Honda Prelude Euro Lowrider

[Spottedlaurel]

Not a scene I'm familar with, but I picked up a magazine on a visit to NYC back in 1999 and the look of it came to mind when I considered a Prelude I had on the shelf, combined with gold wire wheels and appropriately bright paint......

1:24 Fujimi Honda Prelude kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

Lowrider Euro inspiration (2) by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

Lowrider Euro inspiration (1) by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

A few different ways to go, it wouldn't be necessary to add a crazy bodykit or wild, muralled paint.

1:24 Fujimi Honda Prelude kit in progress by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

Don't know if it was necessary, but I thought the yellow would be a good base coat.

1:24 Fujimi Honda Prelude kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

Completed interior, with seats from the Drift Parts set. It's an odd kit with some screws to assemble it (most of which I didn't use, relying on glue instead).

1:24 Fujimi Honda Prelude kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

1:24 Fujimi Honda Prelude kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

1:24 Fujimi Honda Prelude kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

1:24 Fujimi Honda Prelude kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

I had to simplify the suspension to get it sitting low enough, the wheels are attached by a bent piece of wire! I also took some very low profile stretchwall tyres from another accessory wheel set, they were much better suited to this look than the slightly chunky tyres that the wire wheel set came with.

This one took 'just' four years to complete, it came out just as I envisaged.

Edited June 8, 2020 by Spottedlaurel

[cobraman]

Nice clean model.

[Peter Lombardo]

Very nice, clean and the color works on it too. The Prelude was a great car in real life too. I like it.

[Silver Foxx]

A real nice looking build , well done .

[slusher]

Super nice!!

[Modlbldr]

What a nice clean build. Has a great look to it, just like back in the day!

Later-

 

[Spottedlaurel]

Thanks everyone. Probably not something that's to everyone's tastes, but the fun of doing things in small scale is that we can try out different things isn't it?

1 hour ago, Modlbldr said:

What a nice clean build. Has a great look to it, just like back in the day!

Scary that late '99 can be "back in the day"!

On 6/8/2020 at 11:16 PM, Peter Lombardo said:

Very nice, clean and the color works on it too. The Prelude was a great car in real life too. I like it.

The colour is great, I'm looking forward to using it on something else.

I have to say I'd happily own a 1:1 Prelude, although mine would be rather more standard. I really like Japanese cars from that era, I have a '93 Camry on the road (one of Kentucky's finest 2.2 wagons, quite unusual here in the UK).

[PatW]

Nice build, even nicer colour well done!

[PappyD340]

Very nice!

[Funkychiken]

The paint is perfect! Great build!

[carrucha]

Cool Euro.  Back in the 1990's it was common to see these on the streets and lowrider shows. Not anymore.

[Spottedlaurel]

On 6/10/2020 at 7:50 AM, PatW said:

Nice build, even nicer colour well done!

 

On 6/10/2020 at 10:08 PM, PappyD340 said:

Very nice!

 

On 6/11/2020 at 1:23 PM, Funkychiken said:

The paint is perfect! Great build!

Thanks everyone. I must admit this one does stand out amongst the others in my cabinet.

8 minutes ago, carrucha said:

Cool Euro.  Back in the 1990's it was common to see these on the streets and lowrider shows. Not anymore.

Thanks Hector, I don't think we had many FWD cars that were done with this sort of look - most that we had were either American or big Japanese/European saloons.