How MACKY WORKS paints a 1/10 drift body, one mask at a time

The channel, MACKY WORKS RC DRIFT, was registered on YouTube in January 2012 and holds 371 videos as of September 28, 2026. The painter goes by MACKY on it: the paint-storage video is "MACKY's workshop", the R35 police car is "MACKY's personal machine". The first upload, in July 2012, is a three-and-a-half-minute clip of a Toyota 86 on a heavily modified Tamiya TA06. The long build videos begin in 2017 with an eight-part "production record" of a Tamiya NSX: part one covers the chassis and the dashboard, part six the fenders, masking, paint and doors.

The channel's own summary is plain: "Build interesting RC cars and enjoy driving and filming them. Commissioned builds go up if I have permission." On X, as @MackyWorksJapan, it is shorter still: "Body making, the fun of building and driving." Everything on the channel follows from those lines. Some bodies are made for clients, some as test builds for the makers who mold them, and some are taken to circuits and driven. There are chassis series too, among them Garm's Fist (ガルムの拳) on an Overdose GALM and a run on Addiction RC's RX-01. This piece stays with the paint.

A polycarbonate drift body is painted from the inside. The first color sprayed is the one seen on the finished car, so every shape has to exist as a mask before paint touches the shell. Most MACKY WORKS paint videos are, first, masking videos, and the on-screen captions set out the order. For the HYCADE Supra of 2021: step one, cutting out the body and designing the paint; step two, window masking and panel lines; step three, masking the design.

How the masks are made depends on the job. For an Evangelion-themed Supra the description names a Roland STIKA SV-8 cutting machine. The 180SX Pandem V3 uses "masking sheet created by the cutting machine STIKA". A still from the GR Corolla replica, captioned "making the masking data", shows orange sheet feeding through one. For Masato Kawabata's 180SX Wisteria, the full-size car Kawabata ran in D1 Grand Prix China, MACKY went to the source: "Last year, at Kawabata's driving event, I photographed the real car and turned it into masking data." The same description adds, "But I still have a lot to learn myself."

Sometimes the machine stays off. The camouflage 180SX below is on Reve D's first body, painted in the scheme of pro driver Nobuteru Taniguchi's camo car "Gete-chan". Its masking was done "deliberately without a cutting machine". The video runs just over an hour, and its description admits it: "I mean, it's way too long!"

The paint is almost always SHOW UP. MACKY's descriptions call Show up colors a urethane pigment paint from the full-size car world "developed for hobby use", and the channel has followed the range as it grew. It has shown DIVA candy colors on that S15 in 2020 and the one-part reAL Krome chrome at the end of the same year. Then came the PC Binder line, made to bond to polycarbonate, which by January 2026 ran to 50 colors, with a spray can and 22 envy Kandy colors on the way.

The stills show the order of the layers. On Naoki Nakamura's GR86, the N-Style red comes out, then a caption: "Paint the silver thoroughly." On the GR Yaris HYCADE, step four reads "bring out the color with silver", over a turquoise shell being airbrushed. On an A70 Supra: "Tack coat while semi-dry, let it dry, build it up in thin coats." For an S13 commission, paint is mixed by weight on a digital scale.

Candy comes up again and again. The GR Yaris video promises "what you need to know so candy paint doesn't turn out dark". The January 2026 video names a dark candy finish as one of the questions MACKY is asked most, and sets out the cause and the fix. For broad areas and fades he reaches for a flat-spray airbrush, an Iwata HP-TH, which the D-MAX replica description calls ideal for wide surfaces and gradient paint. "The flat-spray airbrush," it adds. "I can't let go of it now."

A large share of the work is replicas of full-size D1 Grand Prix cars, on bodies that copy the real car's shape. Addiction RC's GR Corolla Pandem, in the description's words, "faithfully scales down the real car's dimensions". MACKY's version carries the livery of Hokuto Matsuyama's #77 team TOYOTIRES GR Corolla from the 2024 D1 season, and the video runs 73 minutes.

Naoki Nakamura's cars come back often. In 2022 MACKY reproduced Nakamura's S13 Silvia D-MAX on two bodies at once, finished with stickers from Parts Shop TAKA. In December 2025 came the GR86 Nakamura, No. 17 in Addiction RC's Real Detail series, which is reproduced from a 3D scan of the real car. MACKY painted the version from the film ALIVEHOON. Its main color is a gradient in the SHOW UP × N-Style collaboration paint, mixed to match the real car. The finished body is magenta with purple graphics and sponsor lettering, on chrome-green wheels, with lit tail lights and a green glow along the side skirt.

In July 2026 Nakamura visited SHOW UP on camera. By the description's account he kept repeating, "I'm starting to want to do a full repaint!"

MACKY's R.C.D.C. World Championship 2025 video interviews drivers who ran MACKY WORKS bodies at the event. Its description sets out what a race body has to do: "For bodies used by drivers at this level, I listen to their requests down to the details, and sometimes I make suggestions. Design, colors that are easy to see, aerodynamics, weight. I'll keep researching so they get even a small advantage." Visibility and weight earn nothing in a close-up photograph, and they are on his list.

Client briefs can be short. For A. Marek of the US team RC Drift Team ENDLESS, of Acuvance USA, "the request was the Acuvance dragon, the team logo and a pink-to-purple gradient; the rest I was allowed to arrange." The video of that S13 walks through chrome, rainbow and candy along the way. Once, a body went back to zero. The Evangelion Supra's title says it plainly: "I built a different body from the one requested, so I'm remaking it from scratch and made a video of it." The job was a Supra in the livery of a fictional Evangelion Racing Unit-02.

Addiction RC's ABS bodies break the rule that a drift shell is painted from inside. In a 2024 test MACKY painted one on the outside, under a flexible two-part urethane clear that SHOW UP was developing, and ended the video with a strength test. In March 2026 he painted an ABS 80 Supra BOMEX from the outside for Addiction RC's RX-01 chassis. He mixed KROMA EDGE, a plating-look paint, with PC Binder, "aiming for gold", and the still shows a mirror-gold shell.

The builds rarely stop at paint. The HYCADE Supra video explains its lighting. The A70 Supra video lays out an idea for retractable headlights worked by remote control. The channel's 2020 album of twenty earlier cars includes test footage of their gimmicks.

Addiction RC is the body maker MACKY works with most visibly, and the channel has test-built several of its bodies ahead of release. The 180SX Pandem V3, Real Grade No. 8, went up in February 2022 for a late-February release. The GR86 Pandem, No. 9, followed that September for an early-October release. The GR Yaris HYCADE came in February 2026 for a March release, and the A70 Supra in May 2026, due around June. The 180SX description notes that Addiction RC's representative, Kakei, did the final finishing.

SHOW UP is the other constant. Its RC Dress-Up Contest was held for the third time at the Shizuoka Hobby Show in 2026. It took 30 entries, put the 20 that passed the first round on show at the SHOW UP booth, and let visitors vote for the winner. MACKY's video of the contest is subtitled "a spotlight on RC painters", and the description frames the entries around "the fun of pursuing something and making something". His January 2026 note on the year's paints signs off: "This year too, I'll paint, paint, paint, paint and paint."

The work has reached print as well. RC Magazine (ラジコンマガジン, published by Yaesu Publishing) lists a column, "MACKY WORKS直伝！RCボディカスタム術", roughly "RC body custom techniques, straight from MACKY WORKS", in the contents of issues between October 2020 and September 2021. Its January 2022 issue promised a body "by MACKY, familiar to readers of this magazine, using new techniques". An R35 GT-R Pandem built for the magazine's series took about 50 days, and the video of its unveiling on the main stage at Osaka MST Arena went up in May 2020.

Then there are the police cars. The Drift Enforcement Agency (ドリフト取締局) is the channel's running comedy: drift bodies in police livery, descriptions written like police bulletins, and "enforcement operations" at RC drift tracks. The X bio gives the real point. The agency's enforcement exists "to introduce circuits all over the country".

It is also what most people have watched. The 2018 R34 GT-R "Super POLICE", the car at the top of this page, has more than 160,000 views. The 2019 expedition to TRC in Fukuoka below, where a new R32 GT-R made its first deployment, has more than 200,000. In 2020 the agency was issued an R35 GT-R Pandem, "MACKY's personal machine". At a street-style meet at DRIFT TRACK Yachiyo in Chiba on December 29, 2024, it reported "more than 190 suspects", a one-day diorama course and an 85-car drift train run as a Guinness world-record challenge. The 44th "activity record", from August 2026, is at MSW Mihanada Speedway in Nagano, which the description says has two drift buildings as well as on-road and off-road courses.

Everything is on MACKY WORKS RC DRIFT on YouTube. For one sitting, MACKY WORKS ALBUM 2020 re-edits twenty earlier cars with unreleased footage, and the hand-painted S13 Silvia is the newest paint walkthrough. New work also goes up on X and Instagram. The details in this piece come from the channel's own titles, descriptions and on-screen captions.