Porsche RSR Turbo 1974

[lovegt40]

one of the main ingredient to model up here is food. I really couldt figure out HOW much inside food tradition I have been placed. some incredible delikatessen can be incredibly fresh,even more if u have a fisherman friend (ok actually not a born fisherman, but just a big bank manager in pension living here near with passion for winter fishing, and relaxing...)
..also this is Sweden

Crabba suoppa. 1 hour ago this guy was happy sleeping with his friends in this very fresh Bohuslän sea. . Buon appetito...

[lovegt40]

and after this great dinner and some great italian white wine, lets go on with some part of my unuseful project
this time is the rear wing. Esci one was not bad in shape but plastic thickness on the sides was scary. also here...some surgeon,with the target to make something similar to this:



side fenders are made in aluminium coming from a beer can (Sofiero swedish beer. 10% LOL ) :


and its test fitting (rear A pillar still not modified in this pic. now i see that problem allover..)

[lovegt40]

and here how I fixed the rear pillar.
Using the old sc body, becoming debrits little by little, I saved the rear part with its original pillar and marked a fine line



after such I simply deeply reshape all that area. it is a quite long and careful work, mostly cause u must reach the trasparence of the plastic. Thickness is around 2mm in that point. all material must go away.







this silver plastic isnt clear after such works. so I marked a line with graphit just inside the new line on pillar I´ve created

[John18d]

Paolo - you always have such attention to the smallest detail
John

[lovegt40]

thank u John

[lovegt40]

and here some more pics of the cutted point in the rear A pillars. plastic is now trasparent there:









thanks again rob for the alert on this part. will not notice it without your help.

[lovegt40]

side airintake reshaped and grill inside it..
Temporary in its position

[Capri-Schorsch]

Great work so far!
But is the grill of the air intake not on the outside of it?

You keep me motivated to go on with my build.

regards
Christian

[lovegt40]

eheh, I really hope to motivate u Chris. U wellknow how much I like your big one

Yep, grile shall be more up.I started from that point with the idea to reshape it in correct size and dimention.Surely mine will be a little inside the intake border.For now I am studing more the rear part of the side intake, that looks quite different from model one.
The pic I have is this:



once again I hope to saw and take it in shape using the thickness of esci plastic from the 70s

[stratos75]

Paolo, I like the job you did on the C-pillars.

[lovegt40]

cutted and refilled the windshields. the rear one must be exactly at carrosserie level.
I sanded and polished all the trasparent parts (before they had paint,glue and decals on..) and made it all without modelling products. Just toothpaste and very very fine used sandgrip ....was another test to see what u can do without usual good tools and products think it worked out well.







then I reshaped the intercooler side intake. now more in correct shorter dimensions

[John18d]

It's all coming along just fine Paolo
John

[lovegt40]

Both the bodies are now back to sunny Italy.I started primer theme and try the fitting to tamiya rsr "underwears". Misteriously this body fits perfectly to the newer model.Also the nice decals from Decaldoc arrived. Now I just wanna test make some copies.Tomorrow will see a caster to talk about it...





















some projects .. must finish part of theme, someday..

[robdebie]

Originally Posted by lovegt40

Good work on removing the rain gutter hump! I hope you don't mind that I found another shape problem in that area. I copied the photo that shows it best.

The Nitto model has a straight line running down from the rain gutter towards the rear light, where the light makes a 90 degree corner. Now compare that line to (for example) the Esci model, and you will see that Nitto got that line wrong too. It all contributes to the weird shape of the Nitto model at the rear side. On the positive side, I think it is easy to correct with a bit of sanding.

Another thing that worries me (at least with my 1/20 model) that the width of the rear fenders could be too large. The only width figure that I ever found is an overall width of 2020 mm (Paul Frere's 'Porsche Rennwagen der 70er Jahre'). My 1/20 version is 107 mm wide, or 2140 mm. That's a whopping 6 mm too wide. But is that 2020 mm figure accurate? And I don't see how to remove 3 mm on each side. Maybe the body is too wide, and not the flared fenders?

Rob

[robdebie]

Originally Posted by lovegt40

Good work on removing the rain gutter hump! I hope you don't mind that I found another shape problem in that area. I copied the photo that shows it best.

The Nitto model has a straight line running down from the rain gutter towards the rear light, where the light makes a 90 degree corner. Now compare that line to (for example) the Esci model, and you will see that Nitto got that line wrong too. It all contributes to the weird shape of the Nitto model at the rear side. On the positive side, I think it is easy to correct with a bit of sanding.

Another thing that worries me (at least with my 1/20 model) that the width of the rear fenders could be too large. The only width figure that I ever found is an overall width of 2020 mm (Paul Frere's 'Porsche Rennwagen der 70er Jahre'). My 1/20 version is 107 mm wide, or 2140 mm. That's a whopping 6 mm too wide. But is that 2020 mm figure accurate? And I don't see how to remove 3 mm on each side. Maybe the body is too wide, and not the flared fenders?

Rob