WIP: 1/24 Subaru Impreza WRC 2002 Tour de Corse

[davezilla]

I had fun building my Pug so I thought I'll do another rally car, this time, a Subaru. This will be the Tamiya kit of the 2002 Tour de Corse. I will be building Petter Solberg's machine.

I worked on the body first, giving it the standard treatment of sanding, panel lines and primer. Here it is after a few coats of TS-50.









The chassis is also painted the body color, with the "engine" and other parts painted.



That is all for now. Not much progress but good to have another project under way.

[jmwallac]

Great start. That paint looks great; is it already polished?

[davezilla]

Not polished yet. I plan to decal, clear coat and then polish.

[jmwallac]

Originally Posted by davezilla

Not polished yet. I plan to decal, clear coat and then polish.

That's a helluva paintjob! Airbrushed?

[potsie]

Excellent. If this turns out anywhere near as good as your 206, I'll still be mightily impressed. Good luck - not that you need it!

[MidMazar]

Sweetnesss

[specialstages]

Great start! I built this kit as Solberg's car as well. Straight forward build with one note : There is a mold seam at the top the clear windscreen that needs to be sanded out. I missed it, and laid the decal down on top . It's not a disaster but it's there. Keep up the good work!

[davezilla]

Originally Posted by jmwallac

That's a helluva paintjob! Airbrushed?

No, I don't have an AB yet. I wish I can take the credit for the nice paint but I didn't really do anything different that what I usually do. Good paint and a little bit of luck I guess.

Thanks for the kind words everyone. I have some progress, but no pictures until maybe tomorrow. I laid down most of the big yellow decals. They went on without a problem. Also chopped up and made the front dampers and painted the brakes.

btw, specialstages, thanks for that tip. I will watch out for that.

[davezilla]

I haven't really had time to work on this for the past few days, but I'll show a few pictures of what I had done until then.

here are the brakes and dampers, with scratched coils and the discs black washed


here is the body with some of the big yellow decals on. Went on superbly, wish every Tamiya kit came with Cartograf decals. Panel lines are inked and the window frames painted.

[DerXL]

Looking very promising already. And so clean.
Great job on the decals by the way.

Definately going to watch this one.

[stevenoble]

Stunning paint job and very nice decal work!!

[nugundam93]

great paint job! and i really can't believe it wasn't polished yet.

[davezilla]

Interior is almost done except for the dash. There is a few things that is left to do on the body but that's it.

Anyway, some progress pictures. Painted some of the bits for the interior. The co-driver's "foot well" is CFed with SMS carbon, and I used thin pieces of BMF for the silver ties of the fire extinguisher and oxygen tank(?). Petter's helmet is made, the decals are a bit small but it looks okay. I screwed up on Phil's helmet because for some reason I painted it TS-50 when it's supposed to be half white and half green. So now it's sitting in an alcohol bath.


I used Scale Race Car's nice seatbelt hardware and Studio 27 seatbelt material. The pattern on the material is a bit out of scale, but it is much easier to work with than the ribbons I used for the Pug.


Bits of the rollcage painted and ready for assembly.


Here is a pic of the completed under body without the sump guards


And a mockup of the dash-less interior.


That is all for now. I expect that the next update will be the last.

[Crazy Driver]

very nice
body looks sick

[davezilla]

The Subaru is done!

These pictures were taken before it was finished. I'll take some nice pics of the completed car tomorrow without flash.

Anyway, more boring progress pics.



I covered the doors with CF decals from F1 Specialties. Then clear coated with Gunze semi-gloss top coat.


sump guards


Dashboard w/ SMS carbon fiber


A crappy pic of the interior

Some pictures of the completed body, minus some antennaes bits. Headlights, mirrors and the air duct are covered in CF.






I will report back with some better pictures of the finished car tomorrow. Thanks for following along with my build.