Hornby Porsche 996 GT3R

[Smilesperhour]

I have this 996 gt3r from horby and been trying to figure out what's wrong with it?

The shape just looks off. I can see the front is very wrong but the rest of cars bugging me.

Any tips or ideas on adjusting the front or anyone seeing anything that stands out to them that is off.

Ot could be once fronts sorted the rest falls in place?

 

The kit is the same as the scalextric car

 

 

 

[stitchdup]

the headlights are canted inwards at the top is the most obvious but the front bumper looks too tall or narrow too as the 1/1 wheels have a lower profile tyre/bigger rim yet they both match in where they line up so the model has to be wrong. its almost like the hood is too tall or round in the centre too but that could just be the angle of the pic. do you have another brand kit you could compare it with? it would help see where it off at. it would be a lot of fiddly work to fix the lights as it might mean altering the whole front end to line them up as pretty much everything from the screen down would need slight alterations to keep it all lined up. i can measure up a tamiya 996 the morn if thats a help?

[SSNJim]

1 hour ago, Smilesperhour said:

I have this 996 gt3r from horby and been trying to figure out what's wrong with it?

 

The shape just looks off. I can see the front is very wrong but the rest of cars bugging me.

 

 

 

Any tips or ideas on adjusting the front or anyone seeing anything that stands out to them that is off.

Ot could be once fronts sorted the rest falls in place?

 

 

Expand the box above to see the pictures - you can probably only see text....

Looking at these two shots, it appears that the front end openings are about 1-1/2 times larger on the model than they should be. They also look a little too low.

The bottom edges of the openings should have "ramps". I would think that adding those ramps to the existing openings would do wonders, and I would do that before adjusting anything else. Just my thoughts.

Edited Sunday at 12:09 AM by SSNJim

[jomartin]

Most obvious to me is the front grille - it's way too tall.

[Smilesperhour]

Think I'm going to try scale these up and compare what's what and do some measurements.

 

It'll either be worth changing or accept it for what it us.

 

The kit decals are toast so will also find a new scheme to do it it