Correct Front Cover Fasteners for 917K?

[Didymus]

I'm building the Fujimi 917K Daytona car (#2), and I'm trying to sort out the front cover fastener situation. The kit had six round bumps where the fasteners should be; I've removed them assuming I'd use the Studio 27 PE ring-style pins in the Studio 27 PE set.

But I've changed my mind. The best photos I have of the car at Daytona seems to show Dzus fasteners with butterfly or blade-style handles. So I'd rather use those.

(On Richard Wilson's website http://www.raw-footage.com/HSR-1999/Gulf917%201.html there's a shot of the car with slotted Dzus fasteners, but I think that was taken after the car was restored.)

I've looked at quite a few 1/24 parts suppliers - Detail Master, Strada Sports, Model Car Garage, Protech and PSF Hobbies - but none of them sell sets of those blade-style fasteners. They do sell sets of assorted fasteners, but I don't know whether they include the blade-type Dzus fasteners.

-- Am I right about the type of fastener used to hold down the front cover of the original car?

-- Does anyone know of a fastener assortment that includes blade-style Dzus fasteners?

-- Does anyone know where I could find a set of those fasteners?

-- Is there something else I could use that would look the same?

Ddms

[jaykay640]

It looks like you're right about the "butterfly" type of fasteners. They are clearly visible in the Fujimi box art. I'm wondering when that picture was taken because it looks like it was hastily repaired after the race ( but maybe also in between practice and the race.....who knows :-)
I don't think though i've ever seen that sort of fastener in 1/24.
Interestingly the sister No.1 car had different fasteners ( the slotted type that just look like a screw head and are mounted in the picture you posted the link to ). They were painted over and hardly visible.

[freakray]

IIRC Sakatsu makes some Dzus fasteners in 1/24, I don't recall which style they are.

[Didymus]

Solved!

The Studio 27 PE set has exactly what I've been looking for all along. Each fastener is a two-piece "pin," one part consisting of a tiny (1.5 mm?) disk with a hole in the center, the other a flat handle with a protruding pin. The pin goes through the hole in the disk (and into a hole in the panel), and there you have it: a flat disk with a blade-style handle. It seems slightly different from the photo, because the handle is attached at the center of the disk, and only extends in one direction.

But it's close enough. Thanks, Freakray and JayKay.

Ddms