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Thanks for the welcome, Dennis.

Thanks for the welcome, John. When building a NASCAR kit, I used to have a hard time because of the limited materials available. Nowadays, we can get a lot of information through the Internet, which is really convenient.

Thanks, Joe. I too enjoy seeing all of your wonderful models.

Thanks, Jim. I'm glad I polished it up before posting.

Well, I'll end my introduction by showing you another kit I built. This JO-HAN "Superbird" is the oldest kit I have in my collection of completed kits, built probably about 35 years ago. I made some modifications to the roll cage and instrument panel, and cut the wheel arches to fit racing tires. I waxed and polished it for this photo, but it is not so beautiful. The next kit to be built is either Camaro (#9 Chase Elliott) by Salvinos, OLDS (#33 Harry Gant) by MONOGRAM, or BUICK REGAL (#11 DW).

Thanks for the welcome, Trevor, Mario, Jim, Noel Smith. Having discovered this site, my desire to build NASCAR model kits has grown even greater.

Thanks for the welcome, everyone. I'm glad I visited this site, even though my English is not very good. First, here are some of the kits I have made. They are all just assembled straight from the kits.

I am Japanese and live in Tokyo, Japan. I built my first plastic model more than 50 years ago, and since then, plastic modeling has been one of my most important hobbies, almost uninterrupted. I have built models of many genres, including airplanes, ships, science fiction characters, and automobiles, but I am especially fond of racing cars, especially NASCAR stock cars. I was first drawn to stock cars as a child when I watched the "Daytona 500" on Japanese television, where large American cars raced around an oval track in a scene that was indescribably cool. In the past, and still today, NASCAR fans are in the minority in Japan. In the past, it was not easy to obtain AMT, MPC, or JO-HAN stock car kits, and there were few books to serve as documentation. Later, when I purchased a NASCAR kit released by MONOGRAM in 1983, I was impressed by the greatly improved reproduction of the body, chassis, and interior all, and since then, I think I have purchased more than 100 kits including those from manufacturers other than MONOGRAM. And now, with the spread of the Internet environment, it has become easier to obtain not only NASCAR kits but also numerous decals and afterparts, and to view many wonderful examples, videos, and images of actual cars, making it possible for me, a Japanese citizen, to enjoy NASCAR in Japan in a much more fulfilling environment. I am very happy to be able to enjoy NASCAR in Japan. I will do my best to introduce my kit in the Model Cars Magazine Forum here. In addition, I am running a web site about my hobby, which has contents summarizing NASCAR kits. If you are interested, please take a look. However, since it is written in Japanese, I would appreciate it if you could translate it using your web browser's translate function, etc. summarizing NASCAR kits of My Web Site Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)