Honda Civic Si coupe and Civic Hatchback

[Rich Chernosky]

Discovered these two lurking in the stash. They were sprayed in  2003 shortly after they were aquired.  Since both kits shared many parts I decided to finish them together. Althopugh the hatchback required another coat of clear both paint jobs were acceptable.  They were sprayed with nail polish over a black base. Mostly box stock but I made the wheels steer and added some of the kits custom features.  I have a large collection of Honda cars and these fit right in which is why I bought them in the first place.  More comments below the pictures. Thanks for looking and comments welcome. 

Interiors were basically the same but I sprayed them to better match the exteriors. Brown is Tamiya X9 with clear flat and panel liner. Blue car has a flat grey interior with flat blue inserts. Both were from theTamiay LS line.

Good shot of the dash. That is a clear lense with the gage decal  reversed applied to the backside.  Interior were well detailed. 

Both cars finished.  Bothg recieved a fgogged airbrush paint job with Tamiya clear. Brown car is fogged with Nato black and the blue car with clear blue. cThe fogg extends to include the mirrowrs and wings. 

Hatchback rear veiw. I decided to use the kit decal for the side graphics,. It went well with the fog paint. Rear tail lights (custom version) did not fit well and had to bwe coaxed into position. 

Both cars have carbon fibre hoods that were clear coated. Fog on the win is evident here and the wing also has a CF decal. 

Engines were basically the same with a few differences. Notably the intake manifolds. Some good detail here too. These two kits were part of Revels Tuner Series and quite a few extras were included. 

Edited January 13 by Rich Chernosky

[happy grumpy]

Beautiful pair. I owned a 96 civic hatch back. Had lots of fun with it. Great interior details.

[slusher]

Beautiful models!

[Rich Chernosky]

14 hours ago, happy grumpy said:

Beautiful pair. I owned a 96 civic hatch back. Had lots of fun with it. Great interior details.

Thank you Mario.  My daughter owned a Civic coupe and i drove it a few times. Real nice ride. 

 

8 hours ago, slusher said:

Beautiful models!

Thanks Carl.

 

[PappyD340]

Very nice pair of Hondas!

[Ken Car-Fanatic]

How very Civic minded of you to build these!  Very nicely done tuner Honda kits.  I've always liked some of the Honda cars (especially the CRX, S2000 & Civic Si's), and these look very good.  Well done.