Hi Michael,

Your progress sure looks good, and thanks for posting the series of images.

Your challenges along the way sound familiar. Thinking about this a bit, in the context of my experience building MFH kits at a smaller scale, and your comment about the engine alignment being out by about 1mm made me wonder. In a regular kit this slight misalignment might not matter, here though, you just can't tell.

Maybe the combination of slightly out of aligned motor mounts, wrestling the engine in, and the hit-or-miss challenge with the self tapping screws, could also lead to slight torquing of the white metal cage or some part of it?

The torquing speculation/question comes to mind because at least on the smaller builds, I found it was hard to see if or where things were slightly bent. Meaning if something, or some combination of parts were slightly bent, an error could "grow" without you (or me!) being aware that the potential problem even exists.

On my 908 build, it turned out that the "torquing" didn't affect the car sitting flat on all four tires, but it did result in headaches getting the body to sit flush, and I could not identify precisely what the problem was.

I noticed you were able to install the diagonals over the top of the engine and they look to be straight! congrats on that! Maybe the chassis is indeed all squared up!

So - we are all counting on you to solve this challenge and to tell us how you did it! haha - Keep on building!

Cheers,

Nick

Wow, just wow. Great work even with the minor fit issues.

Hi Michael. With respect. You picked up one of the most complex Hiro Kits and you do it justice. The engine is a piece of art, hope with some weathering, it will look like the 1/1 scale.
Keep them coming.

Michael.
I'm just blown away

The installed engine/transaxle into the chassis is beyond words. Like I said in the GB post, if one didn't know that this was a model, they'd swear that it's a picture from a real restoration. It's that good.

Joel

Absolutely stunning Michael! I've just gone back over and re-read this thread from the start a couple of times and I keep picking up new details that just look so real.

Keep up the great work, and keep the updates coming!

Cheers, D

The year 2021 will be dedicated to my Hiro Kits. Going to build the Monaco GP MacLaren Mp 4/4 cars. Training and race version Senna used 1988. Best cars ever designed IMHO.

It will be a challenge Joel and Damien. Have the kits for about 5 years now. Made a start, but put it away because the mindset wasn't ok the finish such project. So now, first finishing my recent builds, campaigns and continue improving my work / hobby room, I will start my builds. In preparation I will start a " research & building thread" somewhere round September / October I guess and have good year of building.
Now back to this fantastic Porsche Build, otherwise I'm hijacking it.

Looks nice Michael - I can’t see any indication of the troubles you had - very clean build! (as you usually do!!)

Cheers
Nick

Looks amazing Michael! That spider-web of tube framework is downright scary!

As Nick said, it's really neat work and it's hard to pick up where the rectification works were made.

Cheers, D

Michael that space frame is just plain amazing looking.