WIP : Porsche 935-78 Turbo - Ickx (Tamiya 1/24)

[rx7king]

after seeing your Sti, this is gonna be amazing

[Sennake]

Originally Posted by hks_kansei

http://www.depaddock.net/sennake/models/935-78_12.jpg

on the last pic (^that one^) i hope your going to do a better seat for poor Mr Ickx, because that one looks mighty uncomfortable.


jokes aside, a great build so far.

LOL!!! I got the same remark on a Belgian forum

[Sennake]

Originally Posted by hueb_s

How do you compare the 935/78 in 1/24 to the 1/20 kits of the 935? I assume it is a motorized kit, too?

The lever of detail in the 1/20 kits is better than the 1/24 kit. But as you can see I try to pull the level of detail to a higher level. It is indeed a motorized kit but I don't intend to install any electric part, and where nessecairy I'll replace the blank spots by scratch parts...

[Sennake]

I started decalling the body. Holy sh*t! The decals fit nicely, no problems there, but they react very strangely to any kind of decal softener : they curve upwards! And the more softener I apply, the more they curve up. And once they glue against itself, there is no way that you can separate the parts anymore, and on top of that your decal is to small and white (the inside of the decal)...

Very annoying, and the right way to do it in this case seems to be the following : apply the decal without any softener, let it dry a day, and then apply softener to the spots where the decal isn't shaped how it should. This works, all other methods are worthless. This is the first time I ever encountered such a problem.

You probably won't see it in the picture, but I really had to paint a lot of spots manually. Right now it looks like sh*t because the decal is kinda matt and the paint is glossy but once I applied 2 layers of clear coat it will look just right (I hope).

Still it was a real shock...

[Eric Cole]

Sweet car and I'm sure it will look great when you're finished with it.... Your builds always do !

[Sennake]

Originally Posted by mach1_2003

Sweet car and I'm sure it will look great when you're finished with it.... Your builds always do !

Lol! The ones I put online yes

But there is a lot that I don't show hehe...

[p9o1r1sche]

Nice decaling around those wheel vents.

[Sennake]

Update :

the Martini-striping has been applied to the other side of the body, and to the front. Now that I know how to proceed, it went a lot better. Still I had to retouch bits and parts with paint...



Next to the driver.

After the blue primer coat has dried I put a coat of matt white over it, after which I accentuated the seams with blue again. It looks like this :



Of course this is to heavy, and that is why it had to be "downtoned" again with a matt white drybrush : (here the white paint is still wet, that is why it looks so glossy)



Next I painted the gloves and shoes, the seat belts and buckles, and the Martini-striping on the arms. That was a pretty tricky job...



Last but not least I applied the white striping to the helmet, and I applied the matt black upholstery. The Martini-decal was set as well. Still missing are the vizor and the connection for the on-board radio.



To be continued...

[GvEman]

Fantastic work dude! Can’t wait for more progress on this masterpiece.

[Sennake]

I finished the driver figure, with this reference picture in mind :



So this is how the in-scale driver looks (the seat still has to be painted) :

[mickbench]

Looking good.. I know how you feel when you use setting solution on decals and then they curl up on you. I have done that, but I think it was due to me not using the products correctly. But it does make you feel a little bit mad, once the panic has gone away, and you know there is nothing you can do..!!

Driver looks cool..!!

[Sennake]

The striping-decals are all set now. I'll let the body dry thouroughly and then I can apply the sponsor-decals... :

[p9o1r1sche]

Will you include the wooden box of wine in the front seat area?

[Sennake]

Originally Posted by p9o1r1sche

Will you include the wooden box of wine in the front seat area?

I was asking myself this question too. And I think it served as a counter weight to balance the car (very primitive, but effective), so I guess it should be in the model as well...

I'll give it a try

[godfather23]

The driver looks awesome. Great as usual. Please show us also the work you originally didn´t intend to have it on the net. I want to see some screwed up work by you as well. Makes me feel a lot better, when even guys like you have some models that don´t come out as they want them to be.