Mclaren MP4/11

Markings going on....

After 6 or 7 months, I finally got around to correcting the nose chevron on this one. It was entirely too "long", previously. I sanded off that chevron but underneath overcoats of white, the previous effort could still be seen. I decided to try it anyway and happily, the 3 or 4 coats of Gaia red covered that up, so maybe this can go forward after all.

This masking job was TOUGH.

After umpteen tries at puttying off those wonderful PE bits, I got the thing primed and now see this seam around the nose that doesn't belong.....

Was so gung ho to get this one primed and painted that I almost missed parts that needed to be puttied, etc. The front wing posts and some PE to complete the shape of the butt end of the side pods.

Seems to have worked.

Opmerkingen

5 13 April 2022, 03:54

bossy122
I have had this one for a while. When I first got it, I didn't notice if the bat wings were broken but after I dropped it in the sink while washing the tyre blech off, they were broken then! I tried the first salvage job using a sheet of green plastic and incredibly, the damn thing got knocked off a table and broke the drivers right all over again! So here I am, a year or two later, going to give it another try. This time, a thin sheet of styrene sandwiching a putty filling. Fingers crossed!

13 April 2022, 04:00