Tamiya Toyota Corolla WRC

[PatW]

Due to the fragility of the decals in this 1999 kit I've built the car as a Tarmac Recce car and only used those decals that held together. The Recce cars are used by teams prior to the event to take pace notes for the driver / navigator crews on the event.

As Tarmac cars are like racing cars, run over smooth tarmac or concrete road I shortened the suspension spring coils by two at the top of each unit leaving the locating pin to go in the right place in each wheel arch. Having then to modify the bottom location upwards to hold the spring unit. This still allowed the steering to work at the front.

The seats were sprayed gloss yellow plus two coats of matt clear and seatbelt decals.

The rollcage I sprayed flourescent orange and matt black on the rubber safety cushion sections.

 

[花火]

much glad to see some rally cars here

what a pity your decals anyway good job

[PatW]

Thanks Nie, yes it's a pity about the decals. I have a few more rally cars on the shelf to build.

[花火]

would like to see your next rally cars then.