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Very nice job, got 2 here with unpainted body's and one NIB. Looks just about identical to the mag cover car. Keith :wink: Is it an oriiginal NIB? Must be super rare these days! I always thought the Turbo Optima was the best looking car, even today. I'm pleased they re-released it, but in my mind t...

tintin74 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2019 4:14 pm I hope you don't mind if I share a picture in my facebook group with full credit to you of course!

No problem - always happy to keep the vintage cars on the scene

Beautiful replica of that magazine car...you did a great job on that Japanese Rising Sun fade paint scheme. I like that magazine car a lot better than the box-art T.Optima. Thanks! I've always liked the Rising Sun scheme, and I've incorporated it into a couple of paint jobs I've done on my Mid Turb...

At first glance, I thought perhaps your car was used for the magazine cover. You've nailed that paint job! Nice work. The whole car looks great! 8) I guess you should have enough spare parts to build yourself a runner? I do yes, both were intact although one had clearly had a harder life than the o...

As part of an expanding vintage Kyosho collection, I've recently restored a Turbo Optima. It started out as 2 Turbo's that I picked up last year, and chose the parts from each to create the best one I could. I wanted to recreate the one I saw on the front cover of a magazine (which I also tracked do...

Hi - it was a Turbo Optima in Radio Control Model Cars magazine Nov 1986. I’d been looking for it for a while myself and finally found it. I remember it well, I loved the paint job - it inspired me to pick up an airbrush ;-) https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b1/d3/f4/b1d3f45cf73de95770397fa7daf82b0d.jpg