Minardi M193 conversion

Hi all, here is my current project. It is a curbside Minardi M193. Hopefully it can be 75% resemble to the real one. The base kit is Tamiya Lotus 107B.
Finally made some progress on Minardi M193 project. I airbrushed the 3 layer of white paint last weekend and polished during the mid week. Yesterday I washed the body panel line with thinned enamel black and started the fun part - decaling. The AMC decal quality is really good. No excess film to trim and the decal is very rigid and not easy to tear when used with Gunze decal softener. Aligning the yellow/black strip was tough. The joint point at the cowling backbone was ~1mm off to the right.. but I will just let it go.

It's fun to do some small F1 team. A lot of small sponsors logo here and there. The while/black/some yellow livery does look quite good too, at least look better than champcars and IRL

One disappointing part was that the old panel line started to reappear on the body. I believe it is due to stress after snapping the body onto the undertray. Luciky paint didn't crack and I hope 2 layers of clearcoat can help to hide them.

I will wash the whole model after I let the decal to dry for couple days. Then it's time for clear coating and polishing...

Some minor progress. 2 coats of gunze super clear II and polished. Some imperfection here and there.. just have to live with it.

You can comment the WIP here