While extricating myself from a protracted building slump I was gifted a Maisto Assembly Line series die cast build it kit of a Porsche 911 GT3 RS. I already have one of these great little kits all built up so I really didn’t know what to do with number 2. Until I got to thinking about the “orange” theme of the upcoming PennCon show. I have in my stash a “racers wedge” back half of a ramp truck and thought “Why not try to build a Porsche ramp truck? 

So here is my latest kit bashing. The metal body of the Maisto was cut in half right behind the B pillar. I then created a rear chassis section incorporating all four of the kits wheels in the rear. These kits come with two sets of wheels so I only needed to raid my spares for two matching tires for the front of the vehicle. The ramp portion was then assembled and grafted to the front portion with CA glue. The gap between the roof of the 911 and the ramp body was filled with a rear spoiler intended for a Nissan Z. The missing B pillars were fabricated from sheet styrene.

The completed body parts were then painted with matte silver base coat, then Flaming Orange, with an over coat of Wet Look clear.   The completed vehicle will fit in nicely with my trio of Jagermeister liveried ORANGE Porsches at the show in Carlisle.

– Ross