After a brief modelíng break, I upload the photos of the finished model.
Jul 272014
Jun 282014
I continue detailing the Porsche Carrera GT.
This time, after placing the photoetched grids of the engine cover, I realize that the pipes of the brake cooling air inlets of the engine cover are missing. I detail them with bits of plasticard, building a small box and the tube that connects with those who come on the side of the engine…
Also I make the engine cover boot strut with 0.3mm and 0.5mm nickel tube. I flatten the sides and add the rods that attach to the chassis and engine cover …
Finally time to build, with a piece of aluminum, the engine cover lock…
Jun 112014
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 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.
