Lancia Delta Integrale, Hasegawa, 1/24

[mattbacon]

...this was supposed to be a quicky! Very nice Hasegawa curbside kit of a car I nearly bought back when I was 25. The complete lack of service history, registration document and cracked windscreen put me off.... I don't know why ;-P. But I wish I had (it was only £2500 in 1990...) if it was throwaway money!

Interior is simple, and easy...




Primer, German Grey, then drybrushed with Citadel Shadow Gray and Necronomicon Grey.

Neat dashboard with a bit of detail painting:




Nice, a bit simplified, chassis goes together well with basic painting...



now this to deal with:

The clear coat has leached the red dye out of the plastic, through the primer and yellow base coat,. So I have to see whether isopropyl alcohol will fetch the clear-coat and base yellow coat off. I'm reliably assured that it will, so we'll see what happens next week while I soak the plastic in IPA for several days...

Annoyingly, I think this would have been finished in a weekend if it hadn't been for the body screw-up!

Anyway, good to have a "quicky" there or thereabouts...

bestest,
M.

[lovegt40]

just be careful, if you still didnt close the 2 shells of the model, that hasegawa's delta have all an ugly too tall setup definitely irrealistic. All the street cars are low like hell, you just need to adjust and cut the suspension to make it correct and much lower.

Hope it helps

[nugundam93]

i experienced that color leaching, coincidentally with red too. it happened on both an unpainted (red plastic) and previously-painted (red paint) that I just laid urethane primer on both, and then tamiya primer. i thought of laying a urethane silver paint in between before shooting the urethane white but no-go, the white was eventually turning pinkish. someone in a local forum suggested using an acrylic epoxy paint to serve as barrier against leaching color and so far, it seems to be working. put a few medium coats then sanded it flat, then laid the base color (white) and so far it still remains white.

hope this helps.

[mattbacon]

A bit more progress...



Finishing touch for the cabin: seat belts. The belts themselves are etched brass, and nicely textured, though you can't see it. The idea is that they are "sprung" slightly outwards, and will slide up the inside B pillar and look as if they are attached as the body goes on over the chassis. That's the plan, anyway...



...and I think we can safely conclude that IPA does indeed strip Zero 2K clear and base coat! It's tenaciously hanging on in the seams where the coloured clearcoat gathered and is thicker, but I hope that if this is where we are after 24 hours, by Thursday evening when I'm back home it will have even stripped those last corners. It doesn't seem to be having any effect on the Tamiya Fine Surface Primer, mind, so my sealer may have to go on top of that!

@lovegt40 -- I'm not sure I agree about the suspension. I've got some really large and clear photos of an original Integrale Evo in a copy of Octane, and I've also looked around the web. In all the photos of _original_, not "tuned" cars, there's as much clearance between the tyre and the outer wheel arch as the depth of the tyre itself, about 3.5mm in scale. Measuring up the suspension components, wheels and tyres and test fitting suggests that's exactly what I'll get if I build it as is. I know some Integrales have been "slammed", but I'm going for a "prototype" look. It was built as a rally car, after all, so you'd want a decent amount of suspension travel. Incidentally, Hasegawa has actually made the wheels slightly large -- the real thing rides on 16" rims with 205/45 profile tyres. That would make the tyre depth just under 4mm on 17mm rims, and they're actually more like 3.5mm on 18mm. That's almost an "inch up" look...

bestest,
M.

[nugundam93]

there is something oddly beautiful in seeing how IPA strips paint in sheets like that. i've only seen that behaviour though with enamel paints so far. hahahaha.

angling the belts outwards so they slide flush against the glass area is a neat tip

[mattbacon]

The body is peeling nicely. I've had a first go at it with a toothbrush to remove all the loose stuff and expose any lingering bits in the corners to the IPA.





Well, that's the running gear all done. Not so many parts, but I think it does the job -- it certainly looks like the pictures of the "ordinary" Integrales I've found, if not the "550BHP Sprint car" which has been more than a bit "fettled..."




I think this is about as far as this goes until the body is fully cooked, sealed, primed, base coated and clear coated... again ;-P

bestest,
M.

[mrceej]

Looking good. I've never seen the leeching of paint/dye before.

[el manolo]

what an epic car

[ianc911]

I love the drybrushing job you've done on the seats, but the mold seams on the sides of the headrests have been a bit accentuated by it unfortunately...

ianc

[mattbacon]

Thanks, all... believe it or not, I scraped AND sanded those headrest seams before I started, and still this happened! I doubt they'll be very visible once they are on the inside...

This has taken a while, but now I'm back where I started!


Stripped, sanded, coated with sealer (the greeny-yellow stuff), primed again in white, shut lines washed in black with Citadel wash, and finally repainted in the Zero yellow base coat. It is rougher than it would have been if I'd got it right first time, here and there, but it's a balancing act between getting it completely smooth and sanding away the surface detail you want in some places...




...and just in case anyone was wondering why I like the Zero 2K system, despite the fact that it's poisonous and a real faff to clean up after, this is it. I've done no polishing at all on the roof or bonnet here. Not even had to take out the odd dust mark... Bearing in mind that there's satin black trim to go all over the place, but especially around the windows, I'm pretty happy how this has turned out straight out of the spray booth. There's no red bleed anywhere, except for one small and inexplicable circular spot on the rear bumper...

bestest,
M.

[nugundam93]

nice rework on the paintjob what kind of sealer did you use?

[das_auto]

Nice color choice! It really suits the delta!

Emil

[mattbacon]

Thanks, chaps... the sealer is Zero's oxide sealer:

http://www.hiroboy.com/catalog/produ...oducts_id=3534

Slow but steady progress otherwise...





A couple of hours masking, ten minutes spraying, and 30 minutes clean up!

And what's this interloper on the bench?



One I'm saving for later...

bestest,
M.

[nugundam93]

ha! what an interloper hahahaha.

almost close to finishing the delta, nice!

[mattbacon]

Thanks, my friend...Now, that was one of the more nerve-wracking episodes of putting the body on the chassis I've experienced. Talk about "tight fit"...






Now all I have to do is figure out how to dislodge the small flakes of yellow paint that have pinged off the body or chassis and static-electricity-ed themselves to the windscreen and side windows. I need a feather!

bestest,
M