paint booth

Hi to all, the last weeks I didn't work on the F60, but I did another kind of modeling. I built a new paint booth with the help of two friends of mine, albert & jordi. Gràcies nenes!

It is 60x40x30cm and it's made of MDF. As I don't have enough space at home I wanted to build something easy to use and also easy to keep.

I used a cooking fan (it's a squirrelcage type) and the cooking filtre is removable to make it easy to replace.

The air duct is also removable, easy to fix and easy to keep. Now it's time to follow working on the F60!

F60 -01

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.

mclaren mp4/13 -16

Finally I built the helmets of Coulthard and Hakkinen.
And the car is finished!!!!

Finally I couldn't resist to put the two mp4/13 together. The original one is the first model I built seven years ago....

I hope you enjoyed this building! Next ones will be the tamiya's Ferrari F60 and fujimi's Ferrari 2007. Both will be curbside and I'll try to build them at the same time.

Thank you and best regards to all!

october 2009 - july 2010

mclaren mp4/13 -15

The front suspension is finished!

And the front brakes are also on their place.

I couldn't resist to make a test fit. Some more work is needed but I'm very close to the finish.......

mclaren mp4/13 -14

I glued the engine, the body and the sidepods to the floor plan.

The rear brakes are finished and glued to the engine.

The front and rear wings are glued and started to polish the cowling with 2000 grid sandpaper and polishing tamiya compound.

The badgeboards were also glued to the body.

I started working on the front brakes. I drilled two holes and glued two 0.3mm cooper lines. Then I glued the photoetched plates where the upper suspension arms will be attached.

mclaren mp4/13 -13

There is a circle behind the driver's helmet that it must be painted in black. As it's not easy to do it brushing, I took an old p.e. sheet that had a circular hole with the same size. I put it over the circle and airbrushed two layers of flat black.

it worked! I also airbrushed the black parts of the front and rear wings.
Finally I put the CF and logo decals over them. I will wait some days and will start to airbrush three layers of clearcoat.

mclaren mp4/13 -12

I started decaling de different body parts. I will wait three days to let the decals dry and then I will clear coat and polish them.

The inner parts of the monocoque where decaled with sms CF decals and clear coated with 3 layers of TS-13.

I primed the bargeboards, the front and rear wings with two layers of grey and two layers of white.

Once the paint dried, I sanded the parts with 800 to 2000 grid and airbrushed two layers of orange. I'll wait some days and then I'll polish them again and will paint two more layers of orange.
The front and rear brake ducts were CF decaled. It took about one hour to finish every one. I airbrushed some matt black to tone down the shinning as you can see in the duct on the right in the picture.

I also started working on the wheels. The first thing I did was drill a hole in the center of the rims. Then, I polished them and airbrushed one layers of primer and two layers of semigloss black.

mclaren mp4/13 -11

The engine is 99% finished... some more wires and it will be done.

Both sidepods are finished and I painted and glued the radiator hoses.

The steering wheel is also finished.