Jägermeister Porsche 956, Tamiya, 1/24

[MarcoSaupe]

Yes, I know the original car is a 956 short tail, but the Revell kit is a 962, the Tamiya a long tail, and I've read that the combination of a Tamiya 956 with a 962 cowling might give fitment issues - well, I'm not a rivet counter so of all the wrong choices I took the one with a visible engine and declare it a test/museum car

I'm in a orange phase at the moment, so I continued by combining a Tamiya 956 with the decals of the Revell "956". The kit is nice, everything fits, I added some details and also used the recent Tamiya detail set with etched parts. The Revell decals are VERY thin, be careful not to fold them.
Painted with TS12 per airbrush, TS29, Alclad Alu and Chrome, Zero1k on top.

I hope you like it, at least those of you who are not that much of a rivet counter

[euro_z]

i like it!

[locesto]

engine's very nice but interior foto?

[Greg23]

Looks good. Nice and clean. The orange photographed well.

[DasWiesel]

Nice Porsche!

[tmathew1us]

Awesome! Looks great. I like when people use imagination and realism together for a unique model. Congrats.

[Helico]

Super clean as always. Very nice.

[corvettekid_7684]

Very nice!!

[MarcoSaupe]

Thanks all

[deedlit]

Just perfect

[sportracer02]

yes, looks great, I like it.

Just one thing: on the first photos the "inner door panels" look orange, I´m not sure if they were alu or black

[LUISCRTD]

Beautiful model, the orange looks great in the photos.
¿Had you thought to define the doors?
Congratulations
Luis

[Kurzheck]

Nice work! I wonder why Brun never ran the Jager livery at Le Mans?

[tonipeseta]

Very clean work and great Stefan Bellof!

[MarcoSaupe]

Thanks again

on the first photos the "inner door panels" look orange, I´m not sure if they were alu or black

You may be right here, I admit I had looked whether they were black or alu, didn't find an answer, and forgot about it

Had you thought to define the doors?

Well, it's a matter of personal choice, but I don't like it that much when the door lines are made too black, so I prefer to leave them this way.

I wonder why Brun never ran the Jager livery at Le Mans?

There is a great (German) book about the story of the complete Jägermeister racing sponsorship, written by the guy who did all the deals, and while they did not mention LeMans, there was a similar story about F1. He wrote, that they only did deals for selected F1 races, like Stuck for the German GP, and no complete season, because they sold primarily to West/Central Europe; it made no sense to sponsor F1 in countries all over the world, as the people there could not buy the stuff, and the people home did not see it on TV.

I think it may be similar with LeMans, even if it's in Europe it's not worth paying a lot for a worldwide audience in a single race, if most can't buy your product.
If I look at the results tables in the book, there is a 934 in LeMans in 78, but not much more, and the Brun Porsches were only orange in a couple of races.