Lancia Stratos HF Stradale - WIP

[hrmodeler]

Sasa and I agree to start same car at same time and we started Stratos.
He is on vacation now and there he works on his.
I put aluminium color for base color because I still didn't decided which one I will put over it.
I made somethinh what military models calls preshading, make panel lines before paint. It's thin layer of alumium color so panels are full visible.

[Lambophilia]

nice color!

[eph2]

Nice Paint!

[drunken monkey]

just a quick note on some details.
on the stradale version of the car, those two rectangle (riveted) panels behind the doors aren't there, as i found out after i painted mine.....

[zanthrax]

Indeed, I wish I had did my research a bit better before painting. But the paintjob came out so nice I didn't wan't to do it over.
I should have removed some of the bodydetail to get a cleaner look. And the standardgascaps are included in the kit to, I went with the rallyversions covers.



You also made the same mistake as me, the two pins between the headlight to hold on the extra rallylights.

But it is a very nice kit to build, maybe I'll do another rally version, this one was one of the first kits I built and it has lots of flaws.

Good luck putting the body on, it's a tight fit, I broke off the rearsuspension on both of mine, I suggest putting on the rear suspension and wheels after putting the body on.

[hrmodeler]

Thanks for tip. I still can remove it because this is just undercoat for next color.
I removed pins behind the doors, I left ones in front of doors.

[hrmodeler]

It will look something like that, it's first layer of color.

[KTem]

That's looking good, nice color! Is it Tamiya's racing blue...?

[hrmodeler]

No, it's Subaru blue auto color.
Only camera make is lighter than it is.

[Wheelin75r]

Nice color! Keep it commin'.

[tonioseven]

Very nice!

[hrmodeler]

First clear coat is on body.

[klutz_100]

Colour is coming out really nice.

Zeljko, are you happy with the panel line pre-shading? I can't really see in teh picture but is it still visible under the top coat?

[sjelic]

It will be cool in that blue for sure, door knob is still very visiable so that is one more + for you. Well done.

[hrmodeler]

Thanx!
Klutz, yes panels are still visible. Not high as first time, but that I wanted.