Foxer

I love that body style ... and your stunning build also!

Small update photo-wise but major for me as I've come to some hard decisions as to how far I go in the engine compartment ... ALL THE WAY I say! Most of my recent research has been centered around the headlight rotate assembly and the missing details in the Hasegawa 944's as opposed to the Testors kits. The most noticable is the Testors inclusion of a piece that includes the Windshield washer reservoir, headlight lid motors, power steering reservoir and the ignition rotor. This is shown in the first photo. On the Hasewaga, the washer and power steering reservoirs are molded to the fender well and the rotor is part of the engine assembly. There are no headlight motors. The photo of the S2 engine compartment shows all these parts. To me, these fill a large space and the absence of them leaves a large hole. One "help" for my decision, to use the piece from a Testors kit, was purchesing the wrong kit to use for a build of the '84 944 I had. I ended up with a 944 Turbo that had a very similar box to the 944 S that has the correct front bumper. Anyway, I got the piece I needed at least without messing up a future build. I have also decided to construct the aluminum bar that connects the headlights and is also very noticeable. This should be simple with some support brackets off the frame and a few levers mounter to an aluminum tube. I I shouldn't have said SIMPLE here yet!)

That front end is looking really good! Nice job on the grill.

You know you got the grill with all the raves so far ... the simple squares in that squared off opening is perfect ... simple and clean!

You're correct ... the first, blue car, is a Nissan Skyline ... in Japan, anyway. here it was the Infiniti G35 Coupe. I'll be looking forward to your build as I had a 1:1 and have that kit on the bench. It is a Fujimi and here's a link to my still on workbench build if you're interested. Be very careful of the front as it's pretty delicate.

Searching this site will give you more info on weathering than you can believe ... click this .. MCM Weathering topics

Beautiful black! ... and beautiful car!

I like the stance down low. I'm glad I don't have to climb over that bar to sit, but I love the look of the bar! This build is so incredible I'm at a loss of words to describe how much I'm enjoying watching it!

Another of my Porsche builds is using an Arii 924 Turbo kit. In another post of someone building this kit a lot was commented on about the kit so you might get some insight into their kits. Here's a link to that thread http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=32613 Sorry I can't give you any insight into the Corvette kit.

I feel like I've been making pins for two days. At least some of them, like the aluminum master cylinder, will be seen. The Brake Booster was turned on my old Dremel "lathe" from two disks of .8" sheet. The aluminum Master Cylinder sticks into that and the plastic reservoir sits on the Master Cylinder. The silver disk on the long brass rod will slide into the Master Cylinder after the rod is cut to cap it off. The brass brake line is stuck into a piece of tubing filed into a rounded end and glued to the cylinder. The rectangular tube inlet to the Air Flow Meter is done and rounded at the end for a duct to the Inlet Box .... whew!

Well done! This looked nicely used .. very good weathering job.

Welcome to the forum, Norman. Sounds like some interesting builds ... give us a show!

Thanks for all the encouragement everyone ... it really helps me keep going! For instance ... in the last posted photo you can see the little stiffener for the flange of the rectangular tube. This piece is only about 1/16" on a side and it's the third time I've glued it and has fallen away again! I've used Testors Liquid Cement, Ambroid Pro Weld and CA, which I even reapplied along the joints afterwards. I use an over sized piece, about 1/8", and trim the edge down after a day of drying. It usually falls away while sanding and I use a light touch with the fine sandpaper. I REALLY don't want to have to epoxy such a small piece in. This tiny piece may just be asking too much of my old hands. But, I'll keep trying!

It looks like this even has an engine ... cool! Will be watching ...

Both are looking good ... and I love your "plastic lead" bodywork!

I just got the pumps by Chris and was very happy with the quality. They are flat sided without the curve shown on your example and you would have to make the top globe. He has decals for many brands but don't know is Sinclair is included. They would be easy to do with ink jet decals. The pump handles are very nice and it has rubber hose.

The turn back of the 968 engine to look like the version of it mounted in the '91 S2 has been weighing heavily on my mind. How much do I really want to scratch build for this? I always put way too much before me to be absolutely accurate, when only me will really know, So, I decided to just throw the engine as is into the S2. I am modifying the Air Meter plumbing as that's almost done and it is very noticeable. The main difference in the way the two look is the head cover. The 944 S2 head had PORSCHE cast into it and the injectors were pretty much open to view with just a black plastic cover. These are between the head and intake manifold in the photo above. Below is a photo of a 968 engine and the head has no PORSCHE cast into it, instead it has a new metal injector cover with the PORSCHE lettering on that. It's a minor difference, but would be a major job to model it correctly. This is the engine in my 944 S2

This slowed a little here as I figure out how I'm going to handle the exhaust. The pipes I bent didn't look that great. In the meantime, I acquired a Hasegawa 1967 Beetle kit and was surprised that the headlights (correctly for 1967) were the vertical ones I needed and also 1/24 scale so they look better than the 1/25 Revell lights! Since they gave a rounded back I had to drill out the flat surface I had to mount the Revell lights .. no biggie. They do look much better.

Welcome, Kev. We has a long post apocalyptic community build not long ago that you might like.

It's good to see this getting built to see how the kit is. You're doing a great job .. on the build and documenting the kit. Building a kit of a car you own is really fun ... what I get hung up on most of the time. You'll have to throw us a shot of your 1:1 BRZ.

Very nice custom job!

Welcome to the forum. That is some impressive work there. I assume you make the resin/metal masters? We're mostly 1/24 - 1/25 here, but there's many larger (and smaller) scale builders here too.

Awww ... everything has a V8. I love the look of the SHO and I did turn it 90 degrees to fit in a '32 Ford! I haven't seen a Taurus built at all, so will tuning in here.

That's some nice work going on with the vents!