Having pretty much finished the Williams, I turned by attention to the second car required for the diorama, Michael Schumacher’s Bennetton Ford B194. Designed by Rory Byrne & Ross Brawn, this was the car that ultimately carried Schumacher to his first championship in 1994. The car was not without controversy however, with the late Ayrton …
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This is my first update on here in a while, but not because I’ve not been doing any model making. After finishing my Prost/Senna diorama last year, I decided that I wanted to build another diorama of a famous (or infamous) title decider, so I plumped with Damon Hill & Michael Schumacher’s notorious collision at …
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This was the first 1:43 diorama I ever built. I remember it was a long “off and on” project, which I finished in around 2005. I chose the subject matter because I’d always thought that Nigel Mansell in the Williams Renault FW16 looked great, because of the red, white & blue effect that his crash …
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Some more progress being made on this diorama now… at the price of my sleep! Also my first post since upgrading to www.badwolfminiatures.com, exciting times!! You can also follow progress on these models (should you so wish), by following me on Twitter at @badwolfminif1. The Senna figure was painted with a Tamiya spray can, before being left …
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Some more slow progress being made on the second McLaren of Brazilian legend Ayrton Senna. This is the first project that I have worked on where it has been necessary to build two identical kits… which brings its own challenges. The Prost car was a success, so the pressure is on to build another car …
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The first update here in a long while… lots of things going on outside model making means there hasn’t been an enormous amount of progress to report on. Having finished the Alain Prost figure back at the end of March, I started work on building Prost’s car, the McLaren Honda MP4/5. The successor to the …
