Tamiya MP4s Restoration

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Hi,
Thanks for looking.
All of them have been completely stripped down by wet sanding & resprayed. The white is "Mr Color 1" over silver undercoat & flo red used is "Mr. Color 171". The rear wings were swapped between the MP4/7 & MP4/8. The low downforce wing had 1 element removed to depict the German GP version. I thought I'll do a different version of the MP4/8 with the bar code from the usual ciggie version.
FYI. To depict the MP4/4 as the Monaco version, the rear wing top element, part A24, of the MP4/5B has to be used.
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Nice to see kits beeing restored.
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sky1911 wrote: Tue Jan 11, 2022 2:38 pm Absolutely brilliant. A very nice recovery of these 3 icons. May I ask what you did? It looks like at least the red has been stripped and repainted, like the full white and red. Also out of curiosity - may I ask what paint you have used for the red?
Sorry to hv missed your question. Yes, the old bodies were all sanded down, grey & white primer followed by a silver coat before the top coats of white & flo red are applied. The flo red used is Mr Color 171
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Lovely restorations. Well done!

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Good job, all the models looking great now :)
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