I’ve now finished the Liberty Walk Hakosuka that my wife suggested I buy to make up for my B-17 primer disaster.
I guess Liberty Walk based this car on a period racer, but the only pictures I could find online seemed to be of this car. The base kit is from the 80s and was motorised. Some of the mechanics for that are still there as are a huge number of spare grilles, lights and so forth.
The kit is more or less OOB, cutting the arches for the overfenders was not as bad as expected. The red is mostly paint, it all comes as decals but these were so thick they wouldn’t settle whatever solutions I tried. So just the door stripes are the decals, the rest is done with tape and paint, the number disk on the bonnet took a few goes! Other decals for names and companies laid down beautifully.
Altogether it was a nice build, it looks quite bonkers; I have the LBW R35 which is another mad looker in the stash.
Obviously a tuner JDM has to have period parcel shelf speakers for some bangin’ tunes!
I think I want to do something with a mat finish next! Like a WW2 plane. On the other hand there’s several cars in semi-complete state I ought to work through. I expect I’ll probably go and start another car🤦🏼♂️