Your pictures just remembered me how much I like this engine set-up... it may be I will carry on with my damaged Porsche.
Gabriel






again. Step one in the instructions: assembly the engine:


Great to see you back at this one Gabriel, following up from the CF Beetle and that beautiful 300C this should be great to watch.
Being picky, there's a mould line on one of the half-shafts that could use a quick scrape off.
Cheers, D




Gabriel,
Great to see that your Porsche is back on the workbench. I'm looking forward to seeing it cross the finish line.
Joel







Gabriel,
Excellent job on the metallizing of the various engine parts. I especially like the exhaust headers as they already look like they have the start of heat staining.
And naturally, I'm looking forward to your interior as you always seem to find a way to make them more interesting then the last one.
Joel
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Very nice work so far Ray, making good progress already. What paint did you use on the rims? I like the gold tone.
Cheers, D






Lovely detail work Gabriel, you are moving along quickly on this one now.
Cheers, D
Gabriel
Outstanding build on the Porsche flat 6 engine. To answer your question about the correct color for the oil filter, well, it's not easy to do.
Porsche used a canister type filter, so you just changed the cartridge, which isn't cheap by any means. The original shell casing was painted various shades of Aluminum, but not super shiny silver. At some point the shells were painted glossy Blue, but I have no idea of what the current Porsches from the factory have.
Many owners painted the shell as the paint chipped off. Ans many aftermarket replacements are a different color as well.
your dash really came out looking quite realistic. Love the shade of leather black you came up with.
Joel
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A little update on my progress, fortunately no further surprises from this one, yet. I will say the kit would lend itself to detailing very well, Beemax gives you a decent starting point.
Underside of chassis - this is where I started ignoring the kit instructions and started following my reference material more. In truth, the green underbody may not be 100% correct as I believe the real car had black protective coating over the body color.
Here you can see the start of the interior tub, kit instructions wanted it all black, real car was green from photos I could find. Like I said it would lend itself well to adding detail:
Got a start on the body too, this is before I polished the paint, the complexity of all the surfaces made it fun trying to lay down a good coat:




Just letting you all know that I'm not "asleep at the wheel".
My time lately has been taken up with trying to get a nice finish on the first part of the 51 Bel Air body work, and prepping and now priming this build.
Cheers, D


Gabriel,
The interior colors really work very well together. The Aircraft gray looks more like what they called Dove Gray. You do have a good eye for colors unlike me, who is also partially color blind.
the interior looks fine once installed, as the body work will take center stage.
Joel






I made time for a quick 20 minute airbrush session tonight to get the base colour on the interior.
It's a bit darker than the instructions call for but I prefer this to the paler shades. Black details will be hand-painted tomorrow night and pinwash applied.
Cheers, D


Gabriel,
I'm not sure what the base of your black oil was, but like you, I certainly wouldn't have expected it to melt and twist the plastic unless it was Lacquer based. The plus as you said is that it did add a little something to the engine. In real life that couldn't happen, but in scale, it does add some character that is a real plus in my book as well.
The engine installed into the frame with the interior looks good, if not as you said, hidden on the top side, but I'm sure a good deal of it shows on the bottom side.
Joel

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