Porsche Boxster-finished!

[ZoomZoomMX-5]

Happy to make this first post on the new server! Finished my Boxster.

Started on New Year's, primered on Thursday, painted on Friday, paint details/assembly on Saturday and today. Whew! Thank goodness for Tamiya paint and superglue and zip-kicker, and lots of caffeine.







Paint is Tamiya light gunmetal, interior accent color is Tamiya brilliant blue. Wheels from a Modena, body kit from a GT3, including seats. I plan on using a better exhaust tip, but this gets me to our club meeting this afternoon.

[Integra14]

wow that looks GREAT!!! and even in that amount of time u took!! i have one suggestion....

I think that it would look cooler if u did something to the back bumper! just my oppinion tho!!!

anyways GREAT JOB!:ylsuper

[ZoomZoomMX-5]

I thought about doing a bit of work behind the wheels on the rear bumper cover, but just was too lazy and wanted this finished fast...Porsche didn't bother on the GT3 either, so I feel somewhat vindicated. Thanks!

[Bimmerkid]

Love the color, awesome model, I don't know if I like the spoiler, though..


IMO it adds a boxy bit to the Boxster's smooth lines. It just looks a little out of place.

[giordano]

great conversion!!! love every bit of it.

[supratuner]

looking good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i like that color

[ZoomZoomMX-5]

Originally posted by Bimmerkid
Love the color, awesome model, I don't know if I like the spoiler, though..


IMO it adds a boxy bit to the Boxster's smooth lines. It just looks a little out of place.

Simply put, the model needed a spoiler w/the GT3 body kit-it looked nekkid without one. If it were a bone-stock Boxster, no spoiler would have been needed. In a perfect world I might have come up w/a smaller/better looking spoiler (heck, in a perfect world the real car would be in my driveway!), but I was under a self-imposed deadline that I wanted to finish the car in (25-30 hours since Wednesday..ouch!). The GT3 spoiler modified worked well enough. Same goes for the rims-I probably could have found something even better, but time/effort forced my hand-I had an extra set of Modena rims, and they were a direct fit w/o any modifications. They looked as good as the GT3 rims (which are going on a Modena), and as good as any of the aftermarket rims I came up with that would have required new mounting pins/modifications. And I've got about 100 sets to choose from...

Thanks for the comments!

[tomazws]

best boxster i've ever seen

nice

[ales]

This is ridiculous! You just started it!!!!!!!!! Looks absolutely great, Bob. I guess it's the dehydrator power that peeds up the process so much, right?

I can't seem to find one here, though

[Midnight Racer]

Great work on the Boxster.Looks amazing.Great work.

[chaos]

Man - that's like less than a week!!! The car looks fantastic. I like the seat conversation.

The colour looks pretty darn good too - I sprayed 2 coats of light gunmetal on my Merc - but, I wasn't pleased with the result - didn't look half as good as the Porsche. Had to strip it down and I decided on gloss aluminium.

[tonioseven]

And I've got about 100 sets to choose from

You are my modelling idol! Oh, awesome job on the Porsche!!

[kicker1_solo]

very sweet

[Jay!]

Good form! Should really 'wow' them at your meeting today!

Originally posted by ZoomZoomMX-5
I've got about 100 sets to choose from...

Trying to catch up to Laurent?

[tazdev]

nice work ZoomZoom looks very good indeed. And thatnks to the new server we can all see it with no problems:ylsuper