Tamiya 1/24 Audi Quattro Rally

[kyledehart5]

Hey guys, Skip the words to get to the photos, which aren't very good. Showed up with some wavy looking decals that I can't even see in person. But that's ok I'm posting it anyways. The 1982 Acropolis Rally winning Audi Quattro of Michele Mouton. Good old Tamiya kit from 1983 and it build up nicely. The decals were shot so I bought a replacement set from Classic Racing Resins and they went on with no trouble. Lots of molded in detail as its sort of a half curbside kit. Chassis detail mostly molded in except for suspension and exhaust, and even the engine bay is mostly just a big plug that you have to detail paint. I did all that, managed to fire the distributor off my tweezers into another dimension. Never did find it and not having a collection of 5 cylinder distributors I just scratched one out of some bits of sprue and wired the plugs. Other than those bits it is mostly out of the box. I did some light weathering as if the race had just started and it wasn't too dirty yet. And I added the extra night driving light buckets with the covers. This was a bit of artistic license as most of my reference photos showed the daytime stages without having the buckets mounted and at night obviously the covers aren't on them. But I like how they look so I did it that way. Thanks for looking! Here's the photos

[Ben_B]

Gotta love those early ‘80s Audis! Great looking build!

Ben

[kyledehart5]

Nov 1, 2023 5:01:41 GMT -8 Ben_B said:

Gotta love those early ‘80s Audis! Great looking build!

Ben

Thanks Ben! Really enjoyable build. I’d do another one

[arcticwolf]

Nice job Kyle. One of the few examples where I'd rather have the model than the real car. It looks good!!

[kyledehart5]

Nov 1, 2023 19:33:28 GMT -8 arcticwolf said:

Nice job Kyle. One of the few examples where I'd rather have the model than the real car. It looks good!!

Thank you! I feel the same way. Lol. No way I’d ever buy one of these. But every now and then I want to build a rally car.

[afx]

Nice work Kyle. I have the Esci kit in the stash, slightly different body style.

[kyledehart5]

Nov 2, 2023 1:25:25 GMT -8 afx said:

Nice work Kyle. I have the Esci kit in the stash, slightly different body style.

Thank you!! I'm digging the Esci kit too. I'd build another of these in a different body style or livery. I enjoy the Rally builds, All two of them I have done so far. Lol

[Joel_W]

Kyle,
Very nice build on an old Tamiya Oldie but Goodie. I really like those bucket lights with covers as they add quite a lot to the over all visual look
joel

[Boreham]

Lovely build.
The Tamiya kit is great especially with some decent enough engine detail.

The Esci kit was later released under the revell banner (I bought a few back then) is a poor enough kit with thick A & B & C pillars.
www.scalemates.com/kits/esci-3026-audi-quattro-rally--160679

[kyledehart5]

Nov 2, 2023 5:43:39 GMT -8 Joel_W said:

Kyle,
Very nice build on an old Tamiya Oldie but Goodie. I really like those bucket lights with covers as they add quite a lot to the over all visual look
joel

Thank you!! I agree about the extra driving lights. Adds some interest to the front of any 80s hatchback. 

Nov 2, 2023 12:58:03 GMT -8 Boreham said:

Lovely build.
The Tamiya kit is great especially with some decent enough engine detail.

The Esci kit was later released under the revell banner (I bought a few back then) is a poor enough kit with thick A & B & C pillars.
www.scalemates.com/kits/esci-3026-audi-quattro-rally--160679

Thank you! Yeah a lot of detail painting in the engine bay but it still ends up looking the part pretty well. I didn’t even know the Esci kit was a thing before this thread. 

[sam]

I love a classic Rally car. Nice job 👍

[kyledehart5]

Nov 5, 2023 14:46:39 GMT -8 sam said:

I love a classic Rally car. Nice job 👍

Thanks Sam! Very much appreciated.

[Chris K. Hale]

Back in the day the Audi Quattro was King of the Rally circuit, so when I had the chance to buy a 2002 Audi A6 Quattro Gray Market car ( deep discount from the Mercedes dealer Yoli worked at) I jumped , it was so far advanced from anything on the market even being 8 years old, when I got it. Traction control, PDL semi auto trans , yup 3 ways to shift it, body sway control, auto adjusting headlamps that followed the dips and bumps in the road so they never blinded on coming traffic, rear fog lights, leather heated seats and steering wheel, All wheel drive 40/60 split. Outrageous Bose sound system ( something like 20 speakers?) and more. I drove it 10 years loved every minute , the 300 HP V-6 had enough power to make a few people look twice. I took it to the dealer and they went through the entire car making sure it was perfect when I started driving it. What a Car. Dont knock Audi's that car made the people at Mercedes Jealous! Everyone where Yoli worked was blown away. I bought it because of the Rally cars succes, well that was one reason....Chris

[kyledehart5]

Nov 6, 2023 8:46:57 GMT -8 Chris K. Hale said:

Back in the day the Audi Quattro was King of the Rally circuit, so when I had the chance to buy a 2002 Audi A6 Quattro Gray Market car ( deep discount from the Mercedes dealer Yoli worked at) I jumped , it was so far advanced from anything on the market even being 8 years old, when I got it. Traction control, PDL semi auto trans , yup 3 ways to shift it, body sway control, auto adjusting headlamps that followed the dips and bumps in the road so they never blinded on coming traffic, rear fog lights, leather heated seats and steering wheel, All wheel drive 40/60 split. Outrageous Bose sound system ( something like 20 speakers?) and more. I drove it 10 years loved every minute , the 300 HP V-6 had enough power to make a few people look twice. I took it to the dealer and they went through the entire car making sure it was perfect when I started driving it. What a Car. Dont knock Audi's that car made the people at Mercedes Jealous! Everyone where Yoli worked was blown away. I bought it because of the Rally cars succes, well that was one reason....Chris

I test drove an S4 once and it was a riot to drive. Every company makes vehicles that have issues. And I’d have bought the S4 but the maintenance records were spotty.

[tatocorvette]

Nice!
I always liked the look of those cars, especially his mad sibling, the Group B S1.