The F60 is finished!
Don't ask me why, but I lost the upper part of the rear wing....
Finally I cut it and painted with white primer and TS-85
Not the best one, but I'm happy with the result.
I used a string guitar to build the antennas.
And glued them on their place and also glued some bolts on the body.
The car is near to be finished! Only I need to attach the wheels. so I'll post some pictures of the finished car soon!
The decals are on their place.
I glued the sidepods, the camera on the top and the mirrors. Some PE bolts and rivets were also glued on the body. I will wait some days and I'll airbrush the clear coat.
I'm back! I'm sorry I didn't post any update in the last months but after a year working on the mclaren I was a bit tired of modeling and I needed to take a break! I tried to use some CF decals on the floor and on the suspension arms but I was not happy with the results and finally I decided to build the car "out of the box" without many details added.
I glued the copckit parts and also the front suspension arms and the front brakes.
In the kit there are some kevlar decals to use on some aerodynamic parts. These decals are nice but too glossy in my opinion.
So I airbrushed a very thin layer of flat black to tone down the shining of the kevlar. 
As I told before, I tried to use some CF decals but they didn't worked as I wanted (maybe they were too old...), so I decided to try the method to paint flat black through a mesh over the semigloss black.
Finally I glued the copckit to the floor and also worked on the engine (without detailing it as it won't be seen due the car will be curbside).
It's time to start decaling!
I made a big mistake! I didn't test the position of the green circles before airbrushing the logos and when I did it... the logos were touching the circles.... 
So I decided to sand the logos and start again using the tyre logos decals instead of airbrushing them. The fisrt step was a first layer of gloss clear.
Then I started decalling the circles and the logos. Finally I airbrushed another layer of gloss clear, two layers of matt clear and finally I airbrushed a very thin layer of smoke+matt black to tone done the shinning.
I worked on the body parts. Two layers of white primmer and a little sanding work with #1000 and #2000 grade sandpaper.
Finally I painted the body parts with TS-85. First I painted two layers, tomorrow I'll sand them and will paint a final layer. 
I also finished the work on the seat using a KA models p.e. seatbelts set (instead the tamiya's one). The clothes are from an old perfect parts seatbelts set. More updates soon!
Three holes were drilled on the seat, sanded and painted it with flat black. Tonight I will start the job on the seatbelts.
The inner parts of the car are painted with semigloss black. 
I airbrushed the tyre logos using the template given by tamiya. I will let them dry for two days and I'll apply the green circles decals.
I also finished the steering wheel.....it was really difficult to paint those small buttons but I'm happy with the result!
I also decaled it with some CF decals, the picture is not very good but it really looks fine.
Hi to all! after some weeks out of hobby, I'll start a new project. It will be the new tamiya's Ferrari F60 and I'll build it curbside, without detailing the engine.
I glued tue two parts of the nose cone, filled the joint with superglue and sanded it with sandpaper (from 400 to 1200).
The two parts of the air intake and the piece to fill the camera hole where also glued, filled and sanded.
The result is ok. the joint lines are invisible and I'll paint it with white primer to see if there are some imperfections. 
I also did a test fitting to see how the different parts of the car fit together. 
The floor was also sanded roughly to delete the injection marks. Nexts steps will be painting all the inner parts with black, then primer them with white and start working on the copckit.
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