Policar March 701 white kits finished in fantasy Honda livery

This is the first build of this year 2021.  Policar March 701 white kits, finished in fantasy livery themed "what if".

If Honda had keep challenging the F1 till 1970?

Unfortunately 1st F1 challenge of Honda was ended up on 1968 because of some development issues, one big sad accident in France, etc.

I've imagined for a long time what if Honda had been kept challenging on the F1 till 1970.  In the real world, Honda had a very speed powerful engine, and contracted with Lola Cars for light weight chassis, but couldn't make results.

In those days, it was just a dawn of the aerodynamic era.  Now we can find some marks of their struggling on 1968 Honda RA301 and 302 for aerodynamic approaches.

Imagine what the history changed if Honda F1 team knocked on the door of a new chassis constructor on 1968-9?  March Engineering would be a very young and ambitious candidate.

If so, who will I have to assign for drivers?  I will have to call out David Hobbs and Chris Irwin.

They were 1968 Honda F1 drivers same as Jo Schlesser.  In the real, except lost Jo Schlesser and great John Surtees, after 1968 season has ended Hobbs and Irwin left F1 circus for good.

If I demand them to drive Honda F1 for 1970 season, they must be remembering RA302 incident of 1968.  I will have to provide completely different cars for them.  I can prepare whole new 2 cars "March Honda Dream1&2" for them.  We will have to try to win with dedication for gone JS, like his French friend Guy Ligier...

This time I built these cars on such an idea.  Thank you for reading.

PINK-KAR Citroën 2cv

Recent builds here.

Far far away from worldwide racing stream of these days, nearly antique construction.  Yellow is for my wife, red is for me. 

Added some custom decals on the yellow road car, added same lead weights under both floors, motors are converted to carrera standard E200 picked up from my junkyard, and put on LED lights.

We run them by old 2013 Kyosho wireless controllers.

Very fragile for shockage and short circuit, dissatisfied for power curve adjust range and too sensitive first trigger touch, but we never throw away as long as receiving Kyosho customer service.

The main reason is it has very useful memory bank for preset the 50 combinations of voltage and brake adjustment.

HPI Nissan Skyline GT-R(BNR32) Group A

Finished mods for front negative camber. 
<Feb. 2021, photos updated as remade worn out rear tires and revised ride height settings>

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<Aug. 2020, Original posted photos>
Sorry for pics are out of focus.
I focused my phone camera on the front wheel to capture camber angle, but some were failed.

Well, now I might not get jealous when the slot-it version comes out.

2020.03.21 Visit to Osaka Sakky's Circuit

As a memory of a short visit to Osaka.  Youtube uploaded.

And other two short movies shot by my friend.

＜Movies by courtesy of Sakky★Boss, Sakky's Collections＞


I made the following modifications. To sum up, I replaced the original heavy resin cockpit with a lightweight vacuum-formed cockpit, swapped the slim-can motor for a heavyweight long-can NC5 motor, glued and trued the tires, and added lead weight.

I was pleasantly surprised by the car's potential to be a great runner. As always, LMM has achieved the highest standard in 1/32 resin model cars/ slot cars!

Scalextric Tyrell P34 Swedish GP 1976 Twin Set

Arrivals of this month.  I'm so hyper today!

Meh ... OK, I don't mind.

The Prince and The Pauper

Last week I was happy to hear FLY announced future release for nissan Z-car. I hope it will be really released.

More than that, I am expecting for other Japanese cars release, too.  Not only famous cars but also many other unique ones such as Mazda Cosmo sports, Capella rotary coupe, etc..

By the way, I remembered that I got a pair of Arii Nissan kit in a local flea market a few years ago. They were somebody's quick builds.  One was the Skyline GT-R factory racer, the other one was Fairlady Z sunday racer. Z was once dayglo orange spray painted, and had light gray wheels. Sorry no photo.

At that time, GT-R racer was very attractive to me, so the toylike colored Z-car was just a poor bonus. Old cars painted in such flashy color have long been abandoned.

One night last week I got an idea to repaint that orange car.
I applied Tamiya enamel directly on it by paintbrush and didn't care about brush marks.

Here is the result.  Rather rough surface just looks good for the old backstreet tuned car as I expected. It's far from that costly factory modified car.

On other hand Skyline "Hakosuka" GT-R racer was almost as it was, excepted for decal peeling by dried out, some touch up for paint defects, overall cleaning, and some chassis tinkering for running.

I'm looking forward to a set-up the two on this weekend. I hope to make them good runners.

＜NISSAN Skyline(KPGC10) GT-R Factory Racer & Fairlady(S30) 240Z Street Racer,  Arii kit bashing,  MRRC Sebring chassis,  FF-050 Motor removed from  Scalextric Austin Mini＞