 Photo by Kevin J. Stewart |
I started off with the Boxster kit using the hard top that
comes in the box. I cut open the hood, left door (I was afraid
that if I opened both Using the Boxster hood as a starting point I set the air vents from the 911 into the middle of it. I also used the front half of the 911 roof scoop and blended it into the rest of the body using Renshape and bondo. |
The rear wing is essentially stock except for the end plates which are made out of aluminum. I only used a little of the fender/wheel arches from the 911 kit and then blended everything in between.
Photo by Kevin J. Stewart
The rear body work and the door are held shut by the use of very small magnets. In order to get everything to line up properly I built a platform for the model to sit on with a set of machined resin wheels which were epoxied into place. This way I wasn't damaging the final chassis/engine/interior/wheels assembly while doing the "heavy" work.
The chassis, of course is mostly Tamiya with a fair amount
of tweaking (it was shortened a bit). Most of the detail under
the front hood is scratchbuilt. The interior is pretty stock
with only the Boxster dash and
wiring, etc. added.
In the engine bay a number of things were changed. The airbox was tilted and lifted, the air intakes were completely scratchbuilt using Renshape, the brake intakes were fabricated and the rear most tube framing and exhaust were made of brass and aluminum. All the plumbing and wiring were added.
I custom mixed the color using Ditzler lacquer and after decaling was completed I clear coated the car with PPG polyurethane clear. The Blue Coral decals are from Ricambi and the special Scale Auto Enthusiast were done, again by my friend Lindley. My original intention was to enter the model in the SAE contest but I had read the due date as being December 1st when in fact it was November 1st. Oh well, "show biz".
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If you're a die-hard Le Mans watcher you would no doubt wonder why you never saw any pictures of this car in magazines or annuals. Imagination is a wonderful thing, and I have a fair amount of it. If the Porsche factory was refusing to race the Boxster then I felt it was up to me (and my imagination) to create the car with appropriate sponsorship and drivers (myself and 2 friends). Naturally we won our class. |
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