Another (image intensive) Peugeot 206 WRC progress thread

[RallyRaider]

G'day Everybody

As a newbie here I figured it would be a good idea to post some progress pictures of my latest project. Besides my ill one-year-old son is sleeping so if I head out to the garage and arc up the noisy old compressor to do some painting the wife will kill me.

This is my third Tamiya Peugeot 206 - I have a fetish for them it seems, already finished 1999 and 2001 versions. Will have to follow it with Tamiya’s new 2002 Evo2 kit. Not to mention, just around the corner the new Marlboro livery for 2003 will be unveiled! That will have to added to the list too - busy, busy, busy!

Building this one as Marcus Gronholm and Timo Rautianien's 2000 Rally New Zealand winner.

Anyway here are a few progress pictures, not too different from what I’ve already done on the previous builds. Details of the 2001 Swedish car can be seen in the build diary section of my website at http://rallycars.topcities.com.

First picture shows the primed bodyshell, followed by a close up of the reinforced areas between the doors and rear wheel arches. The front bumper light covers don’t need to be changed since both shapes were used in NZ 2000. I think since New Zealand is an “away” event Peugeot shipped out a lot of earlier revision spares.





Next image is of the modified rollcage side members. The carbon fibre panelling has been removed since it wasn’t used on 206’s much past early 2000.



Instrument panel. The switches have been sanded off to be replaced with wire or stretched sprue at a later date.



15” gravel wheel modified to the Peugeot’s 5-stud pattern



Since the NZ rally is a smooth gravel event the suspension needs to be raised from the Tamiya kit’s Tarmac height. The springs have been extended by one coil each and the bottom part of the upright trimmed down with the locating lug replaced by some plastic rod. Should raise the ride height by about 2mm.



A lot of bits prepared and in various stages of painting (hopefully continue soon - when my son gets better)

[maxhogblom]

Nice!!

The peugots are real nice IMO, good choice of kit:alien2: :smoker2:

[Guido]

WOW!! Very nice already.

I'm especially interested in finding out how the interior and dash are going to be once finished. Thanks also for the suspension pics! It gave me kind of new ideas

Hopes the son gets better soon, for his own sake and your modeling of course.

Guido

[_835_]

Hi phil,

as always, a very nice starting project !!!
i knew that you will start another pug before achieving your lancer or your cordoba ;-)

Bye

[freakray]

Phil,
Car looks good, I hope your son gets better soon and look forward to seeing more of the car.
How did you modify the rim's bolt pattern? I was thinking of doing something similar for another project and you now have me thinking about it more.

Ray

[hrmodeler]

Phil's pages and his Pug helped a lot to me and Seb in building our Pugs.

[ales]

Looks promising!

A couple of questions, if I may:

Where did you get the wheels?

And how are you planning on painting it (I see you used grey primer, so are you planning on using white primer now on top of the grey one or are you going to use black undercoat for the silver paint? Or neither? )

[RallyRaider]

Originally posted by maxhogblom
Nice!!

The peugots are real nice IMO, good choice of kit:alien2: :smoker2:

Thanks Max, yes the 206 is a fun kit to make. Tamiya just keep getting better, the new Evo VII for instance looks like a magic kit. Then there is their new Enzo Ferrari kit, looks like the ultimate 1/24th kit ever. I'm not a Ferrari fan but will definitely have to get one of them - maybe paint it up in a "West" scheme

Phil

[RallyRaider]

Originally posted by huudo

I'm especially interested in finding out how the interior and dash are going to be once finished. Thanks also for the suspension pics! It gave me kind of new ideas

Thanks Huudo,

The interior will be much like my previous Pugs. You can see some of how the 2001 car worked out on this link:

http://rallycars.topcities.com/build...anpera-03.html

Phil

[RallyRaider]

Originally posted by _835_

i knew that you will start another pug before achieving your lancer or your cordoba ;-)

Yeah Seb, I’m just a fool for Pugs!

[RallyRaider]

Originally posted by freakray

How did you modify the rim's bolt pattern? I was thinking of doing something similar for another project and you now have me thinking about it more.
Ray

Thanks Ray,

The wheels were pieced together by cutting the centres out of the 206’s 5-spoke rims and grafting them into the middle of some gravel wheels out of a Tamiya Celica ST185 kit. A bit tricky to make sure the new assembly is properly centred but not too difficult. Needs lots of superglue to make a strong join.

Phil

[RallyRaider]

Originally posted by ales

And how are you planning on painting it (I see you used grey primer, so are you planning on using white primer now on top of the grey one or are you going to use black undercoat for the silver paint? Or neither? )

Hi Alex

Not quite sure how I’m going to paint the body shell yet. In the past I’ve used Tamiya TS-17 Gloss Aluminium straight over the grey primer, worked well, but I don’t think I have enough left to paint the whole car. The other option is to use Alcalad, never tried this on something as big as a full body. That will be to be painted Gloss Black first of course.

Think I’ll take a chance on the TS-17, over grey.

Phil

[RallyRaider]

Originally posted by hrmodeler
Phil's pages and his Pug helped a lot to me and Seb in building our Pugs.

Pleased to be of assistance Zeljko!

Now it is your turn to blaze the trail on building a killer Audi Quattro :sun:

[potsie]

Can't seem to get the link to your website to work - any ideas?

[Jay!]

Originally posted by potsie
Can't seem to get the link to your website to work - any ideas?

AF's a busy place, and when any URL gets posted here, it gets clicked - a lot! Enough to use up many free sites bandwidth limits... :o