Subaru Impreza WRX STi S204 edition

[modelaholics]

Not sure if it's HD, but it's Studio27 Carbon Decal-C

[modelaholics]

Hope this is the final episode of this built.

To fix the exhaust to the chassis, I took 2 brass rods, make holes on the exhaust pipe and the rear diffuser. The key point is putting those rods in the exhaust with a large glob of CA glue, which after painting, became the welding point of the support upon installation.







One of the techniques that I learnt in the past is: The most reaslistic part of the glass covering the head lights is the rubber rim for waterproof, some of the modelers would put directly the bare transparent part on the "eye socket", which turns out to be very plastic and toy. Here's what I did to the tail light cover:



I used a thick Gundam marker to run around the cover (evenly!) and it's done.

Another technique that handling of head lights is make sure the under side of the cover and the socket are cleaned. It would be fuxked when you found dust INSIDE the head light after you glue it to the socket...







Windows are also prepared and painted flat back at the inside



When the interior was nearly finished, put on the rest of PE i.e. the speaker and final touch op the wheel and shift knob. Notice that to try to mimic the real S204, the tried to highlight the steering wheel by drybrushing bright red to make it look like the S204 signature red stitches. If the seat were not replaced, the lining of the stitches should also have to be in red.



The reference of the S204 aftermarket wing should have the brake light, Scratch built it by using the transparent left over materials, cut, filed, sanded, painted and glued to the back of the wing.



When everything had come to the finishing point, take a look at what had been done so far.









As everything was ready, it was time for final assembly and the minor touchups.

Thank you for reading and hope you enjoy the built.
Any comment is welcome.

The completed pictures can be found here.

Ed aka modelaholics

[kaho]

You put attention to a lot of details on this model! It's coming along very nicely. The only thing I can pick out is that the rear wing seems a little too big. I am not sure where I would be able to find the original BBS wheels on the S204 but it sure would look much more authentic, it still looks good now.

[modelaholics]

You're right. the wing is bigger than expected. did some rough measurements base on the picture posted previously, the aftermarket wing is that big. Pardon my scratch building techniques, the wing may not be trimmed to the right size or as thin/streamline as it should be. It takes some more practice or may be buying a dremel later would help.

For the rims, it was a mere frustration. I did order the 7-spoke BBS from 1999.co.jp, but received the last minutes "out-of-stock" message. Couldn't do anything, and till now already waited for over a month for their re-stock. No sign. Hope the rims can finally arrive and change it back on the 204.

[jla]

The S204 wing isn't aftermarket, its a factory piece from Subaru. Check out this thread here. You can get a better sense of the size of the wing from those pictures. The car in the link is an RA-R, but the rear wing is the exact same as the one on the S204.

For the wheels if you really want to change them you can use the one from hobby design.

I think it looks fine the way it is though.

[modelaholics]

Originally Posted by jla

The S204 wing isn't aftermarket, its a factory piece from Subaru. Check out this thread here. You can get a better sense of the size of the wing from those pictures. The car in the link is an RA-R, but the rear wing is the exact same as the one on the S204.

For the wheels if you really want to change them you can use the one from hobby design.

I think it looks fine the way it is though.

Thanks for the info.

From most of the materials about Spec C and S204, they didn't mention any difference between their stock wings. I would expect they are of the same size and shape but only making of different materials.

Your suggested article really provides good views of the wing, and that's exactly what I thought the stock one is small.

Here's the source article contains the picture that I refered to. I don't think the wing in this article is a stock one as I tried to search a few Subaru official accessories websites, they do not provide this products.

Happy to see feedbacks and any suggestions/comments from other experts is welcome.

--Ed