Soulbringer's GP4 blog: februari 2021

12 februari 2021

McLaren Mp4/18 WIP

 I know I already have too much on my plate, but sometimes you get inspiration to make certain cars and it is hard to say no. Especially when the car is Adrian Newey's 2003 Mclaren MP4/18.The problem child in his collection. There is a fascinating story behind all troubles around this car. I.e Kimi being blamed for errors it caused and later refusing to drive the car, Newey refusing to give up on zero packaging design, and later even saying MP4/19 is the same just a lightly reworked car. All that making it probably more interesting than it probably would've been, having it been racing.
Despite all that this car wasn't turned into 3d model many times, that I'm aware of. It maybe has something to do with the fact it only run in preseason testing with some amount of secrecy which surely didn't produce a large number of photographs. I am very pleased with how my model turned out.
McLaren run different solutions to their problems, mainly on the rear end and exhaust. Besides this one I was thinking about making the one with an exhaust chimney.