Finished Porsche 914-6

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I finally found this kit in my stash a week ago and immediately dug into it; the rest of the week I was working on/off every night and over the weekend to finish it up; it was a lot harder to build than it looks ;)

There's a reason you rarely see these built, and if they are they are glue bombs. Revell got the shape/details well enough but the fit of parts is pretty bad, especially ride height. The design of the windshield frame was horrible. I used an AMT '67 Mustang body to donate vent windows for design and structure to the flimsy separate windshield frame-which snapped during the build and resulted in my permanently gluing the roof panel in place to keep it in one piece. Half the time was spent just dry-fitting parts over and over while trimming/tweaking etc. Yet it was kinda fun since I've never seen one of these built yet in any sort of quality.

Looks pretty decent finished, kinda like a Fujimi kit; it is full detail but the engine is a bit simpler than the one in the Fujimi 911's. In fact I used some leftover/parts-box Fujimi parts like wheels/tires, mirrors, and wipers. Mirrors/wipers weren't included :rolleyes: Nobody will know what it took to make it look like a Fujimi kit unless they build one of these gems. Paint is Testors Grabber Orange lacquer and clear.

That said I'd do it again in a heartbeat if it were a competition car :D

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[Dennis]

Damn Bob that looks sharp!! Great looking build for what you had to go through!!

[Eric Cole]

Looks great Bob.... is that our Pace Car?

The wheels look really good on there and the color looks right at home!!

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Looks great Bob.... is that our Pace Car?

The wheels look really good on there and the color looks right at home!!

Thanks! Nope, it's not the pace car. Wayne and Henry both have unbuilt versions of this kit, so maybe this will inspire one being built in white as the pace car. I'll gladly help either one w/the body mods.

I've always liked this funky car, it ain't beautiful but I wanted it to look right. I had been thinking of orange when I found my can of Grabber Orange and realized it perfectly fit the character of the car.

[Matt Wadlinger]

Looks good, the color is very suiting.

I've been trying to source the kit for a while now. Not to do the pace car, but a yellow or purple version. Most kits that pop up on EBAY are built ups.

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Looks good, the color is very suiting.

I've been trying to source the kit for a while now. Not to do the pace car, but a yellow or purple version. Most kits that pop up on EBAY are built ups.

Thanks. In researching the kit I found pics of a car in the raspberry color of Wayne's IROC car. I was tempted to do mine in the yellow I painted my IROC car, but I had orange on the brain and when I found I had Grabber Orange I was set.

There's one on Ebay that ends today, and it's for sale by ACME member Norm Newcity aka 429hemi. When I looked for one today as a built example I found it and it had been bid up to about $26. Ends in 8 hours. My kit came from Auto Motif, it had been part of this same 3-car Porsche set that came out in '88.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6038544421&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1

[crispy]

Bob, fantastic build! What kind of paint finish work did you do? Meaning, polishing?
It sure is pretty.
Chris

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Chris, it was painted/polished in my standard fashion...primer then 2 stages of color, wetsanded between coats, and 2 stages of clear wetsanded between coats. Hit the majority w/3600 and 4000 grit Micromesh and then Scratch-X liquid. This polished out really easy. The decklid isn't polished yet, it's pretty smooth as-is though I will remove it and hit it w/some polish before this weekend's show.

It was painted in a short timeframe, between Friday night and late Saturday for all four stages. Testors lacquers dry fast, and I couldn't use the dehydrator due to blistering problems caused by my Tamiya putty.

[Zomby Woof]

I remember those Porsches. You did a real nice job of it considering what you had to work with. Sometimes we just get good subject matter in poor quality kits.

[Matt Wadlinger]

There's one on Ebay that ends today, and it's for sale by ACME member Norm Newcity aka 429hemi. When I looked for one today as a built example I found it and it had been bid up to about $26. Ends in 8 hours. My kit came from Auto Motif, it had been part of this same 3-car Porsche set that came out in '88.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6038544421&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1

Story of my life with this kit. Got outbid on it again. Oh well, I tried.

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Bummer. You got outbid by a higher bid before yours, guess they wanted it more. You might ask Norm if he has more. He says they always go cheaper in the multi-pack vs. the separate earlier-issue boxes. There's a competition version I'd like to snag but it's really rare.

[daveyracer]

Beautiful build Bob...... Great color too!!!