Hobby Design McLaren F1 GTR Brake Set

[Quick GMC]

I bought this brake kit for the Porsche 911 GT1 kit. Same rotors, hubs, etc. and I wanted to try them out. This is the most finicky PE set I have used so far, but it was well worth the time. 

PROS: 

• Lots of detail
• High quality castings
• Easy to clean up, little to no flash
• incredible detail when done

CONS

• Tiny parts
• Lots of parts
• Only 4 PE rotor faces, only enough to do one side of each rotor
• PE pieces are slightly oversized, so they need to be sanded down on the edges, flush with the resin parts

This kit comes with wheels for the F1 GTR, but since I am using it for another car, I didn't need the wheels. 

 

Compared to the kit brakes. The camera perspective makes them look much bigger than they are. They are larger, but fit inside the kit wheels just fine. 

 

Here is a mockup

 

The PE hub detail was glued on. On the piece on the right, you can see how the PE piece extends beyond the outside of the resin piece just a tiny bit. This may not seem like a big deal, but once it's all painted and installed, it can look a little goofy. On the piece on the left, you can see where I sanded the edge of the PE all the way around to be flush with the resin hub

 

I cut off the molded in bleeder detail

 

.5mm brass nuts in the background

 

This is before the PE Brembo faces were sanded down. You can see how it looks like just a big plate glued on. After sanding, it looks more like one piece

 

Took a while, but I managed to get all these made the same size

 

Here is a mockup with the PE pieces. I ultimately decided not to use the PE rotor faces, since there was only enough included to do one side of each rotor, which I found a little annoying

 

I decided to go all the way and use RB Motion turned bleeders

 

Here is the tricky part, but worth the time. you can see side by side before and after 

 

The rotors were painted with Metalizer Titanium, then burnished with a Q-tip to get the metallic carbon effect. 

 

And they are done. For the red Brembo letters, I diluted Tamiya red with thinner and basically did a wash in the recessed detail. Since the Brembo Gold was lacquer, I could clean the rest off with acrylic thinner without damaging anything 

 

Parts Used

1. Hobby Design Brake Kit
2. RB Motion Bleeders
3. Scale Hardware .5mm brass nuts
4. Scratch wire

Paint Used

1. Model Master Titanium Metallizer for the rotors
2. Alclad II Pale Gold for the hubs
3. Gravity Colors Brembo Gold for the calipers
4. Tamiya red acrylic for the lettering

 

[Curt]

Nice work, Cameron.  Each rotor and caliper is a precision model itself.

[TimKustom]

Awesome. Looks just like the 1:1.