Volkswagen Golf GTi

[Rich Chernosky]

Inspiration to finish a kit comes in many forms. I recently re-did one of my storage areas for all my Revell kits and this one didn't fit. It was already painted some time ago  during one of my painting sprees....so I built it. Can't say the kit went together easily. The front and rear bumpers and valances fought me pretty hard. But for the most part it was a satisfying project. Overall colour is Tamiya TS52 Metallic green. The accent along the bottom was airbrushed with a mixture of Tamiya TS43 British green, and TS25  metallic. Interior is done with Mr Color #11 Light Gull Grey and Tamiya XF27 Black green. The biggest modification was making the wheels steer  and fabricating the tie rod. Engine has some wring added to it as well. See pictures captions for some additional comments.  Thanks for looking. 

I really liked the seat decal inserts. They laid down nice but were a little shiny. Some flat clear fixed that. Kit was molded in red and that doesn't show on the finished model. But I like to take pics before the interior is installed. 

I was fooling around with the camera adjustments and took many of this shot. The auto settings proved to be the best...go figure. 

 

Rear bumper fitting could have been better. The attachment points were weak. Tail lights were painted on the inside and backed with chrome tape. 

The red decals aroouind the headlight insert proved to be a real challenge.

Those ignition wires and boots were realltiney

[Turbo95187]

Beautiful Rich.  Fantastic build as always. 

[ChrisR]

NICE!!

[Dann Tier]

Love it!!

[Scalper]

Nice work. like the green and the details  

[PappyD340]

Very nice!

[slusher]

Looks fantastic!!

[Pete75]

Wasn't expecting to see a MK2 Golf in candy lime green - nice work! ??

[Jim Whalen]

Nice MkII GTI, you still see quite a few of these around as their anti-corrosion was much better than the MkI.  Your model looks sharp, thanks for putting the detailed pictures up - I have thought about getting one of these kits at some point so seeing these pictures was useful.

[Rich Chernosky]

On 12/21/2020 at 9:01 PM, Turbo95187 said:

Beautiful Rich.  Fantastic build as always. 

Thanks Brett...come see it in  person sometime. 

On 12/22/2020 at 8:27 AM, ChrisR said:

NICE!!

Thanx

On 12/22/2020 at 10:02 AM, Dann Tier said:

Love it!!

Glad you liked it ,  Dann

On 12/22/2020 at 10:04 AM, Scalper said:

Nice work. like the green and the details  

Thank you

On 12/22/2020 at 2:03 PM, PappyD340 said:

Very nice!

 

22 hours ago, slusher said:

Looks fantastic!!

Thanks for the praise. 

21 hours ago, Pete75 said:

Wasn't expecting to see a MK2 Golf in candy lime green - nice work! ??

I thought it suited the car well. I have 100's of cans of paint lying around and never used this one. Topo bad the photos don't show the two tone green fogging on the lower part of the car. This was a paint exercise. 

5 hours ago, Jim Whalen said:

Nice MkII GTI, you still see quite a few of these around as their anti-corrosion was much better than the MkI.  Your model looks sharp, thanks for putting the detailed pictures up - I have thought about getting one of these kits at some point so seeing these pictures was useful.

Than you, it was.my pleasure. Those kits are still  around so I hope you do. 

[doorsovdoon]

Great looking Golf. I remember these were very popular with the boy racers in the 90's, there would be at least five at any car park gathering. Nice build, and the colour looks great.