Skoda Fabia WRC Redbull

[Loeb 05]

Hello everybody

I start to post my first project with this Fabia WRC from Reji. I love this WRC car but this kit isn't very good and there are some mistakes.

So, first step :



The rollcage isn't complete so i put some other bars




Then i work on the dashboard wich is wrong because in the kit a lot of piece are for the 2004 version and this Fabia i a 2005 version:



I work too on the central consol where there is the onboard computer (the same as the focus wrc '05)



The camera :






And a view to show the Hans system

[Loeb 05]

To continu, some pictures of the model :











To finish, i show you the dio wich soon complete. The snow is make with coton















This WIP is very quick because i finish this car since 2 months. I hope that you like it and if you have some questions, i will do a pleasure to answer you

Regards

[Mango_p]

Wow! That is so nice Do you have more pictures from the work in progress?

I would love to build this one myself and hope I will be able to sometime in the future.

How was the kit? I've read several times that it is a bad kit but what is the biggest problems with it?

Once again, you have done a great job on that Skoda

// Magnus

[rallymaster]

Hello,

sorry a little french words !

Bonjour Gap et bienvenue ici ! c'est bien de voir des Français amateurs de maquettes venir partager ici.
Superbe boulot sur la Fabia.
est-ce que tu as plus de détails de l'intérieur ?
j'aimerais bien voir le HANS seul, as-tu une photo ?

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Philippe

Very nice build, the color is nice and the diorama looks very fine !
I also would like to see more pics of the WIP, especially some of the HANS system.
would you give us more explanations about the difficulties you encontered with this kit ?
the work done to modify or improve the kit ?

thanks for sharing that build here with us.

Phil

[Marco_Wrc]

Lovely, nice to see someone building a Skoda. I really like it.

How's the quality of this kit? (and how good are the decals?)

[Loeb 05]

Thank you very much for yours commentary and well done for your French level rallymaster !! My english isn't good as you !

- Firstly I bought this kit because the Fabia WRC is one fo my favourite WRC cars. So i have to buy a Reji kit (not very simple for my first resin !)
There were some problems with resin parts: some bubbles, broken parts.
Moreover, for this version the kit was quite wrong (dashboard, rollcage, central consol, gearbox,...) so i made this modifications for my pleasure and to look like very truth.
The big problem for me are the decals : they were very brittle and it's very hard to work with it. The redbull logo and the trand redbull on the bottom are broken. But I saw in czech website, models wich were very beautiful within default. So it's possible to have a good result with experience.

- Sorry but i don't have for the moment precise pictures of Hans system. I make it with plastic card simply.

- What kind of work pictures you would have because i don't have them a lot

Thank you very much for you com's again and I will present my Mitsu WRC '05 soon because you like my model !

[rallymaster]

Originally Posted by Loeb 05

Thank you very much for yours commentary and well done for your French level rallymaster !! My english isn't good as you !

Merci, mais... c'est plutot normal... pour un Français !!
éh oui je suis aussi Français d'où mon petit apparté en Français pour te souhaiter la bienvenue et te féliciter pour ce modèle.


But let's come back with English !

Well, first resin and you already dare so much modifications, congratulations !

Pics of the WIP that would please me are for example some close up of the modifications you've made...

I've started the 2003 version which I wanted to detail as much as possible but I still haven't finished it... So it would please me to see how you did yours.

But if you don't have more pics no matters.

Let's come to the Lancer 05 !!

Phil

[NissanSkylineGTR98]

Excellent work, looks awesome.

[SteveK2003]

That looks fantastic! I have the same kit, still waiting to work on it in earnest. I am also planning to do a diorama, perhaps a starting-line scenario. I'm also fiddling with putting the Fabia body and roll cage on a Tamiya or Hasegawa chassis, for a little more detail. True, the chassis and suspension won't be 100% accurate, but they would be more accurate than whatever is under there now, and besides, I don't know what the underside of the Fabia really looks like anyway

If any of you guys have some reference photos, I would love to see them, especially the interior and roll cage.

Hans device pics:
http://www.f1technical.net/articles/3994

[Mango_p]

Originally Posted by Loeb 05

Thank you very much for you com's again and I will present my Mitsu WRC '05 soon because you like my model !

I can't wait to see that one because I'm about to build that one too soon It'll be my first atempt ever on that kind of modification.

Like Phil I would like to see some pictures of your modifications, if you got any pictures that is

// Magnus

[exhaust smoke]

Excellent work, I like the cotton wool snow effect. A tiny comment is that the crew's uniform looks a little shiny. Would have been better if it were a matt finish. But hey they are inside the car and at the end of the day, it's your model.

Well done all in all.

[Loeb 05]

Originally Posted by rallymaster

Merci, mais... c'est plutot normal... pour un Français !!
éh oui je suis aussi Français d'où mon petit apparté en Français pour te souhaiter la bienvenue et te féliciter pour ce modèle.

Désolé Philippe c'est effectivemment normal que tu parles si bien français !! Merci pour ton message de bienvenue c'est trés sympa !

I continue in english now

- For the pilot i made a mistake because i use a shiny color while i want to use a matt color. I not like very much but i didn't want to make the pilots once again.

- For the modifications i don't have more picture but if you want precise detail i will be able to make some photograph when i come to my home.

But i can show to you the central consol in a 2005 version :



I make in scrath the black computer, the handbrake, i cut the gearshift for it would be more small.
I cut the bottom part of the dashboard to make that :



Then others modifications are on the rollcage, pilots.

I really want to do this Fabia WRC version :



I like the pilot and the fabia wrc version of course !! It's a 2006 version with some modifications on the body and this time Reji not make the same mistakes as my fabia version. We will see if I buy it or not....

[deedlit]

Very nice

Et un autre francophone...

[DerXL]

Great looking model.
And I really like the dio with the snow. Very simple, but also very convincing.
And I also must commend you on the subtle weathering of the car. Looks great without being overdone.

Overall a very nice build. Congratulations !

I too have a Fabia waiting to be build. And I will certainly take a closer look at the adaptations you made to the roll-cage.
I am going to build the 2005 Rally de Monaco version. Don't know which driver yet. But as it is the early 2005 version, I'm hoping that I won't have to adapt the dashboard.

Regards,

[drawzer]

Absolutely incredible model! Superb!