WIP: Entex Mazda Rx2

Well i just added a new kit to the mazda rotary collection. Picked it up from ebay. Now while the standard of my model making skills is nowhere near the level of other ppl on here. I thought i would post it up just because of the rarity factor:

a few pics for you


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lookin great mate, i love that green!

nice, never seen an rx2 model before.

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lil more progress....the rear right indicator needs to be redone, thats why its off

looking nice. What brand green is that?

its just the tamiya spray can "light green: i think it is called, not sure on the actual number of it though sorry

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engine bay dummied together....

Very nostalgic...I built the series of RX's back when they were new (RX2, RX3, RX4, RX5/Cosmo), but I was a kid and didn't save them and I did a crappy job building them. With today's skills they can be very nicely finished, though the odd scale is a bit off-putting. I owned a 1:1 RX4 coupe and would love more than anything to have a 1/24 scale model of it; but I doubt that's ever going to happen. Oh well...I'm doing a '77 RX3 SP eventually :biggrin:

Good luck w/this one! It was the first Entex (Bandai) RX that I ever built. I remember the orange plastic very well...

Yeah all i need is an rx4 kit and r100 kit, and i i have the whole rx range, though with the prices that these things sell for i dont think i can afford them lol. I love rx4's i have a 1st gen rx7 that im doing up aswell, my friends uncle just recently purchased a very clean original example of an rx4. Not as popular as other rx's but i think thats what makes tehm more attractive. Im absolutely obsessed with these things (sickening really lol)

Yeah all i need is an rx4 kit and r100 kit, and i i have the whole rx range, though with the prices that these things sell for i dont think i can afford them lol. I love rx4's i have a 1st gen rx7 that im doing up aswell, my friends uncle just recently purchased a very clean original example of an rx4. Not as popular as other rx's but i think thats what makes tehm more attractive. Im absolutely obsessed with these things (sickening really lol)

Well wonder upon wonders, I now am back in posession of my Entex/Bandai 1/20 scale RX4 that I bought at my very first model car swap meet in 1981! My friend still had it, unbuilt (I primed it and did some minor putty work is all), he's got a built one, and he gave the unbuilt one back to me when I visited at Thanksgiving (had me promise to build it and not sell it; he wants first dibs). He'll get it back someday, as he has a complete collection of these 1/20 scale kits (he's got two of the RX2's built and even has a Bandai early '80's Luce/Cosmo sedan I gave him that I found in a Japanese toy store in LA some 25 years ago). We even dug out his built R100-he had converted one of the RX2's and the R100 to the round-headlamp style we got in the US. I'm going to use the RX4 kit as 3D inspiration to create one in 1/24 scale. I'm looking at a Johan Mercury Comet from about 1971 and it's a good basic start-similar lines/proportions but needs a LOT of massaging; but I'll end up eventually w/a great model of my beloved old RX4 coupe.

http://images3.fotki.com/v26/photos/1/10258/23480/74RX4frontangle-vi.jpg
http://images3.fotki.com/v26/photos/1/10258/23480/74RX4rear-vi.jpg

I may not be able to resist putting on Minilites and a twin-turbo 13B from the Tamiya FD3 RX7 R1 kit :biggrin:

Well wonder upon wonders, I now am back in posession of my Entex/Bandai 1/20 scale RX4 that I bought at my very first model car swap meet in 1981! My friend still had it, unbuilt (I primed it and did some minor putty work is all), he's got a built one, and he gave the unbuilt one back to me when I visited at Thanksgiving (had me promise to build it and not sell it; he wants first dibs). He'll get it back someday, as he has a complete collection of these 1/20 scale kits (he's got two of the RX2's built and even has a Bandai early '80's Luce/Cosmo sedan I gave him that I found in a Japanese toy store in LA some 25 years ago). We even dug out his built R100-he had converted one of the RX2's and the R100 to the round-headlamp style we got in the US. I'm going to use the RX4 kit as 3D inspiration to create one in 1/24 scale. I'm looking at a Johan Mercury Comet from about 1971 and it's a good basic start-similar lines/proportions but needs a LOT of massaging; but I'll end up eventually w/a great model of my beloved old RX4 coupe.

http://images3.fotki.com/v26/photos/1/10258/23480/74RX4frontangle-vi.jpg
http://images3.fotki.com/v26/photos/1/10258/23480/74RX4rear-vi.jpg

I may not be able to resist putting on Minilites and a twin-turbo 13B from the Tamiya FD3 RX7 R1 kit :biggrin:


^ nice rx4 man.
can't wait to see the rx2 when its done

Im so depressed right now knowing you have both the kits i need!!!!

Lookin cool so far. Keep up the awsome work!

Im so depressed right now knowing you have both the kits i need!!!!

Both? I have the RX4 back, but the R100 isn't mine. I know how rare the RX4 kits are; in all the shows I've been to in 25 years I've only found two of them (and only one R100). The RX2/RX3/RX5 Cosmo were all easier to find than the RX4 for some reason. Honestly the RX4 kit isn't exactly a perfect representation of the real car...there are a few shape discrepancies that the other kits don't seem to have. Who knows, the tooling may still be around and they'll get reissued some day. The Bandai rotary engine kit is still around.

Both? I have the RX4 back, but the R100 isn't mine. I know how rare the RX4 kits are; in all the shows I've been to in 25 years I've only found two of them (and only one R100). The RX2/RX3/RX5 Cosmo were all easier to find than the RX4 for some reason. Honestly the RX4 kit isn't exactly a perfect representation of the real car...there are a few shape discrepancies that the other kits don't seem to have. Who knows, the tooling may still be around and they'll get reissued some day. The Bandai rotary engine kit is still around.

If you ever decide to "give it away" you know who to see :D....ive seen an rx4 kit on ebay once, and r100 kit on there twice.... if only i was born rich!...

That rx4 of yours looks great btw!....that would be worth a bit of money here in australia...the rotary scene down here is pretty big, especially in the current time....

Just made a muffler....its a poor pic, looks way better in real life!...it replicates a muffler made in australia used by alot of rotaries down here called a "rotaflo" muffler :D first ever attempt of sratchbuilding!

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Has that muffler you made got a dump tip?

Man I am so jealous right now. You have a s1 rx7 kit? Do you know where I can get one. I am willing to pretty much pay anything. Cause I have a s1 that I am entering in some shows and I want to have a replica model to put on the display with it.

wicked rotary rocket!!!!!! I'm a big fan of the rotaries (own a 91'FC) I'm going to be watching this one closely.

thanks guys, yeah i bought a tube bender and slightly bent a 5/32" tube and glued it to a aluminium rod...i actualyl have that same muffler on my real car..ive got a couple of s1's, ones an araii stock one, the other is teh monogram one with a group c kit....both of them are available from ebay....they always pop up on there... and s2/3 kit, s4 and s6, rx2, 3 rx3 kits, rx5, cosmo and 787b kits....basically all i need/want is r100, rx4, and rx8, although not really worried about the rx8 atm

i just colected all teh ones i could find and am now starting to make them all.... but yeah they are great cars :)

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a little bit more done.....looking at the pics. i think the interior is tooo tan :S

...and before someone says something.....i know the leads are too fat lol