Tamiya 1/12 Porsche 934

[Guest]

More work on the engine and a start on the body.

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[tr1ckey66]

Hi Ken
Really nice work on the ‘Porker’. The engine looks great and the paint finish looks excellent. Looks to be coming together really well.
Looking forward to the final reveal.
Cheers
P

[Guest]

Oh that engine, a display as it is.

[Guest]

Stunning.

[outrunner]

All I can say is...............fantastic!

Andy.

[mrtintheweb]

Flat six engines always nice to look at. Their design and shape allows you to see a lot of detail a standard in-line or vee design hides.
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[tigersteve]

Great work - love the engine !

[yak face]

Great progress ken , the engine looks excellent and the body is looking sweet , cheers tony

[scottie3158]

Ken,
Great work so far I really like the aluminium finish you have achieved.

[Guest]

Hi all well the tamiya supplied engine is done, I've looked on line but cant find picures the throttle linkages, I will have to ask my boss if he has any references (he seems to have an know anything Porsche related (hes an advisor on several official Porsche boards and is highly respected for his knowledge))started the decals, which are great but, the ones round the grill are really hard especially the ones around the square cut outs (if I could have guaranteed the colour match it would have been far and away easier to mask and spray it.

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Ps I've barely started the decals (what ever happened to the English version (which I much preferred transfers) decals, where did that even come from you transfer the image from one place to another what you de (cant even think where cal fits in) sorry rant over, I just dont understand it.
Sorry I know I've not used the attach files function but the files are never attached in the order you pic them.

[mrtintheweb]

Really looking good.

[Mini Me]

Very nice Ken.

[SimonT]

Love the mint green paint :thumb2:

When you put the pictures into your post you can put them in any order you want regardless of the order they come in when you attach files

Are those mould lines meant to there on the engine pipework - they look like they have slipped through quality control?

[Guest]

Done some work on the fuel tank. a word of caution to anyone building this kit. When it comes to mounting the oil tank, on page one of the instructions it tells you to attach the mount for the oil tank, unless you skip ahead and build the oil tank first dont attach the mount in the first picture the bracket on the left had side is for the oil tank (the shelf with the oblong rail coming out from the side.

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The steel pipe laying on its side next to it in the next pic goes into the tank and then into a hole in the bulkhead.

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In the position of the next picture.

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Here is a picture of the oil tank in position

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Getting that pipe into the hole in the bulkhead and into the hole in the oil tank with that bracket in place is impossible (on this model of course that bracket was well and truly stuck) so I cut that rail off in order to get that pipe in then glued it back on again.

A better option would have been to attach the bracket and tank with the pipe on at the same time.

Here are some pics of the fuel tank.

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[Guest]

I used the kit hoses but I do have some braided hose so may well change those.

Here is where I am now.

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