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I thought I recognized them, excellent work making them work for this car. They're so narrow straight from the kit to be almost useless (I actually bought this kit just for the wheels). Did you turn these wheels down on a lathe or something?

Thanks for the comments, I always appreciate the compliments. My apologies on the photo work here, these pictures aren't really a fair representation of what the car looks like. I'm hoping to have a better solution for photography soon and that should make for some better pictures. As for the yellow beads, it's a tip I picked up a while ago and is likely sourced from one of the various modeling sites so I can't take credit for it. I like the effect the beads have and I even have clear ones when yellow just won't work. They sort of over-emphasize the bulb within the reflector, but I think that's sometimes necessary at scale. The specific product is made by "Blue Moon Beads" and it's a little plastic tube with a label of "Premium Glass Seed & Bugle Beads". I believe I purchased them at Micheal's. They have a touch of iridescence but you don't notice once they're behind a lens.

Thanks everyone for taking an look and for the many fine comments. I've always wanted a Gulf Liveried car in my collection and it had to be a 917K. My next Porsche will have to be a 908/03 whenever I manage to locate a 1/24 kit of one.

That looks fantastic! The color is really suited to the car and the wheel color. You wouldn't mind sharing the source of those wheels would you?

I finished this one earlier this month, but photography was a bit slow. This is just a box stock build with a paint scheme similar to a real 1:1 version of the car that I had found on the Interned. The actual car sits a lot lower and tucks the tires better, but I settled for less suspension hacking. The wheels are Watanabes from the Fujimi wheel/tire set. I also made a secondary exhaust pipe out of solder as this model only uses a single exhaust. It's hard to tell, but there's also yellow glass beads in the headlights. This build went a bit better than my 917K, but wasn't without a few "$%#@!" moments.

I actually completed this one last year, but just now got around to do some snapshots of it. One of these days I'll actually get some proper gear for better photos, but for now you'll have to bear with me. I utilized the Fujimi "Tetsu Ikuzawa & Porsche 917K '71 Fuji Masters 250km" kit, Studio27 photoetch upgrade kit, and Renaissance Decals. Some additional parts were taken from the "Martini Racing 917K" that I bought for parts. I built the spare tire myself and added the tread pattern. I never much cared for the kit version. Also, having seen a few examples at the Porsche Museum while I was in Germany I realized something had to be done there. Apart from that it was a largely box-stock build utilizing some P/E dress-up parts. Final assembly on this turned into a nightmare with parts breaking on epoxy getting everywhere. I also made some errors with the decals so in the end this just sort of represents one of the Gulf 917K's. Disappointed though I was in the conclusion, I'm glad to have this one in my collection.

I've seen pictures of the 1:1 Lamborghini where they did this, but you're take on it in scale is very impressive. Nice work.

Is that a Potvin Blower on there? That's very cool, I also dig the slant to the rear window.

If I could offer a different perspective to the limitations of signatures, and no, I don't care one way or the other as I'm connected via fiber. I frequent a fair number of forums on several topics. Of those that I actually register and participate on, and whenever possible, I disable signatures and avatars. It's nothing personal, but I'm here for the content and exchange of ideas. I've also seen it where some users have a tendency to create huge signature images that are often longer than their typical, one-line posts. That and I find the images are terribly distracting to the overall thread. Furthermore I believe, but I have no actual evidence to support this, that curtailing such signatures may help to save on bandwidth charges. Which would really stack up quickly over an entire site. In which case I couldn't fault a site owner for taking that route. That said, I seriously hope there won't be 3-image limit on a single post. That can be very frustrating.

Awesome build. I read that there was going to be another version with the wrap-around rear taillights. I'm hoping that comes out soon because I'd love to build my long gone, but dearly missed '78 Wagoneer.

That looks fantastic Mike. The cans I'm using don't indicate "cc", specifically the gunmetal says DSGM344. I ended up lightly sanding the parts with some 4,000 grit then clearing them. This seems to have done the trick and I've got some nice metallic looking parts. There's a few rough spots, but I put enough clear down that I should be able to smooth those nicely.

Your scale autos are fantastic, but the 1:1 MGB wins the show for me. The paint is top-notch and those Lucas spots are a nice touch.

I'll do some testing, but I'll also try warming the can. I'd hate to stop my progress now on my "Z" on account of weather.

Welcome to the site, and thanks already for the advice on the paint!

Thanks for the response jeffs396. Humidity has challenged me before. I'll try the sanding and respraying then if that doesn't work I'll see if clearing one of the parts helps any. Living in Oregon around this time of year means humidity is a significant challenge. Are there ways to mitigate this short of spraying inside?

I could use some help from those who understand paint far better than I. I'm using some Duplicolor Auto Spray, it's a Gunmetal Metallic color and I'm spraying parts that are primed with Tamiya primer. The problem is that when the paint dries it appears to be much more dull than I would have expected, almost having a "chalky" appearance. I haven't attempted to clear coat the parts yet and perhaps that's the missing ingredient. Still I can't help but think something else is going on. Any advice would be appreciated.

I too struggled mightly with those decals, but it looks like you still did well for your efforts.

I was just thinking about this one the other day. This one would be very cool. The other I'd like to see, re-released as it were, is the Lotus Cortina.

Amazing, I remember building (read: butchering) this kit when I was a kid. I think I did mine in yellow, but now seeing yours I realize that it actually has the potential to look awesome. Nice work!

This is a few weeks old, but I'm pretty excited about these.

I've got a 917k that I'll be working on that's fits the bill to a T, but I'm pretty sure I won't have it finished until December or so. Still, I'll watch this one, I like the unique cars like this Matra here.

Thanks, I've used the Tamiya Orange, I believe it's TS-12. As for historical accuracy, I'll leave that to the experts. I'm pleased because it looks neat in the display case.

Really clean BMF work there, I've got this kit on deck so I'm looking forward to what can be done with it.

Your claim here is an interesting one, because while I noted the similarities between the two cars I never paid much attention. So now I've gone and done a bit of research and found out that... the 962C was nearly identical to the 956C with the exception of the wheel base. The IMSA rules changed and stated that the driver's feet had to be behind the centerline of the front axle. So to meet this requirement Porsche simply stretched the wheel base. I've seen later pictures of the 962 and it looks considerably different as the years went on, but right after the transition it seems you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference. I've scaled out the wheelbase on my kit and it does indeed come to the 2760 mm wheelbase of the 962 (versus 2650 mm for the 956). So it would seem that this is indeed a 962. Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_962 http://www.roadstersway.com/porsche-956-/-...nce-322514.html http://962.com/history.htm http://www.bigporsche.com/962.htm http://www.bigporsche.com/956.htm

Rather than set up a bunch of individual posts I thought I'd just show off all three of my Jagermeister cars. I've just recently completed the Porsche 365c and the Ford Capri, the BMW was finished a year or so ago. The Porsche and BMW are both box stock kits from Revell Gmbh and Tamiya respectively. The only modification between these was to add some mesh to the rear of the Porsche. I felt like the gaping hole and empty cavity was a bit much so I improvised a bit. Other than that the Porsche is also missing the car number on the Right side and the windshield banner. I ruined those so I'll have to find a replacement soon. The Ford is actually the Tamiya D&W car. Given the decals I made the addition of the NACA duct on the hood. As I was wrapping up the build I looked a little closer at my reference photos and realized there's some much more significant differences between my build and the actual car. The two most obvious are that the hood vents should stretch from crease line to crease line and then there's the under-body faring that should extend out and through the rear bumper. I'm sure there's more so this car is really just "representative" of the actual car. So, here's the pictures! To answer some questions up front; yes I'm done with Orange paint jobs and no, I don't like Jagermeister, but I think their logo is pretty cool. #15 BMW 320i Group 5 #1 Ford Capri Turbo Group 5 #1 Porsche 956c