This is the Car & driver combination that got me into motorsport. I had actually stumbled across Donnington '93 qualifying by accident expecting to see Mansell in the "Canon Car", I remember it took me time to realise that he wasn't in F1 anymore & had gone stateside. Regardless, the moment I saw the absolutely beautiful FW15C Piloted by a young Brit with an (almost) intimidating dark Blue Helmet I was hooked. To this day FW15C remains my favourite vehicle of all time (Road or Track). It's just so incredibly pretty, clean & yet utterly, devastatingly effective. Sandwiched by the game changing FW14B with the dramatic, theatrical Mansell at the Wheel & the tragic FW16, somehow FW15C almost seems to have been forgotten. Possibly due to the circumstances already mentioned & the understated, clinical way Prost went about the business of winning.
I had wanted a 1:20 Model of this since 1993 but there were none to be found. When a few did eventually appear all of them got the sidepod shape completely & utterly wrong. Eventually after many, many years I found that Studio 27 had manufactured one and it looked to be almost perfect.
It didn't come easy, I actually started this about 4-5 years ago but couldn't find the right shade of Yellow & was trying to ascertain out the correct hue by any means possible, none of these attempts yielded the correct shade but after a couple of years Gravity Paints started selling the correct 1993 Camel Yellow Paint (1992 is too bright whilst '93 is almost Mustard like). Other than that I found it to be a bit of a struggle. I found the rear suspension to be nightmarish & very awkward, all the Wishbones needed to be bent in order to fit. The front suspension, lower rear wishbone legs were roughly 3-4mm too long, the pushrods 2-3mm too short & alot of modification was required before it looked right. Despite my best (repeated) efforts the rear Wing still sits slightly too far rearwards & I "think" is slightly too large, either that or the rear of the Car is about 2mm longer than it should be? However with enough patience, tenacity & pure love, a tough(ish) Kit does eventually build into the detailed Model I have wanted for the last 26 years. It isn't based on any one particular race or qualifying session & I added MFH Seat Belts & Wet tyres with S27 Carbon Decal, Paints are a mixture of Zero Rothmans Blue, Gravity Williams Yellow & Halfords Gloss appliance white. Anyway, enough talk, here's a few Pics of my favourite Car, ever!
