WIP: McLaren M23 - 1976 - Hunt (Tamiya 1:20)

[Shunter]

Gorgeous looking build so far. A true classic car. Look forward to seeing what you do to the engine/gearbox now...

[Sennake]

In the meantime I made some progress.

I weathered, drybrushed en detailled the engine a little. I scratchbuilt the taillight that the kit didn't have.





I also promised to show you the endresult of the injection pump. I attached the 8 fuel lines and painted them with clear yellow, and I also attached the 8 spark plug hoses.



I also prepared some oil hoses and brake lines. They are made from Modeler's 0.9mm mesh hose and Sakatsu bolts.



I thinned the rear wing supports for about 50% and added a few hoses.



The rear brakes and the cooling devices are already sprayed in color but still need weathering.



A few small engine parts have been extra detailled and painted, as the lower suspension arms, the radiators and the drive shafts. All these parts still need weathering.

[Gainsbourg]

I’d love to have this model in my collection. Hope Tamiya edits it again.
Nice work so far Guy.

[Shunter]

Great attention to detail....nice work.

[CeeElle]

wow. great work.

[Sennake]

After some weathering and drybrushing I fixed a few engine parts to the engine block; so I'll start this post with 5 general overview pics.

[The Sheene Machine]

You are a class act.

[Turbokid15]

Nice work on this one. You are amazing

[Jamme]

Beautiful job you've done on this engine, Sennake!
Really nice!

Jamme

[Sennake]

I drilled a hole out of a piece of leftover photoetch and I fixed it to the supports top and bottom. Next I spun thin metal wire around a metal rod to form a spring, that I bended at the ends so the hook up in the drilled holes.

[SeanyG]

Guy,

the weathering on the motor looks perfect, not to heavy but enough to make the thing look 'used', it is exactly how I like to try and make my engines look - except you seem to pull it off and mine look as though they have had an oil leek at 12,000 rpm!

Absolutely brilliant stuff.

[gionc]

Great job.. but I'm in love with those injection pump, amazing.

[Sennake]

I took it one step further in comparison to my prototype. What I did up to this point was merely an enhancement of the existing kitpart, thinking that its shape was the same as the real thing. But it isn't!

[Ant Phillips]

Hi Guy,

Great build, and I'm sure most of us would have been happy to leave the shocks as they were, but I have to hand it to you, the Mk.2 version look absolutely spot-on.

Keep the updates coming, I built this kit many years ago and I've recently got hold of a white box edition (and I didn't pay too much either) you build is going to provide lots of tips.

Happy modelling
Ant

[Gainsbourg]

Brilliant engine detailing Guy. It’s a joy to see you working.