LANCIA DELTA HF INTEGRALE

For starters - I did enjoy building this kit. I was a bit disappointed with the minimal detail that it includes. The interior has roll bars, but the dash and seats are pretty basic - the gauges being decals on a flat plate. The under tray has a nice skidplate, which hides the fact that there is no engine. The rear drive shaft and rear end gear is nicely done but again would benefit from more detail. For whatever reason you can build the driver door as pose-able - but I didnt, gluing it in place (and resulting in a nasty gap which I couldnt eliminate). The decals were a bit of a challenge. I have built tons of 1/24 nascar cars. Probably over 100. Working with decals on complex curves is no issue for me, and not foreign. These decals needed a massive amount of solvaset before settling down. Even then they were on the small size. If I was to build this again, I would copy the decals and make a paint mask from the decals (scanning and printing them to tape) and simply paint the red sections and use the rest. It would eliminate a lot of the issues I faced. In the end, it does build up to be a nice kit, which looks the part. I left the driver window out, so you can better see the (lack of) detail inside. Not for the faint of heart, but can be built up nicely. The kit would be a good base for someone looking to super detail a car as well - simply because its almost a blank slate to start.