74 Honda Civic

[Lunajammer]

In a word... Wow!

[Dragonhawk1066]

Looks fantastic!

[peekay]

Beautifully built, perfect finishes and very realistic.

[89AKurt]

12 hours ago, Cool Hand said:

Appreciate the additional comments thanks.

All good Kurt. Thank you very much for sharing some of your story with a Civic, and il be sure to save some of your pics and add them to my build folder.

Glad I sparked your interest and hope it will get you going with your build, which I look forward to seeing. Hope you will do a wip thread, So we can follow along while you build.

I have another kit which my plan is to tune it up as I might or could have done and im sure I could get some ideas from you.

Very good, that's the point of this forum!  I don't have a WIP of my '87 Civic, joined the forum after that was done.  I was hoping to do a similar engine swap (more like add), but noticed this kit is 1/24, and the Revell is 1/25, so it wouldn't exactly be accurate, but more doable than the other way around, which I found out the hard way on this Corvette.   There is also a Facebook group dedicated to the first generation Civics.

9 hours ago, Tom Geiger said:

Don't forget the wiper position!  Reversed for LHD.  Dash doesn't look all that awful to modify.

That's right!  I did that for a recent project.  I know there is a topic on this forum for L-R HD dashboard conversions, if I ever get around to this, will consider making copies.

[slusher]

Very sharp and clean build!  Great work!

[ATHU]

Looks amazing, very well done!!

[captjeffro26]

This brings back memories.  I learned to drive stick in one of these.  Amazing job on the build!

[Ben Brown]

Beautiful build! It brings back a lot of memories. A high school friend had a yellow one. It had two throttle settings when he drove it: Max and Idle, so the car pretty much lived at the redline. Fortunately, it was so slow, the police never noticed. My parents went out of town for a weekend, and instead of throwing a huge party like normal teens, we rebuilt the engine in the garage. I think my parents would have been far less shocked if they'd come home to the aftermath of a party instead of a partially disassembled Honda.  

Ben

[stavanzer]

Wow! What a flawless, beautiful build.

[PappyD340]

Extremely nice build, excellent color choice, well done!!

[Cpt Tuttle]

Top notch build. Is this kit some new release? Haven't seen it before. Need to get my hands on one, I think.

[BeakDoc]

Awesome!

[Safire6]

On 12/21/2019 at 12:32 PM, alexis said:

Wow! What a flawless, beautiful build.

+1, beautiful build!

[Brianl]

I didn't know I could get this kit! Mine was metallic blue. I'll look up my photos and see if I can nail the mirrors for you. All early Civics were direct imports from Japan. Mine came through Bennet Honda in Brisbane. They were bullet proof and very quick. Many people thought they were a follow on to the Cooper S. One won the Queensland Rally Championship (Adrian Taylor?) and from memory was pretty stock. Great model mate and thanks for the memories.

Brian

 

 

 

[Cool Hand]

Thanks again for the replies and sharing all the memories you guys have.

Cheers for the info Brian.

 

18 hours ago, Cpt Tuttle said:

 Is this kit some new release? Haven't seen it before. Need to get my hands on one, I think.

1st Released November 2017, there are 3 different versions SB-1 and SC-1. Also there is a race car version (Team Yamato) which is on my wish list

 

Edited December 23, 2019 by Cool Hand

[Sandboarder]

Damm!!! Amazing build of the highest quality and the comments your getting reflects this.

Top job and it’s looks like you’ve stirred up memories in a lot of other forum members. To share your memories with each other because of a plastic model kit is just awesome ? 

[kelson]

A real beauty!,i love the foreign manufacturers for doing these mainstream kits!!.

[Tom Geiger]

On 12/18/2019 at 7:56 AM, Cool Hand said:

 

 

 

That dash looks extremely easy to LHD, it’s symmetrical and nothing more than relocating the instrument pod.  And if the console is reversed, I don’t think anyone would notice ( or handle it with a photo reduced photo)

[VanSpence]

I grabbed one of the race versions of this civic and can't wait to start it. 

The awesome thing about the race one is that is comes with all the stock parts as well as the race parts except for the wheels and the seats. It even includes both full suspensions so you can choose a lowered stance or a stock height. I plan on building a street version using a combo of the race and the stock parts. 

This build is amazing and super inspiring. Can't wait to get started. 

[carrucha]

Cool build.  Well built and finished.

[Cool Hand]

Thanks again for the replies.

Appreciate the info Spence. 

My favourite pic I have of the build.

 

 

[Nells250]

From here, looks like a super-clean build!  :-)