Hasegawa Subaru WRX

[Jordan 191]

I have owned this kit for a long time.

I bought it in London, England on vacation with my wife when we were still dating. I made her take the Tube way out of the tourist areas to a hobby shop!

I believe I carried it on my lap across the Atlantic. It has a cool JDM interior.

I am using wheels from the Hasegawa Subaru Legacy.

I am painting it with Tamiya Camel Yellow.

However, I did not realize how important it is to use primer with Tamiya spray paint, and I majorly screwed it up. I was really happy to read on this site about paint stripping procedures. I used Dawn Power Dissolver, and now I have a nice fresh body to start over with. I plan to use Tamiya primer and do it correctly, sticking with my Camel Yellow plan.

That body was covered in nastiness, and now it is perfect again.

[Tonioseven]

Good luck on this. It's a nice kit.

[Modlbldr]

That is a nice looking kit of a fine car. Great work on the interior. Keep it up.

Later-

[Kennyboy]

Looking forward to seeing some progress on this.

I used to have a WRX and a 2.5 RS Coupe. One was the show queen and one was the daily.

[niteowl7710]

If you can find some Tamiya white primer, go that route, the yellow will be a great deal brighter over a white base than gray.

Edited September 7, 2013 by niteowl7710

[Jordan 191]

Thanks for the encouragement! Yes my LHS has Tamiya fine white primer, so I'll be using that.

[Volvoman]

Good luck with this kit, I shall be watching your progress. I had this kit a while back but unfortunately I cut it up after having a bizarre idea about mating it up with a spare Impreza kit that I had to make a stretched limo version!! Needless to say it didn't work out and went straight into the spares box for parts.

[slusher]

Everyone has a bad paint finish sometimes. Tamiya has the best primer. looking forward to your progress..