Nissan Skyline GT-R KPGC110 (1973)
This model is Request by Raphy, meeting the criteria for Challenge 38 - 'By Random Appointment'. This was one of may favourite challenges - one that meant that you never knew quite what you were going to end up building. The great thing was, it was always going to challenge you, and fortunately, you could ask for a request during any of the other build challenges too.
Raphy requested: 'any pre-'80s JDM car, but in 1:15!'.
Well, this had been on my 'to do' list for a while - a real unicorn. Only 197 cars were built, as the model appeared in the fuel-crisis era, and Nissan had pulled out of motorsport, and no export program existed (though there was consideration of sending the car to Australia) leaving the car without a direct purpose. Oddly enough, the corresponding C110 Skyline (non GT-R) was quite successful, even though this was a quite expensive export vehicle - known variously, including the 240K moniker.
This marked the end of the GT-R until Nissan released the R32 model in 1989 to dominate Group-A racing.
I have built the model in standard miniland 1:21, as I wanted the car to sit to scale with the other period JDM models I have designed over the past two years. Maybe one day I will get to some 1:15 scale models too.
This lego miniland-scale Nissan Skyline GT-R KPGC110 (1973) has been created for Flickr LUGNuts' 120th Build Challenge, - 'Happy 10th Anniversary, LUGNuts', - where all the previous challenge themes are open for use in creating builds for the Challenge.
The Challenge theme chosen is number 38 - 'By Random Appointment' - for any vehicle or brief provided by the admins or other LUGNuts member
Nissan Skyline GT-R KPGC110 (1973)
This model is Request by Raphy, meeting the criteria for Challenge 38 - 'By Random Appointment'. This was one of may favourite challenges - one that meant that you never knew quite what you were going to end up building. The great thing was, it was always going to challenge you, and fortunately, you could ask for a request during any of the other build challenges too.
Raphy requested: 'any pre-'80s JDM car, but in 1:15!'.
Well, this had been on my 'to do' list for a while - a real unicorn. Only 197 cars were built, as the model appeared in the fuel-crisis era, and Nissan had pulled out of motorsport, and no export program existed (though there was consideration of sending the car to Australia) leaving the car without a direct purpose. Oddly enough, the corresponding C110 Skyline (non GT-R) was quite successful, even though this was a quite expensive export vehicle - known variously, including the 240K moniker.
This marked the end of the GT-R until Nissan released the R32 model in 1989 to dominate Group-A racing.
I have built the model in standard miniland 1:21, as I wanted the car to sit to scale with the other period JDM models I have designed over the past two years. Maybe one day I will get to some 1:15 scale models too.
This lego miniland-scale Nissan Skyline GT-R KPGC110 (1973) has been created for Flickr LUGNuts' 120th Build Challenge, - 'Happy 10th Anniversary, LUGNuts', - where all the previous challenge themes are open for use in creating builds for the Challenge.
The Challenge theme chosen is number 38 - 'By Random Appointment' - for any vehicle or brief provided by the admins or other LUGNuts member