Tamiya 956 + Tamiya detail kit

While I know I can't live up to the level of detail that some of you guys do, this is the Porsche 956 I've been working on recently. The transmission is hand brushed with a mixture of Tamiya X-16 and X-12 trying to get close to this (http://media.photobucket.com/image/porsche%20956%20engine/Marcoscars4life/Porsche/956.jpg) and this (http://www.cartorque.co.za/images/PORSCHE956Bpx300.jpg). The engine block and intake risers were airbrushed with Tamiya Gloss Black, then after it dried, airbrushed with Testors Metalizer Aluminum.

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And the interior... there are vinyl sheets and photo-etch seatbelt buckles and stuff in the Tamiya detail kit. Needless to say, I simply can't do it. I tried, but my fingers just can't operate on that scale. After supergluing my tweezers shut, and supergluing my fingers to each other and later to my xacto knife... I decided to give up and just use the decals. Oh well :(

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I didn't know how visible those punch marks would be, but I think I'm going to have to end up going back over them with sandpaper, putty, and more paint. They're a bit irritating.

Hopefully this week the humidity will drop off so I can get outside for a few minutes and spraypaint the body so I can start work on it.

Nice work so far, love to be in that passenger seat!!

Finally finished it up...

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It was a fun build... probably my most enjoyable ever. The only problem I really had (other than losing a side mirror) was with the front bumper decal, which for some reason tore in like 4 places. None of the rest tore, no matter how much solvaset I seemed to throw on them... but that front bumper cracked and tore and did all manner of horrible things.

Nice work, looks great finished. I hate supergluing my fingers to each other & other things!!!

Nice work so far, love to be in that passenger seat!!Because there are no seatbelts? :smile:
It was a fun build... probably my most enjoyable ever. Certainly looks like it was fun!Looks good finished up. I'm sure with some careful masking you can fix the front bumper decal if you so wanted but colour matching the decals would be tricky. Could always hide it as though that area got the paint scraped off.

Came out nice. Hey don't worry about the smallest of details, they will come once you keep building more models! A suggestion for small pe, use masking tape to cut small ones off the tree so they don't go flying. Did that so many times. Also best way to handle them is to use tweezers, i usually get away with only using three different ones. Sharp tip, flat ones, and angled, the flat ones help out by being able to bend the pe. Also there is a pe bending tool that works good. Tamiya make really good tweezers, but a little pricy. Also the tamiya pe diamond tip file is a must have to file away the excess tree material. Always remember the right tools make the job easier.

Try looking at www.micromark.com
I bought one item from them at first and thats all i use now. Its one of the biggest hobby tool websites out there. They have everything you need. Good luck on future projects. :wave:

Came out nice. Hey don't worry about the smallest of details, they will come once you keep building more models! A suggestion for small pe, use masking tape to cut small ones off the tree so they don't go flying. Did that so many times. Also best way to handle them is to use tweezers, i usually get away with only using three different ones. Sharp tip, flat ones, and angled, the flat ones help out by being able to bend the pe. Also there is a pe bending tool that works good. Tamiya make really good tweezers, but a little pricy. Also the tamiya pe diamond tip file is a must have to file away the excess tree material. Always remember the right tools make the job easier.

Try looking at www.micromark.com (http://www.micromark.com)
I bought one item from them at first and thats all i use now. Its one of the biggest hobby tool websites out there. They have everything you need. Good luck on future projects. :wave:

Thanks for the advice! I actually do use masking tape for cutting PE parts off the tree. The side mirror I lost was because I tried to glue it with clear glue (since it was going straight onto the clear plastic).... and at some point it fell off, I didn't realize it, and the wife probably vacuumed it up. :frown:

And the vinyl belts, I had fine point tweezers and regular broad tipped tweezers, and just could NOT figure out how to operate on those tiny things.

And the MicroMark site is great! I'll just blame you when the wife asks about what I'm spending money on! :lol2:

Nice model!

You could do wash over panels to look more realistic.

In future I will make this model to. Was there any trick in built this model. Parts come together well?

Nice model!

You could do wash over panels to look more realistic.

In future I will make this model to. Was there any trick in built this model. Parts come together well?

If you're doing the P/E parts kit from Tamiya, make sure you have fine tipped tweezers and a bottle of cyano debonder handy. Other than that, everything went fairly smooth. You'll probably want solvaset or something like it for those decals, because they are HUGE. I thought I was going to have to do a lot of fine painting, but everything red on the model was a decal.

Other than that, have fun with it! :)