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Looks great.

The old Civic has to he my #1 favorite car and I was so excited when I learned Hasegawa was doing a kit and even more excited when I saw the race versions with lowered suspension and other extra bits. This is the first time I have ever built any kind of race car and it was a blast. Super fun build with a few small fiddly bits but worth every second! Thanks for looking.

This is a great kit by Tamiya and still quite affordable compared to many of today's kits. Now if Tamiya would bring back some of the NSX race car kits, I would be a happy guy. I completely agree, both with the kit and with owning the car. I would serious consider one if I had the coin. I would park it next to my restored 86 CRX (if I had the coin!) ? Thank you Thanks! It is kind of hard to tell from the photos because it is a metallic but this is the smoothest paint I have done to date. The sanding and polishing came out amazing. I can only hope to keep up this level of paint. Thank you!

I have always loved this car and was happy when I got the kit but it has been sitting around until I thought I had a little more skill to give it some justice. That time is now! (obviously) I was super happy with this kit and honest it is some of my best paint work (with a can) and until I had an issue with installing the glass, everything was going perfect. Some of the glue for the glass ran out and ruined a bit of the roof in the drivers side. I almost cried but I figure it is just a model and there are many more to come. Otherwise super happy with the results. Tamiya TS-40 metallic black went on awesome and is covered in 3 layers or Mr. Hobby clear! Sanded and polished to a smoothness I have yet to achieve before. Thanks for looking!

That ferrari is over the top and your build thread was really something to follow. So much to learn and appreciate. Can only thank you over and over for sharing your process. That celica is a real beauty. I'd say you had a good 2020 with what you were able to complete and you are an inspiration to other builders such as myself.

Incredible. Amazing work.

Thank you. I have seen a few of these in the last year but not many at all. It is a shame, it is a very cool looking car and actually a pretty good kit considering its age. I have a few more kits that I now want to open the doors on. Lol. I find the difficulty with opening doors is not the door itself or the hinge but the doorjambs. Sculpting and styrene is not my thing. Thank you so much for the compliments. I have no idea of the rear actually opened that way or not but it was easier then trying to open it the other way! Haha The doors did present some challenge, mostly around the front wheel well as there is zero structure there under the body so a bunch of fabrication needed to be done. It is still not quite correct but it is good enough to get by!! Haha I have been happy with the Corvette concepts that Revell has done. I have an aerovette that will be done early 2021 sometime as well. I believe the silver one ended up being painted red with a slightly updated interior from the first concept and then the second one was built which is now at the Corvette museum. There is a great video on YouTube from the museums that really shows the interior. The Revell kit is clearly the second car as the interior is quite different from the first, especially the steering column display and stalks. Either way, I do have another kit on hand that will end up silver. Not sure I will open the doors on it as well but I will cut the roof again for sure. I did also build the Stingray III not that long ago. I really enjoyed this one and things it looks really impressive not in purple. I think Revell did 3 different corvette concepts? Pretty good on them to be honest! I like the CERV III and wish they did a kit of that as well but alas, nothing. Guess I can understand with the Indy being so close, the need to move on to other kits was needed. Thanks for saying. I appreciate it. Not sure why I started with this one but I am pretty happy with the results. The glass was not bad. I used Tamiya's engraver blade and the glass pretty much came apart on its own! I do like the look without the extra glass a lot more also I build the aerotech a short while ago and was pretty disappointed it was more of a race car then a street car. I love the design but the inside was not really what I was looking for. I had no idea when I bought the kit online. Still, cool car for sure and I do like the engine set up. I also build the Banshee not long ago. The Banshee had a few issues and I do have another in my stash that I will try again for sure, this time with opening doors, to go along with my Indy. Thanks for checking it out, and your cements! Thank you. I would love to see more of this one and other cool 90s era Revell kits. They did some pretty interesting stuff in that time. Unlike Revell now. Kinda boring.... IMO or course.

Thank you It was worth the effort I think! Thanks! Thank you. Thanks. I have seen a few in the last year on some of the Facebook groups I am in but only 2 that I can recall. It is actually a really nice kit and I have another that I am thinking of a few things I can do with it to build it again. Not sure I would do the doors again...maybe. Thanks! Thank you. The doors were a challenge but worth the experience.

I don't know why I thought my first attempt at cutting out doors would be a good idea with this kit. It is a super complicated door and the body ends up in all kinds of parts and piece but hey, I did it and I actually finished it as well. I do love this kit and this car and likely I will do another one in the future with likely without the complicated doors but we will see... For the most part this is a great and simple kit and actually ends up as a lovely piece for the shelf. Full build on my YouTube channel. Thanks for looking.

very cool. Love the little engine going on there.

First of all I want to thank @matthijsgrit for pointing me in the direction of C1 Models. When I saw the Shooting Brake Camaro on their site, I knew I had to have it. Something about a wagon...gets me every time. This is the Camaro Shooting Brake concept by C1 Models on a AMT platform. The resin body was super easy to work with and C1 does a great job portraying this very cool looking car. Full build on my YouTube channel. Thanks for looking!

The figures are pretty bad. lol but I thought that may as well build them to go with the very old kit as well. I don't think I will be displaying it with the figures in it. haha. It is certainly a small car, no question. I think it is more like the car is 1/25 scale and the figures are 1/24 scale, they are not too far off but they are still slightly too big for the car. Still it was fun painting them. Never done figures before so it was a new experience. I will be doing more for certain. Thanks so much!

The bigger wheels look really good on there. I like what you have done with this.

Just the Revell kit with a few of my own touches. It is not exact like the movie car as the interior is missing a few things like the NOS bottle but good enough. Not a bad kit. Goes together well. Full build available on my YouTube channel.

Love it. This is very much on my radar to build and this double confirms my desires.

Thank you. Haha, yeah the figures are.... Well, they are anyway. I have never done figures before and these are simply a front and a back. They have huge holes all over and their poses are weird, not even mentioning that I have no idea how to paint faces. Lol. Thanks for saying. I would love to see more of these built. It is a unique and interesting car. Thanks! The reds inside are a Vallejo color and some rustoleum spray for the seats. The exterior is Tamiya can primer and then a mix of Tamiya chrome silver and clear blue in a ratio of about 8 to 1. It is clear coated with tamiya ts13. Hope that helps.

I wonder if you could actually flip it all on the full size... Interesting. Thank you. I love it. I was very back and forth on the canopy but eventually felt the stepped version wouldn't look as good on the super low look as it does on the regular height. Canopies are hard to come by. Hate to not use them. ? I got mine from then US and then not even a month later they showed up at several Canadian retailers. I could have saved myself some money. Haha. I am sure importing them anywhere else would be costly. Shame as it is a pretty fun kit to build. Thank you. If you shaved down the fenders and found some steels for it you could get super close. Of course the engine would be wrong but you could do curbside and do a simple stock exhaust. I think it is doable with a little extra work.

In awe..... ?

This is just outstanding. The imagination and ability to visualize...beyond words.

OMG I had no idea. I had to go and look at the box when I read this. Really made me laugh out loud. I serious thought it went on that way. Rarely when I build do I use the instructions so somethings things like this happen. It looked right so I figured it was right. No more than usual for styrene. Nothing complicated to work with. I did find it a hassle trying to put the body to frame and the box to frame because you have to bend out the body to get it to fit. Haha.. See above reply. I had no idea. Lol. I got lucky and it kinda worked.

Thanks for your compliments guys! I really appreciate it. This was way more fun to build then it should have been! ??

I will agree 100%. I owned a few of the first gen CRXs. Nice! I never had a 2nd gen but always liked them, maybe not as much as the 1st gen tho! ? Build away! It is actually a fairly easy build with only a few pieces for the undercarriage and a decent interior. The hardest part is doing all that black rubber bits on the body! ?

That two tone... *drool*

Thank you! Thanks, appreciate it. Thank you! Thanks for watching! I actually enjoy making the videos almost as much as I enjoy making the kits. Thank you. If you look at photos of the real car and the replica that was made (the original was scraped in 1958 or something) and you can see how bad the scale is on this. Revell cared nothing for scale at this point in their carrier. The hubcaps are laughable, it is missing tons of trim, (yet they put those terrible stars right on a seam line) and those figures are just enormous. It looks OK next to some of my other 1/25 scale stuff until you put those figures in there and then it just looks silly. Clearly this was made at a time when models were created as kids toys more than a serious representation of the original. Still, it was a fun yet challenging build. Yeah, when I first opened the kit my thought was WTF? These pieces don't even fit! But I spent some time going over all the pieces and thinking about how I could make it work. Clearly you had to do the inside first, there really was no way around that so once you got it together, some putty, some sanding and voila. Shame about the side stars, no way I could recoup them and there was no way I was going to try and scratch build them! ?

Thanks Kurt. I agree, brings a touch of real. Yes, the fujimi kit. There are two versions you can find, the one with only the stock tires and this one with the sport rims. This one seems a little harder to find but worth it for the rims IMO. Thank you.