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Scaleauto have announced the availability of a new mould to add to their range of 1:32 scale modern GT3 cars. The Honda NSX GT3 white kit, hard and medium chassis options and vac-formed cockpit will all be with dealers very soon. The reference numbers are:

SC-6190 H. NSX GT3 1/32 White Racing Kit
SC-6666a Chassis NSX GT3 (black) -R- 2.0 In-Flex
SC-6666b Chassis NSX GT3 (grey) -R- 2.0 In-Flex
SC-6667 Complete light cockpit set for NSX GT3

       

And here are the first planned liveries (from the Scaleauto website)...

   

The NSX GT3 was developed under the Acura brand for the IMSA series in 2017, developed from the second generation NSX model. The racing car was an instant success in the hands of Michael Shanks Racing - Katherine Legge and Andy Lally winning the GTD class in back-to-back races at Belle Isle and Watkins Glen in the mid-part of the season. Second places at Mosport and Monterey gave the #93 pairing sixth place in the GTD drivers' standings and Acura fourth in the GTD manufacturers' table. A second car was driven by Ozz Negri and Jeff Segal.

       

Here Andy Lally walks us around the 2017 NSX GT3...



2018 saw an expansion of the GT3 customer racing program worldwide - Italian company JAS Motorsport preparing cars for the European, Asian and South American markets, Honda Performance Development in North America and Mugen in Japan. Acura finished second in the IMSA GTD championship, Katherine Legge taking two victories and seven podiums to end the season runner-up by just four points in the GTD drivers' table. Legge's was one of four Acura's on the GTD grid - two for Meyer Shanks Racing and one each for HART and CJ Wilson Racing...

       

       

Success elsewhere was limited and 2019 saw an updated EVO version of the car, which included some changes to the body and aero package. Although the artwork supplied by Scaleauto is of the 2017-8 version NSX GT3, they'll be using liveries from this second phase of development too. The NSX GT3 Evo won back-to-back IMSA GTD drivers' and teams' titles in 2019 and 2020, plus the 2020 GTD manufacturers' title...



The NSX GT3 EVO also won the 2019 GT300 drivers' and teams' championships in Japanese Super GT. In Europe, JAS Motorsport took the NSX GT3 to the Spa 24 hours in 2018 in a fabulous Castrol livery. Then Jenson Team Rocket RJN ran an NSX GT3 EVO in the 2019 Blancpain Series, joined by a JAS works car in Motul colours for Spa...

       

There are dozens of liveries from around the world that Scaleauto can recreate - and there are decals produced by Bruce Patto and Pattos Place (under A for Acura) for most of the 2017 and 2018 cars. And the NSX continues to race, updated this season as the NSX GT3 Evo22. The dimensions of the car also lend themselves to a competitive scale model - the 2040mm width at the rear scales down to 63.75mm and a 2630mm wheelbase to 82.2mm. I look forward to having a closer look when UK distributor Pendle Slot Racing posts images of the white kit.