AFS7 Group Build, gio's contribution ;)

[gionc]

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

[Jamme]

Very nice start Gionc.
I always impressed by your skills!
Can't wait to see the coming work!
Cheers,

Jamme

[klutz_100]

I agree that your picolo wind deflector came out really nice

I have also started mine so that Andy will not be mad at me
But if I don't finish it will be his fault cos he promsied me some "Prisoner" wheels and....

[WRC_413X]

Awesome start Gio! Thats wind deflector rocks, very smooth
Great work on the rims too. Def going to be interesting, with keeping the wings. Hope you make the deadline! lol keep up the progress

I suppose i should post my progress

[Martin S]

It's looking nice ! Interesting to see what it will look like with the wing fenders.
Pretty rare choise of engine. Where did you find a 968 CS engine? Haven't seen that many 968 CS kits around.

[gionc]

Originally Posted by Martin S

It's looking nice ! Interesting to see what it will look like with the wing fenders.
Pretty rare choise of engine. Where did you find a 968 CS engine? Haven't seen that many 968 CS kits around.

Thanks guys. @ Martin: is the hasegawa kit: I purchased a couple lately for cheap, very good kit, you'll find almost 2 engines inside since the base kit is the L4 turbo from 944. This kit have also self-adv carpet material: seem ok.

And more this kit have one of the best box art I seen around, signed from Y.Yoshida: possible is the famous sexi-robot painter of '90??

[auw12]

Another great job from one of the forums' badasses~ Gio your touch up on the rim is really astonishing, I stared at the pic for minutes and was keeping imagining how you did it, but I've got no ideas finally. That's really awesome buddy! How did you do that? Teach me please!

[gionc]

Originally Posted by auw12

Another great job from one of the forums' badasses~ Gio your touch up on the rim is really astonishing, I stared at the pic for minutes and was keeping imagining how you did it, but I've got no ideas finally. That's really awesome buddy! How did you do that? Teach me please!

I imagined it was done of Parmigiano Reggiano chees and slowly nibble at it, in the back side. Just knife job buddy: I'll post something of the rim's ass (This is modelling porno LOL)

[auw12]

Knife job! Hand craft? I'm stuned...

[klutz_100]

Originally Posted by gionc

I imagined it was done of Parmigiano Reggiano chees and slowly nibble at it, in the back side. Just knife job buddy: I'll post something of the rim's ass (This is modelling porno LOL)

LOFL!

My hero!!

[Ferrari TR]

It's good to see another racy 7.
The first, I think, with wide wings as well.
I'm looking fwd to more...

[sportracer02]

Hi Gio,

nice idea, great start.

You are right, these wheels appear a little bit huge under the front fenders, I hope it will turn out better with the resin slicks

[gionc]

Thanks guys

Another little update: little but.... pain LOL, I'm not skilled in soldering jobs: or better I have some decent skills with the flame seamer but here I seamed pipes directly on the seven shell: so I needed an iron seamer, for less temperature... not easy to me: it was needed to rebuilt several times, but at least, after few touches, could be oki: I have to prime and paint black.







ciao!
gio

[Jamme]

Nice!

Jamme

[quadzero]

I really like the lengths you go to in modifying and making these models look so good. Looking forward to more of this. Nice soldering job too, I really have to try this someday.