I've just finished these 1/20 scale GF brand - F1 figures (http://gf-models.eu/) yesterday - Keke Rosberg / Alain Prost / Niki Lauda - all in their 1985 liveries.
I used this figure to build a Keke Rosberg - this was before it was painted and decal was applied.
this is the head of the Alain Prost figure before being painted.
I used this book for my reference of these drivers' overall colour & sponsorship decal.
Before i put on the paint, i had to spray the figures with a coat of primer. Paint was then applied to Keke's overall and Prost's head.
Cut out the masking tape to use for spraying the yellow colour portion of Keke's helmet.
Now that the yellow colour has been applied. I've put on some liquid mask to Keke's helmet, this time to spray it with the blue colour.
Trying to work out the correct colour tone for the McLaren driver's overall, the one on the left seems TOO orange/bright - so I decided to go with the one on the right.
Keke's helmet has been sprayed with the yellow and blue colour, I'm quite happy with the result of a quite difficult (at least for me). Prost's overall has decal applied, the tone of red overall seems correct to me.
I was toying with the idea of making a Lauda head myself, here is a prototype, the colour of blue is a little scary though. And the white of his shoes doesn't look right to me either - so i had re-painted it later. You can also see decal has been applied to Prost's helmet - it's much more difficult than i had expected due to the contour shape of a helmet and also the decal didn't fit perfectly with this particular helmet.
Decal and visor was added onto Keke's helmet - this figure is now mostly completed.
Prost and the #1 McLaren MP4/2B (Lauda's)
Lauda's helmet is done as well - i nearly failed on this one but somehow it's salvaged. Again the decal was a pain to work on.
view from behind.
I decided to let Lauda wears his helmet instead, here is how it looks with the helmet on.
Sideview of the Keke figure.
I put Keke in there because his Williams is not ready (built) yet, hopefully this will be done in the next few weeks.
I hope you guys like this diorama - I do have plans to add a few more mechanics and tools on this diorama later on.
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 14/02/2013 13:35 by Rosberg.