Finished: Porsche 911 Carrera 3.8 RS [lots of pix..]

[Martin S]

Finally finished this kit. It is the Fujimi Carrera 3.8 RS.
simple, but not too bad kit curbside actually. Paint is a special mixed solid blue, and the wing is CF:ed
Messed up the paint a few times and it is still not perfect, and the panel lines are to thick. I think I made actually every misstake possible with this kit.
-Painted too soon after washing body so waterdroplets were still in some corners.
-Clearcoated too soon. Dissolved the base coat.
-Polished through the clear coat.
-The paint for the panel lines flooded out of the shallow fujimi panel lines and on to the paint. I used the same type of paint so cleaning to much with thinner would have dissolved the blue paint aswell..
-Masked for the window frames before the clear had hardened. Messed up paint again (polished out)

Gahhh. I KNOW all these things already since 10 years or so, but still I rush in to things to get finished...

Anyway... The wheels looked rediculously small as usual so I had to do something. I liked the design, but they needen at least another scale inch in diameter to look like the real wheels, so I added some "lips" made out of styrene, put on some BMF and carved out the profile of the tyre so the bigger rim would fit:



Some pics of the finished car:








Some pretty fat-assed sisters:

[campenr.1]

With all you have done wrong this is a pretty beautiful an well built kit.
Like the two 911s.

[DukeMan]

looking pretty damn good man! but what happened to the Viper?!

Keep it up!

[Martin S]

Thanks. The yellow viper is asleep in the box again for a while together with the sportquattro.

Oh, I forgot. I also got glue on the windows for the first time in 10 years on the blue 911

[mike united]

Hey, i love your work, beautiful Porsches.

Mike

[Bas Carwash]

Hey, that's a very nice porsche. Looks very clean to me although you say it actually ain't... I think it looks great!

[SchuberT]

The wheels do look a lot better now. How did you carve out the profile in the tires?

Super clean build.

[Vric]

nice paint job !

[Martin S]

SchuberT:
I used a very sharp modeling knife, and cut along a suitable mold-line on the tyrewall. No so easy though. First you only cut about 1mm into the rubber and concentrate on making a nice edge, then yopu gradually cut deeper and deeper..

[CADguy]

It looks very good, they both do.
The wheel addition really makes this car look sweet.
Nice work

[DJPaul]

great looking twing sisters

[tonioseven]

What a nice pair!!