1983 VW Golf Gti

[stitchdup]

I built this from the pirelli edition kit. I swapped the engine for one of the clearly scale 16 valvers (I hope Jeremy is back selling these soon, I need more) and changed the wheels for something a bit more racey looking for a clubman hillclimb style. The rear wheels are front wheels from an esci escort and the fronts are narrowed rims from the tamiya jeep cherokee fitted with some fujimi turbo-fans, and used 2 lots of the esci front tyres. The only change to the interior is the option steering wheel from the amt scirocco and a replacement gear stick as the kit one went ping into oblivion. I removed the trim molding from the drivers side wheel arch and drilled out the mounting holes. I used a mix of ak and citadel washes to weather/dirty it up and then used a front spoiler from the fujimi mk2 race car kit under the front bumper. I snapped this and taped it back together to go with the racey look of being duct taped back together to keep racing. I need to repaint the exhaust agin it seems, it didn't look bare in the flesh. Bonus points if you spot the 80s music reference

 

 

Edited July 28, 2019 by stitchdup
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[Rider]

That looks great! It's begging to be in a dio.

[stitchdup]

It will be some day Curtis, I've been gathering /hoarding vw kits so I can build the oldlocal  vw garage (long since closed) as it was during the mid 80s, though I'll have a few newer cars from the vw family in it. It should be fun as the building itself is pretty old and has some decent stone work to model

[geetee66]

Nice one

I've seen plenty as grubby as this!

 I like the repairs and weathering, too