Tamiya Porsche 911 road series

[Paulw]

It is becoming an obsession. First a build for a friend, then two. then this. I have been battling trying to get the shade of red that I wanted. Nothing in lacquer and the closest was Aqueous from Gunze. I am letting the paint cure real well before gloss coating and a polishing.

plenty big enough to see all the warts.

 

[helios]

Nice! I've got this kit squirreled away too. Love the haunches on a 993 GT2.

 

[moon puppy]

Warts and all press on..

 

[Paulw]

I can say that this is as far as I want to go. Being this is the third or maybe fourth car that I built since 1977 I think I did better that I expected. I have learned a lot about acrylic finishes on car bodies and I think I am going to go the 2K route in the near future. I was masking some lines and after I painted what I was masking then I had glue residue all over the model's finish and I chased the glue residue for a week trying to remove it all and I would barely touch it and it seemed that finger prints just appeared from out of nowhere.

The color is Gunze shine red which reminds me of Chevy engine red. Still I had fun with the kit because of it's abject simplicity.

 

[Heavens Eagle]

Go to Office Depot and get some Drafting Tape. It looks like masking tape and all but is a low tack type tape. It is used to tape down drawings to drafting boards and is such that it won't leave any glue tack. Over time I have had it lift itself off the painted surfaces. The tack is about like that on post it notes. I used it on my natural metal P-47 last March with no problems whatsoever.

 

[moon puppy]

Let that stuff cure up. Looks sweet!

 

[Sherman 18]

Cool!

 

[jeaton01]

Yeah, that gloss might take 2 weeks before it's really happy. But it's a cool model!