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Ping & Pong present: Two VERY Red Ferraris
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Mr. Ping
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Ping & Pong present: Two VERY Red Ferraris
Welcome to a double WIP from me - Mr. Ping - and my friend - Mr. Pong.
Guidelines for our project were:
We haven’t seen it done before;
We must include as many totally crazy and impossible ideas as we can;
We MUST try to finish this project
;
This project must include pain! After all, did not Confucius himself say: “No pain, no gain!”
So, what we do?
We came up with this idea:
These are two standard 612 Scagliettis that made a 15.000 mile promotional tour around China.
The pair are essentially standard factory equipped 612s with some additional underbody protection, raised suspension and wire grilles over the headlights. The cars made the tour around China without breakdowns and in one piece – sometimes going through terrain that a 4x4 wouldn’t like too much.
But the
real
reason we like the project was the livery!!
But it is not existing so……..
First Mr. Pong make design from reference photos (bravo Mr. Pong
) and we have Alps decals made. They look…good, but not perfect.
Then Mr. Ping (that’s me) said “Dude [ed note: colloquial Mandarin for “Buddy”], it’s waterslide decals or nothing!”
Glad to say that Mr. Pong agreed to this crazy idea. We commissioned a limited edition run of 250 sets of waterslide decals professionally printed by a company that produces decals for model manufacturers. Crazy nuts, or what!?
Here is scan of what we make.
Each sheet contains all decals necessary to complete both Red and Silver cars as well as improved dials and other gratuitous decals like VIN plates, chassis plates etc. etc. etc.
Now I hand over to Mr. Pong who is making the silver 612.
Enjoy the ride!
Mr. Ping
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