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I am sharing my just finished Hasegawa Porsche 962C. I have added a link to the WIP. As I always say about these Hasegawa Porsche 962Cs, they are a nice, well fitting, hassle-free kit that look good on the shelf. There is no engine and the part count is minimal. If you like doing decals, these are right up your alley. However, if you don't like doing decals, you may want to pass on these. I will hit the high points of the model. Most information is in the WIP thread. * Primed in Gravity Colors Light Gray Primer. * Painted in Zero Paints Pure Brilliant White. * Clear coat is Mr Top Coat * Wheel chrome is Green Stuff World Chrome Metal, airbrushed. * Panel liner is Tamiya Dark Gray. I think it is still too stark and will use their Gray or Light Gray next time. * Body was buffed out with Micro-Mesh cloths, 3600 - 12000. It was then polished with Tamiya Fine and Finish compounds. Thanks for looking! Let me know what you think.

It has been a bit since I did a race car WIP. On my hobby bench at the moment is the venerable Hasegawa Porsche 962C. As of this post, I believe this is the latest offering of the kit. This time the livery is Penthouse / Super Cad / Rizla. I honestly do not know which one is the primary sponsor. They all have prominent graphics, just in different places. If I had to guess I would say they split the sponsorship three ways. I have built the Hasegawa Porsche 962C kit several times. It is a nice, simple kit that looks great on the shelf. I do not add a lot of extra detail on these kits. I use them as a quick, fun, stress-free, build. That is what this one is. As I do with all of my WIPs, I will caption each picture as needed. The kit box art. The kit contents. I always start by highlighting seam lines and areas that will need work. I use a Sharpie to do this. Generally speaking, the kit is nice. Things fit well. Except for that rear wing...lol. It is made up of three pieces and they just don't fit together very well. Once the body prep was done, I got it ready for primer. The interior is black. Although you can only see a small portion of the interior, I wanted to paint the entire interior flat black, with the thought that the exterior white will be a uniform shade. I masked off all of the openings, (and there are a lot of them), in order to eliminate black overspray on the exterior of the body. Here is the interior airbrushed in Tamiya LP-3 Flat Black. Now that the interior is finished, I basically reversed masked the body shell. I masked off all of the openings to prevent white overspray getting on the interior. Here is the body. First picture is the exterior airbrushed in Gravity Paints, Spain, light gray primer. I used light gray so that it would contrast with the white that I would be painting. The second picture is the exterior airbrushed in Tamiya LP-2 White. That is enough for this update. Unfortunately, it goes downhill from here. I will update my problems in the next update. Thanks for looking. Feel free to comment.