{"id":4487,"date":"2021-03-02T10:02:15","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T10:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jadlamracingmodels.com\/?p=4487"},"modified":"2021-03-02T10:02:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T10:02:15","slug":"tamiya-1-24-mclaren-senna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jadlamracingmodels.com\/2021\/03\/02\/tamiya-1-24-mclaren-senna\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamiya 1\/24 McLaren Senna"},"content":{"rendered":"
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About the modeller<\/h3>\n

Hi. I am Rob. I returned to making making models a couple of years ago after a thirty year (or so) break. I am an average guy with average skills and am by no means what you might call “a professional”. I do more often than not manage to produce builds I am happy with and look pretty good (even if I do say so myself).<\/p>\n

The aim of my build logs are to show you how to and sometimes how not to do things and help you produce something you can be proud of.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Name<\/strong> – Tamiya 24355 Mclaren Senna
\nNumber<\/strong> – 24355
\nScale<\/strong> – 1\/24
\nPrice<\/strong> – \u00a349.95
\nAvailability<\/strong> – Available now! Get yours here!<\/a><\/p>\n

The kit<\/h3>\n

The modelling community was set alight with news of Tamiya’s Senna kit at the end of last year. It’s virtually unheard of for a manufacturer to “drop” a kit on the unexpecting public. Normally there is an announcement, followed by pictures of CAD models, followed by a press release, followed by some 3D printed parts followed by a trial assembly (usually finished in grey primer), This is usually carted around some model shows (remember them) with a highly speculative release date, inevitably the release date comes and goes, then the release year. Then another press release, another release date…. Eventually the kit will one day appear in a facebook post from the good people at Jadlam and you can buy your kit (if they have made enough of them that is..)<\/p>\n

The Senna was different though. Tamiya said it was ready to go and would be released at the start of 2021. They weren’t kidding either here it is in all its glory!<\/p>\n

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well the box anyway.<\/p>\n

Lets take a look inside…….<\/p>\n

What’s in the box<\/h3>\n

When you take a look inside the box the first thing that strikes you is that this is quite unlike any other model car kit I have ever built. There is no body as such, just a frame to which all the various parts are attached. I quickly went from delight at having access to this superb kit to concern about how to approach such a build. I quickly shut the box and did what every right minded person does when trying to figure out how to do something new. I went to youtube….<\/p>\n

Many of you will know all about Andy’s hobby headquarters on youtube. To be honest it was watching his tutorials that got me back into the hobby a few years ago. The sub-title of his build video “The kit that kicked my modelling butt!” wasn’t the confidence boost I had been looking for.<\/p>\n