Topic: Franzis 1/3 Porsche Carrera type 547 engine (Read 2675 times)

kpnuts · « **on:** October 24, 2020, 06:34:53 pm »

Hi all got this for my birthday, I'm well impressed, the instruction manual is a thing of beauty I've never seen one like it before.

It is full of history and information also loads of beautiful pictures of the cars this engine was in.

The actual instructions make up about a third of the manual and are also beautifully printed and clear to follow.

The box is huge, good quality and stuffed to the brimm with high quality plastic.

I'm intending to build this as half see through rather than completely see through as is intended with the kit

Ralph · « **Reply #1 on:** October 24, 2020, 07:21:50 pm »

Looking forward to this one. Always follow your builds with open mouthed admiration.

Ralph

kpnuts · « **Reply #2 on:** October 24, 2020, 07:28:49 pm »

Thanks Ralph

kpnuts · « **Reply #3 on:** October 24, 2020, 08:42:19 pm »

So I've started the crankshaft and pistons

I've built the casings of the half I'm going to paint, we have a machine at work called a vapour blaster which we use to clean engine parts which I'm hoping to use to give these parts a cast look (it uses tiny glass beads and is only supposed to remove 30 microns on metal parts will try it on a piece of sprue first)

Plastic - RIP · « **Reply #4 on:** October 25, 2020, 06:21:59 am »

Interesting kit - I can't be the only one who saw the first crankshaft pictures while scrolling and thought this was going to be an all-metal working engine.....

Andy M · « **Reply #5 on:** October 25, 2020, 11:55:58 am »

I thought it was a metal crank. Is it just painted or did it come looking like that.?

kpnuts · « **Reply #6 on:** October 25, 2020, 02:59:04 pm »

Its plastic i painted it with AK gunmetal and steel then used us uschi powders to polish the baring surfaces

kpnuts · « **Reply #7 on:** October 25, 2020, 05:56:22 pm »

Hi all more work on the engine, im certainly getting a lot of practice creating metal effects on this one.

Andy M · « **Reply #8 on:** October 25, 2020, 06:32:06 pm »

Turns out nice, had me convinced. Nice looking kit. Are you scratch building a car for it?..... Only kidding, that would be around 5 feet at 1/3 scale?
Anyway, cant wait to see it finished.

kpnuts · « **Reply #9 on:** October 26, 2020, 08:36:04 pm »

Hi all one of the advantages of having a 547 engine completely dismantled at work is loads of reference material, for instance this main drive gear should have 6 30 mm holes in it, 1/3 equates to 10 mm

I also took the half I'm painting aluminium to work to vapour blast it (for a cast effect)

And the first coat of the casting effect

kpnuts · « **Reply #10 on:** October 28, 2020, 09:02:33 pm »

Well I've got the valves installed worked some more on the casings getting happier with the results (I think maybe its too shiny needs dulling down a bit) I don't want to make it look grubby just weather worn and aged.

kpnuts · « **Reply #11 on:** October 30, 2020, 09:41:14 pm »

Hi all more work on the valve gear

https://youtu.be/wG8IpL55tx4

davejo90 · « **Reply #12 on:** October 31, 2020, 10:46:18 am »

That really does look good kpnuts. I looked through the post and was trying to see if there was a finished size but can't see one. How big will it be on completion?

Andy M · « **Reply #13 on:** October 31, 2020, 06:08:03 pm »

My guess would be about 12 to 14 inches?

kpnuts · « **Reply #14 on:** October 31, 2020, 08:05:38 pm »

I don't know how high it will be but at the moment it is 11 inches or 29 cm wide and 7 inches or 18cm
High but obviously the fan and whatnot will probably double its hight.
Hi all started on the exhaust down pipes (dosent really show in the pics)
I tried an experiment with metal effects on the exhaust as I didn't want it to look the same as the engine and im really pleased with the look of them.

davejo90 · « **Reply #15 on:** November 01, 2020, 06:39:36 am »

They look great

kpnuts · « **Reply #16 on:** November 01, 2020, 05:54:15 pm »

Got the exhaust on and more experimental metal effects, a word of warning to anyone building this kit and painting parts of it the black shiny plastic is of a different type of plastic to the rest of the kit I sprayed the cowl for the fan (with the same type of paint used everywhere else) the plastic on the cowl has crazed and cracked (and that's even with using plastic safe primer) im hoping a layer of filler sanded down then sprayed over will fix it.

kpnuts · « **Reply #17 on:** November 03, 2020, 08:36:22 pm »

Nearing completion now.

kpnuts · « **Reply #18 on:** November 05, 2020, 06:58:12 pm »

Well its done (the supplied belt is too tight making the top pully bind and stopping it)

https://youtu.be/5b3f-i0C1Ng

SteamboatPhil · « **Reply #19 on:** November 05, 2020, 07:03:45 pm »

That is awesome

Ralph · « **Reply #20 on:** November 05, 2020, 09:52:00 pm »

That is amazing work

. (Any chance of a pic with something beside it to give a sense of scale?)

Ralph

davejo90 · « **Reply #21 on:** November 06, 2020, 08:11:55 am »

Great work

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