Porsche 917, Airfix, 1/32

[Matt Bacon]

Very "classic" (ie, "old") Airfix kit, developed from a slot car mold. Decals from Patto's Place, in a spurious scheme because the orange nose decals nowhere near fit this kit.

And I couldn't resist getting a bit arty:

It's scrubs up nicely for such an old stager. The only real issue is the way the rear wheels tuck under the body shell -- they don't on the real thing, but they have to the way this is engineered. I can't see where the error is -- any lower and the rear part of the floor wouldn't meet the upper body shell, and the car would have a very inaccurate tail high attitude.

best,

M.

Edited July 27, 2017 by Matt Bacon

[afx]

Very nice Matt.

[Dann Tier]

SUPER cool!!!.....0ne of my favorite Porsches of all time!!....great details, and cleanly built for a 32nd scale!!

[vintagercr]

You can't pass up a 917 in Gulf livery

[Silver Foxx]

Nice work on this , looks great .

[ChrisR]

NICE!!

[PatW]

Superb! I had this kit when it first came out donkeys years ago.

I get over the decal problem by firstly scanning them to my PC before building any kit. I had to do this recently with a Fujimi McLaren MP4-12C GT3 set of decals that although aftermarket were the wrong shape for the Bonnet slots/intake. I printed off a new set of decals and cut the bonnet decal to fit.

This is the real car showing the small intakes.....

And this is the kit with the wider slots and the newly printed decal.................