Tamiya McLaren MP4/7

Finally finished this one.Really good kit throughout with no problems encountered during the building process.Painted with Zero paints MP Red and Pure White, Zero 2K clear and FMD decals.The driver figure is from El Oso with MSM decals used for the suit and helmet.Enjoy the pictures, thanks for looking and comments welcome.Sorry the pictures are a little dark, it's nearly dusk here.

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Very nice clean build. Great job. Whats next?

Great paint job! Very well done. The color scheme looks spot on!

Robert

Steve, impressive car paintjob, very clean build, perfect car color match.

The only point a try to improve is weathering and wash on Senna figure.....

I really apreciate your build, congrats!

Regards

The only point a try to improve is weathering and wash on Senna figure.....

Regards

Not weathering the car I suppose? The tires are brand new and doesn't look like they have been used. So the car hasn't run and McLaren has in the Ron Dennis regime never run a car with even the tiniest dust speck on. I'm not sure that dirt has been allowed to adhere to McLaren surfaces ;-)

The stencil on the tires are a little overdone IMHO, IIRC the stencilling was done with dots?

A little thing about seat belts. If Senna is going IN the car the shoulderstraps should be visible. But that is details.

Extremely nice job on painting and clearcoating. 2K is quickly becoming my favourite too.

Flemming

That figure adds buckets load of character to your beautiful build. Just missing a better background to really "complete" the shot, I think.

I love it, good job.

How can anybody be critical? Must be insecurity. I and the rest of the AF community think it's stunning! I followed it through your build and the result is simply amazing. You da man!

flhansen.

I talk about Senna´s overall (race suit), not car....
In my opinion Senna´s overall need some wash and weathering, in order to simulate cloth shades....overall seem too flat in my opinion.....but I really like so much the car......

HamburgerHead, I really don´t understand your behavior.....I built F-1 models for last 12 years, and I never have insecurity feeling about my model opinions ....You need know how to differ in opinion of your

Steve, I post this one time and I post again, here: I really like so much your job.

Regards.

Ithink its a fine job Steve..... I see your care and INCREDIBLE clean techniqu used throughout the build... Its good to see a well built clean F1 car in a midst of mind blowing detailed versions..... And you FINISHED IT!!! Great job sir......

DaveT

I wanted to ask, did you glue the steering wheel there, or did you just place it on top? Just wondering as I'm curious what steps you took to make sure the glue didn't eat away at the clear layer. Or did you use Klear or something? Thanks :smile:

Overall, this is awesome work. So clean and so likeable.
I love it and want to do some similar dioramas.

Sure, there are some smaller details that could be added9as pointed out be some pple), but overall, the essence of the moment is captured nicely.

Excellent work Steve, i like it a lot. Great finish on the paint and i like the pose of the driver.

Thanks a lot for all the comments, I appreciate them all.This was really just a quick build.That's why I left the engine unwired etc, etc.I've been away from the models for a while and just wanted to do something quick, easy and above all enjoy the building of it, which I did, enormously.

I wanted to ask, did you glue the steering wheel there, or did you just place it on top? Just wondering as I'm curious what steps you took to make sure the glue didn't eat away at the clear layer. Or did you use Klear or something? Thanks :smile:

I used the smallest dot of white PVA (wood glue) to hold it in place.It won't attack the paint layers and if you ever want to remove it in the future I think you probably could. :)

You have done a very nice job for a quick build! Nice and clean work, painting with Zero paints is just great. I hope i will build the same Racecar next year and i will try to follow your way ;) Senna's figure is just the Cherry on the cake! With weathering or not it's just great!
Hope to see more nice Racecars from you in the future!
Regards, Tibi

Love it! Great model! Timeless classic...

lovely paintjob! bravo.

great job, very well done!