Mansell's FW13b Test Car

[shunter]

Well a friend of mine started posting pics of this car on another forum, it has inspired me to have a go at doing this car. I went through the cupboard knowing that I had two of the Tamiya kit. I will use the one I bought for $10AUS many years ago from someone. It had been started by the previous owner, but I am sure everything is in there. As you can see some parts have already been assembled and painted by a brush and with little car. I shall clean these up and I hope to get things looking OK. I will do the build as a curbside. I have ordered the decals from Michael of Indycals and with this sheet and the kit decals plus a few from a FW11 sheet I should be good. This will be my first F1 car in 15 or so years.

[Deleted]

Cool Nigel project! I also remember seeing a FW13B dressed as the FW14 complete with Camel logos, but I had never seen the 'white top' version of the FW13B.

[shunter]

I have not done a great deal so far, just removed the locating tabs on the rear cowl and then filled the holes in the floorpan, i will need to re-do these as there is still a slight dip which you can now see with some flat black on. It was nice to finally cover that yellow paint up. I hope to get the white on this weekend.

[Calvin]

Your work is always very good and clean.