INITIAL D SERIES (Part I) - Toyota Sprinter Trueno AE86 - Hotworks Racing

Anyone who is interested in drifting should know the existence of a popular Japanese manga from Shuichi Shigeno - Initial D. I'm not a fan of manga so chose to watch the anime series instead, ended up going crazy for Initial D. Although it's an animation, I find that the story and action are pretty realistic... perhaps the author used real-life vehicles to deliver the story... and I have so much respect for these vehicles whenever I see them on the roads!



Gonna begin my Initial D collection series with this famous tofu car driven by Takumi Fujiwara - the AE86. This is a 1/24 scale diecast model from Hotworks Racing as I couldn't find a proper 1/18 scale Initial D model at that time. Since it's from Hotworks Racing, expect changable parts from a normal Trueno to the Initial D tuned version. The image below shows the differences between a normal Trueno and Takumi's car (Series 1 & 2) after conversion.


http://www.hotworksracing.com/die-cast/product/content_images/b-a-a_14a_white.jpg

And yes... carbon fibre bonnet is included! ^_^

Initial D Series (Part I) - the tofu car AE86