My previous build and survey of the Speed Champions series happened to coincide with the team shifting the model design scale from 6 to 8-studs wide. This chapter takes a look at the first three four* seasons of these new larger-scale sets. *Updated with the 2023 models!

Long time fixture in IMSA GTP and Porsche customer Rob Dyson Racing picked up some official backing as part of the new 994 program.

Lego model of my Hypercar concept sketches built as a canvas for adapting livery designs onto a physical three-dimensional form.

Chapter 2: The 994. Created as a continuation of #NEWGROUPCBLAST Dusted off Cinema4d after a year-and-a-half (two?) hiatus for the next new prototype in my alt-history Group C/GTP story-arc. Teams, liveries and back-stories in progress...

I've acquired a few of the Speed Champions sets over the last several years, mostly they've been sitting around in their boxes waiting for some time to build them. The latest wave of Lego's increasingly-excellent sets triggered a mass build which became a study in the evolution of this line's experience design.

Part 7 of #NEWGROUPCBLAST. Unmistakable.

Part 3 of #NEWGROUPCBLAST. Meanwhile...

Prototype car design for a series of livery studies. The work appeared in #NEWGROUPCBLAST, an Instagram thread spun up by Oct8n in October 2018 in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Group C/GTP sports-prototype era and in anticipation of the the new 2020 prototype regulations.

Following all the detailed research, technical drawings, and the master CAD model development comes the finishing work re-creating and applying all the graphics for the various versions of the cars to the kit's flattened parts.

A round of refinements tightens the GTR coupe bodywork to a more aggressive and more coherent form language. Nearly every surface of the original concept model has been changed; curved shapes are pulled more taught and angular, simple angular intersections are now radiused to help them flow. The interplay of these forms also creates a stronger connection between the GTR and its cousins, the LMP prototype and ARX off-roader.