Chris Smith

I have been slacking 🤪

Looking good Bruce, amazing what Porsche was able to do back then. Imagine how fast the car would be with tires from today’s race cars.

And I when I grow up I would like to scratch build like you and Tim!!

I’m sure you will find a way, such a beautiful and iconic car

Came out great Paul 👍

Are they sponsoring you Tim 🤣 Nice update my friend, glad to see took some time to get some work in on this project

A little bit more added, now we have ground effects. 😁

They act like the butterflies on a carburetor. You nail the accelerator and the plate opens and air and fuel enters and make it rip

I could not sleep last night so I worked into early this morning. I was able in stall the seat and engine and also the lower body panels. During the week I worked on the cockpit surround and added carbon decals for a little more realistic look and also built the seat belts. Feeling pretty good about it at this point.

Steering wheel…I did the best I could, the wheel is white metal and all the knobs and buttons are molded in and not very crisp.

Front suspension and brakes installed, it took a lot of patience to get all the carbon decals installed and it seemed like it took forever to get everything painted just to be at this stage. Hope you like

Front suspension and brakes installed, it took a lot of patience to get all the carbon decals installed and it seemed like it took forever to get everything painted just to be at this stage. Hope you like

Very cool subject, I remember this car running at Fremont Raceway. I was probably 10 or 11 years old. My dad used to take me to the track quite often to see some of best drag racing. I had no idea of where the guys came from but I sure did enjoy getting autographs and pictures of the cars so I could plaster them on my bedroom walls. i sure will be following your journey and re living part of my youth 👍

Very cool Bruce, I will have to check it out the next time I come over the hill for a visit.

Looking good Bruce! So you have been shmoozing with celebrities 😋

lol, thanks for the support..and I’ll let you talk to the wife about the fee’s 🤣

After 3 coats of clear , some massaging with some 3000 grit and 5000 grit. Then I used 3 different polishing compounds , here we are. A few more small details then I’ll put a couple coats of wax on it.

Great to see you back onto this particular project Bruce. As usual off to a great start!

Just add decals. All I need to do, is clear then a nice polish. And then maybe some noticeable progress…lol

This helps. Okay, I use a air brush on everything. the lettering on the calipers are a decal as well as the rest of the kit. I do as little brush painting if I can help it.

I cleaned up the white metal parts by sanding the burrs and drilled the holes for the control arms. Cleaned the resin parts with dawn , hot water and an old toothbrush. Put the metal parts into the magnetic tumbler. primed the parts and painted the brake rotor with Tamiya flat black and then used Tamiya graphite powder for give it a carbon effect. Painted the rest of the parts with Tamiya semi gloss black, assembled as per instructions, then added the PE brace as per instructions. the control arms are covered with carbon fiber decals. Hope this helps

I’m using the grey primer for plastic and metal. My last complete build blog was the Ferrari 333 SP. As for any MFH kit , you have to drill, sand and do some filing. Plus a lot of dry fitting. I am currently working on the F2003GA … Lots of resin and not a lot of white metal. As far as prep goes sand and or file the seams and any other burrs. Drill appropriate holes, so other parts that connect will fit , put into tumbler for 20 minutes, rinse and dry then apply primer then paint. Sometimes the metal has pits in it and you could use putty to fill it and sand it smooth. As far as putty is concerned, I use 3m automotive spot putty.

When I clean white metal parts I put them in a magnetic tumbler with a polishing solution. I don’t think you need to go this route. A nice bath in lacquer thinner and a stiff brush. i use Tamiya primer and also both acrylic and lacquer paints on my MFH builds.

I only spent 6 hours on this 🤪

The decals where included and I did not clear over the decals