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Shodog's Porsche 911 Carrera RSR builds

Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2013 12:41 am
by shodog
I wanted one of these Porsches since the announcement of the release. For a Christmas present to myself I bought a kit and a spare body.

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I built the chassis box stock with the exception of adding bearings. It was my first TT02 chassis build and have to say its subpar and wish they would have released the body with a better chassis. But really this will only serve as a chassis to hold the body. I was just going to install a servo for the steering but since the kit comes with an ESC I went ahead and installed a receiver also.

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I primed the wheels and brake rotors

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Then sprayed them silver. I didn't bother with the wheel hoop as I plan to use a chrome set from the Taisan

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To my surprise I found that the body is a 251mm wheelbase. I really thought it was going to be 237mm like the Porsche GT2 body. This will allow me to use the spare body on a TRF 415 chassis that has been sitting in a box for 5 years with no body. I used a set of TA04 reversible arms to shorten the Wheelbase

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I painted the bodies and wheel centers for both cars. I went with pacers metallic blue and backed it with Pactra metallic silver. The blue looks beautiful and all the stickers with the red Carrera strips are going to look sweet

On the box art body I went with Tamiya's ps silver. I was just going to use the rest of Pactra silver but I'm glad I didn't as the Tamiya psint looks a lot better than the Pactra silver. The metal flake is much finer.

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I'm not totally sold on my wheel choices yet. I like the Fuchs on the road car but not the box art car. Problem is the two piece wheels rub on the TRF 415's hubs. Spacing them out will clear them but it puts them too close to the edge of the body. So I got to figure out some different wheels for this car.

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In an homage to the 58002 935 I used some Kawada five spoke rears and a set of mesh Taisan fronts. I like the rears but not feeling it on the fronts. So I sprayed up some Taisan mesh centers semi gloss black. Once their dry I'll try them out on the box art car.

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Re: Shodog's Porsche 911 Carrera RSR builds

Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2013 3:31 am
by hondaman
Ohh.. I am loving the blue one.. Looks like a real Porsche you would see tooling around here in Los Angeles on a Saturday afternoon.. Very nice..

Shawn

Re: Shodog's Porsche 911 Carrera RSR builds

Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2013 4:16 am
by kink
Stunning model. This will look so good on display.

Re: Shodog's Porsche 911 Carrera RSR builds

Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2013 8:43 am
by shodog
Thanks guys. I plan to sticker them up tonight. I'm anxious to see how they'll turn out

Re: Shodog's Porsche 911 Carrera RSR builds

Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2013 7:29 pm
by SFC K
Nice work on the pair so far! Can't wait to see them finished up!

Re: Shodog's Porsche 911 Carrera RSR builds

Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2013 9:06 pm
by j-sou
The Fuchs look awesome! Sucks they rub the hub :(

Re: Shodog's Porsche 911 Carrera RSR builds

Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2013 11:32 pm
by shodog
I applied the decals to the martini liveried car tonight. I am very pleased with how it turned out.

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Re: Shodog's Porsche 911 Carrera RSR builds

Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2013 11:45 pm
by RC10resto
Amazing what a set of stickers can do, looks great.
Now trim down that left front body post to match the right :wink:

Re: Shodog's Porsche 911 Carrera RSR builds

Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2013 11:48 pm
by hondaman
Very very nice... I am really loving that.. Looks amazing.. So looking forward to the other one.. 8)

Shawn

Re: Shodog's Porsche 911 Carrera RSR builds

Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 12:24 pm
by tamiyadan
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Re: Shodog's Porsche 911 Carrera RSR builds

Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 4:13 pm
by mrlexan
Nice Jim, Porsche's rock!

Re: Shodog's Porsche 911 Carrera RSR builds

Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 6:06 pm
by Coelacanth
I hate applying stickers...just looking at that makes me sweat uncomfortably. Great job! 8)

Re: Shodog's Porsche 911 Carrera RSR builds

Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 7:50 pm
by markbt73
Looks great! But it never ceases to amaze me where Tamiya chooses to cut costs: fancy 2 piece wheels, fake brake discs, but the headlights are stickers. :?

Re: Shodog's Porsche 911 Carrera RSR builds

Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 9:17 pm
by shodog
hondaman wrote:Ohh.. I am loving the blue one.. Looks like a real Porsche you would see tooling around here in Los Angeles on a Saturday afternoon.. Very nice..
Shawn
hondaman wrote:Very very nice... I am really loving that.. Looks amazing.. So looking forward to the other one.. 8)
Shawn
Thanks, I like the racing livery on these cars but I also like to make them into road cars to. I did the same thing with one of my Taisan GT2 cars.
kink wrote:Stunning model. This will look so good on display.
Thanks, you're right I will probably only display these cars. The TT is junk and the TRF chassis is new built so it won't see any run time. I'm going to do some experimenting with my runner Xray T1 chassis and see if I can reduce the wheelbase down to 251mm
SFC K wrote:Nice work on the pair so far! Can't wait to see them finished up!
I've started applying the decals to the road car. It's looking killer with the red Carrera decals on the side.
j-sou wrote:The Fuchs look awesome! Sucks they rub the hub :(
The TRF is a pure racing machine. Normally you would mount narrow racing wheels on this chassis. These two piece wheels are strictly for shelf duty. Every set of Taisan wheels I ran ended up cracking the centers.
RC10resto wrote:Amazing what a set of stickers can do, looks great.
Now trim down that left front body post to match the right :wink:
The stickers really do make it pop. I cut the body posts with my flat bladed dykes. I need to take them off and grind them flat on my bench grinder
tamiyadan wrote:that came out wonderful :D
Thanks, I had my reservations as the fluorescent red bumpers are ugly
mrlexan wrote:Nice Jim, Porsche's rock!
You know the old saying, build it and they'll buy it. I think I have apst all of the Tamiya Porsches.
Coelacanth wrote:I hate applying stickers...just looking at that makes me sweat uncomfortably. Great job! 8)
The sticker application is an exercise in patience and sequencing. A lot of the stickers overlap like where the black bumper lines get covered by the front and rear turn lights. The window trims overlap as well as the striping gets covered by the headlight trim ring sticker. I thought I had thought of everything until I went to put the roof striping on and found that it was to get overlapped by the rear window trim I already applied. I had to carefully freehand trim the stripes around the window trim.
markbt73 wrote:Looks great! But it never ceases to amaze me where Tamiya chooses to cut costs: fancy 2 piece wheels, fake brake discs, but the headlights are stickers. :?
They majorly cut costs on. First the TT02 chassis is a very plasticky entry level chassis. No extra body add-ons except for side mirrors. The included wheel hoop were not chrome. I used a set of chrome ones from the Taisan GT2. They gave clear headlight stickers but no buckets to mount lights with. By comparison, the tamtech 934 had buckets front and rear to mount lights.

Re: Shodog's Porsche 911 Carrera RSR builds

Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2013 7:03 am
by SFC K
You should be please with how it turned out! It looks stunning! Nice job!