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Picked up the Tamiya 1/12th scale Jagermeister Porsche 934 RSR at the NNL West this past February. Was looking around for a few different variations of the car to build...stumbled onto this one: George Follmer's 1976 Trans Am Series winning Porsche 934 RSR No problem finding decals...fairly easy to make a set of 'em, which I did. Here's how the model turned out: thanx for lookin'...

they came in the NASCAR Hornet kit...

Good luck...this is a "turd" of a kit - fresh outa the box, let alone one that has already been played with! looks as though you seem to have it under control though Built it many years ago, will be watchin' you put it together thanx for sharing

Bill very nice job on the triumph i've been tempted to add it to the list everytime i order something from norm back in high school, triumph was the bike...until honda came out with the 750 4-banger lookin' forward to seein' this at a nor-cal model show someday thanx for sharing c'ya

Everything is finally coming together.. had to repair/reinforce the hinges on both bonnets (got a little clumsy handling the parts and "snap"!) this will conclude entries in the Workbench Section, will be posting the finished model in the Big Boys Section thanx for lookin'...

Very, Very nice... gonna have to save my pennies and pick up one of these kits Luv the "Birdcage" Maserati's, built all Birdcage versions from Aardvark Models...my favorite being the the Long-tail thanx for sharing with us

a few progress photos... Porsche motor/transaxle: chassis with motor/transaxle inplace: where the rubber meets the rod, decals via IndyCal: Body parts painted with decals applied, awaiting clearcoat: thanx for lookin'...

Very Nice Bernard... I be liking the color and the stance

Yes, metallizer and tamiya ts-30 and as-12 thanx

I picked up this kit at the NNL West: I was not interested in building an Orange Jagermeister 934 RSR...plenty of those have been built. Upon researching the various versions, I decided to build this one: I based my decision the fact I could reproduce & print the decals and the cost of aftermarket decals...$$$ George Follmer and the car he drove to the 1976 Trans Am Series Championship. Needless to say, this is a very big kit...the workbench is totally engulfed with Porsche 934 parts. Got a few things put together front and rear suspension assemblies: chassis with suspension assemblies attached: All body parts have been painted with Duplicolor Clear-coat shot over Duplicolor Artic White...getting ready print up the decals and stick'em on. thanx for lookin'...

I prefer it over Alclad, it has a very durable finish...spray it o'er Tamya's TS-55 Dark Blue, makes the chrome finish appear a little cooler than o'er black

Alex Xydias and his So-Cal Speed Shop built the fastest unblown flathead-powered car in the history of Bonneville… a 1951 record that still stands! The mustered-out Army Air Corps B-17 engineer was looking for a way to put his Burbank-based So-Cal Speed Shop on the map in the hot rod culture that was booming in Southern California at the end of World War II, and a record breaking racecar seemed to be a natural. The So-Cal Speed Shop belly tank was built using a 315 gallon surplus P-38 centerline fuel tank (belly tank) as its body. Using the streamlined belly tank was a natural to this Air Corps veteran who knew that Lockheed had spent lots of time in the wind tunnel with these tanks making them aerodynamically “slippery” and they were available as war surplus for $5! In August of 1948, Alex installed a “souped-up” Ford 156 cu. in. V8-60 that he and hot rod pioneer Vic Edelbrock Sr. built. He towed the car to El Mirage dry lake and set a class record of 130.155. Initially the car was run as a streamliner, but the Southern California Timing Association (SCTA) created a special class for these fuel tank cars calling them “lakesters”. Later at the Bonneville Salt Flats, Alex and his So-Cal Speed Shop team used the V8-60 to set a class record at 145.395. They swapped out the V8-60 for a larger 259 inch Mercury flathead and set another class record at 181.085. They then put in a 296 inch Mercury flathead and set yet another class record at 195.77 setting a one-way speed of 198.34 mph. This last class record was broken again the next day by Mal Hoopster running 197.88 in a Chrysler Hemi powered lakester in the same class, but the one-way speed still stands as the fastest speed ever achieved by a normally-aspirated flathead-powered car. At the 1952 Bonneville Speedweek, this car was voted the “Most Honored Car in the History of Bonneville”. Starting with a vacuum form belly-tanker body and numerous parts from "Early Years Resins", flathead V8 from the parts box and parts from "Replicas & Miniatures of Maryland"...I ventured forth on recreating this car in 1/25th scale...Along with home-made decals, vacuum formed windscreen and a scratch-built chassis...this is how it came out The upper body panels changed shape as the paint cured, thus causing them not to fit flush on the lower body...which was not that big of a deal anyhow, because I'm not planning on having the panels in place when displaying the model. Kinda like this: thanx for lookin'

All wrapped up ready to move to "UnderGlass" As the paint cured it caused the thin vacuum form plastic to "warp" a little, thereby the upper panels are not meshing with the lower body as they did in the primer state: So this is an idea on how I'll be displaying the model when it shows up at a model show and/or contest: thanx for lookin'

You've got time for girls? It's been fun and enlightening watching you build this beast almost got me thinking about building a big truck model........not really! lookin' good John c'ya Curt

Thank you Just an "upside down wing with wheels"

A 2nd F1 model I started about 5 years ago...put the clear-coat on too heavy and decals lifted, so put it away for another day. Stripped paint/decals, a new set of decals from IndyCals and away we go... thanx for lookin'...

A kit I had started o'er 10 years ago...decided to finish it while waiting for parts for another project. Back in the days when the turbo was king in F1 thanx for lookin'...

Good start Art I occasionally will dig into a 43rd scale kit, it's a nice change...not necessarily any easier though! If the decals are "cartograph" they will need a lot of coaxing to lay down (lot's of setting solution), but they will eventually keep up the good work, lookin' forward to seein' ya complete the model c'ya

I have used Tamiya TS-13 Clear and MM UltraGloss Clearcoat over Scale Finishes paints without any problems...

Bernard, I'm doin' OK just dealin' with a lil' leakage here and there, but gretting better every day Yup, I've been lookin' at what he's doin' for ya...purty kool hey it's keepin' him buildin' anyway - good job! c'ya

So this is what ya been doin'... I like it, all the changes have helped building interiors is fun, heh! lookin' forward to watchin' ya spin your magic c'ya curt

ya know it coulda been...it is about the age when i started playin' with models actually i think it's the last picture of me with hair

There is also the Scale motorsport "Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe" #CSX2299 resin kit... probably set you back $150.00 if you can find it...

This model has moved on to "Underglass" thanx for lookin' and all your comments, more models to build...

So-Cal belly tanker put on shelf for awhile...waiting for parts to arrive Elves are doin' just fine...been working on other projects