Oki, dealine is coming. For the respect and friendship I have for Andy I'll try to finish until march the 7. Anyway a little slip, seeing the steps of S7 jobs around, would be appreciated. As per the '80 contest (waste almost all the time doing a huge PE set, and burned deadline) I'd lost all the time purchasing kit, dreaming about... and I started it last month. I dreamed about something like the Morgan Aero 8, but I decided to domething less extreme, and at least with classic fenders
yep I'm fashinated by those and a little bit annoyed by cicle fenders, also with wide weels I just hate wide cicle fenders in this bug (try to put it in the side of a standard model, it seem 1/43 LOL)
Oki, let me show how I done:
It would be pearl yellow (Zero lambo Giallo Orion 2 step color) with bare carbon fenders, in full Colin Chapman lightweight concept. No windscreen, just a little wind-slide in front of the driver. 1 (racing) seat. Rollbar. L4 16V twin camshaft porsche (from 968CS) with original S7 gearbox (well supposed revisited, but at least you'll see nothing when mounted). I liked a transaxle solution to have some weignt back but I found nothing to fill in those little space so also differential is the classic S7 one, at least covered by a kevlar panel.
(illustration stolen in the web and retouched)
It will have a white stripe with black edge in the nose, the nose opening is the classic S7 one.
Rear fenders widened 5mm, front fenders also with a triangle wide 3mm to 1 mm, so I cutted it and done the job.
Exaust opening switched from left to opposite side, due to the Porsche engine. Done with styrene and Light Curing Putty the little lip in front of the driver.
I have to say that I'm in love with this detail: those lip was smoothed in the inned side: sorry but I love it LOL
Fitting test:
Engine: I'll detail a bit with wiring, scratchbuilt intake, fuel rail well I have just to choose in the Scale-master spare's catalogue LOL
Rims I purchased from Fujimi: sould be 15" but they're almost 17... grrrr
The worst is the spokes depth and the flat inner side... bleah
Some resin turned slick tyres:
Oki rims after the gio's medicine:
now they look better to me!
and in good fellowship with resin turned slicks and alloy lips
stay tuned, primer done, few little corrections are needed but I guess in a couple days I'll show the body shell painted, if I fix my trouble with 2k clear, if not the time needed to cure the TS13 (that I like a lot
ciao
gio