Mitsubishi Lancer WRC '05: Gigi Galli Deutschland Rally

[TvD]

After seeing Loeb05's post for the 2005 Lancer WRC I figured I'd finally get my first WIP on this forum. I started work on this car almost a year ago now, so this will be quite a long first post opcorn:.

As the post-title already suggest this will be the 2005 Deutschland Rallye Mitsubishi Lancer WRC as driven by Gigi Galli to a fine 5th place. Here's a picture of the car as I'm going to build it:



I wanted to not just build the model, but redo the interior to make it more like the real thing. So I've been looking for pictures of the interior as reference for quitea while before starting. (I've put these images on my website as well, see sig for URL). This magazine was a real help as well:


The pictures:

1. Old nose cut off:


2. Dry-fit of the new nose:


3. The new nose in place and the body in primer:


4. First modifications of the bottom: The middle section has been drastically changed as it's completely wrong in shape:

wrong     right
 ____     ____
|    |   /    \
|    |   |    |

5. The center again, but now filled up with putty and sanded down.


6. The rollcage heavily modified. Basically only the 2 sides have been partly kept as well as the top bar aft. Everything else has been scratched with evergreen.


7. dry-fit of the rollcage on the chassis:



8. Dry-fit with some more parts. The fuel-tank has been mostly scratched as well.



9+10+11: modified the front wheel arch so you won't be able to see it peeking out anymore (see 11). Basically cut off the whole front part and replaced it with thin evergreen sheet (bends easily).




12. removed the monitor from the dashboard and scratch-build a new one (made green in photoshop so it stands out)


13. Scratch-build the pedal-box as well.


14. Overview of the chassis with all the scratch-build items in it.
green: pedal-box.
red: this is an original part from the box, but shortened to fit between the front end of the roll-cage and the seat.
dark blue: electronics box.
yellow: another electronis box.
light blue: new covers for the suspension tops. Made from evergreen.
purple: fuel tank.


That's it for now. As I'm not really a fast builder the next update could be a while... perhaps working on 3 models at a time doesn't help either

Next step is to sand everything down nicely and then start thinking about the wiring....

thanks for looking!
Tim

[sjelic]

I love the PS idea of scratch built details, can't wait to see interior painted and detailed.

[Mango_p]

Wow! Another one of these! This is awsome
Nice work so far by the way
I've started on mine too and there is alot more modifications that has to be done than I first thought. Except for the changes you've made so far I'll have to change suspension and brakes and have another set of wheels on mine to make it look like the Swedish Rally version.

I look forward to seeing more progress on this one

// Magnus

[Borjacho]

Dear TIM

I would like thank you this report. Problem with wheel arc you show on picture 11 is exactly where I was blocked , so I will use your experience .

Thank you again, and congratulations for your work up to now. I will be expectant of your progress.

BorJacho

[Loeb 05]

Very good work as well !

I forgot to modify the rollcage but I work to modidy the interior too.

I saw that you had remark that Galli didn't use the same seat as his copilot.

Unconfortable for him maybe ??

Good continuation for your model

[SCORPIONFB]

Very interesting WIP and very smart solution as well. I used the same magazine when I built my Evo,LOL, and you are right....It helps a lot!.

Regards,

[TvD]

After a long time not doing anything on this model I finally took it off the shelf again.

Did some work on the underside, rerouting the last part of the exhaust. This had to be done as I also repositioned the cut-out in the bumper. From the green arrow to the end is now a metal tube. I also added cigarette-foil.



Then I scratchbuild the underside-protection from plastic card. It's probably 100% correct, but I didn't find any clear pictures of this part of the car.



Next I made the brake discs from the transkit. They're basically white metal parts with a PE front. I only need to add the "Brembo"-decals.



I also started on finishing the dashboard. The top side was covered with embossing powder and the front side with CF from SMS. The CF was then sprayed with Tamiya X19 Smoke. I dryfitted it into the rollcage for the picture:



And last, but not least, I detailed some interior parts. The 2 footrests and the base for the shifter were covered with CF from SMS and sprayed with smoke. I then added anti-slip material to parts of the footrests (basically tamiya tape painted flat black and treated them with the weathering set "A".



Comments welcome!

Tim

[flhansen]

Hi

Many good details on this one. Will follow it closely!¨

Flemming

[malscar]

Originally Posted by TvDThen I scratchbuild the underside-protection from plastic card. It's probably 100% correct, but I didn't find any clear pictures of this part of the car.

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Great work Tim.

If you have a copy of Pirelli World Rallying 2005-2006 , page 72 shows the underside. Not sure if the rear of the front guard flares back out. If it does it is a straight line.


The rear has the soft guards on some events covering the suspension arms between the diff and the wheels. In this particular shot they are not there, but other shots do show them drooping down.

[DerXL]

Hi Tim

You show some impressive work on this car. I'll be following your progress closely as I have this kit in my to do pile.

Concerning the underside of this car. I did find one sort-of usable picture. But I wouldn't be surprised if you already have it. And you'll still have to use your imagination (a lot)

It's picture #29 at the following link:
http://www.ewrc.cz/ewrc/fotogalery.p...tograf=2&all=1

I hope that your next update will be a bit sooner...

[billypee]

Looking good. Love the idea of changing the colour of parts in Photoshop... I might ditch painting altogether

[voyageur]

Very promising start. I really like how you photoshop the pictures to explain what is what, brilliant idea that I might use in the future.

May I ask where the new nose is from?

[DerXL]

Hi Sebastian

Studio 27 has made 2 transkits for the Tamiya Evo VII WRC car.

The first transkit (which TvD is using) is for the Monaco 2005 version (Panizzi and Rovanpera) or the Germany 2005 version (Galli).
The other transkit has been released some time later and contains the same parts as the first one, but has different decals (Gigi Galli, Monaco 2006)

Here's a link to the 2006 transkit:
http://www.hiroboy.com/catalog/produ...oducts_id=1203

The first transkit is out of production and very hard to find.
I recently bought one at the Domino webstore (Belgium) :
http://www.modelkits.be/main.php?act...0Cars&pagina=3
They have still stock of both transkits (STU TK2433C and 2434C).

[voyageur]

Thanx for the information, Axel.

[nugundam93]

nice work with the modifications.