LeMans Porsche 911GT1 '98 BBR 1:43

[mrawl]

Wow, this is brilliant work - I hope you're retired or something

[gionc]

Jay I'm speachless... can't figure how you'll do all those mods on a little 1/43... I'm enjoying it a lot.

[sportracer02]

Hi,

looks cool, much work.

her some interior pics, maybe they are helpful

[360spider]

Thats a model building at its best Jay. Simply outstanding work.

[jaykay640]

Thanks guys :-)

@mrawl: Why should i be retired? If i believe my government that's about 33 years to go....and since i don't believe them i guess it's rather gonna be 40... if i get to retire at all...:-)


@sportracer: So they let you sit in it!? The chick in the museum was unhappy enough when i asked to open the doors to take pictures....so i didn't dare to climb in :-)

[sportracer02]

Originally Posted by jaykay640

Thanks guys :-)
@sportracer: So they let you sit in it!? The chick in the museum was unhappy enough when i asked to open the doors to take pictures....so i didn't dare to climb in :-)

Hi,

that´s not me on the photo, I got some pics of this car from a modelling friend, no idea who the guy in the car is.

[klutz_100]

I thought you would recognize me, Micha!

[jaykay640]

Hey guys. Here’s some more progress.

After the seat and wheels I showed you last time I moved to the rear wing. This is the white metal piece from the kit already sanded. I drilled a hole and added the brass rod for handling during painting and decaling.





While the upper side was quite nice I wasn’t too happy about the underside. It was uneven and needed some more thickness and a better solution for the wing mounts.
The photoetched piece in the kit comes like this:





That’s a far cry from what it should look like:





So I started building my own more detailed versions. Here are the pieces I made from brass sheet and green renshape and the reworked wing underside.





The lower part of the support structure that sits under the bodywork looks like this.





That is a picture from LeMans ( don’t remember who I got this from…). In my pictures it looks different. It seems there were at least 3 different versions during the FIA GT season.
The LeMans version that I am building would have been a definite case for photoetching but then I didn’t wanna start the whole process for just those two pieces. So I decided to give it a try doing them “by hand”. That took several hours but after all it worked :-)
For stability I used 0,2mm brass sheet and cut and filed the shape out.
The files you see in the background are 1mm thick at their widest point. Without them it wouldn’t have been possible.





To get the 3D-sections of the structure I then glued styrene bits on top of the brass.





These were then sanded clean and to one height. For comparison here’s a shot with a bit of size reference :-)





Next up I put those pieces together with some more styrene bits and a brass rod and built this styrene tube that represents the built in jack and those boards with louvers that will sit left and right of the structure at the rear end of the car.





I also added these pieces at the main body part where the wing support later will sit:





And back at the upper parts of the wing support I put my prepared pieces together and shaped them.





Then I stumbled over a little problem at the front end of the car I had so far overlooked. The front air intake is divided in one central opening that leads air to the nose mounted cooler and two smaller ones left and right that are the brake air ducts.




I recreated the two small holes that were so far missing on the model with sheet styrene and body filler after deepening the holes a bit more first.





Since I was at finding mistakes there was another one, but a big one that could have caused me some annoying problems later. At the base of the windscreen there was some material missing where the windscreen wiper will later be mounted ( the white part in the previous picture ).
After adding that I finally glued two half-round section styrene rods on the insides of the A-Posts of the greenhouse, to represent the integrated roll cage bars. The bare posts were just too thin after all my sanding and filing :-)





Now the parts were finally ready for some paint. That’s gonna be in the next update!

[Porsnatic]

Great job so far!...Keep on the good work, so, we can learn a lot more from you with this tiny model.

[sportracer02]

Great job on the rear wing and support !!!

[Jamme]

Really nice detailling work!
Bravo!

Jamme

[gionc]

You go nut Jay....

[klutz_100]

What to say???
It would be great work in 1/24, in 1/43 it's scary!

This has pushed me over the edge - I'm buying a 1/43 kit this week!

[quadzero]

Althou I had to keep reminding myself of the 1/43 scale, I tended to completely forget that with every new picture. This is an amazing wip in any scale but the big clear photos really trick the mind into a seeing a larger scale model and not something I would need a magnifying glass to see in reality. The diffuser soldering and the elegance of the vacu-forming of the clear pieces and that tiny support structure you made are real highlights for me. Excellent work.

[kanedge]

Amazing work. I can't believe how small it is.