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[Louis Mr. F1]

The McLaren MP4/2 was one of my favourite F1 cars, so I decided to make a little diorama out of it.  The models are in 1/20 scale, consists of both the Studio27 and BeeMax MP4/2B models from the 1985 season.  I included some of the team personnel at that time in my diorama, including Ron Dennis, John Barnard, Joe Rameriz and the two drivers, Niki Lauda and Alain Prost.   The pit garage is not completely finished yet but hopefully will be completed within the next week - I've been working on this project since last August.  Hope you like what you see.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[GazChed]

Absolutely stunning !

[blackmme]

I love youur Lauda figure!  He looks perfect.

 

Really, really fantastic work.

 

Regards Mike  

[Michael Ferner]

Nice work!

 

Why does Ron Dennis look like AJ Foyt?

[B Squared]

Nice work!
 
Why does Ron Dennis look like AJ Foyt?

Michael - I thought of A.J. too! Very nice work, thanks for sharing.

[Louis Mr. F1]

Happy new year, just want to share some new images for my little project.  This time it's the Lotus team from the same 1985 season.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy new year.

Edited by Louis Mr. F1, 03 January 2019 - 17:13.

[JacnGille]

^ To quote Mr Burns from "The Simpsons"... Excellent!!!

[Michael Ferner]

Happy new year, just want to share some new images for my little project.  This time it's the Lotus team from the same 1985 season.  
 
Happy new year.

What's Keke doing there, spying on Lotus?

[D-Type]

What's Keke doing there, spying on Lotus?

Nope.  He'd run out of cigarettes so he was trying to scrounge some from Lotus as he preferred JPS to Marlboro.        

Edited by D-Type, 22 January 2019 - 12:13.

[Gary C]

.... I can see this expanding to be the whole pitlane!

[Louis Mr. F1]

.... I can see this expanding to be the whole pitlane!

 

what do you mean?

 

 

 

[Michael Ferner]

What's Johnny White doing there with Keke, Alain, Niki and Ayrton? And Elio seems to have struck a good deal there with Keke, a pack of fags in exchange for a data readout from Honda!!

[Louis Mr. F1]

it's been a few years since my last post here, a quick update of another 1985 team pit set I've done.

 

started like this

 

 

Edited by Louis Mr. F1, 30 July 2023 - 18:40.

[Michael Ferner]

Lovely! 

 

When will you do the Minardi?

[Louis Mr. F1]

1985 1/20 Williams pit (still some bits of work to complete the diorama fully) - took a lot o effort to find 3 FW10s  over the years.

 

 

Edited by Louis Mr. F1, 02 August 2023 - 14:03.

[Louis Mr. F1]

1/20 1985 Benetton Toleman team pit diorama - with custom made decals for the logos on the mechanics' shirt

 

 

 

 

Edited by Louis Mr. F1, 02 August 2023 - 14:08.

[Louis Mr. F1]

Lovely! 

 

When will you do the Minardi?

 

Interesting that you asked about the Minardi - I did build one 1/20 Minardi M185 a few years ago, but because its a super rare kit, I only have one and one car does not make a garage but it has been my wish to include the Minardi in my 1985 diorama as i think it's one of the prettiest F1 car / livery.

 

 

 

 

The good thing is, after around 5 years of searching, I finally found a second M185 kit and it will be delivered to me in about 2 weeks time.  By that time, I will start building the second Minardi and the pit diorama.  I have posted the hiring of the team mechanics and will start interviewing them shortly  

[Michael Ferner]

I'm not sure Minardi had a spare car in 1985... ?

[Louis Mr. F1]

yes Minardi had a spare car for some of the races - they built 4 M185 in total.

 

[Michael Ferner]

Kudos for research! 

 

In fact, it looks like they had a spare for every race, who'd have thought!