Spottedlaurel Posted June 6, 2020 Posted June 6, 2020 (edited) This is a kit I have a bit of history with, I first built the road car very quickly and poorly in the space of weekend, back when I was 14. Hopefully it's obvious enough here which is the old one: 1:24 Tamiya Audi Quattro kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr 1:24 Tamiya Audi Quattro kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr A few years later I got given the rally version which someone was about to throw away. As I'm not so keen on building full competition cars (too much decal work!) I decided to combine the best of both of them. 1:24 Tamiya Audi Quattro kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr Started it in April, with the great weather and lazy lockdown weekends I finished it in May: 1:24 Tamiya Audi Quattro kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr 1:24 Tamiya Audi Quattro kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr 1:24 Tamiya Audi Quattro kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr 1:24 Tamiya Audi Quattro kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr Colour is Tamiya TS-19 Metallic Blue + TS-13 Clear, all from a rattle can. Miraculously I found the various loose parts I needed from the original road car in various boxes, despite it having been in pieces for maybe 30+ years. It's not perfect, but it was great to realise the concept I had in my mind for years and years, basically a hi-po road car that Audi created for one of their works rally drivers. Edited June 6, 2020 by Spottedlaurel
beeRS Posted June 6, 2020 Posted June 6, 2020 Lovely job. I think the blue really suits it. Good job on recycling the old parts from your road version. I wish I knew people who were just about to throw old kits out - especially when its a nice Tamiya one like this! Good concept about the hi-po road car. Not that far fetched, as I'm sure Audi built road homologation ones for the short wheel-base group B cars.
Spottedlaurel Posted June 6, 2020 Author Posted June 6, 2020 2 minutes ago, ChrisR said: Nice! 1 hour ago, beeRS said: Lovely job. I think the blue really suits it. Good job on recycling the old parts from your road version. I wish I knew people who were just about to throw old kits out - especially when its a nice Tamiya one like this! Good concept about the hi-po road car. Not that far fetched, as I'm sure Audi built road homologation ones for the short wheel-base group B cars. Thanks! The rally car was a lucky find by my stepdad, I think it was at a house he was working at. I presume someone got given it as a gift, they made a tentative start, realised it wasn't for them and it was about to go into a skip..... Looking at the prices they go for now, I'm glad I didn't have to buy two kits to create this project......
Funkychiken Posted June 6, 2020 Posted June 6, 2020 It's an uber cool 80s classic, and yours is a great build!
Rbray47 Posted June 6, 2020 Posted June 6, 2020 Nice build. I built the road car nearly 20 years ago. Yours turned out much better.
Spottedlaurel Posted June 7, 2020 Author Posted June 7, 2020 21 hours ago, Funkychiken said: It's an uber cool 80s classic, and yours is a great build! 18 hours ago, PappyD340 said: Very nice! 12 hours ago, Rbray47 said: Nice build. I built the road car nearly 20 years ago. Yours turned out much better. Thanks all! One thing I enjoyed was the nostalgia of building something I first did 36 years ago, and using pieces that I still had from back then. A good lesson in not throwing even the poorest kit away!
jeffinvt Posted June 8, 2020 Posted June 8, 2020 Very nice, I love these cars. I owned a 4000csQ many years ago, an absolute blast to drive in the winter.
Peter Lombardo Posted June 8, 2020 Posted June 8, 2020 Very nice job on the Sirocco's big brother. One of the best looking 80's import, and yours looks great in Blue. Nice.
89AKurt Posted June 11, 2020 Posted June 11, 2020 (edited) Very cool, I've been tempted to blow money on that kit. Don't blame you on avoiding decals, they would probably break apart anyway. I've built a couple of race cars as road versions, nothing wrong with that. Looks nice, and congrats on finishing a model! ? Edited June 11, 2020 by 89AKurt
Spottedlaurel Posted June 11, 2020 Author Posted June 11, 2020 (edited) Thanks everyone! As I can point out with all of my builds, it's far from perfect but it was an enjoyable process and I'm pleased with the finished result - it matches the concept I had in my head. The blue wasn't the intended colour, I started off using a darker shade but it was a previously started can and I had concerns about whether there'd be enough and how it would spray if I was trying to get the last bit of paint out, so I switched to this one. It might have been 30+ years old, but it still worked nicely..... 1:24 Tamiya Audi Quattro by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr It's a relatively simplistic kit as it's from Tamiya's early days, but it does build up nicely and looks an effective display piece once done. However, if anyone wants to build one, I'd warn of a couple of issues. First, the moulding is a bit too thick under one of the rear side windows so the bodyshell doesn't sit nicely over the chassis unless that is thinned out a bit and/or the back of the interior side panels are shaved. Secondly, the front spoiler/bumper is a separate piece, to allow for the dfferent road and rally car front ends. As is the way with Tamiya and most Japanese kits, the bodyshell clicks onto tabs at the front and back of the floorpan meaning it's reliant on that glue joint between front wings (fenders!) and bumper. I chose to attach the spoiler/bumper onto the floorpan first, then lower the rest of the competed bodyshell onto it. Because of the first issue, it took a few attempts to get it to fall into place naturally. Looking back at my unpainted gluebomb first attempt, it appears that I had the same issue with that one. Edited June 12, 2020 by Spottedlaurel
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