My new project.........

[neilbardsley]

What is starting to sound like hand painting would be cheaper unless doing the progress you describe you can create a batch to sell on to cover some of your costs

[Bootsy]

hand painting would be cheaper

'Cheap' isn't a premise to be associated with this project.

[Mike]

So the next stage after getting the artwork to scale with the projector, is to make the masks the painters will work from.

Mandy the artist has made the designs from the photos of the original car together with my ideas on how to pretty things
up, as we have done all through the build process. The dropped '7' for instance on the doors looks great, especially where
it runs off the roundel onto the silver paint, but the cockeyed '1' just looks wrong so not doing that.

Here's Mandy and painter Jason poring over the finer detail of the masks:

[Mike]

We use positive masking to figure out the final positioning of the art work, here working on the rear quarter. Then when your
happy with the position you mark it, pull off the positive mask and a negative one goes on in it's place ready for painting.

Getting the right angle of the MARTINI RACING and how it runs up the panel was difficult, there's a natural shadow line in the
quarter which effects it as well. Should have bought shares in masking tape given the amount we used trying to get it right!



Notice how the letter spacing of MARTINI and RACING are different, took me ages to figure out why, then I found the picture of
the team transporter and the penny dropped, the words sat on top of each other there, so were sized to the same length.



First paint to go down was the white for the roundel and the base for the Martini Belt.

[Uk911]

Just amazing attention to detail, hell of a car simply awesome........Mark..

[sladey]

Great great stuff

[Mike]

Mark and Mark, appreciate the comments

[squirdan]

museum quality !

[911hillclimber]

Hope this car does not get parked in one.
It needs to wake up a few tracks first.

Been a very long time since we say more than 30% of one 1/4 view of the whole thing.
Be great when we get the 'Full Monte'

[brembo]

Sixty pages in, and getting better all the time. Great stuff Mike.

[Mitch]

Nice update Mike & thorough prep by everyone involved, as always.

Great work but I hope you're not going to give us the Full Monty anytime soon.. or ever

[Nick Moss]

museum quality !

That's where it belongs, it's now more accurate than the original

[964RS]

It's just over 5 years and 7 months since the start of this thread.

Question is Mike....will it be all finished before 6 years??

It must be in sight now....surely??

[Mike]

museum quality !

That's where it belongs, it's now more accurate than the original

thanks for that, was offered to the Prototyp Museum Hamburg but turned down, their cut off is 1965 and the 356

It needs to wake up a few tracks first.

Should be going to Sicily in October!

Sixty pages in, and getting better all the time. Great stuff Mike.

Thanks Dougie, won't have to put up with it for much longer, on the home straight now!

I hope you're not going to give us the Full Monty anytime soon.. or ever

Thanks Nigel, and no Full Monty's I promise! Shame you're not around for Essen though.....

It's just over 5 years and 7 months since the start of this thread, will it be all finished before 6 years??

You bet, if all goes to plan will be unveiled after 5 years and 10 months.

[yoda]

Wonderful car .... simply gorgeous detail.

When will it be finished??