for all their evolutions!

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It's not exactly finished, but most left will be internal mods ie. mounting the light pods.

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Started Evo TME after finished the 4 body. Bumper made using an evo 6 one. It was butchered pretty bad since I was trying to use that bumper to make a non-evo years ago. The grill surrounds took the most time since that part was pretty weak and has to fit the lights well. At least I got the skeleton finished and all that's left is putty work.

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Very nice.
If only I had that sort of commitment to model building.

Looks like a very ambitious project. Good luck! :)

Nice job with the door handles and the front bumper on the TME. I'm kind of surprised you cut off the top section of the bumper though, I thought there wasn't any noticable change to that part of the bumper.

BTW have you tried contacting scale auto style to see if he had any spares of the TME transkit? No wheels, but hopefully he has some decals for you.

Quite the project you have here. Great work so far, especially on the door handles.

Nice! These should turn out great like your other mitsus. I gotta say the evo 4 is my favorite (big foglights draw me in). Keep us posted, and good luck.

Is this what your replicating? If so i know scale auto style i think made a t-kit. If you want i can cast the lip for you.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y49/midmazar/2517351528_c133b6dd69.jpg

Thanks everyone for the kind words! I have always wanted to come up with a collection of the evo family, since I knew the sas t-kit was long out of production I have thoughts on and off about how to build that bumper. However, it was very unexpected to hear that sas is reopening a few days after i started on the bumper. =)

jla: The top section of the bumper was cut off because this bumper was originally a donor piece for my previous project, and I decided not to use it after cutting the top section off. I am now using this bumper as a starting point just to minimize my old project wastes. Actually, I don't know if the tamiya 6 kit was inaccurate, but I do notice on the real TME's the horizontal piece there is actually slightly depressed inward, instead of flush with the vertical sides.

midmazar: Thanks for the offer for the front bumper. I don't think I will need it for now since the one I am making is also very close to finishing. Give it another few days or so for putty/primer work and it should be ready for paint. Since I am planning to paint it white with no stripes, the three special decals on TME's would be a great help though.

Update finally!!

The TME bumper sure took a long time! Hard part was making the lowest layer (where the lower intake holes are with) a level surface. I destroyed an entire sanding stick making it.

I forgot exactly the sequence of my progress, but it involved about 4 primer sessions.

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and the front bumper completed.

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complete bumper with shaped up lower lip.

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Man that bumper looks sweet! That honestly looks better than the transkit from Renaissance (they left off the little edge around the vent on the left side of the bumper)!

Kaho, Im impressed on how the front bar turned out, fantastic putty work very neat! I’ve always had a soft spot for the EVO’s especially the 3 :) someday I’ll build the whole family of them, keep up the good work!

Evo 4 seat creation. The seat came from fujimi DC2 kit. Back filled, holes filled and improved detail. I might use this seat a few times later so I am casting this piece for sure.

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fantastic work on the seat.
The front bumper looks incredible as well.
Great skills, a pleasure to watch this unfold. :iceslolan

AWESOME! I've always liked evo's....And you sure are making a perfect job! Keep it up!

woooh..evolution 6's bumper was sick.. im also starting to transform my tamiya evo 6 wrc to street car.

Seat is being taken for making a silicone mold. Looks like I will be in trouble though since I was too carried away on trying to use up my old silicone materials:banghead::banghead:. One year old RTV + catalyst + 15 minutes of mixing = RTV curing 2 hours after mix and pour. At least I know the RTV will cure, worst I could imagine is the seat back half-mold leaving bubbles due to the mold curing quicker than it conforms to the seat details.

pics of the silicone that won't even flow, you can see clumps of dried bits. =(
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Hopefully the silicone still conforms down the bottom at the seat so I don't waste a day of clay/mold box building.:disappoin

wow that TME bumper looks really nice. maybe you can reproduce or cast on that, i'll bought one :biggrin: good luck on your build mate.:biggrin:

Bumper casting prepared!
It is a huge mold, I used three quarters of my 1 lb silicone kit! From the color it looks like I put too much catalyst =( however I can't really tell until it fully cures. The seat is getting the second half of the mold done while the bumper's mold only has the top half as of now.

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Since I had about 30cc of leftovers after making the seat and bumper mold halves, I used the remaining silicone for smaller parts. The round one is a mold for fujimi brembos, and the cube box holds a traffic cone.
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that bumper came out really good man, i cant wait to see the finished model

Looking good, what is the blue stuff you use? Blu-tac? or is it the clay stuff in the kit?

Midmazar: the blue stuff was precisely called "alumilite synthetic modelling clay".(Don't know if they are any different than regular modelling clay) Got it from my LHS along with my first RTV mold kit I bought 5 years ago. They last forever as long as you keep them free from dust.

You planning on selling the seats and the front bumper? I'd like a set if you are.

A few copies have been made.

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Currently the best results I got:
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This lip needs a bit of work.
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The seats are more of a headache...the silicone kept breaking at the seat belt holes, some work will be needed to open them back up but with the details intact it should be pretty easy. The bubbles should be an easy fix with a little bit of epoxy putty.
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What type of silicone do you use? Is it aluminite?

Yes the silicone is by alumilite.

Sorry for the long emptiness and now the oversimplified progresses, I had lots of school work for the past 2 months and only during my "reading" days I could catch up a little bit here. So while some of my classmates might have been out of the country these few days I got to sit in my cold basement and snapped these photos.

4:

Two resin seats with work done on them, ready to paint. Those tape cutouts are for the interior carpets for all 4 cars.
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The suspension parts from the hasegawa kit was straight out of a EVO1, and I can't install any wider wheels with them, so I took out parts from a tamiya EVO5 rally car and modified them to fit. Bad news is that after I did all those mods now my wider wheels have broken off at the rod, and I can only put the stock rims back on. With the suspension reworked, the original exhaust didn't fit neither, so I made a new one with a rally car part and aluminum tubes.
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With the body polished:
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Headlights came from an old evo6 kit I built many years ago. I had put BMF/chrome stickers in side the pods to simulate reflectors, after I took these pictures.
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6.5:

Printed my custom stickers using corel photopaint.
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Since I used the EVO5 rally car suspension parts on the 4, and I still want the lowered rally car look on the 6.5, I now need to remake everything I used on the 4. These took a couple hours of work to make them fit just like a stock tamiya part.
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Body polished, exhaust were mostly stock except for the tip, which I only replaced the original plastic with aluminum tubes.
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Mock up photos...
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Nov 15, 2009, EVO 6.5 Tommi Makinen Edition completed. I will post outdoor pics later in the future, definitely when all 4 are complete. Excuse the wheels, they are Fujimi Weds Sport rims (forgot what model), 8 spokes and are 4 bolt. The real TME ones are made by Ralliart, 10 spokes, 5 bolt, and are 17". I thought of using the impreza prodrive rims that came in the rally cars but those look way too big. I can't think of any other wheels available in the modelling world that would resemble the Ralliart rims more closely than this. These rims have been modified into the tamiya type installation.
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Hi Kaho,

Based on the color of your silicone mold, I'm guessing that you are using Alumilite Quickset or 3110 silicone rubber. You should try High strength 3 silicone rubber. It is just a little thicker than Quickset and takes a little longer to solidify but the rubber is way more flexible and tougher.

And it is pink :iceslolan

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I love this pic. Both came out sweet, super clean. Also the seats look cool with those decals. Are the decals printed on a laser printer?

Both cars look great. Amazing how you replicated the suspension parts. Also replacing the headlights on the EVO 4 is an easy but effective way to add detail to the car. I will definately do the same when i'm biulding my EVO4.

I'm also a big mitsu fan. I've built the 3rd generation EVO's so far.

Excuse the wheels, they are Fujimi Weds Sport rims (forgot what model), 8 spokes and are 4 bolt. The real TME ones are made by Ralliart, 10 spokes, 5 bolt, and are 17". I thought of using the impreza prodrive rims that came in the rally cars but those look way too big. I can't think of any other wheels available in the modelling world that would resemble the Ralliart rims more closely than this. These rims have been modified into the tamiya type installation.


There are actually wheels which look similar. The Revell Eclipse tuner kit has 10 spoke, 5 bolt wheels. They measure about 17.4 inch in 1/24 scale. With some modification and proper rubbers they will look fine.

There are also similar stock looking wheels for the EVO4 out there. I have the Fujimi EVO3 and 5 Kits. They both come with the same wheels. They suppose to be 17 inch, but they meassure 16 in scale.

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m289/MrSmorf/DSC00779.jpg
Top: Fujimi EVO3/5 wheels; Right: Hasegawa EVO4 wheels; Bottom: Revell Eclipse wheels

If you like them, just send me a pm.

helico, yes for the seat, actually I used the leftovers of my HS2 silicone for a half mold and quick set for the other half. However the HS2 has been more than a year old and surprisingly it still flowed though thickened. Some bubbles didn't make it to the surface before that old silicone-hardener mixture cured 4 hours after mixing. Luckily only the bottom of the seats will be affected.

Midmazar: Only the "VI TOMMI MAKINEN" decal was printed using an ink jet printer, the seat decals are off 2 EVO5 rally kits. The real deal, instead of the Ralliart logo underneath T.MAKINEN, has the word "EDITION" inside a white box. Since my printers can't print white there is no way I can make those decals and having a similar sized box of graphics looked good enough to me.

mrsmorf: Thanks for the offer! I have all those rims you mentioned though. I actually built a IV using the evo5 rims but since the centers sink inward (more offset) it just didn't look right to me. The eclipse rims, I haven't measured it to scale inches, but by comparing it to other rims it turned out a lot bigger than the tamiya evo6 rims, and close to the impreza rally rims, which also felt too big. I had spent a few days going through my unopened kits, spare parts, and the internet for others that may look similar but no luck, and then I settled with what I used, which is about half a mm smaller than evo6 ones and with the thicker fujimi tires it ended up pretty close.

kaho, if you want to sell the TME bumper, do tell me...
thanks in advance

The other evos are also getting close to completion.
All factory mitsu colors, phoenix red and reims blue.
Missing headlights, taillights, side markets, rear wing assembly, washer nozzles on evo 4, 5, 6. Seems like not so much left but building 3 cars at once in the same pace is no piece of cake.
The bumpers gave me some headache as well since the epoxy glue didnt hold up well on 2k clear, and the chassis kept knocking the bumpers off while I try to clip them together.

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wow what a nice build of those cars..

Exceptionally clean builds.

PS, I see we live close together. :D

Exceptionally clean builds.

PS, I see we live close together. :D


Thanks guys!

Yes indeed, I live in the NE side of the city....or to be more accurate in 1/24 scale, it would be in the city of coventry hills in the province of calgary. :lol2:

They look sexy! Maybe try scraping the paint off until you see plastic on the attachment points. Plastic to plastic is always stronger.

Awesome line up, I can't wait to see them all together. Hey have you considered these wheels (http://www.hlj.com/product/FUJ19330) for the tme?

btw if anyone else is considering getting seats or the front bumper from kaho, i got my seat really quickly after i ordered it from him. the bumper, imo looks way better than the Renaissance version. Thanks again!

Getting pretty close to finishing up now, just the license plates, some paint touchup, and the panel lines. Should be done within one more day. I have made some 16~17 inch wedsports for the evo 4 but the rods broke off while trying to install them, so the original rims will stay on until I find a way to secure the rods on the new wheels again.

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Thanks jla for the compliments on the bumpers and seats! Glad to know that you liked them.

Great evo collection :D