Recent Purchases

[Deviant]

These are my most recent purchases. I found them both at my Local Hobby Shop for $27 US each.

The first is Hasegawa's Celica 1600GT "Race Configuration". HLJ has been backordered on this kit so I thought it was a pretty good find.



The second I was unsure about buying. It is the BMW 320i '98 STW winner. I had previously never heard of Dragon brand models and thought why not I'll give it a shot. The only problem I have with it is the body comes pre-painted. I am going to make it a street car however and not a full race car.



I just thought I would share, thanks for loking.

[Verminator]

Celica's tasty lookin'

[builder]

like the celica but like the road version better not crazy about the bimmer thow but thats me

hope there will be some progress pics

[Technoman]

Whats the quality of the pre-painted body like. Any pictures of it?

[Deviant]

Quality was alright. The window rubbers were all done but no panel lines and there were mold lines just painted over.

Here are some bad pics of it.

[builder]

nice rims this looks promessing to become werry cool and im not much of a bmw fan few i like but hat looks to be cool

[Deviant]

Thanks I will post in the In-progress forum once I get some more done. The wheels are Aoshima Luxy type 4/Hamanns. I have always liked the way they look on Beemers.

[chenc544]

Never build a Dragon car kit before but I have built a few of their 1/72 aircraft kits. They used to be called DML I think. Their aircraft kit qualities are on par with Hasegawa or maybe a bit lower but it’s generally very good.

[Technoman]

Hmmm, that doesn't look too bad, which is just as well as I just bought one. I don't suppose they give you the decals needed in case you repaint the body yourself? (Mines in the post)

[atlas000]

It looks like at least part of the hood image is painted...

Technoman please post where did you order yours from.

[Technoman]

I got mine off of eBay. Seller was asking a little too much for it but when I won another item off of him and made a lower offer on the model he accepted. I paid $19.00 for it, I don't know of anywhere online to buy them from.

[atlas000]

Thanks! I tried the Dragon-USA website, but they only list military models even though the main Dragon site does show the car kits.