In progress : Toyota Celica GT4 - 24 uur Ypres 1996 - Loix - Tamiya 1/24

[mic329]

Great job and stunning project

Mikusen

[glacier985]

Originally Posted by Sennake

Nono, you are absolutely right. I already switched them

Thanks for the tip

Your welcome, just trying to help out a fellow modeler who is working on a great looking model.

[Sennake]

In the meantime I switched back to the body-work.

After the 2 clear coats have dried I painted the window frames and the radiator grills.

The mirrors got a CF-treatment and 2 coats of clear coat. Last but not least I put a coat of smoke on to make them a bit darker.

The headlight-mirrors have been painted silver color and the gastank-cover has been glued in.

Here are a few pictures :

[GvEman]

Nice jobb dude!

[Spitfire7]

Excellent stuff, can't wait to see it finished.

[Sennake]

Allright, for the last time I switch to the interior. I just got to finish it today. The seats have been treated with CF-decals and a gloss coat (at the back) and with matt black, Recaro-decals and drybrushing (to the front).



The fire extinguishers have been sprayed in semi gloss black and I made some supports out of photo-etch leftovers.



The roll cage was built into the interior with a lot of effort. The parts being made of white metal, didn't help things. They are very soft and the form was already wrong when I bought the transkit. So I had to guess and try how the real roll cage had to look, and it cost me a lot of try-and-error before I got it right. But now I think it looks pretty ok, so it was worth it. The interior with the built-in roll cage looks like this :



Now I'm ready to do the finishing touch

So this is what it looks like. Everything is built-in, and the seat belts are added. I think it finally finished, so the "wedding" with the body is about to take part

[IZsd]

Looks great!!

[OrangeR]

Very interesting this one!

Just had time to reply but I've following this thread since it's start.

One question: Do you have any inside shots of the real car that shows CF on the transmission tunel? <---Is that its name?

The reason I ask is because when I made my Celica ST185 I had no pics of this part and applied CF to it as a wild guess, I'm thinking that if it appears on the Celica ST205 it could been truth on the ST185. Thanks! I hope I made myself clear.

[Hiroboy]

Awesome build Guy

[Technoman]

That looks superb.

[Spitfire7]

Interior looks excellent.

[Trial_Style]

Ur weathering technique is incredible

[Sennake]

Here comes the bride... It finally happened, body and chassis have been joined together. I also painted the panel lines of the doors, hatch and rear bumper; unlike the front bumper and the hood which are separate parts. I mounted the top air box and the rear spoiler, and I built in the headlights which were painted with a small black edge. I mounted the mesh in the front bumper and I painted the blinkers (bare metal foil + X-26 clear orange). This is how the "marriage" looks like with all parts (some of which still dry fitted) mounted :





And here we perform a "Celica-striptease"







And once again from another angle :

[RallyRaider]

Lookin' good, love the striptease!

[godfather23]

Great work, stunning Lady "Celica". Actually, one of the cars which are female in german, grammatically!