Pocher 1/4 ducati Panigale

W O W ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! 

I know how many parts you are about to do battle with. The Porcher kits are detailed right down to the crankshaft, valve covers, gaskets, springs, ect.

So apperently you just have to add gas?

That looks way too cool! I think the only thing better would be a 1:1 Panigale!

This is one of the new pocher kits after they were taken over by Airfix/Hornby so no internal engine parts (I think to try and make them more profitable) 

The old Pocher classic car kits had full engine internal detail. Unless you were going to cut a large section from the engine all the crank, con rods, piston detail etc was lost from sight when built. A complete waste of time and effort let alone adding unnecessary cost to the kits.

The old Pocher classic car kits had full engine internal detail. Unless you were going to cut a large section from the engine all the crank, con rods, piston detail etc was lost from sight when built. A complete waste of time and effort let alone adding unnecessary cost to the kits. I feel that Hornby Airfix have made the right decision with regard to internal engine detail by leaving it out. In real life you only see cutaways at major car and bike exhibitions.

Sorry about almost repeating last thread. Went into a wrong edit function.

Well this should keep you busy in the coming days. Doubt the missing internals will be noticed, as you “motor on”  with this build.

Good luck with this build. Looks real interesting. Can't wait to see what I learn from this. 

Jim  

Cool,

Can't wait to see more.

Pat

Hi all well after an update on my samsung tab s2 it has made it totally useless for posting on forums so I'm now stuck with this incredibly slow and clumsy laptop so here is the next installment. i was following silver911 build of this and decided to emulate his enhancement of the exhaust joins and copied his use of aluminium foil on them.

also I've added the thickening where the oxygen sensors go

[IMG]http://i67.tinypic.com/301m1oi.jpg

(its made from the phillips screw covers from a bedroom unit)

made a start on the engine too. Added some weathering as well. Put a rule in the last pic to give an idea of the size of this beast.

Made a start on the exhaust valve and made up the spring hangers soon be ready for priming.

Here's the pic that should have been there 

HI ALL I  made this connector with some sprue, Paul Coos CD really is a mine of information (loads of reference pics of the actual parts, that's where I got the seams on the exhaust from)

This part is like a little kit in its own right

I still say " If you add gas that thing should fire right up ! "

Looking good so far. Can't wait to see the wheel's on it!  NICE BLUE !!!

Well we've been away for the weekend at our friends caravan and I came back to a bit of a disaster

All the plastic parts are fine I couldn't work out what had gone wrong but now I have

No primer, I assume the plastic parts were primed hence they are ok.

I've removed the paint

(Another chance to see how big this is its nearly as long as my thigh)

Now I just have to 're prime it, I'm just wondering if I have enough of the blue left this thing is so big it took nearly a whole can to paint it(admittedly I did both sides of all the parts as I was not sure if the back of any parts could be seen) hopefully no more problems will occur.

It does look good. Nice work 

thats detail ! very cool  

Hi all started on the fuel system added the butterfly valves made from aluminium foil onto which I put brass leaf.

Then I cut it to fit

Then cut a piece of sprue then halved it.

Covered it with the brass leaf then drilled two holes and added a couple of screws