McLaren MP 4/6 Honda - Tamiya 1/12

Hello,
I read the forum for quite time but it will be my first WIP.
I built a few models already, but this will be the first model F1 car.
It will be a model of McLaren MP 4/6 Honda Tamiya 1/12

I start from the engine.
Cut out the individual elements and prepared for painting. I painted the engine block and gearbox.
A little work was with painting the valve covers with the logo of Honda and niches in which are the spark plugs.

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invite to comments.

welcome to AF!

great start!

cant wait for more

I'm glad that you finally something show us on AF

Powodzenia!

I'm glad that you finally something show us on AF

Powodzenia!

Thank you very much

Monocoque after painting tamiya x-18

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apply some carbon from sms

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and aluminum foil as thermal insulation

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this element painted MR brass and light X-26 clear orange

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Seat painted 2 two shades of gray and for cockpit apply carbon decal

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some work on the engine, painted air funnel, added handmade element which hold spark plug, added screws and nut at engine head cover and another places on engine and gearbox

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Wow, great start so far and excellent pictures, really clear. What camera do you use..??

Wow, great start so far and excellent pictures, really clear. What camera do you use..??

Camera is a Canon EOS 600 and do a mini photo studio.
I'm sorry but my English is poor

Pieknie! Trudno uwierzyc, ze to model!

Nice start! And nice to see someone building the same kit at the same time ;)

Good luck, seems like you are going a lot faster than me :)

Nice start! And nice to see someone building the same kit at the same time ;)

Good luck, seems like you are going a lot faster than me :)

Thank you and wish you a successful end of the model.

Today I finished the driver's seat. What changed is that I cut sticks imitate the upper handle bars, drilled eight holes, and I let the screws and handles that are made ​​of steel wire of 0.5 mm and four bushings.
Added to the upper brackets and eight bushings I added the bottom of the seat belt oversize so that there was a slight mess.


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Today I worked on the front and rear shock absorbers.
Since Tamiya dampers were not compatible with the original so filed a new shock absorbers on a lathe.

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Tamiya product

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My product

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Also reconfigured the steering rods and steering steam irons.

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Excellent progress..!!! All looks really good..

I'm sorry but I forgot to take pictures cockpit

. I added some switches, I put two tubes and the shifter linkage've added a set of RBM.
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Cut off from the computer and added a plastic electrical fittings with F1's RBM

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damn...very impressive!

Cayman - nice to see someone doing one of these with Rob's RBMotion parts - I will follow your thread - John

Works continued.
The valve caps on the lathe sued four electric fittnings (Ø 2.5 mm) of which wires go to the spark plugs.

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Side tunnels were given a composite of my production (tissue glue and water)
Once dry, I wiped the sandpaper.


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Next work on the front shock absorbers

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Installation of computers

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Throttle lineage

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And other details

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Regards Peter

This is shaping up as magnificent and unique build. Your work on engine detail and all those CF textures look wonderful.
Great pleasure to follow. Keep up this amazing job you're doing.

Looking great..!!

Very nice clean build . Keep it going.

Are you sure you are not building the real car? Very impressive!
Tim

Details are joining the whole.
In recent days, with the help of images from the net and Tamiya Perfect Manual details of which unfortunately do not have the Tamiya kit.

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Engine cooling system pipes

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I made this electronic module

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I've reconfigured the tank

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Another electrical connectors

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wow

Beautiful work Cayman - how did you do the finish on the monocoque? it looks like you misted white-silver-or grey onto the black?? how did you get the finished look? - John

Beautiful work Cayman - how did you do the finish on the monocoque? it looks like you misted white-silver-or grey onto the black?? how did you get the finished look? - John


Monocoque painted semi-gloss black and then a mixture of semi-gloss black with gunmetal and with the further distance of about 30cm and again the black semi-gloss and blend again.
And so I repeated a few times until I came out a satisfactory result.

Peter

insane!!!!

After careful viewing images from the Internet ,Tamiya Perfect Manual brought out electric cables, not counting the hours spent on the net and looking at photos to make out with cables, but where-where did it.
And so it seems

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I also did this element of polystyrene (painted Alclad polished aluminum) tubes and caps from the HD.
And here the effect

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Here the work done

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The left side

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cockpit

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The steel plates, tubes and screws from HD also made the thermal shields


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Together with the engine



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WOW Caymen - beautiful work on the wiring - I don't suppose you have the routing written down on paper do you?? I would love to see it. Very clean build so far - John

Today, brake discs and brake calipers.

Two halves of the brake discs CA glue, excess gathered on a lathe.
For a long time I thought about getting a carbon fiber effect.
And so one after backing painted metalizer dark iron and then a dense X-10 gun metal spat irregular periods.
After drying the friction surfaces gently rubbed with sandpaper and painted with a mixture of semi-gloss and gloss clear. Brake calipers painted SM tytanium gold . Between successive stages was wrapping masking tape which I love. : evil:
I added screws, vents and the brake fluid tube connecting the terminals
At the stage of the hub assembly ready rockers will Brembo logo, blades of the pads and the brake hose.

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completely agree - best simulation carbon discs to date - nice work with the brake piping and Rob's "RBMotion" brake bleed valves - John

I can not believe your work!! It is clean and amazing!!
Congratulations!!

Beautiful work of art! Amazing!

Works continued.

Suspension of the hub joined to the whole.

General view.

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With brass and aluminum tubes made ​​a new rear axle shafts.

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Finished work on the front shock absorbers.

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The exhaust system using a dry brush, glaze the X-11 Chrome Silver, XF-2 flat white and red icing from Tamiya weathering D took signs of use.
This page prior to makeup: :biggrin:


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And that after:)

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Came to the brake calipers, hydraulic and electrical lines.

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To be continued.

Amazing dedication to the subject and a spectacular build thread. Thank you.

Really great stuff.

Very nice! Where did you get the extra braided hoses and wires from?

Large scale benefits greater detail and I think you've used it used it wisely.

Amazing Job so far !!

wow.. simply amazing!!

You work for McLaren, right??

very nice and clean build.

Wonderful - thanks for posting!

It's time for coolers. Active painted gloss black and it went to SM-08 silver plate next.


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At the workshop hit the wheel.
Rims painted a mix of XF-63 german gray and X-18 semi gloss black and the light went on a transparent layer ALC smoke.
Came the valves. Central flange nuts bought in store RC. I had to cross them tap of 2mm to 2.5 mm, and finally painted metal primer and black mate.

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Beautifully assembled and detailed chassis and drivetrain - without a doubt the best one I've seen Cayman - John

Superb !!

It's time to caste and spoilers.
A little tired of making several attempts to obtain the color of Marlboro.
I bought dedicated to McLaren from Zero Paints paint kit which includes Pure White and MP4Red.
Caste painted white and then color was wrapping and masking. Following the surgery I covered in several layers for full coverage dedicated to MP4 Red and unfortunately I found that it was not that color.
Then I painted the clear and did not gave the desired effect. I painted two coats of red fluorescent Gaia.

This is the effect that pleases me and what I wanted to achieve.
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Cayman - what was wrong with the MP4 "red" paint?? I bought that paint too - Your paint looks good in the pictures, is it the same in "real life"? - John

Paintjob looks great. You are right about the MP4 red from zero paints. It's not the correct color. I use motip fluo rot/orange(RAL3024), witch is the correct color according to Mclaren. You can order RAL3024 from zero paints also, but it's not a color matched paint.

Best regards,
Lesley

Cayman - what was wrong with the MP4 "red" paint?? I bought that paint too - Your paint looks good in the pictures, is it the same in "real life"? - John

This color from zero MP4red is too orange. This was a color that does not fit the decals from Tabu Design. For MP4red I painted fluorescent red is just the result I got Marlboro.
Sorry for my English.

This color from zero MP4red is too orange. This was a color that does not fit the decals from Tabu Design. For MP4red I painted fluorescent red is just the result I got Marlboro.
Sorry for my English.

Thank for the info Caymen, but is the paint color wrong or the decals color that are wrong? Steve at Hiroboy says he color matches the paint at places like "Goodwood festival of Speed" in the Uk - I'd think he'd have the correct color - I'll email Steve and ask - John

Your English is good Cayman - John

What "red Fluorescent" color did you use?? - Thanks - John

Thank for the info Caymen, but is the paint color wrong or the decals color that are wrong? Steve at Hiroboy says he color matches the paint at places like "Goodwood festival of Speed" in the Uk - I'd think he'd have the correct color - I'll email Steve and ask - John

Your English is good Cayman - John

What "red Fluorescent" color did you use?? - Thanks - John

It is the red fluorescence of Gaia. I bought the paint at Hobby Easy.

It is the red fluorescence of Gaia. I bought the paint at Hobby Easy.

Thanks Caymen - for the paint description - do you know if it is safe for 2K clears? - before I buy it - John

I like to use 2K clears on my kits - also I saw Hiroboy has a "Fluorescent red" paint in their Zero listings on page 11 #ZP1010 - John

Hi guys,

I'm sorry in advance to come in between a discussion. I recently done a game on another forum "Guess the correct MP4 red color" and done some test shots with different paints that are very close to the MP4 red(RAL 3024) and this is the outcome: http://www.f1m.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=18102 . The problem was to get the perfect shot of this color, because it's very difficult to shoot a fluo color. A while ago whit the re-release of the M23 there was a discussion of the correct MP4 fluo red color on another forum. Somebody of the members send a mail to Mclaren and they told him that the correct color is RAL3024. I know this is a color that is difficult to find in a spray can or jar, but i got lucky and found the correct color in a spray can here in Belgium. The Zero Paints MP4 red never looks right to me and that's why i got my search on and found what i was looking for. I hope this helps. Like i say'd here before your color on the MP4/6 looks great. Keep up the good work.

Best regards,
Lesley

Hi guys,

I'm sorry in advance to come in between a discussion. I recently done a game on another forum "Guess the correct MP4 red color" and done some test shots with different paints that are very close to the MP4 red(RAL 3024) and this is the outcome: http://www.f1m.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=18102 . The problem was to get the perfect shot of this color, because it's very difficult to shoot a fluo color. A while ago whit the re-release of the M23 there was a discussion of the correct MP4 fluo red color on another forum. Somebody of the members send a mail to Mclaren and they told him that the correct color is RAL3024. I know this is a color that is difficult to find in a spray can or jar, but i got lucky and found the correct color in a spray can here in Belgium. The Zero Paints MP4 red never looks right to me and that's why i got my search on and found what i was looking for. I hope this helps. Like i say'd here before your color on the MP4/6 looks great. Keep up the good work.

Best regards,
Lesley
Thanks for the addition to the post Lesley - I'm in the USA - not sure if we have RAL paints here in the USA and our postal service will not ship them because they claim it is "hazardous material" - John

I think I'm going to hate seeing the bodywork put on this gem.

Lovely work so far, the chassis section looks flawless and the paint work on the cowl etc is spot on.

Thats one of the best McLarens i ever seen.It looks even better than the real one!

Wow!

Today, complex presentation of the so-called front wing. nose.
All elements of polished
After analyzing the reference photos, I saw that the wings are going tension wires. Therefore could not miss them in my model.

And now pictures of the work.

http://img696.imageshack.us/edit_preview.php?l=img696/8360/img5845w.jpg&action=rotate

http://img689.imageshack.us/edit_preview.php?l=img689/6066/img5848y.jpg&action=rotate

http://img338.imageshack.us/edit_preview.php?l=img338/424/img5859mf.jpg&action=rotate


http://img15.imageshack.us/edit_preview.php?l=img15/6840/img5854tu.jpg&action=rotate

http://img27.imageshack.us/edit_preview.php?l=img27/1473/img5855co.jpg&action=rotate

Cayman - are those tension cables part of the "Perfect Parts" detail kit? - Thanks - John

Cayman - are those tension cables part of the "Perfect Parts" detail kit? - Thanks - John

John is a tension cables are the Top Studio.
This is a link to the http://www.hobbyeasy.com/en/data/z3mypbppeo83z8bq2rqa.html
Unfortunately I do not have a set of Perfect Parts.

I'm sorry that I hadnt. My name is Peter and the Polish Piotr.