Shodog's Porsche 911 Carrera RSR builds
Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2013 12:41 am
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.
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.
I primed the wheels and brake rotors
Then sprayed them silver. I didn't bother with the wheel hoop as I plan to use a chrome set from the Taisan
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
I primed the wheels and brake rotors
Then sprayed them silver. I didn't bother with the wheel hoop as I plan to use a chrome set from the Taisan
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
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.
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.
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.
