McLaren MP4/6 Long Term WIP

[Nick F40]

Ohhh yes, i'm loving this! Watching this one for sure, one of my favorites from my favorite era. Great amount of detail, always love your work.

[cruz]

Brother!!! You are exactly that, a Scale-Master......

[Scale-Master]

Thanks for the compliments!

Airboxes/radiators and driveline are now attached to the monocoque...

[slant6]

Excellent work! I'm definitely looking forward to the finished product.

[58 Impala]

Wow, your attention to detail is fantastic. Your level of skill makes me want to stick to building snap kits.

[Scale-Master]

Exhaust system is installed...

[Kanedge]

Your builds are always absolutely outstanding and this is no different.

Excellent work.

[Scale-Master]

The chassis pan is now attached and the engine is almost done... I have also been working on the the body/paint. Photos of that when it is safe to handle...

[sjordan2]

As I mentioned on the other forum, apparently the only aftermarket parts are a few decals; the rest is a Master Class in what careful prepping and fine painting selection and technique can achieve.

Again, just magnificent. And I might add that this is the epitome of a proper Work in Progress thread.

Edited December 29, 2010 by sjordan2

[Scale-Master]

Tires... Lots of time spent sanding the tread areas...

[Scale-Master]

Finally the body has the paint on it. Tamiya Pure White and Fluorescent Red. The nose has the decals and final clear coat on it...

The lettering on the wings cracked several months after being clear coated with the Tamiya clear, so I hand painted the lettering and re-cleared with urethane. This picture is before clear coating.

[Brendan]

Always a joy to watch your builds. It's coming along very nicely. I have built all three of the somewhat modern kits from Tamiya and I thought the McLaren was the best of the three.

[Kanedge]

Very nice. I have the 4/5b 1/20 scale version to build and I will be using this as a guide, that's for sure.

[Scale-Master]

I had some paint issues that necessitated stripping some parts and sanding out others and repainting them. The rear wing end plates had to be stripped and I had to make replacement decals since they are not available from Tamiya now. The C/F decals are SMS. A few more days of cure time and maybe I can assemble the rear wing I started about a year and a half ago…

[Scale-Master]

And now the front wing is done.. Had to repaint the Shell lettering after the decals cracked under the Tamiya clear. C/F is SMS. Goodyears are a pair I made.

[LAone]

wow, this looks great. i saw this when i was lurking around when i first joined. i wondered when you were going to get back on this.

great work on replicating the decals.

[Chuck Doan]

Just gorgeous!

[Romell R]

This is one OUTSTANDING build, cant wait for you to finish it.

[Bobdude]

Work in progress pictures are very detailed.

[Scale-Master]

You can't wait for me to finish it? I can't wait for it to let me finish it.

[countach79]

really nice work mate!!

[Danno]

Mmmmmmmmmm.

[Scale-Master]

Finally got the rear wing assembled. Tamiya paints and SMS C/F decals…

[Scale-Master]

Finally (!), I was able to fix the paint that was not drying correctly. I sanded out the cracked areas on the nose section and repainted it. You can see it was being problematic for a while and that I had tried to repaint it before by the “tree rings”. Here is how nasty it was looking while being sanded out and reworked…

As for the main red section of the body, I sanded out part of it and found that TS-36 can be successfully blended into finished areas of the same paint, so I only had to paint part of that big area. I applied the paint very, very slowly this time only by airbrush over an 8 hour period, lightly building it up and paying close attention to the blend lines. Once it proves to me that it is stable, I’ll move onto decals and clear coat…

[surfjunke]

Beautiful work as usual, Mark. Great pics as well.