Audi Sport Quattro A2

First we start with some plastic surgery: replaced the Roof of the transkit Body with the roof of the Kitpart. Transkitpart is way too thick. That way the clearparts will Not fit... 

After glue and putty from transplanting the roof was cured, Little bit of sanding was required... 

Turned out ok. The casting from renaissance is of very good quality! Almost no airbubbles or flaws. 

The rollbar included in the Kit is far from being complete. So one has to build the missing section By using reference pictures from the Web from scratch. This is MK3, 1 and 2 did Not work out because my thinking was too complicated... 

A little mock-up to Check the stance of the chassis suspension: i think i will have to rise the height of the ride a little Bit for using graveltire setup. 

Raised Suspension for only 1mm. Gives the wheels a Bit More space in the wheelarches... 

Modified Kit suspension. 

Modified exhaust. 

Priming in the Name of... 

Paintjob in pure brilliant white (almost no difference to the Primercoat) 

Done a thing or two with the interior: first bended and testfittet some etched parts from the reji-model set... 

Then build a new gear shifter from scratch by reference of some pictures from the real thing. Not 100% but far better then the kit parts. Also changed position of the fire-extinguisher... 

Made some helmets by modifying the heads from driver and copilot figures of the kit as an addition for the interior. 

Rollcage MK4; final version. Ended up in scavenging the italeri Kit of the Audi Quattro for this project... 

Fits pretty good. Minor adjustments to the dashboard had to be done. Fits good as well... 

With some little adjustments the sidewalls of the italeri kit mated with the Tamiya cockpit tub perfectly... 

Main components of the cockpit are done. Little filling and sanding of ejectionmarks have to be done then cockpit will be ready for priming and painting. Did not intend to do a kitbash but what the heck. 

Put the decals on. Ran into some problems during that. Part of the decals where so brittle and stiff that they could not being applied. The big yellow stripes turned out to be useless because they fell apart when getting contact with water... 

So those had to be masked and painted. Other decals from the same sheet required a lot of decal softer to match the contours of the body shell while others worked perfectly. again: all decals came from the same sheet. Never experienced that before... 

Drivetrain, suspension, exhaust etc. where painted and mounted. Realized now that I forgot to fill the holes I drilled from rollbar attempts Mk1 - Mk3... bummer! Skid plate under the engine was scavenged from the italeri kit... 

Also added disc brakes from the italeri kit. Gives the wheels a wider stance. 

Clear cote (gunze mr. Super clear) was applied. This time I wil not polish it: Came out of the rattle can pretty smooth and I don’t want to achieve a show car Finish on this rally car.  

Window trim was also done by using Matt black decal stripes and free hand painting... 

On the seats I used zero textured paints and Kevlar decals... 

Dashboard painted after reverence pictures from the real thing. Instrument decals from the italeri kit and an reji model sheet. Steeringwheel also painted with zero textured paints... 

Interior was completed. No problems at all... 

Road book of mr. Geistdörfer (co pilot) from the spare box... 

Seat-belts from Scale production, seat-bealt clips from the reji-model etched sheet... 

Anti-glare shields made from scratch (blister pack and copper wire) 

Cowling painted and put in place... 

Clear parts where also installed. Had to cut out the rear window and glue it separately to achieve a good fit. Clear parts where glued in place by using 5 minute 2k epoxy glue just to make sure that they stay where they are supposed to. Rear wing was mounted using white glue (zero crystal clear). I tend to ruin the surface finish of my models when using super glue... 

Turn lights came from czech truckmodel. Looks so much better than just painted orange... 

Same thing with the reflectors on the rear...  

Been working on the wheels. One thing that bothered me was that the Tamiya kit has tyres with Kleber label but the actual car is spotting Michelin sponsor stickers... 

So the Kleber brandig has to go by use of 400 and 1000 grid Tamiya sanding sponge. Positive side effect: it takes the shine from the tyre walls... 

The rims from the Renaissance set are spotting holes for the tire valves so I added some... 

Finished wheels. Maybe I will add a little wash later (not quite sure yet) 

Auxiliary lights where glued together, primed and painted. Reflector painted with my trusty molotow felt pen. Quite fragile so this things will be glued in place as very last step when finishing the model... 

Rearlight was installed. Nothing fancy here: just Tamiya transparent red and orange and molotow chrome... 

Turn lights same procedure. Added some etched netting to the front end. Real car spots that too (the netting. Don’t think that it’s made from photo etch 😉) 

Engine was completed. Several details where added to the Kit parts. Used pictures from the real thing as reference. Side mirrors and towing hook where also added... 

Aaaaand: it’s done! 

In the last and final step small detail parts like bonnet locks, windscreen wipers etc. where added to the model... 

Auxiliary lights where glued on, antenna made of steel wire and mud flaps made from some blister pack has been installed. That’s pretty much it. Et violà! Will add more pictures of the finished model when there is better light... 

As promised a few impressions of the finished model... 

It resembles the 1984 Rallye Monte Carlo winner car from Audi Sport works team piloted by mr.
Walter Röhrl and his co Pilot mr. Christian Geistdörfer... 

„Der Lange“ has won the Rallye leading with 1:13 minutes before the 2nd placed Audi Sport Quattro A2 piloted by Blomquist/Cederberg... 

The audis dominated this Rallye by finishing 1st (Röhrl/Geistdörfer), 2nd (Blomquist Cederberg) and 3rd (Mikkula/Hertz), leading with a whopping 24:24 Minutes to 4th placed Renault 5 Turbo piloted by Thérier/Vial... 

Mr. Röhrl always stated that his four victories at the Rallye Monte Carlo where is most important achievements... 

A finished model is never perfect: the body shell is warped a little bit so the engine hood does not close perfectly. Could not figure out how to solve this issue... 

Overall I am quite happy with the result. 

It’s not a 100% but very close for my liking. 

Thanks for watching! 

Servus Walter!