Porsche K4 Lowenbrau Miami 1984

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1/43rd scale Starter resin kit from 1984. These are the instructions; very simplistic even for Starter's standards.

The resin is very hard, I was concerned it might be brittle too, but fortunately it doesn't seem to be too fragile. I used CA to fill the pin holes and it's about as hard as the resin. The windows were fully flashed over and there was too much thickness to the insides of the openings. A Dremel tool and some small chisels worked great for dealing with the thinning out of those areas.
I tried a couple scribers and a few different knife blades before I found one that worked pretty well to scribe in the panel lines. Still a little more clean-up before the first prime.



The rear wing had a bit of a warp/sag and I tried to straighten it with a hairdryer but the hardness of the resin made me think I would break it before getting it to conform the way I wanted. I got about 50% of the sag out and sanded it the rest of the way.

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The wheels are injection molded plastic instead of machined metal, and the doggy dishes are also plastic, not resin like the later kits.

Upon closer examination of the wheel parts I noticed the fins around the outsides of the doggy dishes were short shots. I found a set in another 935 kit and pulled mold to cast these. They are not perfect, but they are a lot better than what came in the K4 kit.

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The interior is pretty basic and the seat is soft vinyl.

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I shot the body with TS-23 Light Blue.

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I used thin chrome Mylar for the rear wing.

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The trim and other small details have been hand painted.

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The trim and other small details have been hand painted.

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The decals were usable, but not registered well and the sizes were off on some of them; not uncommon for this era of Starter kits.

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I debated whether to clear it with the wing on or off. Being tough to hold securely I decided it was safer to mount it to the body first.

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The windows are in, they don't fit the best. It's an older Starter kit so it's only worth so much work with the other issues it has. Ready for final assembly.