Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Die cast Cars Now GT4 and 488 too

[Robert W. Garven Jr. (rgarven]

All,

I talked my GT4 buddy Peter back to the list, so everyone be nice!  I think he came back after I sent him some 

great clyde posts!  Peter, is just like me but in Canada, younger and better looking!  HA  oh he also has real skills…………

Rob

I started doing that but ran out of time!  Geat job Peter!

hey look at this! all about the new Ferrari but actually start with a gt4 and a pic of my car!  HA

http://youtu.be/eBvbhO0hKkc

Robert W. Garven Jr.

rgarven [at] gmail.com

 "The Ferrari is a dream - people dream of owning this special vehicle and for most people it will remain a dream apart from for those lucky few." Enzo Ferrari

On Mar 4, 2015, at 1:17 PM, Charles Perry <charles [at] carolina-sound.com> wrote:

Dang! I had no idea of the science or extent of effort on some of these. Cool topic.

 

 

 

From: Ferrari [mailto:ferrari-bounces+charles=carolina-sound.com [at] ferrarilist.com] On Behalf Of Peter Rychel
Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2015 2:49 PM
To: Charles Perry
Cc: The FerrariList
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Die cast Cars

 

It's much like painting a real car, all comes down to prep. Because the bodies are a white metal, a zinc chromate primer is best, but as long as the surface is not super-smooth (say, sanded with a relatively course grit sand paper), regualr primer should suffice.

I use car wax to keep the paint's lustre nice and shiny.

My project is stalled at the moment, but I was in the midst of doing a model of my car. I used the Elvis Presley edition of the GT4 as my car is black, all I did was apply the Boxer trim to it.

Note to change interior colour: When taking a dark interior and painting it lighter, paint first silver, then paint the colour you want over top of that. The model came with black seats/doors but my car is red inside. I painted it first silver, then painted it red - no colour bleed of the black through the red (or in the case of the headliner, white). Silver is completely opaque, it blocks out any colour underneath.

Peter

 

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Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 15:59:27 -0500
From: l02turner [at] comcast.net
Subject: [Ferrari] Die cast Cars
CC: ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com
To: dino308gt4 [at] hotmail.com

    I seem to recall some other collectors of die Cars on this list.  Seems like they modified their DC cars to represent the real cars they own.    I also have quite a few DC cars and was wondering if other collectors are having trouble with paint on their cars like I am?   A couple have gotten to the point where i am pondering repainting the bodies and I was hoping i might get some pointers here before  I search YouTube for some help.

Or maybe I'm the only one with paint flaking?

TIA,
LarryT

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