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Saw a post on hear a few months back about this kit and knew I had to finish it. This kit was painted before that so it was in the cue to be finished anyway. Color is Tamiya TS-45 Pearl white over white plastic. Cleared with TS-65 pearl and then TS-13 clear. Kit is a curbside and was done mostly box stock with a few additions like, carpet, exhaust tip and a few other mods. Well engineered kit and mostly a joy to build. See captions for more info. Thanks for looking and comments are welcome. Finished kit on its wheels. Decided to use my fall background and a little forced perspective. Chrome trim was the biggest pain on this kit. Hasegawa attached them to the sprues in a lot of places and all those little nubbins had to be trimmed off with a very sharp razor blade. Gluing them on was no easy job either but they all fit in the end. Rear veiw has quite a bit of detail. Instructions called for the use of decals for the logos but Hasegawa also included those cool press on metal stickers...so I went for cool. Don't like front license plates on cars so I found a Penna (which doesn't require them) plate in the stash. And besides..its my home state. Kit wheels steered and were well done. But the wheel wells had to be carved to allow them a decent turnout. With such a well engineered kit how did they goof up on this. BMW put their logos on the front backwards on purpose. That way if you saw one these cars in your rear view mirror you knew you were about to be passed by a 2002 turbo. A little zealous on BMW's part but a cool feature just the same.