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Andrei
Cool colour! Can you give me more information about kit?

J4Juliet autor
Picking the colour was quite interesting because there are only about 3 colour photos of this car and given the age of them it is difficult to tell what the original colour was. Looking at other models, people have picked colours ranging from bright orange to almost tan brown. I didn't take a photo of it but I did try various different mixes of paints on the body work. In the end I thought pure Tamiya copper (XF-6) looked the closest to the original.

The base Ebbro kit for the road car (Citroën DS19 (Ebbro 25005, 1:24)) is excellent. It has a great level of detail especially on the engine. The opening bonnet and door are really nice too. It even has adjustable ride height on th rear to model the hydropneumatic suspension. It all fitted together easily. I don't think the kit is still in production unfortunately I managed to track this one down on eBay from a model shop in Japan what would ship it internationally.

The Renaissance decal kit (Citroën DS19 #176 (Renaissance TK24/422, 1:24)) was nice too. It is obviously just a few decals but it did come with a colour print out of the photos of the car.

Given the rally cars of this era were pretty close to stock there wasn't too much modification required to the kit. I removed the wheel trims and the wing mirrors. I customised the brake lights as the kit had slightly different ones. I added the extra driving lights which were actually included in the base kit. The extra fog lights beneath the bumper are from a Mk1 Ford Escort. Then just a bit of left over seat belt for the bonnet strap finished it off.

Andrei
Awasome collection! I have 90% in mine 🙂

J4Juliet autor
Thanks, it is great to find other rally enthusiasts on here!

J4Juliet autor
Oh yeah Colin McRae captured the public's imagination in a way that I don't think any other rally driver has, if you ask people to name a rally driver I think most people are going to name him. I think this is down to his always pushing to the limit style of driving but I also think that game had a big impact on his reputation too. That game was where it all started for me, I still have the goal of building all the cars from that game. I have built 6 out of the 12 and I have another 3 in my stash, the difficult one is going to be finding a kit of a Škoda Felicia.

Dominik Weitzer
very nice kit and well built!

George Williams
Very nice, which blue did you use for the bodywork?

J4Juliet autor
Thanks. It it Gloss Ultramarine Blue (Revell 51) I know it is the wrong blue. I chose it to match my very first kit I built which was the 1998 Impreza WRC and I used the wrong blue on that kit as it was the closest shade of blue stocked by the shop I bought it from.

George Williams
Super Subaru.

J4Juliet autor
Thank you, I think this car often gets overshadowed by the later Imprezas but I do rather like it with its squeaky little turbo blow off noises.

George Williams
It looks great.

George Williams
Now that's a proper sports car, great race series, lovely model.

J4Juliet autor
It may not have been well suited to rally but it sure looked good doing it.

Michael Kohl
An elegant car successfully brutalized. Well done.

J4Juliet autor
Thank you 🙂

George Williams
Nice

George Williams
I meant nice work on this, you don't see many of these built.

J4Juliet autor
Thank you, it is always my intention to build all the kits I buy but I do have quite a backlog at the moment 😄

George Williams
Great livery, love the colour on the exhausts.

J4Juliet autor
Thanks, the colour is Tamiya XF-6 Copper

J4Juliet autor
Ooh thank you for bringing that kit to my attention, that Fulvia is definately going on my wish list.

Michael Kohl
I fully feel with Mr D. Nice Stratos.

Rui S
Nice model 👍

George Williams
Great rally car, very nice model.

J4Juliet autor
Thank you both 🙂

George Williams
Nice Beemer.

George Williams
Another great rally at, nice work.

George Williams
Great little model of a Peugeot, they've made some great cars, I've owned and drive a 403, a 404,a 504,and a 205.

J4Juliet autor
Mr D, thanks for the tip. I've got a few Heller kits in my stash I'll try adding decal softener to the water if I run into similar problems again.

George, glad you liked the model. I've never actually driven a Peugeot, but given the number of cars I've driven is still in single digits that is not surprising. 😄

George Williams
It looks great.

J4Juliet autor
Thank you 🙂

David Bennett
Nice build, I've got a RS2000 kit for mine. What colour did you use on the wheels.

J4Juliet autor
Thanks, hope you have fun with your RS2000 build. The wheels here were one coat of chrome silver (Tamiya X-11) then when that was dry a coat of clear blue (Tamiya X-23).