Soulbringer's GP4 blog: McLaren Mp4/18 WIP

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.

6 kommentarer:

  1. Simply stunning work Vladimir!
    Unfortuntely despitate McLaren trying their best, this car was a big failure and cost Kimi a title as it never run. It was still a revolutionary and quite nice looking car to my eyes, it's great to see it being done. There were few versions done back in 2003, none of them particularly great for todays standards.

    My dream would be to see you do one of my all time favourite car MP4-20 from 2005, but I think you have so much projects going on :D

    SvaraRadera
  2. Don't give me any ideas now, Vesa.
    :-) Thank you.

    SvaraRadera
  3. I see you have a renewed modelling bug, and that we share similar favourite cars. Would love to play with some of your cars soon 😉 shame the more I read /hear about this car, the more of a death trap it seemed. Shame the rules are so tight these days there's little room for radical thinking.

    SvaraRadera
  4. We are looking for opportunity to contact you, Soulbringer. How we can do it?

    SvaraRadera
  5. We are looking for opportunity to contact you, Soulbringer. How we can do it?

    SvaraRadera
    Svar
    1. Who that?

      Certainly not going to share contact info with "Unknown", I hope you understand that.

      Radera