Porsche 917K Le Mans 1971 winner... finished pics!!! (15 : 56K beware!)

Sennake

02-22-2003, 03:17 AM

Vagabond_se7en

02-22-2003, 03:23 AM

Another fine model came to live, stunning work :eek2::eek2::eek2:

BWheel

02-22-2003, 03:39 AM

REALLY nicely done. Excellent detailing, and finishing. Definitely done the kit full justice.

:ylsuper :ylsuper :ylsuper

flyonthewall

02-22-2003, 04:28 AM

A stunning model of a fantastic car, i WANT that kit!!!

Anyone know why these cars carried a spare tyre?

OPM

02-22-2003, 04:37 AM

le mans = long track

if a tire blew up,they had to come back to the box somehow

Gainsbourg

02-22-2003, 05:04 AM

Amazing work on a classic model. Lovely Martini colour scheme, simple but beautiful.
Anyone would be proud to have this one in his Le Mans collection.

Forhod

02-22-2003, 08:12 AM

:thumbup:

Nice.

RallyRaider

02-23-2003, 03:06 AM

Sennake, I had been following your progress thread with great interest and must say the final result is absolutely stunning. It is awesome to see a classic kit like this so well built.

I just recently got my hands on a kit of the red Salzburg car that won in 1970 and hope I may be able to get hold of a Gulf blue version too. PM me FOTW if you want to know my source, don't want to go public before I've secured mine!

P.S. I wonder why there are so few replies to this thread. So much more interesting than another ITR or Skyline.

darrenj

02-23-2003, 03:42 AM

Oh god
fantastic work
love the bent credit card bit, you don't see a thing of it in the final product
Time to start working on my several unfinished models

Sennake

02-23-2003, 04:32 AM

Originally posted by RallyRaider
P.S. I wonder why there are so few replies to this thread. So much more interesting than another ITR or Skyline.

I have been asking myself the same question. Maybe Le Mans is not familiar to many young people?

Anyway, I seem to be stuck in 1971 somehow, because after the 1971 Le Mans winner, my new project is the 1971 Tyrrell Ford of Jacky Stewart, in which he became world champion formula 1 for the second time...

I'll start another thread about that one though.

HHugo

02-23-2003, 05:10 AM

Don't let the number of replies hold you back to post about this. Altough I am more into modeling of F1-cars (looking forward to that Tyrrell :) ), any race car will get me interested. Nice work!

kunta

02-23-2003, 06:29 AM

excellent! you did perfect job. I like Martini and Rothmans colors.

daggerlee

02-23-2003, 06:55 AM

Yes, please don't let the lack of replies fool you, that is an outstanding model. Worthy of a Le Mans Musuem display piece. Great work! :)

Sennake

02-23-2003, 08:40 AM

Don't worry ;)
As long as there will be 1 person replying to my threads I will keep on posting... When the day comes that NOBODY replies anymore, that day I will start asking myself questions :confused:

XR6 Martin

02-23-2003, 11:34 AM

Looks awesome!:flash: :cool: :D

An interesting fact on the 917, early models were so evil that some Porsche employed racers refused to drive it. They had a massive amount of bodyflex and wasnt unheard of for a winscreen to crack because of it, and the engine was certainly interesting. It had 320hp@4000Rpm, in the next 300rpm, it gained another 300hp. Great fun in the wet......:eek:

SuPeRcAr_MaN

02-23-2003, 12:16 PM

Amzing build. I just was looking at a picture of this car (the real thing) and your model's likeness is amazing. Great job. :D

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