1/12 Porsche 910 progress thread

[p9o1r1sche]

Been working on this project - a 1/12 Porsche 910. Base kit is the Tamiya kit. I decided to push my machining capabilities on this warmup for some other 1/12 kits. I'm envisioning this as a restored vintage racer and I'm using a Gunnar Jeanette restored 910 as a reference. I decided to make the body a spyder version, like the Porsche 908/2. Since the back end would be very visible, I'll super detail the engine compartment.


This is the basic transmission with machined stud/bolt combo. After seeing some progress on the engine, I wish I had left the bolts in the natural brass color.


Here's a shot of the body. Still a lot of work to do.


This is in the nose, forward of the pedals. Brake fluid reseviors and master cylinders. Later, I added an aluminum bulkhead in here.


Here's the fuel injection pump with nice machined bits.


Here's a couple of shots of the almost completed engine. Ran out of tubing for the plugs, so I'll take a break on this until more arrives. Almost all the fasteners are machined or P/E.




Updates to follow.

[allnie]

Oh boy. Look like 1:1, not 1:12.

[white97ex]

looking mighty fine so far!!

[freakray]

Dayum Ken, that's some other level of detail.

You have a lathe at home?

[robrex]

Fantastic work! I'm already looking forward to the next update!
Did you use brass hex rod for the bolts? if so, where did you get it from?

[mikemechanic]

Looks awesome. How do you machine the bolt heads and stuff, a lathe or milling machine?

[p9o1r1sche]

I have a milling machine with a rotary table and a lathe. I made the bolts by turning a 1/8" brass rod down to about 0.070" in the hex-shaped area, then turned the adjacent areas down to about 0.025". I could have taken the chucked brass over to the milling machine to mill the hex flats on the rotary table, but that would have taken alot of time. I opted to remove the brass part from the lathe and sanded the hex flats by putting the part in a pin vise that has a hex head end. Using the pin vise hex head as an index, I sanded the six flats on each bolt head. Oh hell, I'll make a tutorial to explain it better.

Robrex - I couldnt find any hex rods of the size I wanted, so had to go this route. At least I can make any size hex I want.

[Technoman]

That is quite amazing....

[gionc]

awesome work, thread tracked
can't wait for more
and at the end, guys, I want soon made me a lathe

[Petrick]

Damn that looks really good

[cinqster]

Superb work! I've especially love the fabric inner skinning - you've obviously spent as long as me perusing the Gunnar website! What fabric did you use? I've tried experimenting with very fine GRP cloth (used for R/C gliders) and PVA but I've found it tricky to get the shape to conform.

How did you groove the top of the carb velocity stack bases - are they milled?

[bigfrit]

This is going to be good !

I m keeping an eye open on this!

Oli

[robrex]

Originally Posted by p9o1r1sche

I have a milling machine with a rotary table and a lathe. I made the bolts by turning a 1/8" brass rod down to about 0.070" in the hex-shaped area, then turned the adjacent areas down to about 0.025". I could have taken the chucked brass over to the milling machine to mill the hex flats on the rotary table, but that would have taken alot of time. I opted to remove the brass part from the lathe and sanded the hex flats by putting the part in a pin vise that has a hex head end. Using the pin vise hex head as an index, I sanded the six flats on each bolt head. Oh hell, I'll make a tutorial to explain it better.

Robrex - I couldnt find any hex rods of the size I wanted, so had to go this route. At least I can make any size hex I want.

Wow! that makes this even more impressive!

[RallyRaider]

I don't know what to say. The level of detail you lathe owners are achieving these days leaves me speechless. Umm... incredible!

[Vric]

I'm also jealous about lathe owner.. It's unfair for us