Porsche 934 RSR "Vaillant"
1February 16, 2019Bob Wollek (1943 – 2001), nicknamed "Brilliant Bob", was from Strasbourg, France. He won an amazing 76 races in his career, 71 of which on Porsche cars He was killed on 16 March 2001 at age 57 in a road accident in Florida riding a bicycle.
2February 16, 2019Brilliant Bob and the team near the car, nice view of the overall stance the car should have, I like the "shell" painted on the grill mesh in the front.
3February 16, 2019That´s the real one, notice that the lower portion of the front bumper changes very often, it's easily getting dammaged on the race and have to be replaced, so it gets different colors and sponsors, don´t worry to see in the kit a different version.
4February 16, 2019A nice view of the rear, the engine, to get the proportion of the rear wheel and tire and to see how dirty they get after the race.
5February 9, 2019To start the project let´s see what we got.
6February 9, 2019Fitting is not bad but this fender, and the surrounding area of the headlamp is wrong.
7February 9, 2019The intersection between the fender and the hood in the kit is a sharp line that goes all over the place around, should be a very big and smooth radious all around, I will remove also this molded in hood pins.
8February 9, 2019The top view shows how simplistic this area was done, needs some attention IMO, the fit of the hood is very tied, that means we are going to sand a bit in order to keep parts fitting even after several coats of primer, paint and specially clear coat.
9February 9, 2019For comparison that´s a picture I took from a porsche of the same age in a museum nearby, here we can see how the fender should look around the headlamp area, look how smooth it is around there and how big is the radious conection with the hood
10February 9, 2019I have made some notes of the problems I found with the "C" pillar and the rear fender, it can´t be 100% solved but can be improved, changing too much the contourn of the rear side glass will make the clear par to not fit anymore so, be mindfull.
11February 9, 2019Now look how is the curve of the rear window behaving in the "C" pillar, more pointy than the one in the kit, the welding flange of the roof goes all the way to tue rear hood and the transition between pilar and rear fender is big and smooth.
12February 9, 2019To make things look better I started adding milliputty in that transitional area to add the smooth radious that should be there.
13February 9, 2019Looking better, now when it comes to sand, 2 things to keep in mind: do not mess with the headlamps bed or the hood edge or you will loose the conection with them and they will no longer fit together.
14February 9, 2019The kit´s wheels are very nice, to improve the look I'm drilling tinny holes to oppen the ones that closed in the chromming process.
15February 9, 2019Here we can see the result, the left one is the Out of box wheel, and the right one is the drilled one.
16February 9, 2019Masking and painting, Allclad II gloss black for the base and Gold for color, (I hate doing this masks!)
17February 9, 2019The result of the painting on wheels, unmask is the most satisfying part of the build 🙂
18February 9, 2019I think the wheel lug nuts from chrome sprues does not look so nice, so I wanted to remove the ones from the optional wheel covers that I'm not going to use here.
19February 16, 2019I cutted the wheel cover and sanded the edges, what left me with just the lug nut
20February 16, 2019Here they are, all painted in MRC, it is more detailed and overall nicer than the chromed ones
21February 16, 2019I also sanded the rubber to get rid of the center seam and also reduce the tire side wall as much as I could, it was very tedious process but I could improve the overall look with this step, if anyone know a better way to do this please tell me.
22February 9, 2019Ready for primmer. panel lines and gaps have been scribed deeper
23February 9, 2019Primmer on, Mr Surfacer 500 diluted 1:2 with Mr Leveling Thinner, I have scribed the gap of the roof longer to make up for the flange dying before the rear hood, also sanded more the transition from the pillar to the fender.
24February 9, 2019The fix on the headlamp area looks convincing to me, some transitions on the body does look far too "mechanic" to me, specially around the fenders, going to sand it to improve and prime again the hole thing
25February 16, 2019Test fitting to ajust the stance, a lot of modification on the suspension were carried out to make the car looks like that.
26February 16, 2019I also sanded the tires to reduce them a bit and remove the seam line in the midle, still looking too big behind, if any of you have some advice on the best way to sand down rubber just let me know in the coments.
27February 16, 2019Looking half decent now, still too high but the biger problem is the side walls of the tires
28February 16, 2019there are no vents on the base of the windscreen on this kit so I marked with a pencil the contour of the hood
29February 16, 2019Place is marked, I also do not like the look of the hoses just intersecting with the firewall, so I will put a little surface there to cover a bit that problem
30February 16, 2019Here the hole was drilled and the small flange added from styrene, looking more convincing IMO, also we can see how the fenders have a smoother transition now with the headlamps and the hood from another angle.
31February 16, 2019Yes, that´s the effect I was looking for
32February 16, 2019My mix of Tamiya to get to this color: 7 parts of the blue and one part of the green, here the car is receiving the decals prior to clear coat.
33February 16, 2019All painted with a mix of Tamiya colors, decaled and clearcoated with the 2 component automotive paint from MIPA, 2 parts paint, 1 part hardner and 1 part thinner.
34February 16, 2019Mipa automotive clear coat, 2 part paint, one part hardener and one part thinner, one tacky coat and one full wet coat, that's it, some dust specs here and there to take care later, notice how the clear coat pools around the decals and close to the gaps.
35February 16, 2019Out of the gun the Mipa 2k looks super glossy, without orange peel, I'm proud of that, but around the edges and decals you can see the light bumping all over the place.
36February 16, 2019The decal helped me to hide that contour problem but created a bump in the light that is uneceptable for a Porsche fan, that area MUST be perfect! let´s sand all that down!
37February 16, 2019I atempted to minimise the problems with the rear pilar contour around the side glass but I can´t do much to the internal flange or the clear part will not fit anymore, so it was just a compromise.
38February 16, 2019Sanded all flat, starting with 2000 grit to remove the waves and dust in the clear coat, moving to 3000.
39February 16, 2019All that you see here is sanded down to 3000 grit, after that I moved to 5000 grit all over the car and than 7000 buff just before go into the polishing process.
40February 16, 2019I used this system to polish the car, some foam disks very small on an addaptor into my dremel, using a bit of Ultimate coumpound and Ultimate polisher from Meguiars.
41February 9, 2019After sanding and flatening the surface, the final polish reveals a reflection free of bumps around the edges and the decals, I'm getting the hang of it!
42February 9, 2019Masking everything for the Black bits painting, all done with Stynylrez, the worst part of the build to me. Notice my panic of having overspray or bleeding.
43February 16, 2019Painting black bits part 2, Hell, I HATE masking...
44February 16, 2019Some of the steps I took to reduce a bit the rear ride height: I opened the conection from the axel with the strut towords the botton thus making the wheel hub sit higher in relation with the frame structure.
45February 16, 2019Additionaly I cutted of the tabs in the top and sanded as much as I could to make the hole assembly to sit as high as possible in the car.
46March 24, 2019I also scraped the mounting suport with scalpel n° 15 shaving the plastic and alowing for the whole assembly to sit even higher until the tire toutches the wheel arch, wich was also scraped from inside, all to alow the car to be as low as it can.
47February 16, 2019Another thing to consider is the front joint that have a squared type of shape, I use a small file to tenper this towords the car so it would alow for a bit of the resultant "rotation" of the assembly.
48March 24, 2019for the front I cutted off the mounting pole were the brake spins, just cutted a bit, tested, filed off some more with diamond files, test again until I´m satisfied with the hight
49February 16, 2019Dryfit again the check for impacts of paint thickness, ride height have inproved and I´m happy with that, some more sanding will have to be done in parts like the front hood or the tail hood, they are almost not fiting now anymore.
50February 9, 2019I have added magnets in the bonnet under one of the caps and a bigger one under the boddy in the hole created by molding process in the same spot, that way the hood will not come off unwantedly.
51February 16, 2019According with some references the top of the dash was flocked to avoid glare so I did it, I also brush painted the gloss black in the center of the searing wheel, I'm particularly proud of that finish without brush strokes, quite an acheavement to me.
52February 9, 2019Little rivets to put in the fenders, 0,5x0,35x1,5.
53February 9, 201940 of them fom Top Studio detail master, 0.5 head x 0.35 diameter x 1x5 depth, it was the smallest I could find,
54February 9, 20190,4 drill bit from tamiya was used in a Trumpeter pin vice to open the way for the rivets, they were 0,35 of diameter in the thinnest part
55February 9, 2019That´s the rear fender done, I used the Kit's decal as a placing gide to drill the holes.
56February 9, 2019For comparison, that´s how the fender was looking before the detail, not bad i'd say, but I'm glad I took the time to make them
57February 9, 2019That´s how the fender looks with the details added
58February 9, 2019Gettin to the lest steps, looking good so far, decals on the tires aplyied and the hood's clear coat reesprayed, various external details were added.
59February 9, 2019Good improvement to me, and was not as difficult to do as I was thinking. In this view we can see on top of the rear fender catching in the light some of the minor scratches, sure needed more fine sanding before the polishing, nothing is perfect I guess.
60February 9, 2019I have reesprayed the clearcoat on the bonnet after too much sanding, I went trough the clearcoat in places and could't move to the polishing step, so I putted another coat of clear, sanded some dust specs and finally polished to get the uniform gloss.
61February 16, 2019Previously in the build I have sawed off the molded in coolers that came with the kit, this will allow me to have a better finish and sharper details. In the picture, left is the original pocket, in the right one I cutted off the cooler
62February 16, 2019That will also have the pratical function to alow airflow from the airbrush to put the paint smoothy in there, it is never easy to spray deep closed pockets and get good results, clearcoat would just pool, obliterating the details or have dusting.
63February 16, 2019That´s how it is in reality, notice how there is one considerable gap between the end of the intake and the oil cooler, you can see the floor trough it, and the central grill mesh is tighter that the outer ones.
64February 16, 2019I used the supplied mesh covers as a template to draw the masks to cut the Eduard mesh.
65February 16, 2019Cutted to size and bended with the help of a cilinder it worked as I wanted, closer mesh in the middle and more oppened in the sides..
66February 17, 20192 pieces hood pins from Hobby Design
67February 17, 2019Hood pins in place
68February 17, 2019Comparison between the original seat on the left and the modified one on the right were I opened the sides to pass the seat belts. on bough I painted with synylrez black primer and painted the back with GX-01 gloss black
69February 17, 2019Testing the fit in place
70February 17, 2019The seat with the belts installed, some comparison with the provided decals on the kit, now I cut the "autoflug" emblem out of that decal and place in my new belts
71February 17, 2019I like the improved visual of the interior with this seat belt
72February 17, 2019Gluing the roll cage in place, I have painted the tube that runs under the frame as well as the Tie-up bands that are molded in
73February 17, 2019Gluing the belt to the roll cage, quite tricky task, I have to say.
74February 17, 2019An overall shot from the rear, the dashboard is already fixed in the car boddy
75February 17, 2019Hopefully it will show trough the glass and add some extra interest on the car, the central photoetch piece is lookint too flat to me though.
76February 17, 2019I pressed the center of the photoetch part to bend a bit the angle of the conections and brake the flatteness of the assembly, I think it worked, interesting to see in this picture is that it show the milling marks of the kit's mold all across the kit.
77February 23, 2019Detailing the engine, using some welding eletrical wire to conect the wastegate pipe on the left with the main exhaust before the turbo
78February 23, 2019The lower view of the engine, the conection between the turbo wastegate and the ehaust is looking very convincing, and I didn´t even painted it! if I didn´t pointed that out would look like it was part of the kit
79February 23, 2019Engine done, painted with Revell acqua, mr. hobby buffable, vallejo metal colors, mrp chrome, primer alclad black gloss, varnish alclad acqua gloss.
80February 23, 2019Scratch builded wastegate connection, distributor wires and injection hoses from hardware store and railroad model shop,
81February 23, 2019Detail of the upper cooling fan, the fiber glass parts I painted with Revell aqua color beige as per instructions, than I used Vallejo wash for figures, burnt sienna all over the place, that makes all uneven, pool in the crevices and works as a filter
82February 23, 2019César MunizInternational Scale Modeller Rising Star · 10 h · Detail of the distributor. in the kit there is a plastic wall there with a raised detail of that part, I cutted the wall around the detail and added a section of sprue to make a round se
83February 23, 2019Test fit, all good, added some hoses going to the hood, a transparent-gold hose coming from the reservoir, the distributor coil conected with the distributor and some wires for the various electrical boxes on the side.
84March 21, 2019Starting with some bits of sprue and a square of plastic card
85March 21, 2019I stretched the sprues into fine lines and glued them with some thin glue that is quick drying, Mr. cement SP or Tamiya Extra thin quick setting, this way I don't melt them down loosing detail.
86March 21, 2019Cutting off the excess
87March 21, 2019With a bit larger ones I glued the verticals
88March 21, 2019So far so good, I'm doing here 2 coolers, I decided that It was easier to assemble the details as a big piece and cut later in 2 halves
89March 21, 2019Assembling the frame to look like the central one provided by the kit
90March 21, 2019Close up to show the resulting texture.
91March 21, 2019Coolers separated and frame completed! In the other side I just glued one piece of PE mash to fill the blank and compare the results, It was way easier and many would prefer doing that way, but I enjoy scratch building.
92March 21, 2019upgraded parts done.
93March 21, 2019Painted, and washed with Tamiya panel line black, the unused front grill provided by the kit received two small vertical plastic cards, a black primer and a dry brush, with use this to fill the hole I opened under the windshield.
94March 21, 2019Revell have provided just one decal to represent the vent behind the bonnet, and they forgot to mention it even in the instructions!
95March 21, 2019I cutted the hole and filled from behind with a unused modified front grill, it happens to have the correct plane shape and fits like a glove!
96March 21, 2019In the end the PE mesh is not showing trough a lot of the work done in the coolers... but at least I know It's there...
97March 21, 2019It ended up being more visible from underneath behind. looking good to me
98March 21, 2019Various wires and hoses fitted under the front hood to detail it up.
99March 21, 2019Model is finally complete! enjoy the final pictures!
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Bob Wollek (4 November 1943 – 16 March 2001), nicknamed "Brilliant Bob", was a race car driver from Strasbourg, France. He was killed on 16 March 2001 at age 57 in a road accident in Florida while riding a bicycle back to his accommodation after the day's practice sessions for the following day's race, the 12 Hours of Sebring. He won an amazing 76 races in his career, 71 of which on Porsche cars.
