Porsche 550. Resin body.

This Porsche 550 is the first resin try of a good friend of mine, Darío (Hero in slot forums). It practically comes without pores, very finite and with details well marked. 11/10 for him.





I have marked with striker pin the hoops of the forward lights, the rear-view and the back matriculation. I added the plate forward and the back detail on matriculation, and then the primer.






For the chassis, I wanted one that covered well and that allowed me to make the interior. So, I decided to use a commercial one: chassis 356 NINCO and small motor of Pink Kar with its support:




The big problem is to obtain that the back wheels stay inside the car.









I believe that the result has been worth the trouble…


Then, I fight with interiors. The front panel is a piece of resin of the kit and the seats too. All white pieces are "Evergreen".
I have tried to reproduce interiors as the real car.










The driver is a quite big transformation of a Tamiya soldier who was standing up. The head is a resin one that a friend gave to me months ago.






Final primer:





And, at last, the result.










Thanks for watching it.

Hello Andres,

that is a really a little masterpiece! :top

Very nice details, i like the interior.

Congratulation to your friend for the cast also.

Regards
Homer

Hi,

you haved build a very nice car with many details and a perfect finish :top

thanks for sharing

Very impressive work Andres!

:goodjob

Hi Andres

I only can say: It is perfect :top

Regards
Dani

Hello Andres,

car and driver are very well done! :top
I also like the use of the Pink Kar Motor as a sidewinder.

Greetings
CSR

Hi Andres,

really a great show - very well done, fat respect Beautiful car, realistic driver, fine paint job

Best regards

Matthias

Hello, Andres!

here is, as I promised, my comment to your Porsche 550.

Its a very nice car with absolutely perfect painting and detailing. Most impressive for me: the perfect interior! Choosing the sidewinder-layout and using the pink-car-motor you have got space for the complete interior and it is done very, very well.
Looking into this original car, you don´t see any remarkable difference:



What type of pink-Car-spare-motor do you use? From what type of car? The motor used in the Auto-Union has a little brass piece between the "body" of the motor and the pinion, so its definitely not this one.

The exhaust type with two pipes is very rare in original 550s. I have only one (bad) picture, where this exhaust is to be seen, while the most used exhaust type in 550s is the "Sebring"-type 4 -in-1 exhaust. Do you have other original pictures from the exhaust you have used? I would be very interested!

The driver figure is a little masterpiece with its well painted face!

I hope to be able to create a car with a similar degree of detailing from Darios kit.......I love these cars!

Regards, Taffy

Thanks a lot, Taffy. Those compliments from an expert like you worth a lot.
I'll try to write without translator, I hate it.
The motor is a Pink Kar one. I have cut the little piece of the pinion. Before, I have make the hole inside the pinion depper.
I have seen, I think in a German web page, a little cirurgical steel tube 1,5mm inside - 2,0mm outside that it's perfect to fit into those motors and then use a normal pinion. For the next time, I will try that.
The two pipes.....
You know, sometimes you have to finish the car yes or yes.... and I didn't want to waste more time. I tried a pipe in the center, I didn't like it, so I put two ones. That all.
In fact, all the livery is invented, so why not?

The car is not finished. I have to make the back plate and put a helmet in the seat between the driver. Then, I would make more pictures of interior and driver.

Thanks again everyone. Don't forget showing yours (Porsche 550, I mean. )

I have seen, I think in a German web page, a little cirurgical steel tube 1,5mm inside - 2,0mm outside that it's perfect to fit into those motors and then use a normal pinion......

It's not a German web page:
http://www.abslotsport.biz/page104.html



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Hello, Andres,

Thank you for this further information!

If you think your Porsche 550 is not ready, let me please tell you something about the look of the wheels...
The Porsche 356/550-rims originally were painted or chromed. The rims have a big hole in the middle, where one can see the brake drums. The drums are in unpainted aluminum or painted in black, like one can see it in this very used Ninco-Speedster:



In race cars like the 550, the brake drums usually have been unpainted. So, to give the wheels a more realistic look, the inner circle of the wheels might be painted in "matte aluminum".

Regards, Taffy

Hi Andres and Taffy,

well observed of you Taffy. I have overlooked that detail.

Here is a Picture of a rim of the Porsche 356.



Regards
Slotty

Thank's for the info. I will do something.

Now it's really, really finished:
- back plate
- wheels painted y central hole filled
- helmet in the copilot's seat
- steering wheel straightened
- everything glued
- cables and guide

Here you are 12+1 pictures and 4 videos.




























Videos:
(If you can't see them, wait till the end and then push "replay")

Hello, Andres,

there is only one word to describe this car: perfect!
The wheels now look like the real ones (and I know, what I´m speaking of...),
and drivers helmet, drivers face, the presentation with this beautiful little diorama, everything is just unbelievable. If I thought to be a scratchbuilder before I had seen these pics, you now really tell me, what this word means.
How did you paint the drivers head and face? What kind of paint do you use? Even if I would use a magnifying glass (and I often do that!), I couldn´t paint like you did.
Thank you very much for presenting this car, I am learning from every picture you show!
O.K., what´s next? Maybe today or tomorrow I will present my Lancia D50, that is ready now, in the continuing thread "Dreimal rot". Hope, it will please you. But if I see this Porsche, I think your Lancia will be, has to be better than mine.....

Regards, Taffy

For figures, I use flat colours from Tamiya or Vallejo Model Color. Nothing special. And of course, a magnifying glass (at my age, I can't see anything smaller than my hand ).
My way is to use fine brush with little cuantity of paint. And always to rest or to support the hand with the brush on the hand with the figure. If you are not comfortable, do not paint. Hands must be quiet.
In order: primer, white of eyes, flesh on face and hands, black of eyes, dress, shadows and lights, and then feet and hair (so you can hold the figure on those parts).
For eyes, it's important the black line upon the rainbow (iris) and to leave a bit of white under de rainbow (iris). If it's wrong, you can correct with flesh.

¿Next? Now, I am very vague
Perhaps Lancia, perhaps a Cobra, perhaps a Maseratti 8C by OSTORERO, .... so many things started!
But perhaps I'll try my first Warhammer, a horseman from "The Lord of the Rings".

Hello, Andres,
thank you for your explanations. I think, I have to learn much about the painting of figures. What kind of brushes do you use?

Regards, Taffy

Hello, Andres,
thank you for your explanations. I think, I have to learn much about the painting of figures. What kind of brushes do you use?

Regards, Taffy

Not expensives ones. I don't know their names. Normaly 5/0, 3/0, 0 (I love it) and 1.
My 5/0 is dammaged: it's curved. So it's very nice and easy to use for fine details.

Congratulations Andres, very nice videos.

Congratulations Andres, very nice videos.

Thanks to you Darío, it was a really very nice kit.
In fact, my next "car project" (after the figures, and the D-50, and the XK-120, and the Cobra, and..... ) will be your new 550 kit. :top

I already have one and I have a libery already in my mind too.