Pocher Porsche 917 1/8 Scale

[Jabba]

Very jealous! I love the Porsche 917 in Gulf colours. I seem to remember doing it in 1/32 scale by Airfix about 50 years ago. I would love to try the MFH 1/12 version. Yours is coming on well. I'll be following the progress.

[Bigfoot57]

just a quick update to show you the throttle linkage has been fit into the engine next comes to subframe which the engine will fit into

[Bigfoot57]

The engine subframe has been completed and is now waiting for the glue to set along with the screws, but it’s now ready for the engine to go into

[Bigfoot57]

Finally fitted the engine into the subframe after about an hour fettling and rejigging it to fit I’m sorry Pocher you have got to make this easier than this some will struggle with this part of the build I have no doubt about that
Anyway mines in and screwed and glued and once the glue has had chance to set properly I will then have retouch the paintwork where it got scratched putting the engine into the subframe
I also notice several of the plug leads had come unglued after the engine was fitted into the subframe probably due to fettling the engine into the frame another 30 or so minutes was spent regluing these back on as they wouldn’t stick the 1st time of asking

[Stefee]

Very impressive, bet it was harder for you to mount the motor than the engineers on a real car.

[Bigfoot57]

Another quick update the top section of the subframe has now been added. This was another PIA and there was only two pieces to add. Hopefully that’s the engine finished as we are now moving onto the dashboard

[Bigfoot57]

So we’ve moved onto the dashboard and the bottom tray of the car which will include the accelerator break and clutch along with the steering mechanism. First off is to apply the decals to the dashboard before doing this. I gloss varnished the areas that the decals were gonna sit on so they stick better. Each decal is separate and has to be treated as such and due to the nature of their placement you can’t just slide them off the backing paper you have to actually use some fine grip tweezers to grip hold of the decal once it’s separated from the backing sheet and place it onto the model
after this I applied Microsol decal setting solution red labelled bottle to the decals to flatten them down onto the surface and look like they were actually painted
once this was done I assembled the rest of the dashboard along with the Steering wheel and the rack & pinion assembly which is not the greatest of things and had issues with lining up the steering wheel to dead centre due to the nature of the teeth on the pinion
This was then added to the main bottom of the car along with the assembly of the accelerator brake and clutch pedals and a foot rest which unlike the other three did not have a spring attached to it why they’ve put springs on these I have no idea as they are going to be totally inaccessible when the car is fully built but they actually work so who am I to argue
finally the pedal assembly is attached to the bottom of the car. I did start assembling the shock absorbers and calipers ready for the brakes but unfortunately, I am missing the two front springs and until pocher / Hornby hobbies send me some replacements that’s as far as I can go so we could be waiting up for two weeks for the replacement parts. That’s assuming I’ve got them in stock if they haven’t then they’re gonna take even longer
once again, apologies for the way the photos have come out there above the text and they’re all over the place so you’ll have to make your own interpretations of how it should look in the sequence to my way of thinking I put the text in first hit a couple of returns and then input the photographs but this program seems to put the photographs above the text so next time I’m gonna put the photograph in first and then add the text afterwards and see if it reverses it again

[scottie3158]

Looking very nice mate.

[Bigfoot57]

With the arrival of the springs I can now progress. These have now been fitted as you can see from this picture next up are the brake discs which have been moulded with holes shown in them as it’s totally impractical to drill out all these holes due to the back of the discs being ribbed I have used the old modellers trick of painting in the holes and then removing the excess paint using a cotton move swab dipped in isopropyl alcohol. This gives the effect of the being drilled through the discs. There is some controversy as to whether these actually were drilled or not, but as Pocher has decided to mould them as holes I have followed their lead and painted them to make them look like holes if you also look the holes form a fan shape now I think the spinning should be to the rear
if you look at the close-up of one of the finished Discs, you can see the shape that the holes make to my way thinking that one is a passenger side front or rear brake or depending on how you look at the car it’s either the left or the right so I don’t know how you do a car. left or right do you look at a car from the front and say that it’s left and right, would you look at it from the rear and say that’s left and right because they would be mirror opposites look at the 8 finished discs they clarly make fan patterns the quartet at the top are what I call the top left and bottom right match each other and the fan pattern is spinning in a left to right direction this to me indicates these are the front and rear passenger side or left side when viewing the car from behind brake discs the remaining 4 would be for the drivers side or right hand part of the car when viewed from the rear
Apologies again for the Photo layout I cannot figure out why this program decides to put the photos above the text every time this is becoming an annoyance

[Nicko]

I'm enjoying the updates and really appreciate you sharing the process on a kit that looks fantastic.

With regard to the pictures, I've found that if you upload all the pics you want to put in the post before you start writing then it's fairly straightforward to ensure the cursor is where you want the picture to go when you click on the 'size' of photo you want to add. Hope that helps!

Nick

[Bigfoot57]

Now added the discs to the chassis subframe along with the brakes and the intercooler and associated pipework oh and also added the brake cooling duct pipe work as well see attached picture I did some additional painting on this one as per what Nigel has done on his website that was to paint the tops of the bottles blue with a silver band around the middle of them and to repaint the intercooler pipework black and just leave the union joints as aluminium then to finally finish it off, I gave it a black wash using Mig Ammo black oil wash across the grill hatchings I also need to clean up the flocking on the top of the dashboard I will do this using a bit of Tamiya masking tape then once I done it to cover it with plastic so it stays clean until it’s covered by the top part of the body work of the car