Porsche 917K -A tribute to Pedro Rodriguez-

Dear community,
althought finished two years ago i want to show you some pics of my 917K-project. This is because i want to give something back to all of you who accompanied me on my Aston Martin DBR9 wip and to give you some more impressions about what a enthusiastic member has already finished. Actually my 917 was awarded with a gold medal at the German Model Masters 2007 in the category "single civilian subject". I got a great inspiration from one of the hardest and uncompromising sport car drivers of all times, Pedro Rodriguez. I read a lot about him and his races and so this is also a tribute to him. He lost his life after a terrible accident at the Norisring in Nürnberg in july 1971 only half a year after his win of the Daytona 24 hours in january the same year with this particular car no.2.

And what else could it be as a dirty gulf car..................;-)


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Sorry, i have to add at least SOME pics of the construction because this is definitely NOT a WIP .......don't get me wrong.

http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr79/gulf009/917K/P1010102.jpg

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So please feel free to comment and once again:
Thanks a lot to all of you for making this a very special place! I feel very comfortable here, i learn a lot and enjoy all the great contributions.

Yours
Jochen

Very nice! :eek2:

Very nice, Jochen. The paint looks very flat and by that realistic. The wheathering is not too much. Overall a very well build 917K. Did you have a lot problems with rear cowl??

Robert

Hi Jochen,

you sure have some amazing weathering skills. Hats off to you!

Very nice, and thank you for sharing your technique for the surface of the base! :)

Very nice work! Always great to see another classic Porsche. :sunglasse


Thanks a lot to all of you for making this a very special place! I feel very comfortable here, i learn a lot and enjoy all the great contributions.


Glad to hear you're enjoying the community! :thumbsup:

Impeccable! (as strange as that might sound)

I'm very impressed with your weathering skills. Your WIP on the Aston is worth publishing as an article about how to realize a very realistic looking model. :)

SUPERB!!! the model,detail and presentation, a great tribute indeed.

I am planning to do one of Pedro Rodriguez 917K, the one with the front damage to one of the corners and the "atempt" to repair it on the heat of the race.....when this driver said ....let's race hard...he mean it!!!!!!!!!!

Great job, I like th rust in the tailpipes.

Using sandpaper for track surface is a brilliant idea!

Hi Jochen,

you sure have some amazing weathering skills.


I totally agree, execution is outstanding !!

Superb!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Very really looks! :thumbsup:

Great stuff! I especially like the bodywork fasteners at the rear.

Fantastic work and great idea about the base

That's a very beautiful build (in a dirty kind of way). I am curious, what scale is it and what kit?

Rob

Hello,

a very nice work, great weathering.
I find the varnished tapes in the front strange. With beginning of the race the headlight covers from foil were varnished also partially.
What had happened there, accident in the qualifying and then repair?

....I am curious, what scale is it and what kit?

Is Fujimi 1/24.


Grüße, Jens

Another fine work from you! Would love to see more of your old builds for sure.

Thank you all very much, i really appreciate your kind words!
Some answers:
@jenner: Hello Jens, after i read so much and after i looked at a bunch of pics of the car(s) and race reports i decided to reproduce that tape which might have had various reasons, mainly simply to protect the extrem low front of the car from all this little rubber rockets, stones and to give a bit of extra strength in situations of "infights"!? Especially Pedro Rodriguez' car.......You are right, it stays a bit mysterious but i found it to be important enough to give it a try. I don't insist on correctness.
You are absolutely right about talking about that, just have a look at these pictures. The teams had real indigenous methods in former times but that makes it so interesting even for modelers!
http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr79/gulf009/917K/917_0020_K_0020_Daytona_0020_1971.jpg

http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr79/gulf009/917K/ZErmanno_71_Day_02w.jpg

These long runs must have been a kind of high speed war.......

@Sebastian: I'm really honoured by your compliment thus you are one of the real Porsche freaks! Thanks!

MPWR: Thank you very much! And let me take the chance to thank you (and all the other moderators) for spending lots of personel energy and power to keep the community together in this forum.

@scalemodelfanatic: Thanks and GOOD LUCK for your project!

@jano11: Thank you! Actually it really seems that i might have a chance to publicize an article in the german journal MODELL FAN!! (Thanx to M.S.!) Let's see......

Bye for now, keep up all the great work!

Yours
Jochen

@jano11: Thank you! Actually it really seems that i might have a chance to publicize an article in the german journal MODELL FAN!! (Thanx to M.S.!) Let's see......

Excellent! Great to hear that. May I ask you what the article is about?

Veeery nice work again Jochen!

Very nice weathering !!!!!!!!!!Beautifull model

:worshippy :thumbsup:

Congratulations!

Lovely job,great work!

Very realistic!!! BRAVO!!!

Sorry to be so late :)

Another wonderful and inspiring model
If I ever get back to building, I will definitely try following in your footsteps :thumbsup:

Like on the dbr, great weathering. Detailing looks very nice as well. Nice livery on this car!
/Joel

ahhhh how did I miss this one? Anyway another beauty, sensational work! The model should look great side by side with the gulf Aston :smokin:

Hi

Wow - really like that finish on the car. So untypical to most other models in high gloss. The reason for the heavily abraded finish on cars at Daytona in those days were the surface of the concrete track. It made the thin fibreglass bodywork wear away from flying concrete debris, like literally thousands of these stones 'sandblasted' the frontal parts of the cars. That is why the tried to protect it with tape and so on. Rather well portrayed on your model!

Flemming

Beautifully done. Very nice work on every single detail, not to mention the weathering…

R

AWESOME! Cool technique on the base as well, can you tell me what grit sand paper you used? It looks exceptional!