Having completed the second McLaren of Ayrton Senna, it’s not time to begin work on the other figures in the diorama. Completing the McLaren was fairly straightforward, with more reference being made to the photographs is found of the scene in question. I noticed that the right-hand wheels of the McLaren had grass on them …
The final instalment of the Jenson Button gallery brings him to his first podium finish at the Malaysian Grand Prix in 2004. Having missed out at the same race in 2002, Button was released by Renault at the end of the season to make way for Flávio Briatore’s protégé, Fernando Alonso. This saw Button …
Continuing the theme of Jenson Button’s F1 career, here is a mini-diorama I made back in 2003/04 from a now deleted Provence Moulage kit of the Renault R202. After a lack-lustre performance at Benetton Renault in 2001, Button survived Flávio Briatore’s attempts to replace him in what was now the Renault works team for 2002. …
Having taken the time to photograph the Brawn/Button diorama, I thought I would take the time to photograph and share some other models I have made over the years chronicling Jenson Button’s F1 career. This model depicts (vaguely), Button’s BMW Williams on the starting grid prior to the Monaco Grand Prix in 2000, Button’s first …
The vast majority of the models I make are from the 1980’s and 1990’s, but every now and then I venture nearer to the present, as I did with kit of the Brawn BGP01 which I started in 2010, and finally finished in 2015. The reason I built this model was as a tribute to …
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Having managed to craft the Senna figure from a selection of “off the shelf”, figures, I turned my attention to the car itself, and the Mansell figure. The car is the Tameo Williams Renault FW14 based on the car run at the 1991 Italian Grand Prix. The car is pretty similar to the car run …
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