Delta Integrale, Hasegawa, 1/24 ***FINISHED***

[mattbacon]

...this was supposed to be a quicky! Very nice Hasegawa curbside kit of a car I nearly bought back when I was 25. The complete lack of service history, registration document and cracked windscreen put me off.... I don't know why ;-P. But I wish I had (it was only £2500 in 1990...) if it was throwaway money!

Interior is simple, and easy...




Primer, German Grey, then drybrushed with Citadel Shadow Gray and Necronomicon Grey.

Neat dashboard with a bit of detail painting:




Nice, a bit simplified, chassis goes together well with basic painting...



now this to deal with:

The clear coat has leached the red dye out of the plastic, through the primer and yellow base coat,. So I have to see whether isopropyl alcohol will fetch the clear-coat and base yellow coat off. I'm reliably assured that it will, so we'll see what happens next week while I soak the plastic in IPA for several days...

Annoyingly, I think this would have been finished in a weekend if it hadn't been for the body screw-up!

Anyway, good to have a "quicky" there or thereabouts...

bestest,
M.

[JamesPerrin]

That's what you get for painting it yellow. Deltas are meant to be red.

[general rocket]

Nice job on the dash board.

[mattbacon]

Ta, chaps! @JP.... it's staying yellow, 'cos otherwise I have to disassemble and repaint the underside as well! And anyway, the one I nearly bought was yellow, and I like it... now if it was a Ferrari, it'd be a different story.



Finishing touch for the cabin: seat belts. The belts themselves are etched brass, and nicely textured, though you can't see it. The idea is that they are "sprung" slightly outwards, and will slide up the inside B pillar and look as if they are attached as the body goes on over the chassis. That's the plan, anyway...



...and I think we can safely conclude that IPA does indeed strip Zero 2K clear and base coat! It's tenaciously hanging on in the seams where the coloured clearcoat gathered and is thicker, but I hope that if this is where we are after 24 hours, by Thursday evening when I'm back home it will have even stripped those last corners. It doesn't seem to be having any effect on the Tamiya Fine Surface Primer, mind, so my sealer may have to go on top of that!

bestest,
M.

[jssel]

Matt, you are inspiring me to try another car kit. Almost anyway.

[iggie]

Crikey!! I thought for a moment you were using good bitter to paint strip and then re-read your earlier post to see that IPA is (for this purpose anyhow...) Isopropyl Alcohol!

[mattbacon]

If you're drinking IPA that's not a lovely pale golden brown colour, then you're quaffing the wrong stuff!





Well, that's the running gear all done. Not so many parts, but I think it does the job -- it certainly looks like the pictures of the "ordinary" Integrales I've found, if not the "550BHP Sprint car" which has been more than a bit "fettled..."




I think this is about as far as this goes until the body is fully cooked, sealed, primed, base coated and clear coated... again ;-P

bestest,
M.

[JohnRatzenberger]

The IPA comment scared me for a minute, but then I remembered I drink stout or dark ale and don't have to worry ...

You do seem to be developing a yellow/black trend here ....

[Clashcityrocker]

Looking great so far.

Nigel

[splash]

That's what you get for painting it yellow. Deltas are meant to be red.

Or white with Martini adverts and stripes

Lots still for sale going for between £20,000 - £50,000 + so your 1990 car would have been a good investment

[Dazzled]

A workmate of mine owns one. He's had it for ages and done huge amounts to it to keep it looking good. Not a bad investment though.

[mattbacon]

It does make you wonder why anyone buys a new car, when there are thousands of "classics" out there that you can buy, keep, maintain and still sell them for more than you've spent on them altogether 5 years on...

And you've been driving a Jag XJ, a Merc S600 or a Bentley Mulsanne for 5 years instead of a Mondeo...

Bestest,
M.

[ShaunW]

Great work Matt. The main reason I didn't buy a Lancia of any description back in the 80's, although I liked them, was the fact that they seemed to turn to rust every time it rained. That and the electrical issues my mate had with his 2000 HPE

[mattbacon]

Thanks, all... This has taken a while, but now I'm back where I started!


Stripped, sanded, coated with sealer (the greeny-yellow stuff), primed again in white, shut lines washed in black with Citadel wash, and finally repainted in the Zero yellow base coat. It is rougher than it would have been if I'd got it right first time, here and there, but it's a balancing act between getting it completely smooth and sanding away the surface detail you want in some places...




...and just in case anyone was wondering why I like the Zero 2K system, despite the fact that it's poisonous and a real faff to clean up after, this is it. I've done no polishing at all on the roof or bonnet here. Not even had to take out the odd dust mark... Bearing in mind that there's satin black trim to go all over the place, but especially around the windows, I'm pretty happy how this has turned out straight out of the spray booth. There's no red bleed anywhere, except for one small and inexplicable circular spot on the rear bumper...

bestest,
M.

[TimJ]

Excellent work so far Matt. Good to hear the paintwork turned out OK second time around.