Porsche 550 Spyder - WiP

Okay gents and ladies, let's see what we got... 

A nicely cast body and underbody 

Being a resin kit the number of parts is not too overwhelming. But then again, the quality seems to be very nice at the first glance, I do not see any air bubbles whatsoever 

There is a nice mix of materials as well, we have rubber tires, two PE plates, some metal parts, decals, some seatbelt fabric and "glass" parts from clear resin
 

First step is drilling open these holes 

The skin is very thin, first I removed some material with the knife and proceeded with a grinding bit 

 

It's a part of the inner body structure 

Cleaning and fitting the exaust parts. The material is beautifully malleable, and not too brittle 

Second PE plate 

Vacuform windshields, two variants 

Everything packed in this neat little box 

Let's not forget the instruction booklet 

Which presents beautiful 3D drawings in color and leaves no room for error 

When working with PE parts I like to clean them with a fiber glass eraser. Removes the oxide layers and roughens up the surface for better paint adhesion. 

Let's work on the body. This part of the structure with the dashboard has to be glued in before painting. 

It was probably easier this way to recreate all the beautiful detail inside when making the resin mold prototypes
 

Which means for the model maker this nasty gap has to disapper (except for the gap between the body and the door) 

First step adjusting the part as evenly as possible and fixing it with super glue 

Despite all adjustment efforts there is a nasty step in the surface which has to be evened out 

Much better 

I like to use makeshift sanding sticks for this purpose which I created by glueing popsicle or coffee stirring sticks with double sided tape to sanding paper and cutting them out 

Now the surface is flush, we need to fill the remaining gaps. To prevernt the seam from showing later on I carved a groove with a dremel tool 

A good quality super glue is a fantastic gap filler and putty material which is often overlooked. I does not sink in after curing and bonds unsurprisingly very strongly to the surface
 

There is a beautiful seamless transition after sanding 

You can check for holes by holding the surface against the light
 

Incidentally I noticed some very thin areas in the casting. It was so thin there were holes in the hood gap. I reinforced it from the inside with super glue + filler powder
 

Some suspension detail 

Steel rims look also very good with some fine detail 

Etched parts are very finely done like this "Spyder" logotype