Today, besides all the mishaps. I took the otherwise ridiculously bright chrome rims and painted them with steel metallic paint. The final look is very nice and closely resembles gun-metal.
I don't know whether or not I'll be doing the Lancer next or if I do whether or not it will be the rally version. The trouble is that the kit and decals are matched to Gunze Sangyo paints. They don't make these in spray cans, so I have to match with Tamiya spray paints. So far the match with the decals and the Tamiya paint hasn't looked so good.
The other bad part is that while the Integra comes with 4 sets of rims, they're on a 1/25 scale and the Lancer is 1/24 so I can't replace the gawdy stock wheels. Oh well, I'm thinking about ordering 4 or 5 choro-q's from Hobby Link Japan (darn you, Jay! *shakes fist in air*) so I could throw in an order for so Aioshima (sp?) rims, too!