Honda Civic Bathurst 1975

[ShawnS]

Hi again,

Thanks everyone for looking and posting your comments on my BMW 2002 thread so here's another one from the 1975 Bathurst 1000 race for you.   The car was driven by Max McGinley and Paul King , unfortunately they didn't cover enough laps to be classified as a finisher. I wish I could tell you the story behind this colourful car but our motorsport press don't ever seem to concern themselves with things that aren't V8 powered so their story has been lost to time.

The kit is Hasegawa's 3 door Civic that I converted to the 2 door version by relocating the rear number plate recess and rescribing the rear panel lines. Hasegawa did originally release a 2 door version but I was a couple of years too late so I had to modify a 3 door.  I also made new wheels and tyres as well as front indicator/light units and side mirror. I also added a rollcage.

The decals are custom printed from my own artwork.

 

   I set myself some paint masking challenges last year and this is one of them. It's painted with Tamiya TS-49 bright red and TS-47 chrome yellow.  I originally painted it with SMS paints and after nailing the colour coats the SMS clear came out rubbish (probably my fault) so I had to strip it and re-do it and the next time was with the Tamiya paints but unfortunately the masking job wasn't all that good and it would have taken me longer to fix the paint than it would have if I stripped it and re-did it, so that's what I did. Third time was a charm and after some minor touch ups it was all good.

I enjoyed this little kit and I would recommend it to anyone.

Thanks for looking

Cheers

ShawnS

[Chinacar]

What a classic. I can imagine that little fella screaming to get up Panorama lap after lap... Nice job Shawn.

[Jim B]

Cool Honda. Very well done. 

[bbowser]

Very cool!  The paint masking looks challenging but came out great.

[Roger U]

Cool looking model. The paint and design turned out very nice. 

[slusher]

Great looking Honda rally!

[PappyD340]

Very nice build!

[Michael F]

Cool looking little racer !

The paintjob is very nice.

 

[TonyK]

That's a busy paint scheme and you captured it perfectly along with the decals. A very cool looking model!

[Michael jones]

Came out great! who printed your decals? they look very nice.

[ChrisR]

Looks great.

[ShawnS]

Thanks everyone. I appreciate the comments.

3 hours ago, Michael jones said:

Came out great! who printed your decals? they look very nice.

Decals are printed by https://hobbyistdecals.com/. They are based in India and transact in US dollars. The decals are digital printed so they have clean colours and no pixelation. The only downside is the white is a bit too weak and colours bleed through one layer of white easily so if I have any white items on the sheet I make sure to add enough of them to do double layers on the model. 

[titino]

Excellent. Very good. Congratulations Shawn.

[89AKurt]

I love this!  Not because my first car was the family '77 CVCC, but that helps.  Have the #20360 kit, but it's way down the build list.

[Michael jones]

18 hours ago, ShawnS said:

Thanks everyone. I appreciate the comments.

Decals are printed by https://hobbyistdecals.com/. They are based in India and transact in US dollars. The decals are digital printed so they have clean colours and no pixelation. The only downside is the white is a bit too weak and colours bleed through one layer of white easily so if I have any white items on the sheet I make sure to add enough of them to do double layers on the model. 

Thanks for the info, sounds exactly the same as decaldoc decals (which I would avoid). Its interesting that you used the Indian based company which was part owned by an Australian person until recently I believe (now the Aussie guy owns digidecals I think). I have found spotmodel decal service to have extremely opaque whites, but you need to use tamiya decal adhesive to make them stick well and softeners do not work. I can show you some photos of this, but don't want to hijack your thread.

Regards

Mike

[ShawnS]

Thanks for the heads up on digidecals Mike. I only started using Hobbyist decals because they started as custom hobby decals here in Aus so if an Australian option pops up now I'll probably switch over. I have used Spotmodel decals with varying success in the past but the last sheet I got from them (2years ago) almost every logo curled up into a unrecoverable mess once the decal had left the paper. The Euro / Aus dollar conversion rate means Spotmodel decals are fairly expensive so they are a last resort.

This Sierra has Spotmodel decals on it. 

I have also used some Decaldoc decals (not custom printed) on this BMW. It also has decals from Spotmodel as well as Patto's, Hobbyist, Easydecal and home printed logos.

 

Lasershark is another custom printer in Australia but his colours can be patchy and slightly pixelated but still usable and his costs are pretty reasonable too.

Cheers

ShawnS

 

 

 

[Bugatti Fan]

Lovely model, and just goes to show how small the original Honda Civics were !