A REALLY REALLY BIG EXOTIC building the Pocher 1:8 Pagani Utopia my way

[mrm]

As I said, everything on the real car is refined and made to look more like an art sculpture than a practical car part. Apparently the guys at Pocher did not get that memo. The brackets for the rear shocks are anything but gracefull well detailed part. So some cutting was necessary here too.

 

While I had my jewellery saw out, I figured out I would eliminate all the crudely molded in boltheads on the transmission. Some of them had to be ground by hand. Everything then had to be sanded smooth.

 

Where the transmission meets the engine block they didn't even bother to mold any bolts at all. At 1/8 scale and over a thousand dollars price tag, this is just criminal.

 

 

[mrm]

When I was grinding away all that metal I test fitted the gear actuator that goes at the end of the transmission. The part comes in a nice magnesium gold, but needs to be redone, as it is both wrong and poor in detail.

 

That big lug nut looking thing on the front of not only is in the wrong place, but there should be two of them. Also, the rectangular square "plate" on the left should have some detail and hardware on it.

 

The lug-nut-thingy was cut off and replicated from resin so both pieces can be reapplied where they should have been in the first place.

 

 

The plate on the left needed to addressed next

 

I took some large rectangular styrene rod and sanded it down to the shape of the Pagani logo that is incorporated in so many parts throughout the model. Not i can cut these out and "mold" them into various parts.

 

The "frame" on the rectangular cover plate was built up from round and square stock styrene rod with the Pagani logo in the middle. After it all cures, everything would be sanded down for a smooth look.

 

Then I started drilling the rear shocks. Their collars are adjustable on the real car and have holes in them. Drilling Zamac is no fun. It is basically garbage alloy made from all sorts of metals that are held together by Zinc. That's what most diecast metal models are made from. it fills in files, sandpaper and dulls drill bits. It is tedious and definitely not something I get pleasure doing. Next would be the 40+ holes I would have to drill by hand on the transmission casing...

Thanks for looking. More to come...

Edited 1 hour ago by mrm

[dino246gt]

Wow, you're going all out on this, but that IS the fun with 1/8th scale isn't it.

Cheers!

 

[NOBLNG]

Fantastic work you’re doing to upgrade and fix the errors Michael. I don’t think I could build a 1/8 scale model…the kits errors would drive me insane.🤯 At least in 1/25 scale I can say 🤷‍♂️ no one will notice.