Okay, I know what a lot of you are thinking. You're thinking to yourself, "Self, this doesn't really look too much different from what he posted yesterday." Well, you would pretty much be right on that account. I started applying all of the basic stickers that came with the kit to see where that put me -- windshield banners, hood and front end detail, door handles, etc.
After looking at the remaining available stickers, I decided that I didn't really want to use them, because a) they were more like a rally car, and b) they were a fluorescent green that didn't really go with the red/white paint. I pretty much stuck with white stickers, of which I decided to use only two on the rear and the pig on the driver's side view mirror.
For the headlights and tail lights, I went in search of ready-made light buckets. I found that a guy on the RC Dori forums mounted some in his Subaru, but even with the info he provided me, I couldn't locate any. I search Yokomo's US and Japan sites, but neither even listed them as available any more. Even eBay didn't turn up anything. To be perfectly honest, I don't really see me being able to fabricate even a semi-reasonable facsimile of the light units as depicted by the stickers. So with that in mind, I went ahead and put the stickers on the car. I figure if I do get the LED kit, I'll either mount the LED behind the sticker and leave it like that, or I'll drill enough of a hole to poke the LED through, and glue it in place.
I liked the overall simplicity of the graphics and thought that to add any large scale graphics typically seen on sponsored drifters would take away from it rather than add. So out goes the Year of the Boar/Ram idea, and in comes Minimalist.
At this point, the only additional change to the appearance that I'm going to make will be in the wheels, but that may not be for a while. For now, I'm going to take it out to some smooth concrete and see if I can get it going slidewayz! Catch ya on the drift!
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