KoBlog #15 - Pagani Huayra R, the First Kowloon Series

This Pagani Huayra R is not a specification that exists on a real car.

It is a reimagined model created by Kind of Blu. A warm ivory body, with only a small amount of pale blue-violet Lilium Blu. This is a color direction we want to keep exploring.

The Name Kowloon

At the root of this project is a Nu Gundam build by the modeler Kenichi Kuryu. We know Kuryu is the correct reading of his name, of course.

Still, borrowing the name of that build directly felt far too presumptuous. We wanted to keep some distance. At the same time, the characters for Kowloon and fist carry a certain Hong Kong cinema atmosphere that we did not want to lose. Kowloon is not a replacement for Kuryu. It is the name that felt right for keeping the air of those kanji intact.

The 1989 Kowloon-Version Nu Gundam Color

The reference is the old Bandai 1/100 Nu Gundam published in Model Graphix, February 1989, in ?History Makers Act.6.? It is the build often referred to as the Kowloon-version Nu Gundam, or the Kowloon-version color. It was not part of the main Gundam Sentinel serial, but it has been discussed as a piece carrying the dense atmosphere of the Sentinel Works team at the time: the modeling by Kenichi Kuryu, the detail arrangement by Hajime Katoki, and the coloring by Masahiko Asano. Those three elements together created its particular tension.

What interested us was less the Nu Gundam itself than the placement of color. Pale cobalt blue accents, alpha-like lines, asymmetric color separation, restrained markings. In a period when ?military style? could easily stand in for realism, this build stepped slightly away from that with logotype and color placement, creating a very tight kind of tension. The beige-white body stays quiet, while the blue alone sets the rhythm. That still does not feel old.

Moving The Color Structure To The Huayra R

What we wanted to borrow was not the Nu Gundam motif itself. It was the structure of the color: a warm main body, soft blue surfaces, restrained lines, exposed dark mechanical areas, and the way density and empty space are handled.

On the Huayra R, we did not try to reproduce it directly. We moved the same way of thinking about color onto a different object: a track-only car made from carbon, aero parts, and the V12-R. That was the point.

Lilium Blu

The main body color is warm ivory. We paired it with our own Lilium Blu, a blue with a slight violet tone. It is not a loud color, but it is bright enough to catch the body lines and aerodynamic edges.

The First Kowloon Series Model

This is the first model in the Kowloon Series. Ivory and Lilium Blu are not meant to end as a one-off special order. When the right subject appears, we will continue making cars with this concept.

The Huayra R felt like the right place to start. Its shape is extreme, but the flow of its surfaces is not rough. This color scheme makes the body feel slightly lighter while keeping the carbon structure, rear wing, and sculptural bodywork intact.