Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2017 13:03:52 GMT -8
So I have a mound of kits, and an upcoming model show at the end of the month, so we begin as always the motivated by deadline model thrash-o-rama Fall Edition (not to be confused with the one I go through at the end of Winter to get something ready for the Spring half of the show season).
In this one I'll be tacking a whack at building the Porsche 911 GT2 Taisan Starcard straight OOB representing the #33 car as driven by Hideshi Matsuda & Kaoru Iida. Team Taisan had an interesting development at the beginning of JGTC - Japanese Grand Touring Championship - the forerunner of what would become Super GT. In 1994 they fielded a Porsche 962C & two Ferrari F40s winning once with each platform, that 962C being the only Group C car to ever win a race in JGTC. In 1995 they fielded this Porsche and the two F40s, phasing the two Ferraris out over the course of the season to run a stable of 911 GT2s. All of those cars would win over the course of the 1995 season the #33 car securing the first win during Round 2 at the All Japan GT Fuji at Fuji Speedway. It would be one of two appearances Iida would make with the team, both as Co-Driver, it's also one of only two races wins he would be part of over his entire 17 year career.
DSC03253 by James Duff, on Flickr
Obligatory box shot
DSC03254 by James Duff, on Flickr
In this one I'll be tacking a whack at building the Porsche 911 GT2 Taisan Starcard straight OOB representing the #33 car as driven by Hideshi Matsuda & Kaoru Iida. Team Taisan had an interesting development at the beginning of JGTC - Japanese Grand Touring Championship - the forerunner of what would become Super GT. In 1994 they fielded a Porsche 962C & two Ferrari F40s winning once with each platform, that 962C being the only Group C car to ever win a race in JGTC. In 1995 they fielded this Porsche and the two F40s, phasing the two Ferraris out over the course of the season to run a stable of 911 GT2s. All of those cars would win over the course of the 1995 season the #33 car securing the first win during Round 2 at the All Japan GT Fuji at Fuji Speedway. It would be one of two appearances Iida would make with the team, both as Co-Driver, it's also one of only two races wins he would be part of over his entire 17 year career.
DSC03253 by James Duff, on FlickrObligatory box shot
DSC03254 by James Duff, on Flickr
