nickbrick Posted March 31, 2017 I've been making some additional 2016 season F1 cars to sit alongside the Ferrari F1 Speed Champions set (75879), first up is one of my favourite teams (despite their poor form in partnership with Honda), McLaren. This is my interpretation of their 2016 MP4-31 #14 driven by Fernando Alonso. The build was straightforward as it follows the standard Speed Champions F1 car build closely with just a couple of tweaks to nose and wing. The stickers were the biggest challenge as it's not possible to put all the logos in exactly the right place and scale. I didn't want any stickers to span more than one brick which limited things still further but I'm happy with the end result. Let me know what you think! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
prototyp Posted March 31, 2017 (edited) Very nicely done. A bit of stickering does work well at this scale. Do you mind sharing what you used to produce the stickers? The print quality looks fantastic... Fwiw, I have a pack of Papilio Glossy White and an Epson Photo 1400 but haven't quite gotten the color matching sorted out well enough to do any sticker printing yet. Edited March 31, 2017 by prototyp Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nickbrick Posted April 1, 2017 10 hours ago, prototyp said: Very nicely done. A bit of stickering does work well at this scale. Do you mind sharing what you used to produce the stickers? The print quality looks fantastic... Fwiw, I have a pack of Papilio Glossy White and an Epson Photo 1400 but haven't quite gotten the color matching sorted out well enough to do any sticker printing yet. Thanks! I'm lucky enough to have access to some commercial printing equipment. The stickers are printed onto high quality vinyl, the printer uses 8 ink colours which allows for better print quality and colour matching than standard CMYK printing. The stickers are then contour cut by machine. I created all of the sticker designs as vectors in Adobe Illustrator using the sizes of the stickers from the official Lego Ferrari set as a reference. I've created a Brickshelf account so I can share a few more photos now, here's one of the rear of the car, showing the stickers at the back more clearly. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
htbomb Posted April 1, 2017 Gorgeous build. Thanks for sharing. Stickers really drive it home. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nickbrick Posted April 2, 2017 (edited) 23 hours ago, htbomb said: Gorgeous build. Thanks for sharing. Stickers really drive it home. Cheers. Like most, I'm not a huge fan of stickers on Lego, but for the F1 cars I think we can make an exception seeing as the real cars are plastered with stickers! I've updated the torso sticker so it is more in keeping with the drivers in the official sets. Edit: this photo show alternate nose piece with #22 Jenson Button. Edited April 2, 2017 by nickbrick additional info Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nickbrick Posted April 2, 2017 Next up, here's Renault's 2016 R.S. 16 #20 driven by Kevin Magnussen. Slightly different build to the McLaren around the nose, front wing and sides. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
M2m Posted April 2, 2017 Wow ! That's some great F1 cars. The stickers really let them stand out and make them perfect ! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vectormatic Posted April 3, 2017 I love that Renault! I wish i could print my own sticker, id spend soo much time making custom speed champions Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phoxtane Posted April 5, 2017 The stickers are what really sets these apart from the rest. Nice work. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nickbrick Posted April 5, 2017 On 02/04/2017 at 2:47 PM, M2m said: Wow ! That's some great F1 cars. The stickers really let them stand out and make them perfect ! On 03/04/2017 at 9:50 AM, vectormatic said: I love that Renault! I wish i could print my own sticker, id spend soo much time making custom speed champions 11 hours ago, Phoxtane said: The stickers are what really sets these apart from the rest. Nice work. Thanks all! It's good fun making the stickers and sometimes requires a bit of thought to work out how to translate the designs from the real cars down to lego scale. I'm currently working on a Williams F1 car and the Martini livery is proving challenging! :) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SDRFormula1 Posted April 15, 2018 Stunning build! Are you selling the stickers/cars? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SDRFormula1 Posted April 17, 2018 (edited) I Have a Williams done that can help you. Edited April 17, 2018 by SDRFormula1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BarbosaLegos Posted May 16, 2018 First of all, all 3 cars presented here are just great! my congratulations on the effort, it sure worth finding you guys on google!!! Congrats! being my self a rookie in terms of Lego Speed champions, is there by any remote chance, the possibility you guys could share with me the building instructions/stickers design? i would love to build these three cars for my little boy! again, thank you for the amazing work! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SDRFormula1 Posted May 16, 2018 4 hours ago, BarbosaLegos said: First of all, all 3 cars presented here are just great! my congratulations on the effort, it sure worth finding you guys on google!!! Congrats! being my self a rookie in terms of Lego Speed champions, is there by any remote chance, the possibility you guys could share with me the building instructions/stickers design? i would love to build these three cars for my little boy! again, thank you for the amazing work! The building instructions are slightly modified versions of the actual SC F1 cars (noses taken from the McLaren and/or Mercedes F1 cars) so if you follow the link (http://lego.brickinstructions.com/en/lego_instructions/theme/lego_speed_champions), you can access them. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
