Finding another holy grail: 1/8 Eidai 911

[The Creative Explorer]

One of the kits I've been looking for for a long time is the 1/8 Porsceh 911 by either Eidai Grip or Entex.

It all started with the pictures from a secondhand website, the add caught my attention and when I looked closer, I noticed one thing; If that yellow car is the 1/8 Jaguar E-Type from Monogram and the Stratos and BMW are the 1/12 Doyusha's, than the 911 in the upper left corner is 1/8 scale and since there are only 2 1/8 911's (Eidai/Entex and Pocher), it had to be the 911 RSR from Eidai.

I offered a decent amount of money and went all in, and waited. The seller took the bait and I bought 3 boxes of cars and parts. To my luck, the 911 is mostly complete, not painted. But unfortunately a 'glue-bomb'. Fortunately the windows didn't suffer too much and seems to be restorable. One of the bigger parts that is missing, is the rear deack-lid.

Today was a nice day to break the 911 down, I started with the chassis and tried to get every part dissassembled to overlook the project and see what would be needed to get the car back to a nice showmodel.

I already decided not to restore it to original as a RSR Turbo, but will give the 911 a restomod look, as clean as possible, without the large rear-spoiler, but will keep some of the car's features.

These are the pictures from the ad:

The car in a very sorry state:

And the breakdown begins

The engine was not very complete, but the most important parts are there.

For the new plans; the RSR windshield and humps had to go

Fortunatelly there was a normal windscreen beneath it

And some comparo's with a 1/12 Doyusha and a 1/24 Fujimi. Even the 1/12 looks tiny, next to that 911.

Edited November 12, 2016 by The Creative Explorer

[Ace-Garageguy]

Wow. The 911 is a fantastic find. Besides that, the rest of the haul includes some pretty spectacular stuff too. Man. Cool.   

[The Creative Explorer]

I am very thrilled with this find, as a new kit will set one back 1000-1500 $ nowadays; I got these 3 boxes fro around 120$, with a lot of different parts and cars. Not sure what to do with them yet, I might going to sell some of them again, but may keep them as well for parts or custom parts.