Tamiya and Revell make the Porsche 934 in 1/24th. Both look like good kits. Are there any preferences as to which kit to buy? One kit is $30 and the other is $40 but price is not the deciding factor. Fit, finish and accuracy are.
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I haven’t built the Revell version but did build the Tamiya “green” version (Vaillant) of the 934. It was a very straight forward build as you’d expect and makes a really nice version of the car. In the re-release Tamiya used Cartograph to do the decals, much better than Tamiya’s originals.
cheers
Michael
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I have the Tamiya kit (unbuilt) not Revell kit. Tamiya gives you a curbside engine (just the bottom) and Revell gives you a full engine. Revell allows for the engine and trunk to be open and Tamiya does not. Tamiya has a few more extra parts than Revell does as they molded those in.
Either way IndyCal has a decal sheet that can help.
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I have built the Tamiya and still building (very slowly) the Revell. The latter has no mojo. Completing the Tamiya I had really a Porche-looking impression which (for whatever reason) I cannot imagine from the Revell kit, unfortunately.
So I would recommend the Tamiya.
Offtopic: I also built the ESCI version back in the early 80’s and that time I loved that kit very much. Surely not competitive with Tamiya or the Revell but still has nice memories. That model has been lost or exchanged as a young boy with Matchboxes (?).
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I have both as well as the Tamiya Jagermeister Porsche 962C the Tamiya 911 GT1 car. Normally I go for models that have engines but made an exception with the 2 Jagermeister csrs. I actually have bought an engine kit with other parts I was lucky to run across on eBay for the 962 model.along with other parts to modify it realistically. I’ve been building models for 46 years now so have gotten good at these little modifications to like 90% of my builds…. I have the Revell level 4 kit and though ina lot of ways the Tamiya kits are better but I have a Fender kit and wider tires for the Revell kit. Do have to say that the Revell kit has tons more parts which will make it fun
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Welcome aboard!!
I got the Tamiya kit and the Revell decals. The actual car has a slim piece of weather striping between the extended fenders and the actual fender. Tamiya does not represent that very well. Revell uses a decal for the weather striping and it looks OK, so I got the decal sheet for the weather striping decals to add to the Tamiya kit.
Tamiya
Revell
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Welcome aboard Daniel.
Looking good Top. 
I have built an ESCI-Ertl kit back in 1984 or so (that was not Jagermeister but a red German sport car). It was not easy to buy a West-European kit with such great subject in the socialist Hungary behind the iron curtain so I consider as a bit of miracle to find it in a regular government-owned toy shop. That time I was so excited that I built it during one evening using a normal knife and some generic glue. No paint, no lacquer, nothing but assembly and adding the decals. Loved that model a lot!
Some 30 years later I bought a Tamiya kit, built, liked but donated to a friend of mine. Later bought the Revell kit and started to build but put it on hold. Somehow the Revell does not looking so great like the Tamiya, although the Revell has more details. Just does not look right to me. I prefer the Tamiya.
Tamás
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I have the Tamiya Porsche in the stash. I bought the Revell decal sheet because it had decals for the rubber molding that goes between the body and the wheel well extensions and Tamiya just left that detail out. I will use the molding decals on the Tamiya kit. That’s why I had a set of the Jägermeister decals laying around to use on my slot car.
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