Rich Chernosky

This is a Fujimi Porsche 911GT3R. This is the car Sebastion Loeb (the rally driver) drove in the Porsche Carrera Cup in 2013. Decals are from Studio 27 . The red had to be carefully matched to the decals and the sides are all painted on. The wing was matched to the darker blue. Overall this was a nice kit to do despite some of the fussy details. And it goes in quite nicely with my extensive Martini collection. One of the fussiest details was painting the clear red and blue on the center caps of the wheels. Those decals are 5 seperate pieces per side and didn't go on without a fight. Some Future varnish help hide a lot of the tiny wrinkles. The wheels steer in the kit but they fit in the wheel wells so tight, that they barely steer. Tires and brakes were nice.

Turned out nice.

Very nice, clean build. Your attention to detail paid off. In particular, I like your wheel treatment. How did you achieve that?

When mine lets go again, and it will, I will probably just wire it back together with fine armature wire. This is a common problem with F-1 kits and it won't be the first repair I have ever done. Its still a cool kit. Tamiya rules.

Justin, that is a great little kit and you are off to a good start. I enjoyed building mine. Just make sure the lower link that attaches to the upright on your rear suspension is secure. Mine keeps falling apart.

Very clean model. I especially like your choice of wheels and the colour really sets the car off. What did you use on them..???

Very cool project. Looks like a Super Seven that grew a V-8 and a set of really wide tyres.. I like it.

Not as much of a chore as you might think. Lay the tape (3m makes it in all kinds of colors) on a piece of glass and cut with a 6" steel ruler. Might take a few cuts to get the width right as you have to do it by eye. Lay it on the model with a good pair of tweezers and cut with a very sharp instrument. Just takes some practice. I have been using this trick for years on all kinds of graphics. You can't possibly paint as fine a line especially when it has to come to a sharp point.

Yours looks just as good, thanks for posting this.

This was an interesting project to be sure. Build two versions of the same car in different scales. 'turned out to be an interesting comparison how two companies approached the same subject. Monogram made the 1/24 kit and MPC made the 1/16 version. Both cars were painted at the same time and 2K clear were used on both. Colours were Tamiya TS40 metallic black and Tamiya TS76 Mica silver. the silver was also used for the interior but was sprayed with Tamiya flat. Then it all got a light was of black to highlight the seams and knock back the silver a little to look more like the vinyl of the car. Both kits had challenges all their own. See the captions below the pictures for more details. Thanks for looking All finished and sitting on their wheels. Most noticeable differences are the badging and the T-tops. Monograms were clear and sprayed with smoke. MPC were solid and painted body colour. Much fitting had to be done to get the MPC t-tops to fit. Rear view of both. The red stripe is vinyl tape cut down. Bodies had to be carefully sprayed to get the graphics right. Kits had decals for this but they were never going to work. Vinyl tape was also used for the very classy Astro Wheels....which are one of my favorites for this year of car. Side by side caomparison. Suspension on the Monogram had to be lowered quite a bit. I made the front wheels poseable as well. The MPC had working steering and spring loaded front suspension. No alterations to ride height was necessary. Overall the Monogram was much better detailed. You would have thought the larger scale would be but this was not the case. Interior of the MPC 1/16. Not too bad but could have had some better detail. Same for the engine on the MPC. At least it all fit. Interior on the Monogram was much better as they provided decals for the dash. Both cars have a grey flock for carpet. Engine on the Monogram was also much better detailed. Decals were a nice touch.

Thanks Mark. I have this kit and I see that is what Tamiya recommends. Tamiya is usually spot on when it comes to matching their decals with paint so that is what I will probably go with. I have drained more than a few cans of TS49 in my days.

Good looking model..

Great build, that's a tough kit to do right, you nailed it. Music was cool too. What red did you use for the main colour. Thanks

This looks cool...keep us posted.

Nice job on that. You can't even see where you touched it up so if you didn't mention it no one would know. I did all of these and this was my favorite one.

Nice job on this one. I know for a fact that those decals were a real terror. You pulled it off beautifully.

Good rescue job, the before and after photos really show how much work you have done....excellent

Bruce...Protar kits are no walk in the park but you did a great job. If you want a real challenge Protar makes a 1/12 version of this car. I have both done.

Pretty straight forward kit. You can do the body separate if you like as it snaps on the chassis quite easily. If you have the PE kit, that is quite fiddly. Good luck with yours.

Just looked at your WIP, I still like em a lot.

Very nice, well done and the colour looks great. How did you do the seats, they are nice.

That kit was a decal challenge for sure, looks like you have met that.

Hi John, welcome to the forum. I have built and collected F-1 models of all scales for many, many years. There are more of us here on this forum too. If we can be of any help to you..just ask. Its what we are here for.

Nice job bringing this old tooling to life. I like your engine work. I may have to spruce mine up.

Very creative, thanks for sharing.