Toyota Corolla WRC, 1999 Rally Portugal, #25 Volkan Isik

Hi guys!

here I am representing a freshly baked 1/18 rally car project

This time it's a special project for me being a Turkish. The importance of this model is that it belongs to a Turkish rally driver who competed in WRC in 1999.
You may heard of him from earlier years. I am talking about Volkan Isik. He is one of the most important rally drivers in the Turkish rally history with his many Championship titles and his biggest supports to the sports as a tutor, a tire developer and many other important signatures in the Turkish rallying.

I have the honor to share a common title with him which he is the first Turkish rally driver competed in the WRC while he also finished WRC China rally 6th in 1999.
after 9 years, I became the first ever Turkish rally driver competing in the China Rally Championship and China IRC rallies (finished 12th overall)

therefore, I decided to give a try with his Toyota Corolla WRC which he competed in 1999 WRC. I wish I could find some nice photos from WRC China and try to replicate the decals unfortunately, that was not possible. so I go a head with the 1999 Rally Portugal decals, which he finished the rally 7th overall.

He finished the 1999 WRC FIA Team's Cup 2nd place with his co-pilot Erkan Bodur.

http://www.ewrc-resu...final.php?e=125

http://en.wikipedia....pionship_season

1999 Rally Portugal review
watch him @ 14:57
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcN5tifMkQc[/media]

Toyota Corolla WRC
1999 Rally Portugal
Volkan Isik & Erkan Bodur
7th overall



I used a 1/18 scale AA Toyota Corolla WRC which I bought in second hand, decals removed.



first step was to get it primed, then paint, decals and finally Clear coated the model...







and here comes one of the most important models of my rally collection. I hope you guys will like it...



















hope you guys like the evil eye of my new collection



all the best
Omer

As usual, Omer, very impressive

cheers mate. thanks for that, glad you liked it!

That looks very nice Omer - top quality!

Superb model once again Omer, top quality job well done

Another great job.

beautiful model, very good paint job

Looks great

As always Omer, very very impressive!

thank you guys! I am so glad you all liked my new model!
I think this will be a special model in my collection.

Omer congrats, very good job again. You must be proud of making that special one. I hope this wont be the last turkish drivers model you made:)
Keep going on this way mate..

real real NICE !!

very nice looking corolla omer! interesting introduction. What car did you drive in the chinese rallyes?
you're based in china now? if so it must be easy to get models for cheap

Omer, another awesome build there! Always liked the Corolla wrc

thank you guys for the nice words. I am glad you all like it!

didcos wrote:very nice looking corolla omer! interesting introduction. What car did you drive in the chinese rallyes?
you're based in china now? if so it must be easy to get models for cheap

thanks mate!
I have driven a VW Golf 4 N2 and Subaru Impreza N4



and more on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/user/omeryetis77/videos


models in china, mmmm not that cheap any more, time to time if some stocks maybe...

Great build Omer

nice build indeed what is next on the bench?!

Fantastic as always Omer. Would love to see you workshop, there must be parts all over the place

cheers guys!

next on the bench? will be surprise

I guess I am a tidy guy not much around the desk besides the 100's of boxes and 10's of broken spare models...
I hope to take photo of my collection sometime soon and will try to catch some shots of the bench as well

thanks again guys