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Old 03-25-2006, 11:02 PM
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Reji Model Skoda Fabia WRC - Swedish Rally 2005 Red Bull

As mentioned in my thread about the Profil-24, these finally came this past week (Had them on-order from http://www.sirio.com/icaro/ since about December I think: Roberto is a good guy to deal with, good prices too).

Here is the Skoda:

























The quality of the parts is actually quite good, especially given what I have read here about the earlier Skoda releases (Especially the rear windows, which are perfect on mine). Besides some texture, and a lot of flash in the windows which I cleaned up before those pictures, the body is good. The decals are excellent, as is the PE set by Eduard.

The chassis is plain, as you expect with a resin kit, but as long as I do everything Sasa Zjelic did with his awesome build (On here in various parts), it should look great. The three biggest short-comings are the center console on the dash, the rollcage (Which, based on what Sasa had to do to get his to look right, I might just scrap that and make my own), and one of the wheels is missing a spoke, so that will be the spare, sitting face-down.

Unlike the Metro, I think I would be able to build this kit now (Well, 'now' for me meaning I would work on it every night for a week, then not touch it for 3 months). I think I will make it a diorama, with the car at the start line of a stage.
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