ok, as said before in the general topics I was searching some info about the porsche 962 long tail.
This cause I have the intention to build up a rothmans car, possibly the car. no 17 Le mans winner 1987, to place beside the porsche 961 wide body that is giving me now more than an headache right now (avoid museum collection decals guys...really)...
So I started looking around to what it could be the best 962 around. I like a lot this prototype C group car, and was sure to find a clear information around theme.
It is indeed quite messy, probably cause in the 80s and early 90s too many of theme were racing so nearly all team made their own cars, ultin the gunnar cars 966.
My first intention was to operate over the haegawa 962, both cause was apparently more detailed than the slot based tamiya and second cause I have a big pile of theme waiting on my stash.
After looking around anyway I noted too many parts were imho not so convincing in the hasegawa bodyshape. Mostly the bubble area around the windshield has something mistaken in the line.
It is also true that well build models have a nice look when completed and painted well. Basically I suspect hasegawa made many many boxes of the 962 in her c group serie changing mostly wheels and other details, but that body has really something unclear in the front area.
I then did it my way, simply taking the pics of the year car I wanna build and looking at what I have in my hands. On the stash there was also amisterious shell 962 tamiya, so checking what I have I discover the following...
1. there is no 962 long tail available (but there are tons of decals for long tails car around)
2. all revell kits are hasegawa reboxed with costantly mistaken decals. The orange jägermeister should be a 956 short tail, and the rothmans box should be..a nearly correct 962 kh with no tobacco decals and high portance configurations.
3. I like the le mans car of 1987,mostly for its no.17 number..so simply had to modify the slotbody from tamiya.
ok honestly there is already around the full model kit of this car, and is made by Hiro in 1/24.
Despite the high price of the kit it has some features that I dont like, first of all the trasparent parts are messy and tricky to fit, and is very easy to close the model this way...
with no offense for the builder of this nice model. Such windhsield is horrible to see fitted such way, being the real ones glued perfectly on the body lines of the car..
and first of all, I dont need a full detail open car, but just want to enjoy the stunning line of this immortal racer from Stuttgard.
As everybody knows this tamiya kit have some nasty and misteryous features that must be fixed. First of all the side intakes have a strange shape (probably done such way for the motorized tamtech body), but the overall shape of the body is imho the best plastic one around.
Also tamiya on this serie has all the trasparent parts moulded alerady on the body. Not so big problem for me, but making colored cars the white plastic on the glued side will remain visible, so try cover it with some internal and external nearby paint can be the only way to hide it.
All the 962 body is done in an uncommon plastic, also here I think coming from the toysh meaning of the original kit..
and then....of course the rear hatch, object of my initial thread searching detailed infos and pics about him (and now we all know more..).
Tamiya made a short tail kurtheck car, with quite ugly details on the wing area too.
Some modelers suggest to take directly the rear hatch from the nicer 956 kit serie, but all the rear lines of the car are different, starting from the curvature of the rear main wheel that in 962 was much bigger.
I had this hatch and used it for measures. In the beginning I thought I could also use the side mountings for the rear wing, but no way, cause the wheel area is correctly higher in 962s than 956s...
narcotized with my speech? lets see some pics then..
This is more or less the car I mean, despite this is the museum mistaken one with larger tail edge from following seasons..
and to make a long story short, the correct 962 tail for car.17 should be this one..
and not the one...from porsche ag museum...
