Fujimi Porsche 911 RSR leman 94'

[shood23]

This will be my newest build, fujimis Porsche 911 that raced in lemans 1994. 

 

Those that know this kit will know it's not the most accurate in fujimis history, you will see why below. I know my last build was of a fujimi Porsche that I disliked so why would I start another fujimi kit that I know has faults? It's because I have never made a 911 and I think this looks the best from the kits available. 

 

So on to the kit. 

 

The box art is nice but also shows instantly when you open it what is missing/wrong. 

 

 

The decals are pretty nice, not sure how many of the red areas I will use and they may need a little sun to pull the yellowing out. 

 

 

The body is quite nicely made. No real flash pretty small seem lines although some in tricky places. 

 

 

The sunshine roof will need filling though as I am pretty sure that they wouldn't have raced lemans like this.

 

 

Now on to the first part that is bad. Now I would ask you take a little time and look back at the box. Now look at the wheels provided. Can you see the issue? They are completely wrong. And pretty small as well.

 

 

Not much of an issue though as I have a tamiya gt2 that I planned on changing the wheels on anyway so I have some spare bbs style wheels more like what they look like in the box art. 

 

 

Looks much better. More leman Porsche like. 

 

 

 

The only problem is they are different fittings for mounting the wheels on the car so I just cut out the central part of the fujimi wheels and glued them to the brake disk parts and the tamiya wheels fit in nicely. 

 

 

Another issue I made for myself by changing the wheels are that the tamiya ones are a lot wider so a few mods to the chassis have been needed just to get clearance and so the wheels fit in properly. Modded on the right side of picture old on the left. 

 

 

So not pictured as it would have been effectively a duplicate post the left side has had the same done to it. 

 

More soon 

 

Shaun

 

Edited July 2, 2017 by shood23

[Hamden]

 

Nice start to an interesting project, mind if I tag along?

 

     Roger

[shood23]

A small update for this build which is moving very slowly due to no time to model much at the moment. 

 

The brakes/modded wheel holders have all been done now with multiple mock ups just so I get the wheel track width right 

 

 

The roll cage is very simple but has no locating tags for the parts so it was mainly done by eye so if anything need changing this will be done when final assembly takes place.

 

 

The floor pan and lower suspension parts have all been primer and are awaiting a coat of cheapy wilkos white paint. 

 

 

And the body after many..... minutes of sanding is close to having some primer put on once the filler in the sun roof panel and fuel filler cap has been sanded off. 

 

 

I hate so say it but so far I am really enjoying a slower build of a car with very few issues. 

 

More soon 

 

Shaun

Edited July 2, 2017 by shood23

[shood23]

A little more has been done to this today.

 

The floor and suspension bits have been painted in wilkos white. It took really well which surprisedme A lot. 

 

 

For some reason the other bit look blue in the picture but they are the same white as above 

 

 

Suspension bits and brake disks have been painted also 

 

 

The rear wing support piece has been glued on 

 

 

I have had to fill the licence plate holes as these won't be on a lemans car 

 

 

I have managed to glue on all the lower suspension parts so hopefully soon I will have a rolling chassis 

 

 

The front end was a little tricky with the offset holes 

 

 

Brake disks have had the calipers painted 

 

 

I have also had to cut out the rear seats as in the pictures it just shows painted metal. 

 

 

Finally I must just say as this is the first 911 I have made I kind of get why people like the older shape of this car. 

 

 

More soon  

 

Shaun

Edited July 2, 2017 by shood23

[Hamden]

 

 

Nice progress

 

 Roger

[shood23]

Thanks Roger. 

 

So after all the little bits that were needed to be done the build has taken a step up in pace today. 

 

I wanted to get the wheels on the chassis as they are bigger in diameter by 2-3 mm I needed to a) check once More for clearance check the ride height. I know the look like they are sticking out a lot compared to the arches but when the body is on they don't. 

 

 

I have started filling in the hole that I cut to remove the rear seats. 

 

 

The body has had a coat of primer put on, mainly just to check the areas I had to fill and to see if I had missed and mould line. I love the shape of the old 911s.

 

 

Then mocked the chassis to the body to check for clearance of the wheels in the arches. 

 

 

The rear wing plane had to be trimmed a little as it was bowing when I forced it on 

 

 

And finally I wanted to check the roll cage as I have changed the main mounting point of it 

 

 

And from the front and as you can see a few bends need to be made and a few areas need plastic rod added to make the correct length 

 

 

More soon 

 

Shaun 

 

Edited July 2, 2017 by shood23

[RandyD]

I really like the wheel and tire upgrade for this car Shaun !! 

 

Randy

[shood23]

Thanks Randy the new wheels are a must for this kit. I could never let that kind of mistake from fujimi pass on a lemans car. 

 

Shaun 

[shood23]

So some pretty big progress on this over the last few days. 

 

The modifications to the interior tub have been done, for a part that will be mainly hidden I couldn't see the benefit of going over the top on accuracy so it's just box sections to hide the cuts. 

 

 

The dash was painted in semi gloss black. The white area to the bottom right is just paint transfer from another part and won't be seen when in place.

 

 

And also the interior tub is painted and ready to have other parts added. For a bodge job modification it doenst look too bad 

 

 

One part of the interior that will be seen quite a lot is the roll cage and the box stock one left me feeling quite sad about putting it in the car as it was over sized and very scantily equipped, basically if this is correct for the standard of back then then I would have refused a seat in the car. So I am modifying that firstly to fit and secondly with better protection. 

 

 

 

This is how much I cut from the top bar, quite a lot for such a small scale. 

 

 

So then with 2 mm plastic rod I started adding more bars so it would fit snuggly to the inner body work 

 

 

I think at this next stage I was almost happy with it.

 

 

So then a couple more bits later, a coat of primer and a coat of gloss white paint and I'm calling the cage done. 

 

 

The body has has a 1st coat of white primer. 1 maybe 2 more to do depending on coverage. 

 

 

The rear 

 

 

And finally I may be adding the secondary front lights as I found build on another site where a guy used old bombs from plane kits to make them. So I have a few old parts from when me and my eldest made a red arrow kit. 

 

 

And what do you know the rounded end looks pretty similar to the rear section of the lights on the kit box and other reference material. 

 

 

That's it for now 

 

More soon  

 

Shaun

Edited July 2, 2017 by shood23

[Borez]

Looking great Shaun. Some really nice scratch work on the roll cage there too.

[shood23]

Thank you Mr borez it's most probably no where near what a 94' spec cage looked like but you no how it is when you start adding a couple of bits, it just keeps turning into more and more. 

 

Shaun 

[dodouglas]

nice work!!! 

[shood23]

Thanks Douglas 

 

Shaun

[shood23]

A very small update for this thread today. 

 

Right so not much has been done recently as I have hit i kind of wall on what I can do due to how i started with the floor first so I'm now being slowed down by waiting for the body and wing parts to dry from priming. 

 

So I made a proper start at trying to get the secondary lights looking more like lights than missiles. Luckily I had some clear parts from the 917 so they will be used for this.

 

 

Pretty close to the box art (and also the other reference I have)

 

 

More soon 

 

Shaun 

Edited July 2, 2017 by shood23

[shood23]

An update on where this build is. 

 

Not much has changed really the floor pan and interior parts are still just sat waiting for the body to be done. Also I did notice a few bumps and spot in the last primer layer that needed sorting but when I sanded them down i couldn't find what was causing them and the wing had similar parts so I think the primer was a little old or has very little pressure in the can so after a rub down I used a new can of tamiya primer and it's now finally ready for some zero Porsche white. 

 

 

More soon 

 

Shaun 

Edited July 2, 2017 by shood23

[Borez]

Looks lovely.

 

I always have a problem spraying white as I'm working under artificial light up in my loft studio, when I was spraying my 956 what looked like it hadn't been coated properly because of the shading had actually been coated. It's difficult to see so I had to be really careful not to overspray.

 

Yours looks great though.

Edited May 10, 2017 by Borez

[shood23]

Thank you borez. I'm the same I don't really like painting white but it's hard to avoid it as some of my favourite race cars are white. Its the same with black also, for me black is one of the hardest colours to get anywhere near good hence why I have no 70s-80s lotus f1 cars. 

 

Shaun 

[Borez]

2 hours ago, shood23 said:

Thank you borez. I'm the same I don't really like painting white but it's hard to avoid it as some of my favourite race cars are white. Its the same with black also, for me black is one of the hardest colours to get anywhere near good hence why I have no 70s-80s lotus f1 cars. 

 

Shaun 

 

I've never actually sprayed a black model yet. I'm sure that one for the future though.

[shood23]

On 5/10/2017 at 11:54 PM, Borez said:

 

I've never actually sprayed a black model yet. I'm sure that one for the future though.

 

I've only done 1 properly black car and don't like the finish after stripping it 2-3 times and redoing it. 

 

So the car. 

 

I haven't shown this build the love it deserves recently as I have been trying to mix the correct colour of paint to match the decals on the side of the car, it's always been too yellow or too red, so today I have an epiphany and came to the realisation that no matter how close I get the paint for the orange/red the kit decals will inevitably miss parts where they should be and I'm then back at square 1. So I have mixed up the closest ratio I got again and masked the car off so that all the red/orange areas are covered and I will not use the kit decals at all for this bit. 

 

So this is after masking and the first coat or 2 of my ghetto mixed paint. 

 

 

And the rear. The paint isn't fully cured yet so is a little shiny still. 

 

 

And masking tape removed mainly. There are a few small areas that need very light sanding to sharpen the line, as I expected really when you cut it from a stencil made in a sandwich bag with tape put on it. Also the front bumper I am not to worried about the line as it needs the black trim line to be painted after clear coating. 

 

 

And the rear again 

 

 

More soon  

 

Shaun 

Edited July 2, 2017 by shood23

[Flipper]

Looking great mate. 👍👍👍

[shood23]

Thanks flipper. 

 

The build: 

 

Again not much has been done recently as I've not got much get up and go for models recently. 

 

This was the body before a light polish just to get a nice flat surface for decals. I guess the humidity wasn't great when I sprayed the clear as it really didn't take well (even though it's only 2 light coats) 

 

 

So now compare the picture above to the roof now and there is still 3 grades of micro mesh to go but I happy with the shine for decals now and will maybe only shine up a little after decals have been sealed with the last layer of clear. 

 

 

More soon 

 

Shaun 

Edited July 2, 2017 by shood23

[Pascal]

Nice work Shaun. 

Your modifications turn this basic kit into a beauty.

[spoly]

On ‎28‎/‎04‎/‎2017 at 05:45, shood23 said:

Thanks Roger. 

 

So after all the little bits that were needed to be done the build has taken a step up in pace today. 

 

I wanted to get the wheels on the chassis as they are bigger in diameter by 2-3 mm I needed to a) check once More for clearance check the ride height. I know the look like they are sticking out a lot compared to the arches but when the body is on they don't. 

 

 

I have started filling in the hole that I cut to remove the rear seats. 

 

 

Now for the good stuff.

 

The body has had a coat of primer put on, mainly just to check the areas I had to fill and to see if I had missed and mould line. I love the shape of the old 911s.

 

 

 

More soon 

 

Shaun 

 

I don't know why, but I love the look of the body in primer.

[shood23]

Thanks for the kind words guys. 

 

17 hours ago, spoly said:

I don't know why, but I love the look of the body in primer.

 

I know what you mean spoly it is a good look for this body shape. 

 

Shaun 

[shood23]

After what feels like a really long time finally I can update this thread a little.

 

I started on the decals for the main body and finally I found something with this car that I don't like. The decals are oversized slightly my best guess is the decals look about 1/22 on a 1/24 car. Bit on the bright side they go down very nicely and the carrier film is very thin compared with other makers and the edges have a curved radius unlike many that have an obvious step. 

 

 

This is about 20 decals in and I'm a third of the way finished. 

 

 

 

 

I have to say I'm really glad I painted the red areas now instead of using the decals. 

 

Shaun 

Edited July 2, 2017 by shood23