Gesipa Porsche 917K

[Emilio Lizardo]

I am building my first of hopefully several Fujimi 917K's. For the first, doing a curbside in the Gesipa colors using the Renaissance decals.

The instructions recomend Tamiya TS23 'sky blue' lacquer. However, testing on a sheet, this is a bit dark and TS 10 French blue is the wrong shade.

I am not comfortable with gassing a can of TS 23 and adding gloss white. Are there other colors or mixes to recommend?

[godfather23]

Can you add a reference pic? So we could all together give guesses what color would most likely fit. Are you bound to spray cans or do you have an airbrush?

[Emilio Lizardo]

I prefer airbrush to rattle cans. It was simply the recommendation of Renaissance. It is a shame that Tamiya does not sell the lacquer in bottles. Assume there is a technical reason for this.

I did a small test gassing of the Tamiya paint and it is not as gastly as I thought. So I may try to seperately gas the blue and pure white and try to see how they mix.

I do not have attachment option, so here is a thread to a few photos. This is the bright blue and yellow 917 #54 at the ring, #3 at Monthlrey and #30 at Spa. This should give a good idea even though there is overcast in some of the photos and quality of the film used in 1970.

http://www.imca-slotracing.com/Porsche917-1970.htm

Minichamps ad, probably a little off on the color

http://www.alpimodel.com/minichamps/430706712.html

See color shots on bottom of page

http://www.racingsportscars.com/phot...-17-photo.html

[godfather23]

This is hard...Please give me awhile to think about. Just to let you know that is problem is not forgotten!

[Emilio Lizardo]

Thanks, Definately a tough color. So far, the best I have to come up with is taking the TS-23 gassing it and the pure white and mixing. But I can wait to see if you or anyone else have a better suggestion.