The story: I always wanted a scale model of my CRX,
and I knew that Tamiya had a kit for it (see picture
below on the left). The problem was, Tamiya ceased
production of this particular kit and it wasn't available
anymore in the shops. I told this to a friend of mine,
who's a scale model enthusiast, and he said he would look
around for it. After a few weeks he suddenly appeared at
my house. He had found one in a small shop in
Scheveningen, covered in layers of dust!!! (thanks again
Mark). Since I haven't got the patience nor the skills to
put this kit together (some major alterations had to be
made) I asked Mark to build it for me. The result of his
endeavours is shown in the pictures above.
Alterations made:
Since the kit is japanese, it is righthand drive, so it
had to be changed to lefthand drive.
The rims had to be made from scratch.
The real tires are wider, luckily Mark had some spare
tires from a Porsche 911 lying about.
The headlights had to be changed from recessed to flush.
The kit had no rear foglights, so they had to be cut out
of the bumper.
Some side indicator lights had to be made.
And last but not least, the gearknob had to be replaced
with a miniature number 3 poolball!
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