WIP : Porsche 935-78 Turbo - Ickx (Tamiya 1/24)

Sennake · 03-14-2005, 02:03 AM

Now that the Subaru is finished, it is time to start a new project.

This time I chose a car that only raced 4 races in total before they rolled it into the museum : the Martini-Porsche 935/78 "Moby Dick" in which Ickx won the "maidenrace" in 1978 at Silverstone (6 hours), and that was entered furthermore in Le Mans, Vallelunga (6 hours) and the Norisring. In Le Mans it finished in 8th place, in Vallelunga it broke down 10 minutes before the finish while leading the race and it they got braking troubles during the sprint race at the Norisring.

I'm planning on building the Silverstone-car because it won there while my compatriot Jacky Ickx was driving it.

This is how the Porsche looks like today :

And this is how it looked during the Silverstone race :

Here the sanded body is ready to be sprayed in a first coat of white Tamiya primer :

Here the body was sprayed in white primer and already got a first layer of white paint (Tamiya TS-26) :

The rear radiator cover that came with the kit, doens't seem to have the right shape, although it probably did when the kit was first released, but here it looks like the form has been injected with a lack of plastic at the edges. Anyway, the edges are to short. So I made a new one out of some strips of plastic sheet.

The driver that comes with the kit, which I intend to build in the seat, carries the wrong (standard) helmet. Back in 1978 Ickx used a helmet with a visor, consisting of 2 small looking holes. So I left out the standard head and I went looking in my spare parts box, for a more convenient helmet. I found one between my Hasegawa-figurines. The helmet is still wrong, but it's a lot easier to build in the piece between the eyes because the helmet consist of 3 parts : 1 for the face, and 2 pieces for the helmet. Here I built the piece between the eyes in the helmet front part :

I first painted the face-part. I used "flesh" for the skin, some white for the eyeballs then some blue for the pupils, and some brown to accentuate the eyelines. Then I applied matt black to the eyelashes and the eyebrows, and matt white to the belaclava. Last but not least I painted the matt black upholstery helmet interior. To put things in the right perspective, I added some measurements to the pictures...

I admit that the face didn't get the same level of detailling as some car parts, but it all depends what it will be used for. In this case the largest part of the face will disappear behind the helmet visor, and even this helmet will be barely visible once the figurine is seated inside the model and you will only be able to watch it through the car windows...

Here you see a picture of the face behind the visor, the helmet parts were glued together and brush-painted in the base color...

Comments are welcome

campenr.1 · 03-14-2005, 02:07 AM

Beautiful project - promising start. Moby Dick is one of my favourite race cars of all time!
Happy to see it built.
Is it really 1/24? I only know other 935 by Tamiya in 1/20.

Sennake · 03-14-2005, 02:49 AM

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Originally Posted by campenr.1

Beautiful project - promising start. Moby Dick is one of my favourite race cars of all time!
Happy to see it built.
Is it really 1/24? I only know other 935 by Tamiya in 1/20.

I don't think Tamiya ever released this car in 1/20, only in 1/24. I should know what I'm talking about since I made a complete list of all 1/20 and 1/24 Tamiya cars on my homepage.

hueb_s · 03-14-2005, 03:49 AM

Tamiya released the 935 in their early line of 1/20 cars (Code 20008) along with the Fiat 131, although I think it's the '77 version. I build one in green Valliant livery. Later they introduced the 1/12 Martini version and the 1/24 935/78 version you're building.

hueb_s · 03-14-2005, 04:06 AM

Hey man, and your own list on your website indicates you have already bought both the 1/20 Martini and Valliant 935's :-) You're getting old, hey? ;-)

Sennake · 03-14-2005, 04:08 AM

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Originally Posted by hueb_s

Hey man, and your own list on your website indicates you have already bought both the 1/20 Martini and Valliant 935's :-) You're getting old, hey? ;-)

Not at all, but we were talking about the 935-78 "Moby Dick" here...

Or at least I was.

hueb_s · 03-14-2005, 04:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Sennake

Not at all, but we were talking about the 935-78 "Moby Dick" here...

Or at least I was.

So I have to agree, the 935/78 was never moulded in 1/20 scale...
How do you compare the 935/78 in 1/24 to the 1/20 kits of the 935? I assume it is a motorized kit, too? If it originates from the Tamiya "Motorized" era, the detail level should be almost the same...

The "Moby Dick" was always impressive, just like the 917 "Pink pig"...

sportracer02 · 03-14-2005, 04:30 AM

Hi,

looks good so far.

Do you intend to improve/detail the interior?

I once bought the Moby Dick from another Japanese company (Aoshima?). The body was o.k., however the interior was just a relief to have space for the electric motor. It was too much work for me at that time and so I sold the kit again.
If I ever build a Moby Dick it will be a Tamiya kit.

I´m looking forward for your progress ...

Micha

Sennake · 03-14-2005, 04:55 AM

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Originally Posted by sportracer02

Do you intend to improve/detail the interior?

Certainly. I'm not sure yet about the level of improvement, but at least I will add seat belts and extra details to the dashboard and interior. Only trouble is the lack of good reference pics...

DoubleFourValve · 03-14-2005, 08:39 AM

Here is a list of RSR Turbo/934/935 kits, with comments and photos:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~robdebie/models/911-935.htm

Enjoy the building.

builder77 · 03-15-2005, 06:10 AM

Very nice!
Looking forward to watching this one!

Chris

RallyRaider · 03-15-2005, 03:07 PM

Yet another spectacular project from you Guy. I will be watching with great interest!

Sennake · 03-16-2005, 04:22 PM

Ok, we did a bit more work.

I started building the interior, and I noticed the rollcage which comes with the kit (and which is only half complete) is to short : after fitting it with the body the top of the cage comes about halfway the side windows. So I had to adjust it : I added the white parts.

The rear spoiler has been built and spraypainted.

Then I started to complete the rest of the missing rollcage. After days of fitting and cutting and starting over and try and a lot of error I come to this result, which finally looks like it's about right? The white parts are new, the black parts are adjusted :

Also the figurine has been painted. This blue layer will only serve as a basic coat, to give the deeper seams a blue tone when the figurine will be drybrushed in matt white. Ickx' overall was white and not blue by the way.

To be continued...

sportracer02 · 03-17-2005, 12:34 AM

Hi,

looks good so far, great job on the rollcage.

Micha

hks_kansei · 03-17-2005, 01:29 AM

http://www.depaddock.net/sennake/models/935-78_12.jpg

on the last pic (^that one^) i hope your going to do a better seat for poor Mr Ickx, because that one looks mighty uncomfortable.

jokes aside, a great build so far.

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