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I am fond of many IMSA race cars but two I’m particularly fond of are Mustangs and Celicas. I have been thinking they are quite similar in IMSA form. The IMSA Toyota Celica doesn’t exist in 1:24 ( apart from a undetailed pricy resin kit ) so I’m thinking Id love to use this Mustang kit that I have in the stash without decals to make a IMSA Celica! Having said that I am mainly planning to do this by the use of paint/livery choice, and by potentially opening up some of the front areas.. A more cosher on brand route is attempting painting the project it a modern Ford Mustang GT3 livery or at least the colours used in them lastly an option is doing it in Polymatic Grey of my stock Ford Mustang build. Sacrilegious thoughts that might trigger some but I’m excited to finally build something similar to a IMSA Celica 😀.
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It's not often nowadays that I get to make a vehicle model, having in the past built many, many kits by Tameo, Meri, BBR, Alezan, Marsh, Provence Moulage, Starter, Tenariv - in fact probably every major car manufacturer in 1/43 scale, plus a couple of 1/20 Studio 27s too. But this is just off the table, a kit dating back to (IIRC) 1992, and which I only 'discovered' during a garage tidy at Christmas. I did have trouble with cracking of the decals, but a coat of hairspray did the trick and they stayed together long enough to be applied. Mind you I notice a couple of cracks now I look at the photos: must touch those up. Model is Raul Boesel's Jaguar XJR-16 from the 1991 IMSA championship, from a 1/43 kit by Starter: The XJR-16 is the final iteration of the 1989 XJR-10/11 (IMSA/WEC, respectively), the latter of which I modelled all of 27 years ago, again 1/43 scale by Starter. I dragged it out of garage storage this morning and took some photos of that for comparison. It's stood up remarkably well considering it's been boxed and tussled around for at least two house moves!
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