Porsche 917 LH

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Originally Posted by Scale-Master

The rear frame is also picking up some unnatural bends. I’m hoping I can persuade them into a straighter look. Surprisingly it still all fits under the body.

I wish you the best of luck. It would sure be a shame if something can't be done. The picture above makes it look as though the cars is sitting in front of a "fun house" mirror.

I trust you will end up with a great result

[Scale-Master]

I made a jig from styrene to coax the rear section to be straighter and let it sit in the garden window for a few days. I didn’t want too much heat and deal with potentially warping the rear resin section.
Looks like it helped, I’ll deal with it more later if need be. I started installing the final detail parts for the engine bay. I’ll take care of the minor paint touch up later.

[Scale-Master]

Now it is time to work on the interior…

[ianc911]

Going to be adding any of the fuel or oil lines?

Probably a bit too late to do anything about it, but the color on those Bosch coils is a bit off; should be more of a darker blue like:



ianc

[Scale-Master]

Two of the four coils are fully hidden by the seats, but I did manage to change the blue on the two in the rear...

Seats and steering installed… The seat belts are made entirely of PE, not as tough to work with as that may sound.

A decal is even included for the steering wheel, which is made up of white metal and PE.

[Scale-Master]

Now for the front suspension. Lower control arms and shocks go on first.

Then the brake assemblies with their ducting.

[Scale-Master]

Finally the upper control arms and tie rod ends. Also the interior cooling ducts and some front end bracing.

[Scale-Master]

And the swaybar & stabilizer links… As well as the front cooler.

[Scale-Master]

The dash is ready to be installed. The kit supplies decals for all the gauges. The toggle switches were designed well too.

[Shunter]

Lovely work, look forward to seeing it come together now.

[Scale-Master]

Thanks Shayne, I too am looking forward to the home stretch...


The dash fits, but had to be moved rearward a little bit to look right through the windshield. I had to remove the mounting points cast into the bottom of the dash. I mocked up the body to the chassis and tacked the dash to the frame. Later I reinforced the cement points.

The chassis, engine and interior are pretty much done, just a little touch up here and there to do.

[Scale-Master]

I have all the decals on the front section of the body.

And clear coated the bonnet as well.

[Scale-Master]

I installed all the glass…

[Scale-Master]

The windows have PE frames that are actually quite workable and shapeable, except the one for the windshield is just too big.

Since they are supposed to be black, I made decals to replace the window frames.

[Scale-Master]

The main decals for the rear went on about as well as the front ones. I painted the edges of the fins blue in case the decals didn’t quite cover them, but it looks like that wasn’t necessary. There is still some touch up to do on the sides though.