[White Wolf]

Hi all, I just got this kit in the mail today, thought I'd share it with everyone. I'm really excited about this kit as it will be one of my first ever car models (got another one in the stash). Have a couple of airplane projects already lined up though, so it will be some time before I get around to building it. I was really attracted to the shape of the 86 when I first saw photos of the real thing at the Tokyo Motor Show.

Box art. Tamiya even released a new color, Metallic Orange, just for this kit.



Parts in their plastic bags, there's a lot of them.



Body & undercarriage









Interior molded in black. The seats look really nice.





Dashboard.

[White Wolf]

Clear parts. The rear windscreen on mine came off the sprue during shipping.



Rubber tires, wheels and rims.







Masking for the clear parts, decals and metal transfers.

[White Wolf]

Background information leaflet.





Instruction manual. Nicely drawn and the whole build consists of 24 steps.







Well, that's it, I guess. Hope you enjoy the photos.

[Bigasshammm]

Nice crisp molds. Looks like a really nice kit. Dave (2qwik4u) just got the Subaru version of this car. (the real one not model) Not sure exactly what alls different between the three makes. May just be badging is different but I'm pretty sure all the internals stay the same. Hopefully you get to building it soon.

[Wayne S]

 Bigasshammm, on 06 June 2012 - 01:19 PM, said:

Nice crisp molds. Looks like a really nice kit. Dave (2qwik4u) just got the Subaru version of this car. (the real one not model) Not sure exactly what alls different between the three makes. May just be badging is different but I'm pretty sure all the internals stay the same. Hopefully you get to building it soon.

Front bumper and the headlights are just a tad different, Scooby has grilling on the upper back of front bumpers instead of badges.
Would be cool if someone makes the aftermarket parts and badges to make the other makes.

The 86 would look nice parked along side a LFA on the shelf, might have to grab me one or two.

This post has been edited by Wayne S: 13 June 2012 - 05:46 PM

[Bigasshammm]

 Wayne S, on 13 June 2012 - 05:46 PM, said:

Front bumper and the headlights are just a tad different, Scooby has grilling on the upper back of front bumpers instead of badges.
Would be cool if someone makes the aftermarket parts and badges to make the other makes.

The 86 would look nice parked along side a LFA on the shelf, might have to grab me one or two.

Tamiya has a BRZ kit coming out. I doubt they'll do the Scion though. Probably don't see it as one that sells.

[2qwik4u]

Thanks for the preview! (You suck by the way, I want one too!)

I've got two of the Tamiya Subie kits on pre-order.

Aoshima is also coming out with one, but their's will be the Scion FR-S. The Aoshima kit is also supposed to have opening doors and trunk. I've got one of those on pre-order as well!

If you need any reference pictures of the engine bay or anything, let me know and I can get them for you.

It looks to me that the sprue with the front bumper on it will have all of the model specific stuff.

I've read in a couple places that the Subie kit will come with both right and left-hand drive. Are you able to shed any light on this?

-Dave

[White Wolf]

Thanks, Dave!

As for the choice of LHD and RHD, the 86 kit doesn't have the left-hand drive dashboard. If Tamiya is really re-using the same molds for the BRZ, then there probably won't be a LHD version from them for now.

[2qwik4u]

 White Wolf, on 14 June 2012 - 12:21 AM, said:

Thanks, Dave!

As for the choice of LHD and RHD, the 86 kit doesn't have the left-hand drive dashboard. If Tamiya is really re-using the same molds for the BRZ, then there probably won't be a LHD version from them for now.

That's what I was afraid of. That's also why I'm getting the Aoshima FR-S, it's supposed to have both. Looking at Tamiya's site, it appears that the BRZ will be the JDM spec version, which doesn't have the DRL's or the US spec exhaust tips. I guess I'll have to do some scratch building...

-Dave