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Hi James, great to see this post reactivated! Once you are steaming down the Brabham straight, would look forward to see the BT56 feature here as well!

After a long break (moving homes, new family member, ie lots of distraction!) I finally picked up on my conversion project again, concentrating on the rear wing and engine cover. The FW24 provides a decent basis, but the 2004 aero and components are just a lot more "generous", hence a need...

Great, thanks for the responses, I feel there is no (modelling) topic that this forum would fail to respond to... Yes some parts will be a bit rough, but careful sanding should make it allright. Will post more pictures when I come to open the box and start it, first a kit twice the size to finish (c...

Hi all, Lat week I picked up this very tiny kit via an online platform. It is a 1/87 scale version of the McLaren MP4/5, with body and parts (seemingly) cast in resin and looking pretty accurate (note the "dent" halfway down the sided that is so typical for the MP4/5). Comes with a neat li...

Judging by some photos the Ligier tobaccos remained on for the race. One theory could be that each brand had been permitted sponsorship for a limited number of events in the country for that year. I remember this was the case in the US in the late 90s/early 2000s, where for example the Penske cars w...

The 3726 measure is consistent with the record of the W09 in the final book of Giorgio Piola (no need to highly recommend I guess!) - which features a nice article on wheelbases. The Merc increased to this all the way from 3411 in 2015. Piola works with Hughes on the F1.com articles so would take th...

Hello, I have the 1987 Joe Honda/MFH book that covers the FW11B in quite a lot of detail(ed pages). Feel free to drop me a pm.

Wow, that looks amazing! I have always liked the narrow nose over the later version of the RB5 (and RB6), congratulations on a great build!

JamesB wrote:Great, the type of transformations I love to see done!
I gotta hurry up with decals!!

No pressure James, I will just keep throwing out the updates

Many thanks for the encouraging comments! More to follow soon I hope.