Porsche 911 Carrera

[iceracer1]

This will be my next project for the SPC Contest.

Tamiya Porsche 911 Carrera!

Reason:

I love the 911 model sinds the beginning of Porsche. The looks of the first 911 are still visble on the last Porsche from now, and that's something that I really like.

Everyone knows how a Porsche looks like, and if you point to a Porsche and ask a car-noob (like my girlfriend) what car that is, they say it's a Porsche!

Since I like tuningcars, I read tuningmags. A while ago I readed a magazine with a article about tuner Sportec. I really love the simple look that this tuner add to his cars. They mainly tune Audi and Porsche, so here's were I got my idea from.

The kit:

I'll use the Tamiya Porsche 911 Carrera, because it's a nice kit and better than Italeri or Revell.



The kit contains not many parts. Mostly because it's curbside.





The body looks great. Some little moldinglines but overall a very nice body.





The original wheels will be replaced by Fujimi Sportec Mono wheels. These are 19'' and have some flat tyres.



I'll paint them gun metal or metallic black, and maybe the trim will be chrome.



And a quick dryfit:







The color will be Mica Silver from Tamiya.

Kris.

[deedlit]

That's gonna look sweet
I love the wheels, it will look very agressive with these

[drunken monkey]

A surprisingly rare kit to see being built.
Nice to see someone take it out of its box instead. In my opinion, this car deserves more respect than it is usually given.

As with the more common GT3 kit, make sure that the A pillars are 100% before commiting to primer/painting. They are notoriously fragile and bend out of shape very, very easily.

[iceracer1]

Today I started with the kit.

First I painted the wheels with a metallic antracite black paint from Volkswagen. I like the semigloss finish on it so I don't clearcoat it anymore.







Than I started with the body. I sanded the moldinglines and the parking sensors on the rearbumper away. After that I rescriped the panellines and I added some primer on it.





The body and the bodyparts are now ready for the Silver color, so maybe I'll paint it tomorrow or at least this week.

Kris.

[iceracer1]

Yesterday I painted the body. In the last coat I had some dust, so I sanded them away and added another last layer today.

This is the result so far:













Hopefully tomorrow I can start masking the body to paint the roof gloss black before clearcoating.

Kris.

[tpliquid]

not bad not bad.

i built same one with same color

[endac]

Looks good, i like the colour choice

[ffejjeff]

i like the combination,blue on black!

[iceracer1]

I've an update but this time it's not a good one.... :cry:

I first masked the body to paint the roof black. After this I let it dry for a day.

Yesterday I started with clearcoating the body.

First I sprayed a layer of Pearl Clear. After this I painted 3 layers normal Clear. But with the last layer it went wrong....
Somehow there comes a drup out of the spraycan which landed on my wet paint. The result is a screwed up paint on the side.







I've now sanded the door and the ugly surface, and maybe tonight I paint it again in Mica Silver and clearcoat it the next day. I hope that place would not be vissible anymore.

Kris.

[spincarez]

It was coming so good but don't let it get you down. I hope after the touch up it will look good. I will be looking forward to your next update.

[iceracer1]

After some little sanding on the side of the body, I managed to fix the paintproblem.

First I masked off the roof. Than I painted 2 layers of Mica Silver on the side, followed by 1 layer Pearl Clear and 2 layers normal Clear.

Off course I had some overspray, so I painted the whole body 1 more time with Clear.

This is the result so far:









And a dryfit with the nice Sportec rims.







Kris.

[deedlit]

You fixed the problem very well IMO

[jano11]

Very nice recovery!

[KevHw]

Nice save! I like those rims...but I'm still undecided how I think they look, though. I think the chrome trim you mentioned would really help bring them out. Looking forward to more.

[ddtham]

Cool build. That Mica Silver looks better than TS-17 for sure.