Wrangler Porsche 962

This Porsche 962 is built with Wrangler decals that originates from a Nascar sheet and the original decals that came with the kit (From A). This car has never existed in reality but since the rules gives the possibility to do fictional livery I decided to make a try to create my own paint scheme in a style that might have existed in the 80s when the colors where bright.

It's airbrushed by me with Tamiya acrylic paint that really didn't want to go on nice. After to many layers and to much sanding it finally was a good enough surface to put decals on. Peter Bjurman who is a professional car painter sprayed the clear coat after decaling and detail painting where done by me. Since I had so much problems with the painting and I started to think that my airbrush or compressor where bad Peter came over and also tried the Tamiya paint and had the same problems as I so it seams that Tamiya blue gloss is tricky to work with. When we switched to Gunzes acrylic paint everything worked just fine. Really nice paint to work with. The bad thing with Gunze however is that it doesn't like decal softening solution (Micro Sol). It dissolves the paint. Seams hard to find a good paint that doesn't smell to bad.






Not the nicest looking rear wing mount but is it made for racing. The raisers are actually made of foam so the whole wing can flex. Hopefully that will keep it from breaking in crashes. Also the antenna is soft. It is made from a piece of fishing line and painted silver.

The get the wieght down I used the interior from TSRF that is drawn in a very thin plastic. The driver figure also comes from TSRF. Photoetch seatbelts is mounted. Missing on the pictures are some details that where mounted to add structure. With them the whole interior weights in at 5.5 grams.

The body sits on a Slotvision III chassi. Carbon front axle and open ballbearings all over.


The car has sofar not raced on the track. It sits in my glas shelve waiting to do the track premiere.