Yes, it is a Carrera GT…
The interior is almost finished and looks like it has not been bad, my son asked me if it starts…
Jun 112014
Jun 062014
The wheels are ready …
The first thing I did was to drill to mount inflation valves. In this case I used Top Studio valves(ref. TD23115).
I removed the “nickel” that brought the wheels because it does not match the real color, which is aluminum, and after giving them primer and a light coat of Alclad aluminum, I painted the nuts, which added the decal with the anagram of Porsche and painted with red and blue transparent the nuts …
I added brake discs and inflation valves and this is the result …
May 302014
At first I was going to use the dampers that brings the kit, since I was not convinced by the detailing parts from Hobby Design, but at the end I decided to add de details missing in the Hobby Design photoengraved parts.
It has been two evenings detailing and building parts to earn a bit of realism, and I really do not know if it’s worth so much effort …
May 262014
Finally clearcoated…
After a few weeks drying, I painted the entire body with bicomponent Number5 clearcoat.
Have been four very thin coats of clearcoat following the procedure indicated Number5 in his instructions and after drying a few days this is the result.
I have had the “luck” that has not fallen almost no speck of dust during coating, just in a door, but after a smooth sanded and corresponding polished, it has become like a mirror …
The truth is, I’m glad when you begin to see the end and everything is going well …
I have started to modify the dampers …
May 232014
I replaced the brake calipers and discs that brought the kit by the Hobby Design … and really they earn a lot.
The discs are composed of nine photoetched parts, performed with a high level of detail.
The brake calipers are resin parts that are not far behind, a great finish of the resin to which I just had to sand the marks of separation from the mold sprues.
It was fun to mount discs using Plasti-Zap to join the pieces.
Once assembled I gave them a coat of Alclad Steel, mixed with a little brown and black. Once dry, I took a few washes with Humbrol matt black to give more volume to the holes in the discs and their component parts.
May 162014
Thanks to the reference photos that send me a pair to me of friends, I could see that the exhausts are burned, and taking a slightly darker metallic brown.
So it is called on to give that brown tone them and I have tried detail them a bit as they come too smooth, without soldering sections or detail of metal mesh that connects the exhaust section to the muffler inlet.
I have chosen this time not to remove the “chrome” that have the parts and use it directly as metallic background, applying transparent acrylic paints, Hull Red for “brown rust” and smoke tones to unify colors.
I exaggerate a little the colors to give more contrast, since once the piece in its place and with the little light of the closed interior would not see too much.
May 132014
While the paint dries, keep with carbon fiber decals.
In this case the passenger compartment, fenders, bottom of the car, diffusers, etc …
Thanks to several friends who passed me reference photos as I was told that not all the car had the same type of fiber, I could go discriminating which parts had which fiber type, using, depending on the area, a fine frame Hobby Design (HD04-0007) and a medium frame Motorsport Scale (7220).
Now I need to varnish them in satin the one of thick frame and in bright the one of thin frame, since in the reference photos it appears very shining.
May 102014
In the last weeks I could not advance so much as I wanted, but in any case the paint shop has opened its doors …
I started, sanding the surface of the pieces and gave them a couple of coats of primer, so they were ready to apply the paint.
After drying the primer I’ve given three very light coats of the red color, in this case a sample I got long ago of the original color Guards Red from Porsche, and has been perfect, the paint covered well and dried very quickly so applying has been a cinch.
Once the paint dried I made the paneling with black enamel paint from Tamiya.
And this is the result.
Now is the time of the final coating, I hope I get lucky and get a smooth lacquer …
