s204: Interior (5)

The carpet prepared previously are finally stuck to the floor of interior. Honestly, the initial measurements of the carpet are pretty sloppy.

I was pleasantly suprised by the outcome. There are only a few small trims and they all can flatly laid even on the curved surfaces.

s204: Interior (4)

Planned to replace the STi bucket seats with a Sparco rally seats from an old Hasegawa rally kit. The seats came with an installation bracket. But just put them on will make the seat very low even lower than the back seats. The brackets are raised by a styrene board slightly inclined to the front so that they feel much realistic in terms of inclination, position and height.

With minor fine tuning of the angle and of the brackets, seats can be put on for testing...

Not sure if some Sparco decal can be found otherwise, just put those STi on the front. From the references, it seems all the seats in s204 are from Recaro instead of Sparco. Anyway, both seats are sporty enough in it. Wish to also put on appropriate PE seat belts, but the seats look good on 5-point instead of 3-point. Let's see.

(20/6/2009)

s204: Tail Lights

Following the preparation of head lights, the tail lights are ready to be installed.

Found something strange about the colour of the respective lights...Check out the reference on the Internet and confirmed the s204 got all round lights not in red, anyway, go ahead and install them...

Fitting of the cover has some alignment issue. This is not a major problem which may be the thickness of the paint causes the cover cannot be good fit in the socket. Some sanding requires.

(18/6/2009)

s204: Head Lights

Seems the body is approaching the final steps, and it's time to do something that I'm the weakest, i.e. the transparent parts in the head and tail lights.

One of the techniques that I learnt in the past is: The most reaslistic part of the glass covering the head lights is the rubber rim for waterproof, some of the modelers would put directly the bare transparent part on the "eye socket", which turns out to be very plastic and toy. Here's what I did to the tail light cover:

I used a thick gundam marker to run around the cover (evenly!) and it's done.

Another technique that handling of head lights is make sure the under side of the cover and the socket are cleaned. It would be fuxked when you found dust INSIDE the head light after you glue it to the socket...

However, if you really prepared to "roll back" the glueing of head light cover, please please remember to use "White Glue" or similar stationery type glue.

The White Glue fits this usage for a few reasons:

1, it's water soluble, just in case anything happen to the transparent parts, wash it.

2, it won't eat the transparent parts. A lot of sad example in the past with excellent builds with foggy windows...:-(

3, it's cheap. Compare to the products from Testor or Modeller, it only costs about US$1.

4, it turns translucent after dried. Still transparency is better than translucency, so pay attention when apply it.

5, it's adhesiveness is mild. Just in case of any accident happened, parts can be taken out without any breaks. Dried glue can be easily wiped out and work all over again.

(17/6/2009)

s204: Front Spoiler

Putting the front grille PE on the front spoiler. The subaru decal should not be put directly on the PE but instead it should be protruding outward from the grille. Cut and trimmed a piece of plastic rod, sand it to the same size as the decal and put it on.

Scratch built an external grille and painted black, not sure if it fits the overall body look, anyway, it can be stick to the spoiler last minutes...

(15/6/2009)

s204: Interior (3) & Body/Exhaust

Finished the trimming of carpets, and ready to put on the interior...

Prepared the head and tail lights, put it on see if things go well. Also, found some reference of installing the exhaust, see if it can be done in a more relistic way...

Took 2 brass rods, make holes on the exhaust pipe and the rear diffuser. The key point is putting those rods in the exhaust with a large glob of CA glue, which after painting, became the welding point of the support upon installation. Remember not to put toooo much as it would flow around and mess things up. Bit of weathering may make it look pretty real.

(15/6/2009)

s204: body & brake

Finished painting and polishing the front spoiler, put it back to the body and check anything more needs to be done...

Looks good, but still the rims are cool but a bit too flat, dark and boring. Still thinking of making the rims in aluminium...

(7/6/2009)

s204：內籠 Interior (2)

The blog has not been updated for a while but not the modeling...Continue with the interior of the s204...

Bought some of the arts stickers just like flockings, of course, the effect turns out may not be as real as the flockings as you cannot control the amount you spend...but turnout, ok lah...

At the same time, found the rims in the original "plastic chrome" is a bit boring. Recently tried to observe the cars in the streets and seems a lot of the tuned rims are dull/matt chrome with the rims in black...

Soaked the rims in bleach and make it glossy black. When putting back to the body, it seems a bit too dark, thinking of making the ring around the trim aluminium and turn the whole rim dull...

(1/6/2009)

寫Blog為左乜？

其實寫Blog都系為左等其他志同道合的網友可以見到自己的分享，打中文/香港廣東話中文吾系吾好，不過只是香港人可以比較容易明白；有臺灣人跟我講，都吾明您寫乜。。。

所以都系決定用返英文來寫，希望可以同更多人看得明我寫D乜。。。

So I decided to switch back to English for my Blog, so that more people can read and understand what I was talking about...

(31/5/2009)