Richard Burns Subaru Legacy Tribute Build

[stevenoble]

This is my contribution to the 'Tribute Build' the 1993 Subaru Legacy as driven by Richard Burns and Robert Reid featuring the Elonex sponsorship colours.
The kit is the Hasegawa 1/24th 1991 Rac version but will feature home made decals for the conversion to the Elonex colours featured on Richard's car.

The decals were printed on a colour laser printer and they came out really nicely.They aren't as good as aftermarket decals obviously,but they are perfectly usable and the print quality is more than acceptable.The 'cut out' one is the Prodrive fitted to the rear of the tub.



The chassis is mostly complete.Not a lot to see really and pretty straightforward to paint.Mostly black,white and a few metallic shades thrown in for good measure.



The only change I made to the cockpit module was to replace the seatbelts with etched items from Eduard as I really don't like threading all those Hasegawa ones together and I never get them to look anything like decent.



Last off a few pictures of the chassis and tub fitted together





I am working the day shift all next week so that should leave my afternoons free to work on the body shell.So keep an eye out for the next update.Thanks for looking,comments welcome.

[Lathafummi]

Looking good. I have a leagcy to build and was looking for "Rallying" McRae decal

[SeanyG]

Steve,

great start and welcome to the party! I'll get the WIP thread added to the list. Love your decals too!

[SeanRally]

car looking good Steve, did you get the email for my surname

regards Sean

[stevenoble]

Originally Posted by SeanRally

car looking good Steve, did you get the email for my surname

regards Sean

Sure did.I posted off the scans on Friday,should be with you shortly as long as the posties don't go on strike again next week!!!

[SeanRally]

Ok Steve, thanks for letting me know, and yes hopefully no more postal strikes.

[hrmodeler]

Looking forward to see it, very nice so far!

[SeanRally]

Hi Steve, just to let you know i had recieved the instructions today, thank you very much for sending them to me, really appreciate it.

[stevenoble]

Originally Posted by SeanRally

Hi Steve, just to let you know i had recieved the instructions today, thank you very much for sending them to me, really appreciate it.

No problem,glad I could help.

[Jamme]

Nice work steve (as always, should I say....!)

Greetings,

Jamme

[davesans]

Nice start Steve good job on the decals and the chassis looks real good very clean as always.

[stevenoble]

A very quick update with 1 picture.The body is painted (Zero Pure White) and cleared with Zero 2K stuff.I've now started the decals and they are going on quite well.After the decals are complete and dry I will clear the whole thing again then mask out and spray the black trim.



Those red squares are a real pain and are taking the longest to apply they're driving me nuts

Enough for tonight,more tomorrow

[SeanRally]

bloody hell, you have done a great job with those decals Steve, they look as good as aftermarket decals, should look very nice when finished.

[stevenoble]

Another small update.Most of the decals are now finished.I had fitted the door number boards in my last post but they didn't look right,something was bugging me about them.Anyway when I compared them to the real car on video I saw what it was immediately.They were a little small on the top where it says 'Vauxhall' A quick re-scale took care of them and I have now printed 2 new ones ready for fitting.
Once the decals have had a good dry I am going to lightly clear over them and then mask and apply the black trim around the windows and body.I did my best with the many red squares and hope the positioning is reasonably accurate using the very few references I had.However they seemed to change from rally to rally so it's not such a problem.











Enjoy the pictures,comments welcome.Thanks for looking.

[SeanyG]

Steve, great job. Love the colour scheme - it's so refreshing to see a Scooby in another scheme apart from the Blue and Yellow!

Out of interest, what decal paper do you use?