WIP Tamiya Mclaren Mp4/4

[Zubski]

Looks great so far, keep up the good work.

No problem

Zubski

[Shunter]

Going along nicely. Looking forward to seeing how the paint turned out.

[JohnnyFerrari]

update...
masked off the red and sprayed the white with two coats it still needs touch ups...





Johnny

[stevenoble]

I would have thought spraying the red first would have created all sorts of problems and the possibility of the white looking 'pink' However it looks ok in your pictures.Which red did you use?

[JohnnyFerrari]

hey steve,

what i did to not creat a "pink" coat is i sprayed a silver after the red then sprayed the white and tunred out really good... the red i used is called "Red" i think by testors and its enamal

Johnny

[Shunter]

Hi Johnny looks good and you have done well with the non bleeding of the red. One comment, your red is not the fluro red and this may cause issues for you with the red decals when the time comes of not matching?

[JohnnyFerrari]

hey shunter,
what do you mean about the decals? do u mean the back wing decals becuase im not using them i will be spraying the red there..

Johnny

[935k3]

I hate to tell you this but that Red is totally wrong. To properly paint this car you should have painted the entire body and wing end plates white and make it as smooth as possible then paint the red areas with Tamiya Spray TS-36 Flourescent Red. The Marlboro Mclaren Cars were always white and Flourescent Red(Not the red on a pack of Marlboros)

[billypee]

Nice work Johnny. Keep up the good work. Don't take offence at being told you have the wrong shade of red/orange... there are more important things to spend your money on when you are 14

I would have recommended that you use white primer and that you paint the red over a completely white body-work... however, your photographs show that your way works too... bravo!

Bill

[JohnnyFerrari]

ohhhh cr@p thanks for telling me now!!! ohh well the red looks fine to me........ i dont have the money to waste in getting "Flourescent Red" so i used what i had . i will have another update soon..

Johnny

[Zubski]

Hey,

I think it looks really good, keep up the good work.

Zubski

[JohnnyFerrari]

update..
i cant really do anything on the kit right now because i need some paint but i took some pictures of the car fitted..




Johnny

[JohnnyFerrari]

i just sprayed the back wing endplates and some other parts red..

Johnny

[JohnnyFerrari]

update i sprayed the wing endplates and puttied the sink holes on the under tray..
if you look at the red in the picture it looks different from the car red but its the same its just not on micro like in the other pictures..



Johnny

[davezilla]

Good job so far.

you might want to wet sand the body with very fine grit sandpaper and/or apply some polishing compound to get rid of that orange peel. In the future you might want to wait longer before masking and doing that 2nd color of paint (enamel takes at least a couple of weeks to fully cure). That way you won't have that dimply effect on the red parts.