Tamiya Rothman's Porsche 956

[THE H.P FREAK]

HI!... I just recently obtained a NIB Rothman's Porsche 956. This one will be built but will spend the rest of it's life as a shelf queen. Check out the vintage build section for a build up of this car. :cheer:























Well I started to build the Rothman's Porsche 956 today. This is as far as I have got. I didn't like the wheels. They were too yellowed from age IMO so they are currently submerged, going the the whitening process. Sorry for the weird colour picks. I was having camera issues.



























Well I got the body cut out finally and the driver all painted up. Hopefully going to paint the body and sticker it in the near future.

[SONYtec]

Brings back memories.

[shodog]

Looking really good so far. Those rothmans filler decals are rarer than hens teeth. I was lucky to come up on a couple of sets and a few of the iseki/canon/Newman decal packs at an out of the way hobby shop.

[67CamaroSS]

Can you tell me what you did to whiten those wheels. They look great.

[THE H.P FREAK]

HI!... I have tried many several ways of whitening plastic RC parts of the years. The best system I have found for me is this.

You will need the following :

- Hydrogen peroxide (3%)
- 1 large glass bowl
- 1 true Ultra-violet light
- desk lamp
- aluminum foil

I start off wrapping the aluminum foil around the large glass bowl. This just concentrates the U/V light. Acts like a mirror. Shiny side towards the inside. Fill the bowl with H/P. More than enough to cover the parts you are trying to whiten. Stir them around to get all the air bubbles off. Install U/V light in desk lamp and place the lamp just above the H/P solution in the bowl. You don't have to but I usually make a cone out of aluminum foil and cover the top of the bowl and desk lamp shade together, further concentrating the U/V light. I let it sit like this for 3-5 days. You will have to top up the H/P solution periodically due to evaporation from air/heat from the light. Frequently stir the parts and rotate them. You will get a ton of air bubbles clinging to the parts due to the chemical reaction from the whitening process. Smaller parts tend to float to the top if enough air bubble get on them.

You can buy H/P at most drug stores and it's very cheap. I got large glass bowls from the local dollar store as with the aluminum foil. The U/V light can be bought at most pets stores. Usually they are located in the reptile section.

If you want to whiten the Tamiya Porsche 956 rims, as a alternative you can buy new ones with tires for around $20 for a full set. Tamiya re-released the rims when they came out with the re-re Porsche 956/Newman 956/Toyota Tom's on the RM-01 chassis.

[67CamaroSS]

Thanks for the info. I have a couple RM rollers and one of the re-releases but that's great info for other vintage parts.

[VintageFanatic]

HP-

Beautiful car - nice work! Thanks for sharing your whitening process...I've tried a few methods and nothing comes out quite as white as I'd like. I'll be trying your method on my upcoming project.

[THE H.P FREAK]

[shodog]

Looks great so far. Now onto paint