95' Mugen Dome Avex Honda NSX

Fulfilled one of my dreams during my work break which i wanted to do in 10 years back.This is a Tamiya 1/24 scale model of the 95' Mugen Dome Avex Honda NSX, one of the first generation NSXs who participated in the Japan Grand Touring Championship (JGTC) during the 90's. Honda entered a fleet of 3 NSX machines to battle against the powerful Supras of Toyota and highly advanced GTRs of Nissan. The early generation NSXs suffered the lack of topend speed compared turbocharged engines of Toyota and Nissan as their engines are natural aspirated but made up with their excellent cornering abilities due to their mid engine-rearwheel drive layout. This helps the NSX to achieve high cornering speeds while maintaining cornering stability thanks to the highly effective aeroparts designed and built by DOME which generates huge amounts of downforce to keep the car on the track. This proved to be quite an advantage for the NSXs in technical tracks such as Suzuka, Sugo, Autopolis and Okayama. The other NSX teams consists of Raybrig and Mobil1.

Was quite a challenge assembling this model as it was quite detailed starting from the engine compartment to the detailed interior and the stickers.

Enough of the history lesson, here are the pics: