Tamiya Subaru Impreza WRC 2005 Monte Carlo

[SeanyG]

beautiful finish Steve, decals look great on it! Cant see any ripples anywhere either!

[Viccario]

Looks fantastic to me, can't see any problems at all! It's very easy to notice minor flaws yourself that nobody else would notice unless you point them out from my experience! At least the clear coat didn't affect the decals which is a problem I have had recently.

[stevenoble]

Well after quite a long period of inactivity I am finally back working on the Subaru again, hopefully with a view to getting it finished quite soon.The reason I've been off it for a while is purely down to a lack of motivation on my part.Lots of little things have gone wrong with this one and although a simple enough build I've had my share of problems with it, all small but annoying just the same.So I took a small break from building and it seems to have worked.
Anyway I've got the chassis and interior mostly finished, the body is painted, decals are on, cleared and polished.I'm now finishing all the small parts that seem to take forever to do.Here's a few photo's of the chassis and interior.The more observant of you will notice that the seat belts are not the same.One of the little 'problems' I described earlier and all my own doing.After destroying one of them with Mr Mark Softer I had to pinch one from my Rally of Japan Subaru kit and they are different, unfortunately.The wheels came out quite nicely though.Originally they were a little rough, so I stripped the pre painted Tamiya gold off and re-painted with Alclad pale gold instead over a black basecoat.







and if you forgot, this was the way the body was looking at the last update







More to come soon, any comments etc most welcome

[rallymaster]

Hi Steve,

I completely understand what you mean when talking of fall down of motivation when accumulating problems...
I lived that with my Sub Gr. A tribute to McRae...
But I gave up when I finally completely messed the body wanting to improve details.

Your Sub is very nice, and even if I'm not very friend with clear coating over decal your body is really impressive as much it's clean !

If that can help you, I can send you seat belts decals as I won't use them in my model (intend to use paper and PE to make the belts).
feel free to ask.

all the best for the finish of this Sub !

[stevenoble]

Model is now finished.

http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbul...d.php?t=930044

[Shunter]

Looks great Steve, i shall now go check it out in the finished section.