Le Mans Contest Entry: 1994 Dauer Porsche 962

[allnie]

Here is the 1:24 Gold line Dauer Porsche 962 from LMM.

It is a resin kit and you get ALL the details. Nice end result, but it takes enormous time to finish this project.

Resin: Excellent
Fit: Could be worse, but could also be better.
Documentation: Good. 2 nice colour pages with a lot of technical photos are included.
Decals: The very bad thing about LMM. Bad quality. Does not adhere (use Johnson clear to "glue") and is stiff and very fragile. I hope LMM in the future could use Cardograf, which is a much, much better quality.
Instructions: Good. Much better than Fisher.
Aftermarket service: Excellent. Angéle Chapeau makes a very good job. Much, much better than Fisher (they don't answer emails!!)
Tires: Good. Real rubber. Not "hard resin" like Fisher.
Glass parts: Good. A "backup" is included (nice).

But now for the pictures:












































Best regards

Allan Nielsen
Denmark

[Vric]

outch.. the Contest is getting quite hard

very very nice built. Incredible details.

[sportracer02]

Hi

wow - great model, nice details, perfektly built.

I have the same model with Shell-Decals. Now I know what it can look like.

Micha

[p9o1r1sche]

Excellent detail and buildup. Any pics of it with all the bodywork on?

[proosen]

Fantastic build! Looks really good. I to would like to see it fully dressed.

Niclas

[robrex]

Awesome work Allan!!! I'll have to check out LMM to see what they have available the kit looks incredible completed! I bet you're proud of that on display?

[hueb_s]

Great work as usual, Allan!
We see the bad decal adhering at the front cowling (the German flag), this is really bad for such an expensive kit! I guess, adhering the decals with Johnson clear (aka Future) is difficult? Because you don't have much time for corrections?

[allnie]

Thanks to everybody all for the nice comments.

A few answers:

- The German flag looks for some strange reason bad on the picture of the front cowling, but it does NOT look bad in "real life". Must be something with reflections on the picture. The bad decals are much more the red stripes (main body + rear cowling), which strangely on the other hand looks good on the pictures. I have send an email to LMM concerning the general problems with the quality of the decals (not only for this kit).

- The upper parts does NOT fit on the main body. I built the kit as "full" and did not focus on that subject. But you can also buy the kit as "easy-line" (curbside).

- I am very close to finish the LMM 1:24 Porsche 908 ( second at Le Mans 1969). This is much more a curbside kit without all those details. I plan also to show this kit on those pages (but I think I can only have one kit for the contest???)

Best regards

Allan Nielsen

Originally Posted by hueb_s

Great work as usual, Allan!
We see the bad decal adhering at the front cowling (the German flag), this is really bad for such an expensive kit! I guess, adhering the decals with Johnson clear (aka Future) is difficult? Because you don't have much time for corrections?

[Spitfire7]

Wow, very nice work.

[generationx]

WOW beautiful build! So much detail...

[sjelic]

very nice, very detailed, good job all over, no matter what.

[RallyRaider]

Fantastic work Allan, welcome to the contest, We're now up to 45 entries!
Le Mans Miniatures would have to be my favourite resin kit manufaturer (although that could change if I finaly get to see the new 1/24th Southern Cross kits).

[sportracer02]

Hi,

just a question about the kit:

a friend of mine told me, he had big problems to fix the exhaust-system.

Any problems with your kit?

His decals were ok.

Why didn´t you use CF-Decals??

Micha

[ImolaEK]

Very Nice I love it

[allnie]

Hello

Yes the exhaust-system was a nightmare, with a lot of "cut and paste" to make it fit. But after a lot of frustrations and endless corrections did it work out. But I was close to give up the project at that time.

I don't use CF-decals unless it is 1:12. This is a question about being able to finish a project. My projects are getting bigger and bigger and tend to getting to the point where nothing is ever finished, because the projects gets too ambitious. So therefore I decided to "keep it simple" in this area.

Best regards

Allan Nielsen

Originally Posted by sportracer02

Hi,

just a question about the kit:

a friend of mine told me, he had big problems to fix the exhaust-system.

Any problems with your kit?

His decals were ok.

Why didn´t you use CF-Decals??

Micha