[BAracer]

Ready to roll Tamar...

   

I have all the gear, but no idea!

[BAracer]

...The few things you might want to source from a hobby shop while you are waiting for you decals to arrive:
Some rolls of Tamiya masking tape, 2mm 6mm and 60mm
Some good quality brushes, sable hair brushes are the best but expensive, a good quality acrylic brushes will do the job as well.
A flask of Alclad waterclear gloss and semi gloss. Great stuff that is non aggressive and can be applied with a regular brush.
A Scalpel holder for blades #11 and #25....and the blades themselves.

So i managed to source the following...

2mm, 6mm and 40mm Tamiya masking tape. So i bought some masking sheets if we need to go bigger than 40mm

I've already got a set of brushes i would like to get some use out of.

I wasn't quite sure of the right Alclad to get so bought some Aqua Gloss, Klear Coat Gloss and Klear Coat Semi-Matte. Hopefully this selection covers what I need.

Some no.11 blades (and a no.3 Swann Morton handle) and some no.25 blades (and a no.4 handle).

   

[BAracer]

Made some paper templates of the larger pieces of wrap to see what the fit is like to the body shell...

   

Good news is they seem to be singing from the same hymn sheet. The bonnet shape is spot on, and the side panel looks to fit between the window and the wheel arch and follows the roof line nicely.

There is a slight discrepancy in the rear door line between shell and wrap, but I can live with that.

There will probably be plenty of little corners where the pieces of wrap won't match the body shape, so I'm not counting my chickens yet!

[BAracer]

Looks like I need a bit of magic to happen around the wheel arches...

   

   

Hopefully with the two sheets of wrap, and the style of the artwork, something should be possible.

(Tamar, this is where you step in and tell me how everything is going to be ok...!)

[Tamar]

I think I can do better than that (telling you everything will be all right) How about a "how to" by the original Artist that designed the livery.

As it turns out this is a design by renowned Car design artist Andy Blackmore (also know for his incredible series of spotter guides) based on artwork done by Richard Phillips.
There's a great article on Andy Blackmore's website on how they did the Project 1 cars and what changes they needed to make to turn the 2d design I not a 3d wrap (sounds familiar ;) )

Link to article

And here's a link to a video on how they wrapped the actual car, really the proces is near identical...your Porsche is just a bit...smaller
video link



First of all, your decal wrap will be an "interpretation" of the Project 1 livery, no need to try to make an exact car. Allow yourself some "artistic" freedom while doing the decal wrap.

The way I see it you have several options to move forward with your project, pick what ever you feel comfortable with.

• You've got 2 or 3 copies of the decal sheet, you've made some templates. Take two decal sheets and cut them according to the car panels lines, but with some overlap. Meaning that if you cut Sheet A with an overlap for the front and rear Wheelarches...you cut Sheet B with overlap on the doors.
  This way you'll always have some extra material to fill in gaps where the decals won't match the body.In general do small sections at a time.
• There are a lot of Black area's on the car..and as such on the decal sheet. Some of these need to be applied in hard to decal areas with lots of compound curves (like the rear wheelarches & rear bumper. So here too the extra decal sheet can provide you with some spare material to fill in the gaps.
  
• A better option would be to use a rattle can with black paint to spray the back of the car prior to the decalling.
  
• Or if you have an airbrush, to fill in the gaps after decalling. If you choose this option I would advise to first give the whole car a clear coat.
  
• Makes it a lot easier to correct the inevitable small error and/or overspray
  

That's about all the tips I can give you, you've got all the materials...so good luck and go for it.

With kind regards
Tamar

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So I have started with the pieces that have no room to manoeuvre in terms of location. The templates helped with early warnings of any problems ahead.

Not exactly relaxing...

[woodcote]

Looking good 

[Tamar]

Should be very relaxing, breath in breath out, quiet your mind and go with the flow of the decals....

Its like Zen and the art of decalling 


with kind regards
Tamar