At first I was really about resisting the hype – the new GR Supra was the hot new thing in both the actual auto enthusiast world and in the modeler’s circle after Tamiya released their kit not long after the real car. Then Fugu Garage had to come out with their Pandem transkit almost immediately after. As to be expected,…
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Revell Fast and Furious Brian’s Mitsubishi Eclipse [Rebuild]
Not a kit I had originally planned to rebuild, but after surveying my current collection, Brian’s iconic Eclipse stood out as being a little below par with what I’m building today. As a bonus, I had just happened to come across this kit again at my local hobby shop for dirt cheap, so I figured it wouldn’t hurt to have…
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Fujimi Honda Integra Type R + EightyOne Anointed Aero Transkit
Here we go again – the first RSX I built many many moons ago never did really sit right with me. I had gone back and modified it more than once to get it looking where I wanted it, but in the end I decided to just go ahead and rebuild the entire car, this time with a resin widebody…
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Fujimi Mazdaspeed RX-8 A-Spec
I’ve always really liked these cars, even if the RX-8 lived most of its life being the little brother that just wasn’t good enough or as cool as its iconic predecessor, the RX-7. The factory fender bulge arches and insanely cool rear suicide doors spoke to me on a existential level. At one point I almost bought one, but…
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Jada 1973 Datsun 510 (Widebody) Jonsibal Custom
Diecasts and Jada aren’t really my thing – I’ve worked with them before, when I was just getting into model cars, but I realized they didn’t really fit in with the rest of my plastic collection because of their scale. They’re marketed as 1/24, but in reality are slightly larger, probably closer to 1/20. I like a lot of the…