Die Töpless Triö Rides Again! Porsche 356 Group Büild

Forgot to mention another thing: since I scratchbuilt a brass windshield surround with acecetate "glass", I filled the gap leaved by the body and the dashboard, later I'll spray the upper part of DB with "interior color"
(TBH I'm in chrisis defining this interior color: would be tha same for dashboard, seat, canvas cover: I'm wondering if a good combo with the Ruby may be a white/magnolia interiors, may be with blue seat -do you meant those 50/60' seats color? they was done with the same textile as mechanics suits... cool..- or "flying down" with a dark grey/ruby combo... or even Tan/Ruby?.... My God I must do ton of 356 now!

Forgot one last thing: you'll see that I cut out any trim from the body, in fact I'll use my PE for chrome trims. To help the process I drill 2 small (0.35 mm diam) holes in any trim's start/end before cut them: this is why you'll see few holes elsewhere in the body :D

nice paint job http://www.zimmermann-lemgo.de/oeffentlich/smileys/beifall.gif



Mikezibit:smile:

Nice paintjob! Looking great.

I'll have a glass of that Red please :sluuuurp: :)

Very nice color indeed :thumbsup:

lovely color... awesome paintjob!!!

What a killer paint job. Magnificient patience ... 12 layers of color before starting the final wet coats??? :eek7: Pure italian resilience. I envy that!

It just looks fantastic!

Robert

Thanks guys: done a quick polishing job, it need more patience for sure: anyway I wanted to start to share first PE jobs. PE are polished with MicroMesh and stick until 12K, than glued with 3M spray glue. Some spot was reinforced with thinned white glue. Back grill not glued yet. Sorry for picts but is very hard to have great focus on chrome parts, at least with my camera.

Outside..
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In the workshop

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And a close up of the canvas cover: painted with maroon, covered by sand, both Vallejo air.

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Looking very nice Gio. I'm really enjoying this trio build.
:popcorn:

What a bella Fraeulein! :D

The color is delicious and the p/e looks first class!!

I am wondering though what secret plan you have for the little round plug in front of the rear wheel arch? :evillol:
I think it's supposed to be body color and the fit on mine was pretty crap so I installed it straight away before any primer / paint as a precaution (maybe I was over cautious? :lol:)

What a bella Fraeulein! :D

The color is delicious and the p/e looks first class!!

I am wondering though what secret plan you have for the little round plug in front of the rear wheel arch? :evillol:
I think it's supposed to be body color and the fit on mine was pretty crap so I installed it straight away before any primer / paint as a precaution (maybe I was over cautious? :lol:)

Uppppsss, I guess I'm in delay with secret plans, so
:D Really I didn't thought about of try to fit.... :D

Done few other jobs on steering wheel, I polished and tried anything to be sure to do the right choice....never decided yet!

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From the start of the job on the marvellous 356 I thought how to improove a stand alone flat4: following the very first prototype of a study to do cooling fins by PE: they're scale thickness thickness (fins thick 0.1mm, spacers 0.2mm) and in the correct number: still some "last detail" to add like aspiration/exaust ports. They're 62 fins and spacers for any side!

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Now THAT my son is brilliant :worshippy

The equivalent of motorbike p/e chains for 1/24!! :lol:

OMFG. Brilliant Gio!!! Those fins look sooooo good. You'll be able to sell kits of these for sure. Beautiful work.

That is awesome PE-work. Absolutely stunning - makes me wonder, if you fabricated your family status made in another thread. Or does your day have more than 24 hours...?

Abot the round gap before the rear wheel arch. When I built this kit, I added this part later facing no problems with that one. And it gives you a chance to give it another shade than the body color. That is more realistic imho...!

Will you display the engine outside of the model. Would be a shame to hide all of this amaing work away.

Cheers

Robert

Stunning! :thumbsup:

PS: When we'll have the chance to get some of these?

:eek2:

Pushing the bar higher and higher again. WTG Gio!

How the heck did I miss this. I even postponed the meeting just to check everything :D

You guys....rock!

Here's some photoetch kutz style - i.e. a photo of something NOT being etched ;)

I'm trying this approach to the hood fit issue. Not sure if it will work but it'll be fun trying :lol:

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Steve, the work is awesome: I love so much metal works, but try to not to lost the "bump" in the front central section, under the chrome trim.

You'll try to work on those but wouldn't be easy.
I tried another way when I worked on my GZox Z side deflectors: insthead a thick plate (very good for not so tridimensional shapes) , try one of those thin art alu plates, some have also a brass plated side: you'll "easily" :D model over the plastic thing, leaving offset to cut it wider. Than you get a fragile thing: coat inside carefully with a poly "20min" putty, like automotive stuff, and it will rock in a whyle. Than just mill down with the dremel in the desired thickness (you0ll leave more in the middle, scale thickness in edges). May be good sand inside before model and apply putty to have a better grip.

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Here's some photoetch kutz style - i.e. a photo of something NOT being etched ;)

I'm trying this approach to the hood fit issue. Not sure if it will work but it'll be fun trying :lol:

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y247/klutz100/WIPs/356A%20SPEEDSTER%20COMPETITION/356_43.jpg

:eek: Not an easy job, given the shape of the hood.
Luckily you seem to have enough material at disposal! :evillol:

Looking forward to see how you do it! :)

Hi guys!
After the first attempt to do photo etched fins, I got to think a lot about: Andy helped me out a lot to fix two major troubles: the fact that mount it was tedious, slow and for sure difficult, and the fact that head+piston has (often :D) in and out ports for exaust and ignition/carbs. Cut the kit's small in/out ports and glue on metal parts would be not easy...

So we re-thought the whole thing, discuss a lot and at last I redesigned it to work with only two 1mm diam rods, so mount all 60+ fins is easy and quick (approx half time or less), the 8 corner 0.5 rods may (must) be used at last, and be mounted by bottom: they're now just estetic elements.

Well, something new born: I thought at "PE layers" just like Lego, in this way you'll prototype any form you want (at least isn't the rapid proto concept?) in plates. This time the stuff is really near to be produced, and open some interesting landscape: imagine...... ok I leave to your imagination, I got also too much of those :D

Ok time to leave space to shots:

Cheap home made proto (this time also slides)

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Notice new dents: overlapping of them would help me to achieve the final port's shape

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It's start to take shape

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I must admit: nothing exceptional but when I seen ports take shape on the PE side I went a bit emotioned... :naughty:

Almost all fins mounted

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Notice that ports shape is optimized for unique 0.15 mm thick plate: insthead those i used 0.1 and 0.2 int for fins and spacers: at last result would be same but ports shape may be smooth on final product

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Just a test using tack glue with ports faces

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Mmmmm now parts are usable :D, also for a novice ;)

Thanks a lot to Andy (a.k.a. MPWR) for all the help and the kind support in the development!

Awesome!

Mega sweet :thumbsup:

Having gotten to play with the prototypes, I can definitely say that they really are as cool as they look! :grinyes: :p

I'm certainly looking forward to seeing the production version. And of course as Gio mentioned, some additional fun ideas are being considered. :naughty: :sunglasse

Fantastic Gio !!!

R :)

Looks perfect! You guys had a great idea! :thumbsup:

When do we start ordering them?! :D

Wow, you are really crazy, this is awesomely insane!

And it looks like a lot of fun to build, I really like this level of insanity!

Keep it going!

I think we might see a moty 09 winner. I'm glued.

Now that I've started a Speedster build of my own, including Gio's A-MAY-ZING photoetch, I'm waiting with bated breath to see how these turn out. Or even move forward.

Any chance I'll be able to breathe normally anytime soon?

Ddms

Stunning work!! Outstanding!!!! I am thrilled to see so much talent in one thread!

Gio, I wonted to ask you, what glue do you use for gluing pe parts?

What happened to the topless triö! Did they stop riding and went for coffee instead....:lol2:

Come on guys! I wanna see some more teutönic actiöön!:p

Yes ,me two...c'mon

Thrio is in good (wintry=rounded :D ) shape ;) :D

Don´t get too round....A 356 is not big inside.......hahahaha....:lol2::lol2:

Since we started this project, I'm sad to say I have grown enough to now make up 2/3 of the trio all by myself :D

I got bogged down on the hood but I have also been thinking myself recently that I should really pick this project back up again :)

Wow, all three of us seen in the same place in the same day- that hasn't happened in quite a while. Gio, it's nice to have you back with us!

but I have also been thinking myself recently that I should really pick this project back up again :)

I'm having these thoughts also....