Mercedes SLR - Racing -

[Lownslow]

where you get those wheel rings

[sportracer02]

Hi,

@ Mike: the louvers I got from a friend, he cast them the 06 Viper.

@ Lownslow: these rings are part of a "Renaissance BBS 18" 99 (Panoz)" wheel set.

[ScaleCentral]

How different is your conversion from the KA Models "722" conversion kit? I noticed the rear fenders will end up being different.
Nic

[sportracer02]

Hi,

@ ScaleCentral: the KA 722 is a street model, mine is for motorsport.



Here some progress:

Dashboard was cleaned and the lower parts shortened.




... more about the interior




Inner door-parts were modified




Seat with the spezial Mercedes racing design




Here the kit while building it: cleaned dash-board, tunnel smoothed, CF-decals, silver foil towards the firewall as a heat shield. Where you find usually the passengers seat, there is a plastic-sheet for all the electronical stuff.







Battery, electronical equipment and steering wheel with added buttons

[mike@af]

Im watching this one! Great work so far.

[quadzero]

Whenever you start one of your wip's with putty, I know we're gonna be in for a big treat. This is coming along super and I really like how the interior is shaping up.

[klutz_100]

Suuuuuuuuuuuper!

[NissanSkylineGTR98]

Wow! This looks amazing, i'm definately going to follow this one!

[sportracer02]

Going on ...


interior is covered with flat clear






Body is painted, orange is the motorsprt-car colour of McLaren. I intended to use only few decals, as it should look like a testversion




Scalemotorsport CF-decals on the sides




The nearly finished dash:






Working on the interior

[klutz_100]

Very nice

[Risko]

That´s the way I like it!

[DerXL]

I am by no means a Mercedes SLR fan.
But your build is awesome. In fact, in the end I might even like the SLR... But just.

But here's some awesome building going on.
Very enjoyable.

I hope I didn't miss it, but how did you achieve that rough finish of the dashboard ?
I've seen several ways of creating this kind of texture in other threads (like Huudo's 307), but your solution seems different.
Could you tell me how you did it ?

[deltableh]

Incredible... absolutely incredible.

[sportracer02]

Originally Posted by DerXL

I hope I didn't miss it, but how did you achieve that rough finish of the dashboard ?

Hi,

I use Microballs, kind of rough powder for the RC-modelling. I handle it like flocking, then I cover it with back again.

[gionc]

Interesting. Can't wait to see a fitting test with the polished body, quite BRAVO!

If I'll say something electric wires seems a bit ovesized, anyway the interior appeal is neat.