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Hello everyone!

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As this is my first real topic in this forum after a few years of reading silently, I will say the following about myself: I'm from Germany, just finished the Abitur and I love cars as well as Lego (Technic), especially Porsche, and I will probably start studying mechanical engineering this year.

Sooo, this project was a pretty huge thing for me in the last few months. As a huge fan of their cars, when the Lego Porsche was announced I knew I needed it, and got it early this year. When it stood in front of me on the table, finished, I already thought about how awesome it would be to mod the sh*t out of this monster. I started with technical modifications on the gearbox, adding working door knobs, gearing the steering wheel up to have a rotation close to 900°, filling some holes in the body and including Didumos' Ackermann steering mod. After various tries, I kind of rebuilt the chassis for rc use. While the servo was pretty easy to throw in (while it was tight and a perfect fit), the whole gearbox flew out for 4 M-Motors. While at first I had one technic battery box laying on top of the rear suspension cover, I soon changed this solution to having two train bbs in the engine bay. The gear driving the differential which comes from the motors required the fake engine to be moved down as far as it goes, but this gave me the possibility to keep it inside.

Next thing to do was the lighting, which I did by using the cables of broken PF motors to connect 10 white 9V LEDS from ebay.

I then continued to see something new to be improved everyday and fix this one or that one, until I finally decided (about 2 months ago), that it is time to move on to the real stuff. So i bought RAL 6019 (the green one), RAL 5002 (blue) and RAL 9005 (black), 1200 ml each, and just started spray painting the parts. I did the panels and small parts laying on a metal sheet, rear side first, while I did the liftarms by putting them on a string with the middle hole so they spin when being sprayed. While the most turned out well after the first few rounds of painting, some got pretty ugly when drying, which I fixed by sanding the parts and spraying a thin layer over it.

While the parts were still drying and between the paiting rounds I already did the interieur - removing the right seat, changing the seat colour to gray/black, removing the shifter knob, replacing the old dashboard, changing the steering wheel to a more GT3-style-thingy, adding a fore extinguisher and changing the orange cage to black. I also ordered the neon-yellowish headlight bricks, which looks hella awesome at night or even more in twilight.

At this point, technical improvements had all been made, I solely focused on asthetics. When I was finished with the colouring, I had to decide how I would do the stickers. After I saw the extremely low prices for custom stickers on websites of printing companies (about 200€), I looked for alternatives. I saw a YT-video

with a technique I didn't think of till then which worked surprisingly well. All the stickers on the car are made this way.

 

Finally, a list of all the modifications:

- Full RC, 4 M-Motors, 1 Servomotor, 2 Train BB's, 2 IR Receivers with nearly invisible placement that doesn't disturb the looks

- steering wheel upgearing

- several body fixes

- head- and rear lights, neon headlight bricks

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- spray painted bricks and custom stickers

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- change of the mounting of the rear shocks so they are more stiff to carry the heavier weight of the engine bay

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- (still) working and repositioned flat 6 despite the rc mod

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- interieur, wheel and dashboard changes

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- new centerlock wheel nut bricks (no RS anymore :D)

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- carbon fiber covered exhaust pipes, that front thingy panels (no idea what the english word is ^^) and

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- diffusor

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- chassis changes to make rc mod possible

 

While these were all my own mods, I also used two mods from other guys:

- El Squattore's working door knob mod adapted to the large shocks

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- Didumos' Ackermann steering, also changed a bit because I was missing a few of the bricks.

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Man, I can't tell how many times I thought i just threw 200€ into the trash by f***ing up some of the bricks when painting them, but I think in the end it worked out more than just well. :) There's probably a video/car porn coming as soon as I find time and a nice location for it.

Anyway, thanks for reading and let me know what you think of this thing!

 

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It is a monster! :wub: I like your stickers very much, and the racing mods to the cockpit are clever - it looks like a rough and ready racer inside now, instead of a street car with racing pedigree.  Big question - I'm guessing you took the travel bag out of the trunk now it is a track car?! 

Edit: for my part, while I wouldn't have spray-painted the pieces myself, I also think 'live and let live', and if you had fun and are happy with the results then it was a good decision

Edited by Paknaloid

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Welcome to EB!  While i  like the project, and happy that you had so much fun doing it, I am going to just give a little voice of warning.  You might really get some negative comments because of the spray painting.  It does look a little goopy - not to mention it now makes Lego a little moot because now you really can't build anything new with it.  While I am of the opinion of "live and let live" when it comes to one and their hobbies - just wanted to bring this to your attention and not get too disheartened by it.  There are all sorts of opinions.... and as long has you learned something and had fun then thumbs up! :thumbup::thumbup:

Good luck in school !

 

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Thanks guys!

Yeah, I know about the painting part, on some pieces it's still a little goofy, but as I had a major fuckup in one of the painting cycles on the green ones I was fixing till yesterday, this is about as good as it could get, and the flexible axes don't wanna get painted that easily. :/ I will probably replace them sooner or later, is just a cost issue atm.

And about the taking apart: as I said, I was really afraid it would come out crappy, especially because I did it alone and had never any sort of spray painting before, but as soon as I had the thing put together in the first place, I knew it would stay whole, so I never even thought about using the bricks for something else :D

The travel bag is safely stored in the original box together with all the parts taken out :wink:

Edited by Mirco Hussmann

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Great porsche! When I saw it I wondered where you got those colours. It's a shame you had to paint the parts, but if thats what you wanted to do to create the model you want then its upto you. Its your lego. I do love it.

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Yeah, the idea of painting Lego bothered me too at first, but there were two reasons I did it anyway: I friggin love this car and the bricks I needed aren't available, which is sad. I would have loved to 3D-print them on my own, if only I had like - ya know - a 3D Printer :D

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To me, the painting makes this look pretty bad.  I painted a wheel hub to black but I used spray paint and it looked like official TLG part.

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I really don't know why exactly. Some parts, like the rear fenders and the black spoiler parts, look like they came this way, but others, mainly green ones, look pretty ugly. May be because of the fact I didn't have any experience with this.

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The trick to airbrushing, or spray-painting, is to use multiple layers on top of each other. It's pretty common to see the base colour through the paint up until the fourth layer or so. And Lego might require a primer for the paint to hold properly.

That said, I think the overall result looks pretty good.

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2 hours ago, Mirco Hussmann said:

 

Yeah, the idea of painting Lego bothered me too at first, but there were two reasons I did it anyway: I friggin love this car and the bricks I needed aren't available, which is sad. I would have loved to 3D-print them on my own, if only I had like - ya know - a 3D Printer :D

 

It looks cool though! The problem is that the greenish color didn't seem to work out so well. By the way, my printer cannot print a part as big as a Porsche wheel arch.:laugh:

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@TechnicRCRacer

Yeah, I failed a bit with both colours as the blue is too dark and the green too light, but I think it fits nonetheless.

@ginger-snapped 

I printed the background too. I just looked up the hexcodes for the respective RAL codes and played around with different saturations etc. from there. Green worked at first try, but it seems impossible to print a blue this dark on Standard paper with a Standard printer. I might look into using photo paper, as I did with the spoiler to Match the black.

 

And I am really sad I got fooled by the cover of the paint which said you don't a Primer for ABS and similar stuff, but I guess at least I learned something :wacko:

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While I like the mods you made to car itself, the painting is not good. I don't have much against it, however, I am sorry to say, this is not a nice paint job. I understand the idea behind it, as Lego is rather limiting with parts and the colors, but still... :sceptic:

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