Scale Technics Lancia Stratos

[BuggyDad]

7 hours ago, technics said:

Quick outdoor photos to keep motivation up and finish this monster up. ( looks amazing outdoors imo haha )

Just gorgeous. Love the period wheels and tyres and also how they sit in the arches. 

[technics]

@BuggyDad Yes thank you. For anything pre 90s it’s so appropriate to have really thick sidewall. It’s hard to achieve outside of m scale. But if you mount the VTA tires sort of outside of their normal way you can get a really wide sidewall look which I love and is fitting for the subject.

[Grumpy pants]

Absolutely superb in every way 👏

[technics]

Creeping forward with final touches to the body before cleanup and photograph. Great success was applying some tiny scale motorsport details and the few shut lines the stratos has with 1mm tape.

Discovered a rather large problem with mounting of the cockpit to body. Will need a complete rethink or even skip it.  “ Friction fit “ makes the shell undesirably warp in incorrect areas due to the angles of the interior to the cockpit surface so might make a static shelf or rail that keeps the interior upright.

[wolfdogstinkus]

Don't know if this has been suggested because I was just drooling over the pictures and skimmed through the text, 

Could you fit a mini servo under the pop up lights with a big egg shaped cam with enough lift to push each headlight up individually so you can wink the headlights. 

[technics]

@wolfdogstinkus Thank you. Yes that would be even next level awesome. Everything can be done of course with planning and quality execution. It’s far over my head of skill wise for the time being so I hard mounted them but I’d like to get to that point one day. Having said that this project has taken 16? months or so, I almost can’t look at it anymore 😂😂. 

[wolfdogstinkus]

I can relate to that!!, I started this on first lockdown only to be back in work 4 days later. Took me months!!!.

Then I left it for ages and came back and finished the VW badge to my liking and called it done. But it's supposed to have bumpers, full interior, roof rack and a few other details I omitted because I was seeing matchsticks, not just in my dreams but I think they were creeping into my peripheral vision by this stage, not to mention the mess I created everywhere, probably had bits of matchstick glued on my face for a week or something or in my hair, in my boots, socks, you get the idea. Lol. 

 

Great job on your shell though, it looks like a 1/1 in a lot of your pictures.

Someone more clever than us may plastic print pop up headlights if we push the idea enough. Lol

The VW was even supposed to have safari windows, maybe one day.......

[technics]

Final puzzle piece and a collection spread photo for builds of the future inspiration.

Final photos coming soon!

@Mokei Kagaku Wheels!

 

 

 

[technics]

Final moments of the build. My longest to date. I will go through all the final photos I took and post the cherry ones. Thank you for everyone that helped motivated this build and all builds for that matter. 

Tires are VTA 31mm rear 26mm front mounted backwards over the lip of the rim to get as much rubber visible as possible. 

Wheels were done using Tamiya pink primer followed by Vallejo red, and one coat of PS Brilliant red.

 

[GermanTA03Guy]

Great stuff ! Looks epic. Man what a Show that would be to Film this together with my zerotrentasette

[technics]

So here it is, the final post ( of this body build ) I have multiple Stratos´ in queue I will build so could just use this thread, a one stop ultimate Stratos Thread

Tamiya TRF419 chassis

Abc hobby Lancia stratos

Abc hobby mirrors

Killerbody Wiper set

M4 low profile wheel nuts

Generic magnet mount

Generic rally lamp set modified lenses

Killerbody led controller ( Correctly functioning brake lamps, or turn signals, can´t choose both. Doesn´t matter. Looks awesome imo! )

Generic electrical switches

Generic led

VTA tires

Rc racing legends wheels

Tamiya cockpit

Tamiya esc / motor Servo Pinion TRF servo arm

 

“One off” miscellaneous

Scratch drawn, made, outsourced decals

Scratch built cage

Scratch built rear lamp bucket

Scale production Flocking

Lots of Paint, Shims, Material, mistakes and clean up work

 

I have extra sets of decals if anyone´s keen to make a Pirelli inspired livery for their Lancia or other marque build! Printed professionally on transparent glossy vinyl.

[Nick G]

Simply stunning build ! Hats off to you sir.

[Aerobert]

Such a lovely car. Your work is incredible!

[technics]

@Aerobert @Nick GThank you! I’m excited to be finally done. That means I can start the next one . 

I am thinking It will be something along the lines of the following few inspiration images below. Dark metallic blue, black or a non obvious livery.

If I get more confident with scratchbuilding I will cut to separate the clamshells and have them magnetic / detachable with some sort of frame or cage under ☺️

[BuggyDad]

Simply stunning. If there was an awards thread for the best builds of the year 2023 this would surely be right up there on it. Maybe we should?

[technics]

@BuggyDad Wow thanks! I´m happy that there´s others that enjoy it as much as I do looking back at the pictures, has certainly been a journey!  

It´s all about 2024 now no dwelling on the past  Thanks for your kind words, it is motivating.

 

[bRIBEGuy]

So good!

[technics]

Shrunk my Lancia down to 1/64. Absolutely love the detail, scale, and that it rolls. Perfect for the workplace. 

CM’s 1/64

Did I get one of each rally build I’ve done since 2020? Maybe….. 

Nice little reminder and motivator! I don’t have any rcs out if I’m not directly building or using it as I only see flaws.

 

[technics]

Let´s go ahead and continue the stratos subject in one spot. Anyone that likes the subject will appreciate the thread anyway.

 

Lancia Stratos in 210mm M scale

A continuation of my Lancia projects this time in M scale.

 

Body

ABC Hobby Lancia Stratos

210 mm

 

Chassis

XM1S with 17.5T combo

 

Xpress XM1S is a incredibly tightly packed chassis and package. I think their stuff is an incredible value I picked this one up a while back, re worked some of the wiring and adapted it to accept the stratos body as a placeholder.

The body itself is of better proportions and overall robustness then the 1:10 version. It suffers visually in the rear a bit but it´s still really exciting as a whole for me. It´s nearly a square. I love it. I will be going for a single colour this time.

Looking mainly at LB replicas as inspiration - Lime, Yellow, Metallic blue, Black, Gunmetal.

 

I´m considering re creating a satin finish working both sides of the lexan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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