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 …
The 1989 Formula 1 season has always been one that has interested me. The season-long battle between McLaren drivers Ayrton Senna & Alain Prost reached new levels of bitterness and acrimony, and culminated in the pair’s infamous collision at the penultimate race of the year, the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka. Having completed my …
The third vehicle in this small convoy is the Braun Tyrrell Honda, as driven throughout the 1991 season by Italian Stefano Modena, and Japan’s Satoru Nakajima. The reference photo that I had been working from wasn’t all that clear, but a close look revealed that the car was that if Nakajima, so with that in …
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Having completed the Williams, and then the diorama base, I had to build the two other vehicles in the diorama Ferrari 643 Tyrrell Honda 020 Both of these cars would be built from Tameo Kits, which I bought from the wonderful Grand Prix Models. The kit built pretty well out of the box (as …
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Having marked-out the track surface and the kerb, my next task was to start work on the ground adjacent to the track itself. F1 kits rarely (it seems) work their way into a diorama, so there is little material available for those looking to learn how to create realistic looking grass or gravel traps. …
Having completed the Williams, it’s driver and its passenger, I then had to decide how best to display the model. I like to try and push myself when it comes to the displays… when it comes to building a kit, the vast majority of what you need to make an impressive model comes in the …
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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When I was eight years old, my parents, my sister and my granddad made the first of what were to become annual pilgrimages to Silverstone. This was the first Grand Prix to be run on the circuit since it was redesigned on grounds of safety, with major changes having been made at most of the …
