Franzis 1/3 Porsche Carrera type 547 engine

[Deleted member 3568]

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

 

[Jim R]

Hi Ken
Front and centre please. This really is something different.
Jim

 

[Deleted member 3568]

Its all new tooling from what I've found this company started producing these kits in 2016 (they do several famous engines) I'm already a fan and have asked my missus for the 1/2 scale BMW r 90 s engine for Christmas (they are relatively cheap too)

 

[Dave Ward]

Certainly different

Here's the 6-cylinder boxer....................
Dave

 

[Deleted member 3568]

So I've started the crankshaft and piston.











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)

 

[Deleted member 3568]

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

 

[therapy]

Never seen these kits before Ken. Looks really interesting....

Nick

 

[Deleted member 3568]

Its a fairly new company

 

[Deleted member 3568]

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

 

[Deleted member 3568]

More work on this, been adding a few bit of discolouration to the ally side, got a bit more work to do on those effects yet.











Still loads more bits in the box.

 

[Jim R]

Hi Ken
Many of those photos look just as if you're dismantling a real engine.
Jim

 

[Deleted member 3568]

Thanks jim

 

[JR]

Ken, absolutely stunning kit, and what you have achieved with the casting effect is brilliant. Going to enjoy this.

 

[Deleted member 3568]

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.

 

[Deleted member 3568]

Hi all more work on the valve gear

 

[Deleted member 3568]

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.

 

[Deleted member 3568]

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.

 

[Jim R]

Hi Ken
Quite simply stunning. The different finishes you have got really add to the look.
Jim

 

[mrtintheweb]

Question......
Do you think this (or similar) would help a teenager to learn the inner workings of an internal combustion engine without the need for the real thing?
Toby

 

[Deleted member 3568]

Absolutely the spark-leds are even timed right and it runs slow enough so you could explain exactly the process as it occurs.