Porsche 936, Tamiya, 1/24

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Porsche 936, Tamiya, 1/24

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Hi

I finished a final one for the year - the Porsche 936/78, the well known, simple Tamiya kit.

I try to build a Martini car each year, I managed to do so in most of the years, but this time it almost went wrong: for the first time since I use it, the Mr. Super Clear reacted with the decals, severely wrinkling some of them. I managed to rescue them, by first sanding off the worst wrinkles, touching up those spots by brush, and then putting lots of clear on top of it, so I could sand a smooth surface above the wrinkles. That worked quite well, it's not easy to spot the problematic areas.
Unfortunately I had lots of problems with dust in the clear that I did not manage to sand away everywhere and also I tried to emphasize the gaps on the doors and cowling by painting the seams, but even though I only used a medium grey the effect is a bit strong for my taste, not helped by the fact, that the seams were almost filled by the clear. Well, I guess I'll build this one again some time; you can't have enough Martini cars.

Painted with TS26, mixed the blue from TS15 and 10, Mr. Super clear. I added leukosilk belts and better headlights from Scale Productions

Hope you like it!

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Re: Porsche 936, Tamiya, 1/24

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Very nice, clean build!!
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Very pretty! I always enjoy your photography as well.
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Thanks!
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Another beautiful build, Marco! I always admire your work, and the excellent photography shows them so well.

If you do decide to build that kit again, Indycals has decals available for both the #4 and #6 cars (http://www.indycals.net/decals/canam/78 ... rsche.html), and also for the Jules sponsored 936 that won in 1981. Good idea to have quality backups in case the kit decals give problems 8) .

Thanks for sharing!

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Very nice & clean Build :) .
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