Porscheman

Happy Thanksgiving to all and your families. Al

Remember when, you were a kid and your parents took you to your 1st hobby shop and you couldn't believe all these car kits that you never knew exsisted. I bought all my models before that day at SS Kresge in suburban Chicago back 1961. Darn I'm old. LOL Al

Thanks everyone for all the nice compliments. This is a nice kit, but has a lot of things that need to be addressed to make it a true replica. 1st off, on the box picture on the side shows the dash portion in the engine compartment show it to be body color. This is not incorrect, it should be semi-gloss black. The rear axle has lot of play in it. They supply 8 poly caps, 2 for each wheel. I used 1 for the wheel and the other for an adjustable spacer. This allows for perfect positioning of the wheel placement. Next, the front wheels stick out too far. Tamiya uses a metal pin to hold them in place. to correct this, put only 1 poly cap in each wheel , trim the wheel hub back to the to of the cap using hobby cutters and then cut a 1/16" off the metal pin. This will give a perfect stance.Next the Interior, the tub is made up of 3 separate pieces. The dash/console, hatch area and the floor board. The door panel attach to the inside of the body. Make sure you paint the inside of the body to match your interior. also the sunroof edge need to be painted flat black, on the real car there is a black gasket around the sunroof that can be seen from the outside. I will post pictures of the 1to1 interior later today. Al

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I'm not real good with a camera, but I've been building model cars for 52 years. That being said, here's some pictures of the 928S by Tamiya.

Since I've already painted the body and smoked the rear windows to mach my car. Here is some things that need to be cleaned up before painting. There is a large mold lines on front fenders near the top of the fenders, front bumper on top and along the side corners and the rear bumper under the PORSCHE and down the sides. Also the front fenders where it curves towards the hood are too sharp and need to be rounded. Start at the windshield and move to the front. You want to sand more near the windshield and less as you move forward, just make sure it more rounded. I think this picture of the 1to1 will help you. Also if your doing a US version, don't forget to relocate your front side marker from in front the door to behind the bumper. Al

Carrera makes a nice Cheetah. Al

Slot it make a nice universal chassis in either side or angle winder configurations. It's easy convert any 1:32 kit. Slot it SICH32 HRS2 with a 20,000 motor for $49. Slot.it SICH35 Anglewinder HRS # 2 Starter Kit chassis, around $21.

This is a Revell kit, mounted on a Slot it univeral chassis and chipped to run Carrera digital chip, Couldn't save the interior, the chip take up to much room. Al

Thank you Bryan. It's a labor of love. Here an engine shot during and after I rebuilt it and my perfect plate. Al

I remember this kit from years ago, but back then I didn't like them. Now I'm the proud owner of a 1 to 1 1982 928S and love it. So this will be exact replica my car. The kit is very close in scale to my AutoArt 1:18th 928. This had a motor in it in earlier issues, so the rear axel and suspension needs a lot trimming to get everything fit right. I'll post more pictures of the build shortly Al

I received this one on Thursday and painted it 68 Shelby Acapulco Blue. When it came to the stripes, they are very thin as previously mentioned and I screwed them up bad. So I had find an alternative. I was going to paint the stripes on but I didn't feel like masking everything off. I measured the width of the decal stripes and found that PVC white electrical tape is the same width. As long as you take your time and try not to stretch it, you get a very flexable stripe that that can be removed without damaging the paint and it come many different colors. Just make sure you get PVC tape, anything else will shrink. I used this for the black window trim that was turning back to chrome with age on my Porsche and it been on the car for 3 years with no shrinkage. This is my 1st post and thought this maybe another idea for the stripes on the Shelby.