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Nice job on a problem child kit. Looks great!

Way to wrestle this one to the ground. Very nice execution on a very cool classic Le Mans winner!!!!

The cacophony was truly amazing. A wide range of decibels and pitches depending on whether straight sixes, V8s, V10s, V12s, and Rotary engines. The Wankels really screamed!

Thanks Jim. The livery pays ohmage to Japanese sportswear brand Renoun. And yes, it sure is bright!

Thanks Claude. Can't wait for your next creative project. Happy modeling!

I really enjoyed building this 1/24 scale Tamiya kit box stock. Of course, I had to add a few PE parts, plug wires and plumb the engine, add some after-market decals, and various paints and finishes. Starting with Tamiya Fine Surface Primer and Mr. Surface 1000 Gray, I used many of the usual Testors automotive brush paints, plus Rust-oleum Chrome Metallic Finish spray, and duplicated the iconic race car’s paint scheme with Tamiya TS-22 Light Green and TS-96 Florescent Orange and topped it all off with TS-13 Clear. No one expected Mazda 787B-002 to be competitive. After all, the relatively small Japanese manufacturer had been competing in the most grueling endurance race on the planet, the 24 Heures du Mans, for 20 years with few positives. But in 1991, with a lot of stick-to-it-iveness, creative engineering, a clever interpretation of the rulebook, and a little luck, No. 55 became one of my favorite race cars for these three reasons. First, it would become the first Japanese car to win the prestigious race. Second, this 787B-002 has been the only pistonless rotary internal combustion engine-powered race car to make to victory circle. And, Thirdly, and most importantly, I was there to see it live! Thanks for looking…

Very cool! The host of modifications and details are impressive and the build clean and tight. You turned a Left Turn Fender Slapper into a sophisticated 24 Heures du Mans contender. Well done!

Cool subject matter this one. Faithfully recreated and a great job to boot!

That is one clean mean machine! Nice job and excellent detail!!!

Exzellent! Looks like she just rolled off the Wolfsburg assembly line.

Now yer talking! Nice job. Cool 57!!!!

Nice job! You nailed it!!!!!

Very nice job! It sure does look like this baby would be a handful through the traps. Love them short wheelbase Altereds!!!

Love em! Nice jobs. Classic Gassers are my favorite NHRA cars. Here's my collection (so far).

Excellent! Great job on the paint, decals, and a super clean built. Well done!!!!

Very nicely done! Brings back memories of watching "Dyno" Don run at Mid-America Raceway in 1966 (except I believe that was in Eliminator I). Thanks for thew memory jolt!

Nice job! Paint looks great and a really clean build. I usually don't go for clear parts (for other than windows) but your execution and color matching is superb and it looks spectacular. I love it!

Just goes to show what a little, make that a lot, of sticktoitiveness can render. Nice job!

Well done! Excellent detailing!! Very cool!!!

Another winner from your wild and crazy imagination. Well done!

But after the pics....I did paint two of the spots red....so technically I only missed two decals.

Thanks...and....I had zero parts and only three tiny decals left over. Sometimes I get a little dizzy staring at the well documented Tamiya instruction book!

They, and most modern Le Mans car sure aren't pretty but the technology is amazing!

As a brief respite from the usual hair-pulling, skull-scratching, cross-eyed inducing kitbash project, I decided to build Tamiya's 1/24 scale Le Mans-winning Gazoo Racing Toyota TS050 Hybrid. No. 8 was driven to victory in 2018 by Sebastien Buemi, Kabuki Nakajima, and Fernando Alonso. Love these Tamiya kits! Thanks for looking.

I do cause its way cool! Very nice clean build!!!