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I'm just tidying up my Porsche 936 and wondered how people best felt the driver and certain details should be painted:ohmy: . I'm following the English manual on here , as I only had a Japanese one. It appears the manual doesn't always match the box art ? My car already had the number '3' on it rather than '4' so the nose and tail should be done in blue I believe? Has anyone else with this car painted the skyhook (on the top of the airbox) , inside the airbox , the petrol , water oil caps etc

Unfortunately the car was stickered unpainted, I've got a lot of marks off the white body with furniture polish and it's looking much better.

Peter wrote:

I'm just tidying up my Porsche 936 and wondered how people best felt the driver and certain details should be painted:ohmy: . I'm following the English manual on here , as I only had a Japanese one. It appears the manual doesn't always match the box art ? My car already had the number '3' on it rather than '4' so the nose and tail should be done in blue I believe? Has anyone else with this car painted the skyhook (on the top of the airbox) , inside the airbox , the petrol , water oil caps etc

Unfortunately the car was stickered unpainted, I've got a lot of marks off the white body with furniture polish and it's looking much better.

Hello & welcome on board

The 936 is not a car I own - to be honest, my interest doesn't go back that far... but yes, I see what you mean - the box illustration and the manual are different, most noticeable to me was the driver's helmet looks dark blue on the box, but in the manual, it's black.

If you haven't already seen them, Tamiya101.com has some photos of a good example

My feeling is that if you are going "box art", then you should stick to the artist's impression on the box - not what it says in the manual, even if the box is "wrong". I think most people would agree, at least unconciously - this is why 99%+ of all Sand Rovers are red, not orange, for example

Maybe a bit off topic, but you should see this video :



-Lars