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peacher - see you replied to the Was It You thread! - I also use Stevie Walker, he's done some minor work on my red blobeye and i've always been happy with the work.

Definitely an improvement Brian - could you only get those new wheels in 16" though?

This one I took this afternoon, can see the springs have settled a wee bit since yesterday.

Colzo that's technical stuff mate !! I know there was Prodrive geometry settings came with the springs though Kev did say he didn't set them exactly as stated as they may be too harsh regarding tyre wear. It all goes right over my head

Looking superb

Duncan at Hypertech is good at all the oily bits on Subarus.

Hypertech

Unit 13

Bonnybridge Ind Estate ,

Murnin Road,

Bonnybridge,

Falkirk

FK4 2BW

Telephone : 01324 812 212

Welcome to the club by the way!

LOLZ - na, in all honesty I was browsing the PistonHeads forum at the same time, and there is thread on there about Motivational Posters. Inside that thread there was link to an american site called TampaRacing.com, which has a thread over 100 pages long full of these sometimes funny but mostly crap motivational posters.

Must make sure the door is unbolted this evening. Wahey!

man-with-men in his new company car - his special friends have all came along for a ride

See if there's any post for me if your in there?

I nearly said 'any mail'. Oh what laughs we would have had if i'd said that.

Oh no he's back.

Already been posted mate, yesterday (How fast can you transform your scoob)

http://forums.sidc.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=120301

That Lotus Cortina would do me. And maybe the Sunbeam too.

Finally some pictures I took tonight after adding the reg plates, sunstrip etc

Comments (like "yer aff yer nut") welcome!

Some shots of the model completed in the Netherlands

As some of you may know I have a hobby - I collect 1:18 scale models of cars. I tend only to collect models of the cars I would actually purchase if I had the cash – I have loads of old Fords (Mk2 escorts etc) and over 20 Porsches. Since my wee daughter is now just about at the crawling stage most of the models are now in our loft, back in their original boxes. And there they shall remain until Neve is old enough to appreciate them!

Anyway – I digress. About 2 years ago I started looking around on the model forums to see if there was anyone interested in making me a 1:18 scale model of my Impreza, since I knew I didn’t have the skill to do it myself.

I got in contact with a guy from Edinburgh - he seemed keen, and after sending him some money he started emailing me pictures of his progress. Unfortunately after a few months he lost his job and split up with his partner, so he lost all interest in my model.

Disheartened, I left it for a nearly a year before I tried again, and this time a guy called Firoz from the Netherlands was interested. I sent him the money to purchase the model to be used as the base – an AutoArt 1:18 white STI, which only comes in the JDM guise with the rear wash-wiper.

This model was chosen as the base because it already has the front bumper STI sideskirts that my car has, along with the high-level rear bootlid spoiler that matches my road car.

I sent Firoz pictures of my car and we discussed via email what could & couldn’t be done – some mods on my road car would be easy to transfer into 1:18 scale and others he wasn’t confident about. We kept in touch via email for 10 months and he sent me regular updates of his progress, and at the start of this week I received the model below!

Ok, close up the detail isn’t quite perfect (nor did I expect it to be for the price I paid for Firozs’ time & materials) but it’s probably as close a representation of my road car as I could ever expect. The only thing I would add to it (if I knew how) was the tinted windows, which Firoz didn’t do.

Although Firoz did 95% of the work (spraying the entire shell 22G Subaru red, adding the front lip spoiler & the roof spoiler, mudflaps, white wheels etc) I added the sunstrip, the reg. Plates and the front mesh grille.

Some pics of the base model

Adding the front lip spoiler

Moulding the spoiler on the roof

Some before and after interior shots

Painting the wheels white

Painting the shell and assembly started

Wish i'd have known earlier what was happening with my job and I might have joined in with the gathering all the way to prodrive.

Just got to get the neons on and it'll be ready fro Banbury

Nice one - what colour are you going for?

Hullo there & welcome to the forum

Found this on b3ta & thought it was amusing

Nice. Very nice

Do they do white with a red lip?

What springs are you going for?

http://www.scoobyparts.com/acatalog/Stickers.html

Used Scooby Parts before for some graphics and they were really quick - they do lots of colours too.

Dunno about the badge though. Maybe buy a touchup pen for Halfrauds and go over the pink really carefully?

Very nice Mike

Looking forward to seeing some pics of it out the showroom.

Hullo there & welcome to the forum

I think there's an Edinburgh SIDC meet next week if you fancy meeting some of the other members on here - see the events section.

Please do not shout at me if the answer to my question is already within the 16 pages!

I am not able to take part in the convoy but I would like to come up to Lanark on the morning of the 30th before everyone sets off down the M74.

Do I need any kind of sticker to be allowed into the Market car park or do I need to 'book in' or anything?