Tamiya MP4s Restoration

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Tamiya MP4s Restoration

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Hope 2022 has been good to everyone so far.
Here are a trio of kits started last year & first to be completed this year. These were old Tamiya MP4s completed decades ago & I thought that they deserved to be restored. No details were added to the interior, just a little bit of touch up, that's all.
There are still a couple of old MP4/5Bs to restore after these.
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WOW! Great, Lee. All three are killers. I like the unusual codebar for the 8.
Yes, nice to bring them back to life. Especially after Xmas season one feels for the toys (because let's face it, we play with toys!! :lol: ) little souls :wink:
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They cleaned up real nice. Well done.
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Well done , congratulations !
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All three look fantastic, very nicely done.
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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?
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Good Job :) ! Did You lend the Rearwing of MP4/7 to MP4/8 and all the Way round?
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Great work. These models deserve to be revived.
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Amazing how much better each one looks. Each one could be a separate thread because off all the work done on each. Bravo on all three!!

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Really nice refresh!
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