15th Annual 24HRS of Daytona Group Build - McLaren Senna

[Jhedir6]

Another year down and another 24HR build coming this weekend (Daytona weekend).

I'll be watching the race and building this 

I'll try to keep up with some updates as the weekend progress', but there are a lot of pieces in this kit. 

The livery I've chosen should help speed up things a bit, but time will tell.

More on Saturday afternoon.

[Jhedir6]

Well I'm not going to finish this year on time, unfortunately.

This year's build fought me all the way, not the kit, which is challenging, but everything else. First my exhaust fan on my paint booth fried about 10 mins before the start so I had to go to the hardware store and pick up a new one and install it before I could start. Then my airbrush gave me fits, crappy primer coats followed by terrible paint coats. I was forced to do about nine layers to get decent coverage with sanding and a lot of swearing in between. Finally I figured it out and my last two coats of paint were "descent" but definitely not perfect. Once I finally got the paint done, I spent the next two hours looking for the decals I wanted to use (which I had in my hands two days before the start). I was just about to give up when they magically appeared. Luckily I only used a few so they went down fast and well and I was then able to get an "ok" clear on the whole thing. And finally as the clear was setting up, I decided to have a snack and a rest but started feeling unwell so I ended up sleeping for about 4 hours. Take all that BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH out of the equation, I think I would have finished with no issues. Oh well, next year.

Anyways, I only took a couple pics, 

And this is what I was shooting for, hopefully I can get close to it.

[Bennyg]

Looks ace! I’m going for Tamiya brilliant orange and black for mine. 
 

Ben