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Builder Last Online: Aug 2014
Model Scale: 1/8
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(1 votes - 5.00 average)
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Started: 02-03-09
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Jay Dagless of Norfolk England is the owner of this entirely scratchbuilt 8th scale Porsche 917-10. Jay is a member of another site and has kindly allowed me to post his work here.
Jay has over 1300 hours in this project. Its built with plastic tube, strip and sheet and fibreglass for the body. For the working suspension he used R/C model balljoints for suspension pickups along with scratchbuilt rod end fittings that he made from wire. The disc brakes were drilled and ventilated, each face has 40 holes. The gearbox was built around a basic box section core in four parts - clutch housing, diff housing, gear carrier and end cover. The castings were heavily finned for strength so this was replicated with layers of styrene
strip.
Jay made a body buck from thick blue insulating foam and shaped it with filler and plastic, including a small plastic spoon cut in two for the engine cover. It was then given a coating of craft paint mixed with glue as a protective layer. A smear of vaseline was used as a release agent when laying up the matting for the fibreglass body pieces.
Like many of us, Jay uses Evergreen styrene
and when bending round tube he inserts a piece of wire and makes the bend. He tries to pin his joints but otherwise just uses glue on the joins, followed by modelling
putty
for smoothing.
Now, here's the part I love. For a chassis plate, Jay uses a 14"X10" bathroom wall tile and for the fixtures, he uses Lego bricks held down with double sided tape to locate and glue tubes. This way, everything stays square and level.
On behalf of everybody here, I'd like to thank Jay for shareing his photos and his build methods with us. Thanks Jay!!
Lets try to leave this thread open for a while. It really needs to be seen.
Jay has over 1300 hours in this project. Its built with plastic tube, strip and sheet and fibreglass for the body. For the working suspension he used R/C model balljoints for suspension pickups along with scratchbuilt rod end fittings that he made from wire. The disc brakes were drilled and ventilated, each face has 40 holes. The gearbox was built around a basic box section core in four parts - clutch housing, diff housing, gear carrier and end cover. The castings were heavily finned for strength so this was replicated with layers of styrene
strip.Jay made a body buck from thick blue insulating foam and shaped it with filler and plastic, including a small plastic spoon cut in two for the engine cover. It was then given a coating of craft paint mixed with glue as a protective layer. A smear of vaseline was used as a release agent when laying up the matting for the fibreglass body pieces.
Like many of us, Jay uses Evergreen styrene
and when bending round tube he inserts a piece of wire and makes the bend. He tries to pin his joints but otherwise just uses glue on the joins, followed by modelling
putty
for smoothing.Now, here's the part I love. For a chassis plate, Jay uses a 14"X10" bathroom wall tile and for the fixtures, he uses Lego bricks held down with double sided tape to locate and glue tubes. This way, everything stays square and level.
On behalf of everybody here, I'd like to thank Jay for shareing his photos and his build methods with us. Thanks Jay!!
Lets try to leave this thread open for a while. It really needs to be seen.
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