As you can read, I don't write very well in English, sorry guys...
I'm also talking about TS36 being the right color comparing to the real thing, I saw "in loco", not by tv, all the F1 races here in Brazil and in Argentina from 1989 to 2004 (right, I didn't see the MP 4/4, but saw all the others MPs after the MP4/5 from 1989 and they were TS36 until 96').
I also saw the MP4/2 in a museum and it's fluo red.
An Brazilian old friend saw more than 15 races between 1978 and 1998 (at Rio and at Interlagos), he says that McLaren Marlboros never changed the fluo red. I think there's no reason to the team had changed the color only in 88.
I saw this Finisher's paint in pics and it seems very good to me (as the Tamiya TS36).
But... let's have fun, this is the reason we built the kits, if someone wants to use any other color it's OK.
The best regards.
Marcelo.