Tamiya Mclaren kit in progress

Skii · 6 Apr 2008 at 21:34

I was going to post this in motors, but I considered the GD section might be more appropriate - today's Grand Prix spurred me on to get a bit more of this done - its the Tamiya 1:20 kit with a few aftermarket cables and decals to make it a little more pleasing to the eye close up.

Still a lot more to do but this is around 2 months work - This will be a replica of the car Driven by Ayrton Senna in 1990, and my favorite car livery ever.

Ben M · 6 Apr 2008 at 21:36

very nice indeed

kieranv · 6 Apr 2008 at 21:39

The detail in that is amazing. Do you have any others you've finished you can show us?

schnipps · 6 Apr 2008 at 21:42

The seat is kind of cute, yeah really nice, great work.

Jon Frost · 6 Apr 2008 at 21:42

How fast will it go when its done?

iv-tecman · 6 Apr 2008 at 21:43

Ahh model builder eh? That is looking very nice. I'm building an F1 car at the moment as well.. I thought I'd try and challange myself. So got a Fujimi 1/20 126C2 in progress with a Model Factory Hiro Transkit to fix all the areas the Fujimi forgot, weren't bothered about or just didn't know..

Quite a challange, where do you get your model supplies?

shimy182 · 6 Apr 2008 at 21:45

Looking great so far !!

Skii · 6 Apr 2008 at 21:54

Thanks peeps - Kieran - this is my first car build as I normally do aircraft, not much gets finished these days though !

Jon - not very fast i'm afraid, although during some of the fiddley stages it has come close to going very quickly indeed

Tecman - most of the bits I've purchased from hiroboy - Steve runs a great shop and his colour matched paints are the dogs danglies, very easy to airbrush too - although the laquer is Halford's own

cheers all

J

Vasquez · 6 Apr 2008 at 21:58

sweet i used to do lots of airfix stuff when i was younger, but nothing like that, top stuff

Monkey Puzzle · 6 Apr 2008 at 22:00

Looks really nice. The detail's stunning. How much did the kit set you back?

CocoPops · 6 Apr 2008 at 22:11

As usual Skii, your work is exemplary!

Munkyman · 6 Apr 2008 at 22:13

I keep forgetting Tamiya do static kits as well as r/c. Both are exceptional quality.

Skii · 6 Apr 2008 at 22:13

Monkey Puzzle said:
Looks really nice. The detail's stunning. How much did the kit set you back?

The kit is £15, however the total I've spent including paints, cables, decals and paint masks, add an extra 0 on the end

Ben M · 6 Apr 2008 at 22:15

Skii said:
The kit is £15, however the total I've spent including paints, cables, decals and paint masks, add an extra 0 on the end

Not really a very complete kit then :eek:

jellybeard999 · 6 Apr 2008 at 22:17

I've a castrol supra I've had in the cupboard for around 5 years

This summer I AM going to build it... though I've said that for the past few years :s

iv-tecman · 6 Apr 2008 at 22:21

I was going to recommend hiroboy.com as he sells a lot of stuff for automotive modellers.

His zero paints are good, but the paint is pre-thinned and goes off in the bottle too quickly. He reckons you can just re-thin them, yet to try it.

Since you're mostly an aircraft builder, you've done an excellent job so far, CF decal work is very nice. Not to hijack your thread, but this is some of my recent models -

Rear wing on this one is wonky lol need to fix that.

Seeing as you'd shared, I'd share as well..

Ben M · 6 Apr 2008 at 22:22

I SEE BOOBS

iv-tecman · 6 Apr 2008 at 22:23

Ben M said:
Not really a very complete kit then

Well they are, it just depends on how far you want to take the detail. Getting the look of real CF and all the wires, and connectors, paint etc aren't in the kit, but if you just glued it as it was in the box, then you could build one for under £20..!!

I've spent upwards of £350 on a build before now. Once you get into detailing, the sky is the limit...

Oh and those are 'man boobs'. Trust you lot, that is a Tamiya Mercedes CLK Sportswear, only raced once, very nice looking car, to some.

Monkey Puzzle · 6 Apr 2008 at 22:27

So do they make full kits with everything in for £150ish? A mate of mine went to the Williams factory recently and got a lego F1 car for £20ish and was told the really detailed scale replica ones cost £150-200ish.

Skii · 6 Apr 2008 at 22:38

Tecman - that CLK looks amazing, definately a kit on my to-do list , lovely decal work too.

Ben - as Techman says it really is a question of how far you want to go with accuracy, the Tamiya kit is designed to create a very decent replica out of the box, but injection moulded plastic is only capable of so much detail, there really is no limit to the amount of detail out there.

Monkey Puzzle - yes there are kits out there with everything you need for £100 plus, but this still excludes paint and tools which can get very expensive.