Ping & Pong present: Two VERY Red Ferraris

[Mr. Ping]

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.Pong]

As a start I've to Thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanks my friend Mr.Ping to trust in this forgetful designer, it wouldn't be easy

Great intro beside: you'll do copywriter mate. So no much more word in my shitty english and down with WIP images, good luck!

[Mr.Pong]

To the Revell stuff now: it have some points that could be improoved: weel arches and general smooth appeal:
Revell stuff, front weel arch:

.. and the pininfarina designed stuff, the real one


Like you'll see the revell arch's edge is very wide, almost 3 or 4 times more; also the shape of the arch is more smooth, rounded. The same in the rear one:




Ok I guess image better than 1000 words with my crappy english:

handy mill down fenders




finished with wet sandpaper




start to look better to me

[Mr.Pong]

Well I cleaned up all mold lines and sand down until 1500 grit, panel line was scribed (dymo tape as guide) and I done a couple of hand of white primer (Lecher kind) and sand down it with 2000 grit under runny water:

[Mr.Pong]

I'm redy to try some new materials: I bring a kind 3M tape for masking jobs, used from "custom bike" decorator: seem good. The paint workflow would be done with body shop flat base (Lecher mixed Ferrari Colors, Late Rosso Corsa and Grigio Alloy) and 2K clearcoat.



Well, job started, Rosso Corsa is on



Day after: I masked off teh red area, 3M kind tape for edge, standard M tape for fill the rest



Grigio alloy is gone... comming good



(don't worry for the stange reflex on the fron fender: it's just a shade of the blackboard I'm pulling to limit hilight)

masked off:





And... decal job done: decals are really superthin, transparent almost invisible after done:








Thanks for looking, stay tuned

Hey Mr.Ping, buddy I leave the thread all your

[BVC500]

awesome, love the progress!

[Samurai75007]

Wow, nice start... Keep up the good work and keep us posted.

P.S. welcome to the forums.

[Cold_Fire]

Fantastic and very original job

[oregon3]

Any chance I could purchase a couple sets of those decals? Please PM me.

John B

[DasWiesel]

Great work so far! Where will those decals be available? They look great!

[sutan]

wow wow wow... great model and awesome job. Hope we can get hold of the decal sheet

[Technoman]

Nice job, looking excellent and great attention to the smallest detail.

I would love a set of the decals, please PM me if they are available.

AJ

[blubaja]

This thread is great with the commentaries. Great idea for a project too! Keep up the awsome progress dudes.

[Dean23]

Wow this is so cool. Interesting livery. I like whats being done here, very awesome!!

[Jay!]

Ooooooooooh!! RED!!! I get it now (after the 10th time I've looked at this thread! I kept thinking, "WTF? That one's silver!")