Multiple 911 build....something relaxing this time.. LOL

[lovegt40]

yep.
this time I really need something relaxing after so many foolish builds up. I have been a little less productive for forum stuff in the last period cause some planes (my very first love ever), and just now I am at a good point with my scratchbuild Savoia S.95 airliner in 1/72 scale...



and here the "Bambino" comes..



it tooks me 6 months to arrive to this step, so think now I need some vacations..some pause..something different and more interesting for my forum friends (and fb followers.. )

SO NOW... time to relax with some of my 911´s.
For now I will make an unique wip start, then probably will divide it when the 3 ambitious projects will be a little better fwd in develope.
Basically , to relax, I would like to build those cars:

RWB 911s based car, that at today I dont think anybody did..


then.. another rusty dirty one, that already inspired me time ago and couldnt start too..
911sc Porsche safari martini


and last but not least, the coffee..
Porsche 991 RSR le mans 2014/2015



of course all in 1/24 scale, as usual...

lets rock !

[lovegt40]

991 RSR
so, time ago I made some question post about the availability around of a whatever model of the 991, the last beautyful lady from zuffenhausen. I search around and no way, the only 991 around available is the welly die cast, rapresenting a street 911. I really dont like work on die cast models, cause is really a pain to cut and reshape them, so I was trying to use a 997 or whatever in palstic around to make it simple. No way. 991 has a different wheelbase, so the only way is scrap that model.
It is a must to say welly makes very nice cheap diecast. is very few bucks items, but shapes are always well taken (I am sure they do it in 3d as masters..) so I dismantled a red model.







as said shape is welltaken and almost all parts comes away easy with a little patience (the ment plastic to fix parts from inside).
Measures are important, and welly is in a correct 1/24 scale. to turn it into the brutal RSR I need to wide it, using as fixed measure the wheelbase and working over a blueprint found online. Note original bp is in 25th scale, but with photoshop was not difficult to keep into bigger scale.

[lovegt40]

911 sc Safari

Time ago Micha started a wip in the street section about this car:
http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbul...porsche+safari

that gave me the idea to build it too. The main problem around this car is that wheels can be little tricky to fit to the 911 sc body, as well also find a correct 911 sc is a challenge in 24th scale. From what I know there is no models, so instead of searching resin tk or something that anyway must be reworked I look around at my stash to find something suitable for this. I decided to use one of the esci/heller 934 car, cause after the arrival of the Tamiya models I dont think I will ever finish theme as they are. So took one and reworked all body. The ducktail is an ugly resin copy arriving dunno from where. An ordinary fujimi part in plastic is infinitely better, but when I planned this car I didnt had it (now I have but will use on another car.. )

In the beginning I wanted to use some revell or fujimi carrera 964 based. In reality the sizes are very similar to sc cars, but on the models the plastic different parts are moulded on them. Add to this, it seems to me both the kits are quite welldone, specially the body of the revell car, and misteriously she also come quite pricey on ebay (maybe cause really vintage model from the 90s..and there are no other models for 964 carrera2/4 cars around).













Nice models trough. Think is no good scrap theme to backdate to sc of the 70s standard. Much better keep theme for some RS project...

...and so lets brutalize the heller model. A modelling saw appears..







here wheels are still a problem, but first of all I wanted to cut it all, and search around all the pictures of historical/modern replicas. They are really beautiful cars, including the fooilsh ones , surely based on recent cars so fully comfortable, and TOO COOL imho...





It is my opinion anyway the rear wheel is a little bit bigger than the fwd one. The tires I took from an Esci/italeri Range rover, and they look really welldone in pattern. very similar to many seen on different pics.
Original museum car has quite small tyres, and looking at pics is nearly surely possible to fit theme on an ordinary sc body without so many modifications..



...but my problem is I am a wheel/setup feticist and I like the ugly big foot ones like this:



Range rover wheels can be ordered separately still from Italeri website. They are really really welldone and imho nearly perceft for this idea..


6 euros posted. DEAL !!

[lovegt40]

RWB 911 s.... or whatever, we will see..

Recently many skilled modellers around have been tempted by the nice tuning done by Nakai San and his Rauh Welt. His cars are definitely cool toys.
Dunno if Ferdinand Porsche would like it (forget to ask about theme to Orlando Redolfi when I met him to spot the K3 he has in his company garage for historical racing..), but I absolutely do, and after purchasing Chris C1 993 car I started look at this recent monster spotted on the rwb fanpage.

The reissue from fujimi allows to have this car without the stellar prices those old kits reached in the last years. They are good in quality, but imho always at a very lower level (surely for the age) than any tamiya car.

my problem here ..is I dont like the standard very slim body ot the original 901 car. Of course have one in garage can be cool (arent they worthed half million dollar today?) but with models I like to dream, so I brutalize also her...

rwb cars that inspired me are those ones:








Little by little I would like to achieve some of those specials, but after my 993 rwb cabrio buildup think I will prefer to make coupe´cars,cause they keep better the line of this evergreen car.

Also I found some Minilite wheels, that fit very well with this little 911. This pics are my inspiration:






so the widening of the 911s comes.. and not to bore you with the silly details of what you surely already know (read plasticard, milliput and sand sand sand....then milliput again then sand sand sand again.. ) here is what I got..







TBC..

[jaykay640]

That's a lot of 911 at once Paolo :-)
For the Safari this might be of interest to you: http://www.modellboard.net/index.php?topic=50759.0

[koooba]

Very interesting project(s).
First, I didn't realize how much work it would need, but having now seen the base models that you are using, I do appreciate your goals even more. Looks like there will be some major p.i.t.a. included, though.

I will be following.

[Loloskymaster]

Hello Paolo,

May be this page could halp you for your safari
https://www.facebook.com/Classic-Res...26049/?fref=nf

Lolo

[afxracing]

Lots of great projects Paolo. I'll be following.

[joelwideqvist]

Great WIP, interesting to see the different projects and your tuning to get them right. Those Land Rover tyres will be perfect!

[lovegt40]

thanks guys, glad you interested in those foolish works

991 RSR

of course of this group the hardest one to work on is the 991.
With BP I took it all to scale. the wheelbase should become 102 mm, and draws are perfect now. Means the width of the car must remain 85mm, both for front and rear axle. I start then with the widening of the fenders. They result impressively larger than original 991 model car...





to fill it up with putty and milliput I made a base of bones in plasticard, as well as when you build up boats, to keep the lines at the same level. The front fenders are really strange in this rsr. Seems they have 2 lines in the direction of the door. of course the curvature changes in that point. Will be always important to keep drawings near not to loose the main measure of the width



all the front section in die cast is then cutted and replaced with 0.5 mm plasticard.


Looking pics It would be possible also to go for the simply way on the extra lower lights. This would make it much more easy work in that area. I mean to use a front bumper like this one..



but my problem is I like it more ugly/frankestein aggressive like in the pics where the light protection is taken away, looking like the terminator eyes..



where the lower lines of the nose are so cutted they are nearly lost. Of course I will go for this option.

[lovegt40]

still 991 RSR

this grey 3d shows the lines of the fenders. It is quite tricky to keep theme



meanwhile as usual I start to write down a list of the "problems" of what I see.
first of all was wheels. I had some BBS clones looking decent.. compared to original toy wheel (anyway in a good scale and much better than any revell attempt on their porsches..)



they are decent....but real car has different ones..



thanks to good friend RobyJ we made some copies of those amazingly nice BBS coming from never the produced Ferrari F430 GT2 Technomodel





...also then I noted the real car has a sort of ducktail spoiler, that must be placed in position when all the back will take its (nearly ) definitive shape..

[lovegt40]

going up filling the flares. not so easy work and this time I would like to keep the use of 2 part epoxy putty as minimum as I can, cause as I noted in my previous project, is very hard to maintain the shapes in part that must be specular and identical.



and overall view of all the stuff currently under work. the 3.0 rsr is a scarpped resin not totally catalyzed body I cannot use cause is missing all the lower back part.



the porsche safari needs an SC front lower bumper. This will be an hidden part when model will be finished, but cutting nose from 934 I need to build it anyway. Plasticard 3 mm used.




and this is the reason why 3.0 rsr body was on desk too. Would like to save that typical front bumper from RS cars, that can be used on many other models..



and this last pic to show my evolution of this car alwasy identical to itself during the years, as well as from porsche commercials







just incredible to note HOW bigger the car becomes during 50 yrs... the last 991 compared to 901 is nearly twice in dimensions, overall..

[lovegt40]

first serious compare of my work over the BP I got here..

[nugundam93]

what a way to relax. lol.

looking forward to them all!

[lovegt40]

Originally Posted by nugundam93

what a way to relax. lol.

looking forward to them all!

eeeeexactly !!