1/8 scratch build porsche 904

[kpnuts]

Hi all well move went well new job is going well and I have negotiated a modelling area (well when we don't have guests that is) so gulp I've jumped in to try this scratch build, ive managed to find some profile drawings of the body so I've copied them onto paper and glued it to this ply wood.

I'm hoping to make a former from this as a rough starting point. I'm expecting this to be  a long build, somewhere between 3 and 60 years (but that's just an approximate guess could be much longer ;)

[Gramps46]

Well that is a good start and you chose one of my favorite subjects the Porsche 904 GTS.  I am going to have to watch this one.

[Darren B]

can not wait for more....

[kpnuts]

Well first lesson learned I tried to made a cylinder head and bought card stock of the correct thickness and cut out 15 cylinder bits and 17 fins then glued them together after which they should have measured 10.25 mm well after gluing 10 of the fins together it measured 13 mm so I thought I will compress them in my vice trouble with that was it compressed the cylinder bits but not the fins and ended up looking like this

Instead of how it should look. I can only assume the extra thickness was due to the glue so I think I will have to experiment with different thicknesses.

[bobthehobbyguy]

What type of glue where you using?

[kpnuts]

Superglue.

[LDO]

Try something thin like MEK. Get that in the solvent section of WalMart/Lowes/Home Depot. I believe it is only sold in gallon cans, which would be a lifetime supply. Practice with it first. It dries quickly.

[kpnuts]

Thanks for the info Lee.

[Richard Bartrop]

One thing to watch out for when putting together large styrene sandwiches together with solvent adhesives is that the solvent is still leaching out months, or even years later, and the part slowly shrinks.  Normally not a big deal for most styrene modelling, but on something made of many layers of styrene, the effect can be very noticeable.

[jokar124]

An even better way to do this might be to not use any glue between the styrene layers, just drill through the stack for two styrene rod alignment pins, then just glue the pins in place.