s204 : Finally Completed

s204: Interior (6) + others

When the seats and the carpets were ok, finally completed the steering wheel. To make it more realistic, leave the steering wheel molding line there, painted with flat black, and then drybrushing bright red to the molding line. Hope to represent the signature red stitches for S204 limited edition.

The reference of the S204 aftermarket wing should have the brake light, Scratch built it by using the transparent left over materials, cut, filed, sanded, painted and glued to the back of the wing.

Windows are also prepared and painted flat back at the inside

When everything had come to the finishing point, take a look at what had been done so far.

As everything was ready, it was time for final assembly and the minor touchups.

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: 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: 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)

s204：內籠 (1)

無咗D相，無心機咗一排，見架車放系道封塵，不如整乾淨架車，的起心肝再來吧。。。

看參考，原裝的座位不太適合s204，系D舊模型裡面，看有沒有跑車桶櫈用剩來。竟然在剩餘物資，找到兩張Hasegawa 多年前三菱Evo越野車的櫈子。仲有當年辛辛苦苦所造的安全帶和帶上的水貼。當年所砌的水準，真的不敢恭維。。。

整好錶板同張櫈，車身都可以開始返。之前所貼的碳纖水貼完全乾透，可以續層上光油。

(18/5/2009)

s204: 車身

最近沒有時間，只系update左少少。

車身上左色，滲左線，可以噴埋車身黑線：

新做左碳纖尾翼之後，好似車頭單調左少少，不如車頭蓋也改碳纖吧：

最後仲貪得意，幫s204造了裝在車頭和車尾的標誌名牌…試試看吧：

車頭 車尾