Mclaren MP4/11

1
February 7, 2023
Markings going on....
2
January 4, 2023
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.
3
May 26, 2022
This masking job was TOUGH.
4
April 27, 2022
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.....
5
April 26, 2022
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.
6
April 20, 2022
Seems to have worked.
7
April 13, 2022

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