Toyota GT-One TS020 Race Car. Award winner built and painted. All scratch built flame color scheme with accurate decal marking. Top building quality with crisp details overall and very high standard accuracy on each part. Great cockpit interior and engine details. Clear parts with rubber tire and more add on details. Top building quality with great detail overall. Hand drawing scratch built flame patternt for great looking. Overall length: 202mm, overall width: 84mm. GT-One TS020 of the 1999 Le Mans. This model boasts faithful recreation of innovative aerodynamics. Highly detailed nose and diffuser-just like the full size car. Rear cowl is removable, allowing modeler to view the detailed V8 twin turbo engine even after completion. Engine, longitudinally installed transmission authentically reproduced down to the finest detail. Internal equipment has been replicated down to the finest detail. Multi-link suspension has also been precisely recreated. Rims with bolt head details. Great break disc details. Buffing and sanding to remove mold seam. Base color with primer and putty for better surface detail. Add clear paint for good finishing on Beautiful decals and markings applying. Wash to enhance the surface detail increase the appearance of depth including engine, bolt head and more. Brushing to emphasis and highlighting texture with edge. Filter out the contrast and blend color effects. Polish chrome parts and polish all glossy body parts for realistic effects. Three coats shining paint works and apply three layer of clear coat and more on real life finishing. 1 Dream Works Hobby. 2 Dream Works Hobby. 3 Dream Works Hobby. 4 Dream Works Hobby. 5 Dream Works Hobby. 6 Dream Works Hobby. 7 Dream Works Hobby. 8 Dream Works Hobby. 9 Dream Works Hobby. 10 Dream Works Hobby. 11 Dream Works Hobby. 12 Dream Works Hobby. 13 Dream Works Hobby. 14 Dream Works Hobby. 15 Dream Works Hobby. 16 Dream Works Hobby. The Toyota GT-One (Toyota codename: TS020) was one of Toyota`s cars to be entered in the 24 Hours of Le Mans. It first raced in 1998 and ended racing a year later. After the GT-One project, Toyota entered racing in the Formula 1 World Championship in 2002 and withdrew in the 2009 Formula 1 season along with their direct competitor, the Honda Racing F1 Team. No other Japanese race car with an all-Japan team behind the wheel had a better finish at Le Mans than this effort by Toyota. In 1998, Toyota decided to race the 24 Hours of Le Mans for the first time since its days racing Group C cars. Back then, Toyota developed its road race cars exclusively in-house, within Japan. However, this time it entrusted the project to the group in charge of their World Rally Championship activities, German-based TTE (Toyota Team Europe) – The car it created was truly a world-class machine. The new Le Mans Car, the TS020, was designed by André de Cortanze, known for styling the Peugeot 905B that conquered Le Mans in 1993. He pulled no punches with this car, incorporating the latest F1 technology into the design of the TS020. Powering the svelte-looking car was the same twin-turbocharged 3.6-liter V-8 developed during the company`s Group C days. In its first time at Le Mans in 1998, the TS020 showed superior performance, faster than any other car on the track, but mechanical trouble and an accident dashed any hope of winning. The following year, Toyota entered three TS020s. Of those, the lead and second car retired early, but the third car, driven by Ukyo Katayama, Toshio Suzuki, and Keiichi Tsuchiya managed to stay in the race and ultimately took 2nd place. This was the highest finish ever for a Japanese car driven by an all-Japanese team at Le Mans. The item “Award Winner Built Academy 1/24 Toyota GT-One TS020 +Interior +Hand Draw” is in sale since Friday, September 29, 2017. This item is in the category “Toys & Hobbies\Models & Kits\Military\Armor”. The seller is “dreamworkshobby” and is located in Scarborough, Ontario. This item can be shipped worldwide.
- Brand: Academy
- MPN: Does Not Apply
- Scale: 1:24
Award Winner Built Academy 1/24 Toyota GT-One TS020 +Interior +Hand Draw