Fly's back! - Lancia 037 Stradale

flyonthewall · #1 11-17-2006, 07:05 PM

Well its been a while! I've had a model hiatus for some months due to a couple of life changes - it happens! Now I have my own pad and own space, I'm able to get down to some model making again.

With our club stand taking on the 'Forza Italia' theme at this years nationals, I was inspired to conjure up something new for the event. To begin with I was simply going to build something to add to the display. But me being me and hardly ever able to build something straight out of the box, I went ahead with producing a new transkit to add to the Scale Auto Style line up.

Stupidly I got my dates mixed up for the nationals so I was unable to complete the display model in time but this is the progress so far. I now hope to finish it time for the Model of the Year Comp.

Appologies for the quality of the pics, I think I must have screwed up the compression when I resized.

THE SUBJECT
The Lancia 037 Stradale built for homologation purposes for the Group B rally car. The basis of this conversion is obviously the excellent Hasegawa kit.

REAR

The Stradale version was available with or without the huge rear wing. I prefer the contrast the car has without the wing compared to its rally counterpart. Surgery performed with the aid of a fine tooth razor saw.

Slight mods to the rear bumper - Number plate recess reworked and Hasegawa's error with the width of the spatz corrected.

Before

After

Scratch built the housing for the light clusters on the rear cowl.

For the rear grille, I used strips of aerofoil shaped styrene used by airplane modelers. These needed to be cut in half length ways (not easy when they are about 3mm wide). The strips were then set between spacers made from sheet styrene.

End result

The air inducts on the cowl are alto narrower so were modified as necessary

FRONT

Original kit part

The front headlight assembly is very similar to the Lancia Delta, so I looked to Hasegawa's 1/24 kit of such for donar parts. I cast copies of the Delta part in resin (not pictured) to use the headlight housing ends only.

The bonnet vents constructed in a similar way to that described above

The Lancia front grille which was carefully removed from the original kit part is alot narrower on the rally car so it was widened accordingly. The delicat part was then duplicated in resin.

The completed front clip. You can also see that vents were added to the lower bumper, again constructed as those previous. A lip was added along with the housing for the fog lamps and side repeaters.

INTERIOR

I'll let the pics do most of the talking here as I didn't take photos of the running progress. Obviously the road versions interior detracts greatly from the rally spec so the parts you see below are eithe scratch built of heavily modified from the kit parts. I have yet to make the seats though.

As it stands at the moment. Its now in primer ready to have on display at tomorrows show. Still plenty to do, most of the windows in the kit need modifying plus I have yet to make the master parts for all the lamps on the kit to be later cast in clear resin.

Jay! · #2 11-17-2006, 07:18 PM

Wow.

Wow.

Welcome back!

freakray · #3 11-17-2006, 07:26 PM

You have my attention!!

Off to a great start as usual Chris

rsxse240 · #4 11-17-2006, 07:28 PM

that is amazing! I am quite envious of your skills!

on a side note, I saw one of these cars driving down the interstate with a plethora of other lancias and was wondering what it was. however, it didn't have the wide body on it and I THINK the front end had flip up headlights, or something other than the squared off nose. It may not have even been a Stradale, but it looked VERY similar to the one in your pics.

so does this mean that S.A.S. is back in buisness?

MPWR · #5 11-17-2006, 07:54 PM

Back with vengeance it would seem. What a cool subject for a build. Looks like a spectacular start- something to keep an eye on.

NissanSkylineGTR98 · #6 11-17-2006, 08:01 PM

Very cool project, i'll definately follow this one!

gbarrbr · #7 11-17-2006, 08:11 PM

This is going to be very special. Congratulations on the great start!

Orangeguy · #8 11-17-2006, 08:16 PM

WELCOME BACK! So are you going to open up your shop again?

Layla's Keeper · #9 11-17-2006, 08:58 PM

Damnit.

Here I was going to buy a Hasegawa O37, do all the scratch-bashing to convert it, and impress the lot of you folks, and then Fly goes and brings us this.

I'm glad, too, because this is DEFINITELY a transkit I want. Great work, Fly.

willimo · #10 11-17-2006, 10:19 PM

WTF are you?!

Just kidding. Great start! No less to be expected from my scratch/bashing inspiration. Whether you're building or not, I look to your work and skill as something to strive for, and now that you're back, I better get my butt in gear! It's great to see you back, seriously, this is going to be an amazing model when you're done. Beautiful work replicating an awesome car. Thanks for sharing!