Today's arrival is the limited edition "Year of the Horse 2026" buggy complete of course with the Horse driver.
Bit of an interesting colour/decal scheme this one. It has a white chassis with gold'ish coloured parts to finish it. The body is red which seems to be a tradition with the 'Year of the...' models as this is my 3rd one and they have all been red so far - although I believe on new years the tradition is to give gifts in red envelopes so...
It has a beautiful set of rims in a nice gold plate and the tyres are unusual in that they are translucent white, even more curiously there are stickers to go on the rims under the tyres so you can read the slogans "Year of the Horse 2926" and "Happy New Year" through the tyres. The only downside is they are relatively soft tyres so maybe not the best for racing. But Tamiya may have chosen this type of tyre as if they had gone Super Hard like with the other "Year of..." models I have the tyre would likely have damaged the sticker when getting them on the rims or maybe couldn't be translucent, who knows.
The rest of the decorations are a mix of red/white/silver/gold.
I intend to build the kit in the next day or two so expect some pictures of the finished kit then
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