Progress: R5 Turbo Street Version

[DasWiesel]

I´d like to show you something i´m working on. This is the kit we´re talking about:

As the title of this thread already shows, i don´t want to build a ralley car.
The detail of this kit is not bad, but very simple, so i´ll have a lot of work to get a nice model.

First i opened up all the air in- and outtakes.



Doors and front hood can be open, but too many parts are molded in one, so i decided to make a complete new interior below the front hood.



Here are the Fujimi wheels i´m going to use. As you can see on the right, i converted the former rear wheels to smaller front wheels.



And this is what they look like on the car

[JTRACING]

Great work so far!!, those rims work well on there!!

[sjelic]

red x for me

[mike united]

Nice "little" project !!!
Mike

[dyowelb]

nice work...i really love that car.

ps.
if you're not gonna use the wheels/tires that came with the kit, i;ll buy from you.


thanks,
joel

[GT-Alex]

Great subject, i have the same kit so i'll be watching your progress closely. Nice wheels choice too. Let me know if you need ref. pics.

[deedlit]

Yeah, that's old school tuning (for a european)
Good job so far

[labandabonnot]

Good luck with the interior mods that are to come!
The front wheels sit a little too high... the kit begs for a little lowering at this place.

Looking at the job you already done, sure you'll make us believe this kit is close to Tamiya's quality...

[Snooker]

Nice!

[SupaMan89T]

Diffrent and awsome! Wheels look great!

[Porsche Carrera]

Nice Eurotuner!

[Wheelin75r]

Now that's something different!

[675datsun]

Wow, I've never seen a scale model for the R5!
Great job opening the air intakes.
Will you be putting an engine in?
Have any pics of the kit-supplied rims(showing the spokes)?
How hard will it be to convert the race interior to street?

[Spitfire7]

Ah, the Renault 5, a classic. Tamiya also made a rally and a street version of this car a long time ago.

[labandabonnot]

Originally Posted by 675datsun

Will you be putting an engine in?
How hard will it be to convert the race interior to street?

May I answer?...

The Heller kit has an engine! (yes, it's true!) Well, far from being to the Tamiya Enzo standards, but a good base for detailing.

For the interior, everything (almost) has to be scratchbuilt, as on the original kit the seats come with the floor, and look far from accurate...
+ the dashboard is quite simple, though a nice start to reproduce the serie 1, which had a futurist and colorfull interior. But if you want to make the opening doors look realistic, I think you'll have to shorten it a little...
To reproduce a serie 2, well... just good luck!

Serie 1 interior:


Serie 2 interior:


Serie 1 exterior:


Serie 2 exterior:


Conversion from race to street is easy. (in fact the kit has a serie 1 street interior, and not a race one, apart from the "roll cage"...). The most difficult part is to make this kit just look like a model, and not a toy...