My first Hasegawa kit! Well, kind of…I’ve actually had experience with the brand before, but not with any of their automotive kits. I actually hadn’t planned to build an R32 again so soon, but this one just happened to land in my lap as a gift from a friend who bought it in Japan.
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Tamiya Nissan Skyline GT-R [R34] Nismo Z-Tune [Rebuild]
Longtime readers will know that I tend to dislike building multiples of the same car. It’s a bit of a restrictive mindset, but there are still so many cars out there that I want to build in my own style, so it feels wasteful to spend my time and energy building say, three different R34 Skylines. The sort-of exception to…
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FuelMe Subaru WRX STi VARIS [Full Resin Kit]
I feel like I’ve been whining about the lack of a 1/24 VA chassis WRX/STi for a while now. Back when I first built the Aoshima GRB it was only because that was the most modern STi kit we got, and I wasn’t truly on board with the hatch body (which was all that was available, sans the sedan…
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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…
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Aoshima Nissan GT-R (R35) ’14 Pure Edition
Finally getting around to an R35 – I’ve been meaning to build the current GT-R for a while now, but kept getting sidelined by Skylines. Ironically, this isn’t a kit for myself – the president of my university’s car club drives a black 2013 R35, and he just so happened to have a lot of parts on his car that…
