Tamiya 1/12 Porsche 910

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It was supposed to arrive Monday cost 73 quid in customs charges then they wanted 12 quid to deliver it today, I didn't pay it but it still arrived today.

I'm sooo excited.

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Made a start on this primed the main body and glued the main part of the engine together, added some 1/24 scale kits for size ref.
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Start on painting the engine.

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[Mr Bowcat]

Nice start Ken. That's a beast. :surprised:

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Got the white on next is masking up for the blue, also got some of the engine and gearbox done.

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[Steve Brodie]

wow, love these big T car kits

[Nicko]

That shot of the 1/24 sat in the floorpan really shows the size! Will follow along....

Nick

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I wasn't happy with the scale of the kit supplied fuel lines (nearly double the size they should have been at just over 1mm (the actual lines are a tad over 6mm)

The only photo ref I have atm is this

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I know they are metal in the pic but back then they were clear nylon because they were lighter than metal ones but when they added more ethanol to modern fuel they started to fail (the nylon ones that is) and so modern cars have metal, anyway I've gone of subject metal ones is the only ref I have atm and the nylon ones were a tad smaller so the kit ones are definitely over scale.

I stretched the kit ones which made them thinner.

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I've done some weathering on the engine as well and added a few ancillary parts.

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OK so a little bit of added detail (and it is little)

Take a piece of solder and flatten it.

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Cut into 7mm lengths paint the tip satin black put a couple of bends in it, repeat 12 times and you have sparkplug retaining clips.

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Take some heat shrink tubing cut into 2mm lengths

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Add to end of plug leads and you have plug caps

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Hi all more done on this.

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Bit more work on this one.

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[adt70hk]

That's one big car!

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OK so second attempt at the spray job and I'm quite pleased with how it turned out.

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A vast improvement on this.

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You wouldn't believe how hard the suspension on this is and don't get me started on the connection of the wheels to the drive shafts.

I've started scratching the slide throttle linkage for it, the guys at work hate this system, there is a plate with 3 holes in it the size if the venturi of the flutes that runs on bearings and slides forwards and backwards to enlarge or reduce the air fuel ratio by sliding the hole thus reducing or enlarging the venturi, it's prone to leaks and not a great system.

This car had other throttle linkage systems which were better but the one depicted in the kit is this one so (as it's the car I've worked on it's the one I will try to depict)

[Mark1]

Good luck, it's looking really nice so far.