Fujimi Enthusiast series

[sam]

In a discussion on another site, JC linked to his reference list of FE kits.

I was wondering how many of you have built them, how many have you built, and how many have you collected? Pics are more than welcome.

I have been collecting them for about 30 years. I have yet to build one myself. My wife on the other hand, shortly after our wedding wanted to build a model. I told her to take her pic from my stash, she chose a FE Porsche and did an awesome job with it, which led her to build the FE Ferrari Daytona spider. So she has built two, about 25 years ago. Pics to come later.

Here is a pic of my collection. You may also notice my VW collection next to them. Some of these are curbside and my plans are to use the FE 356 engine in them. I either have to find some partial built kits to rob them from or figure out the whole casting thing and make some copies.

I also need to find an old built up Ferrari Daytona and get the right front suspension from it to repair my wife's build, it seems to have fallen off and disappeared over the years.

I think I have a couple of duplicate Porsche kits, sealed, that I am thinking of selling or trading.

20190508_082811 by Sam Grabenhorst, on Flickr

[clowncar]

“I have been collecting them for about 30 years. I have yet to build one myself,”

Oh, man, do I ever get that,

[afx]

Built this 911ST from the 911R kit.



I used the 911 engine and suspension from an EM kit for both my 914/6GT



and my stock 914/6.



Finally I started a conversion to build a 911 SCRS but stopped when Beemax announced they will be offering a kit.



I definitely want to build a Ferrari Daytona and a Stratos one of these days.

[sam]

Sweet pair of 914s! I never thought of using the FE engine in mine. I just picked up that one in a trade last week.

When I decided to cut back on my rather out of control stash, I moved my non Porsche FE kits, I had a Countach, Daytona coupe,Dino,two BMWs, and the Dome.

[sam]

JC, what base kit did you start with on your 914s? Mine is a Revell reissue.

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May 11, 2019 18:39:38 GMT -8 sam said:

JC, what base kit did you start with on your 914s? Mine is a Revell reissue.

Sam, both kits are based on the Revell, the only 914 I'm aware of in 1/24 scale.  Here are links to my photos albums for each build.

public.fotki.com/steelers43/my-model-projects/70-porsche-9146gt/

public.fotki.com/steelers43/my-model-projects/70-porsche-9147/

[sam]

WoW , that was some work. Beautiful results though. Makes me want to just Ebay my whole collection. 😕

[Ben_B]

I like ththose 914s! Makes me regret not buying that $6 one I held in my hands at RDUCON last weekend.

Ben

[sam]

Yea. I am second guessing selling or trading my spare 911s now...hopefully JC has a thread somewhere that will explain things as he went.

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May 12, 2019 15:13:52 GMT -8 sam said:

Yea. I am second guessing selling or trading my spare 911s now...hopefully JC has a thread somewhere that will explain things as he went.

Sam, here are my build threads from MCM:


www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/84595-porsche-9146-finished/


www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/72527-porsche-9146-gt/

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May 13, 2019 19:33:22 GMT -8 @chaparral66 said:

J.C.

What can I say here.....this is an absolute mouth dropping project. Its just totally amazing the amount of engineering you pulled off on this. Far and away my favorite build I have seen of yours so far. the bodywork is soo clean, I guess I am truly at a lose for words, your presentation through the photos is incredible. Just flat out beautiful your skills make you a craftsman no question, master modeler to the UMPPHH Degree. I am humbled sir, kind of makes it tough to pick up were I Left off especially when I felt really good about the progress I "THOUGHT" I was making. Only one thing to do....carry on and hope I can tighten the Cruze if nothing else very nice THIS IS A GOOD OLE KICK IN THE SEAT OF THE PANTS Encouragement. Thank You for sharing your incredible build with the rest of us mortals you and that other fella at the helm here.

Thank you very much Bill.  Seeing your Olds T/A, no doubt you could have pulled off these projects if you had set your mind to it.