Richard Burns

Trofeu brought out a Group N 1995 Safari Impreza WRX in 2019. This is fairly difficult to find allready

1995 Safari Subaru Impreza WRX Richard Burns by Zeus, on Flickr

Another 1995 issue this was part of a Trofeu 3 car 95 Network Q podium set..this car & event combo is also available from Corgi

1995 WRC Round 08 Network Q RAC #06 Subaru Impreza 555 Richard Burns by Zeus, on Flickr

1996 was a Breakthrough year, the first outright win on a APRC round, Rally New Zealand against strong competition. HPI really excelled on this, the Rothmans logos arent HPI but complete the look. Hard to find in Europe easier to source overseas & you have to gamble on potential import duty.

1996 New Zealand Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution III Richard Burns by Zeus, on Flickr

The final general release for the moment is the Ixo 1998 Ralliart Champions meeting car. Available as a standard Ixo issue & as a Ixo Japanese importers edition.

1998 Ralliart Champions Meeting Mitsubishi Lancer Evo V Richard Burns by Zeus, on Flickr

Lets get posting some code 3s. Heres on I bought from Startup, sold to someone on here or the old forum then bought another at Race Retro in the auto jumble.

1993 WRC Round 13 Network Q RAC #10 Subaru Legacy RS Richard Burns by Zeus, on Flickr

One of the first personal code 3 models. Safari 94 Impreza WRX RA. Based on a Trofeu Njiru car with Racing 43 decals. I could do it better but its a keeper for sure.

1994 WRC Round 03 Safari Subaru Impreza WRX RA Richard Burns by Zeus, on Flickr

No 1995 code 3 yet but made up for it with 3 1996 cars. Ok they are based on the Altaya casting but they are cheaper than the HPI cars. First up Argentina, was a nice one to do. Had a set of Virages decals to do the Makinen Safari car but I got disracted. May have to get another set to do that one day

1996 WRC Round 05 Argentina #08 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III Richard Burns by Zeus, on Flickr

Second 1996 code 3 was the Australia car. This was a real pain. I almost threw it in the bin a few times. Still not happy with it. But learnt a load of new things building it, not just swear words

1996 WRC Round 07 Australia #08 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III Richard Burns by Zeus, on Flickr

In chronologic event order the last 1996 car is the Catalunya car. Happy with this as it was bare shell & I painted it all including masking the whole car to do the front bumper. Nice challenge.

1996 WRC Round 09 Catalunya #08 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III Richard Burns by Zeus, on Flickr

Lets go to 1997. Another of my early ventures into code 3 building. Big Safari fan so was a no brainer to make this.

1997 WRC Round 03 Safari #02 Mitsubishi Carisma GT Evo IV Richard Burns by Zeus, on Flickr

This Acropolis car is really nice. I had it as a Christmas present a couple of years back. No clue who converted it but its impressive

1997 WRC Round 08 Acropolis #02 Mitsubishi Carisma GT Evo IV Richard Burns by Zeus, on Flickr

One that would stand out in the cabinet... if I had it on display. Rally Australia looked great in the Winfield colours

1997 WRC Round 13 Australia #02 Mitsubishi Carisma GT Evo IV Richard Burns by Zeus, on Flickr

My favourite conversion in my whole collection. reminds me of standing in the fog in Radnor waiting for Didier & Richard appeared with just the sidelights on. great memorys

1997 WRC Round 14 Network Q RAC #02 Mitsubishi Carisma GT Evo IV Richard Burns by Zeus, on Flickr

1998 Richards first full season & first conversion is from the season opening Monte Carlo. Richards first attempt & finished a creditable 5th overall

1998 WRC Round 01 Monte Carlo #02 Mitsubishi Carisma GT Evo IV Richard Burns by Zeus, on Flickr

The Swedish Rally is allways a good event for spectators. I made this with Ixo wheels, a Racing 43 decal sheet, Altaya partwork base, flat roof vent made from a Hot wheels blister card & event logos for a Escort WRC. The final result is great though.

1998 WRC Round 02 Sweden #02 Mitsubishi Carisma GT Evo IV Richard Burns by Zeus, on Flickr

Fairly easy conversion, simply source a Makinen Catalunya 98 car & apply the different logo's from the Microspeed sheet

1998 WRC Round 05 Catalunya #02 Mitsubishi Carisma GT Evo V Richard Burns by Zeus, on Flickr

The latest conversion in my collection. But as we are doing it in chronologic event order its up next. Simply get a Argentina 98 car & convert, but it want that easy. Then you gotta find Acropolis decals, only took 5 years to find those.

1998 WRC Round 08 Acropolis #02 Mitsubishi Carisma GT Evo V Richard Burns by Zeus, on Flickr

Another one made from unobtainium. Luckily I found a Toyota WRC decal set for the New Zealand event logos

1998 WRC Round 09 New Zealand #02 Mitsubishi Carisma GT Evo V Richard Burns by Zeus, on Flickr

This Finland car turn out much better than expected. I messed up removing the decals so had to paint all the red. then the Mitsubishi logos were from Microspeed & the event logos from a Seat sheet

1998 WRC Round 10 Finland #02 Mitsubishi Carisma GT Evo V Richard Burns by Zeus, on Flickr

Another that looked simple, but wasnt. The easy bit was swapping the chassis with the 97 GB car. Luckily there were multiple sets of these Sanremo decals available at the time

1998 WRC Round 11 Sanremo #02 Mitsubishi Carisma GT Evo V Richard Burns by Zeus, on Flickr

Final 98 car I have completed at the moment is the Australia car. Looked like a simple conversion but trying to remove the door squares to put the blanks on the rest decided to peel off, so I stripped it down to plain red & applyed the full Microspeed sheet. Well happy with this. The challenge was worth it.

1998 WRC Round 12 Australia #02 Mitsubishi Carisma GT Evo V Richard Burns by Zeus, on Flickr

1999 so start at Monte Carlo again. Fairly easy to convert a Kankkunen car with some Racing 43 decals

1999 WRC Round 01 Monte Carlo #05 Subaru Impreza WRC98 Richard Burns by Zeus, on Flickr

Along with the Monte Carlo cars at the same time I bought a Racing 43 Safari decal set. Luckily at the time base models were easy to source

1999 WRC Round 03 Safari #05 Subaru Impreza WRC 98 Richard Burns by Zeus, on Flickr

Ok I could have bought the HPI finland car, but it would have looked out of place. So I made this with some Peugeot 206 decals sourced on ebay

1999 WRC Round 10 Finland #05 Subaru Impreza WRC99 Richard Burns by Zeus, on Flickr

One I really enjoyed doing. Rally China, the only time Richard drove a Impreza WRC with full tobacco livery. Decals from Virages & event logos from a CB Com Toyota

1999 WRC Round 11 China #05 Subaru Impreza WRC99 Richard Burns by Zeus, on Flickr