Peter C

first off I'm not getting myself embroiled in the forum discussion, the point I made is that the pictures that I have taken are of the nose section of the aircraft showing the new paint, original green primer and the original previous colour all together in a single shot. I was offering to post them and you can then make up your own minds as to what it shows and compare the new and old colours side by side.. The images were taken in the hangar part way through the respray. I'm not an 'expert' when it comes to what had what and when, the images do show the new and old colours very clearly. If you want to see them, just say so.

I guess things could be sorted if by lucky chance there is a photograph of the aircraft rubbed down showing the underlying paint and the new paint close to. I've got one of those...

288GTO, I wish, though they have a habit of bursting into flames, had a look at one in about 2003, sadly now a crisp. My ole' bus is a 348 Spider, second one I've owned, this time Nero with Tan Leather, special factory order only five ever made.

my ole' bus is in with the spanner man, having a well deserved spruce-up. The question is would you like photographs while the ole' girl is in a state of undress? She is in a queue of work, in front is a Daytona Spider undergoing a nut and bolt restoration, it's not often most of the cars mechanicals are seperated from their usual home, so let me know if you would like some pics. A Dino V6 is in the adjacent workshop having a bit of fettling too.

any decent print shop will be able to print at least A0, thats 841mm × 1189mm. Just saves all the heart ache etc. I guess accuracy is important, printing out on A4 sheet and sticking them together, there is chance of error, plus paper shrinkage/expansion. Don't forget if you go to a decent repro shop they will print out on draughting film, very little shrinkage etc with this type of medium. Just some thoughts.

might be defeatest, take it to a good photocopy shop, tell them what you want, go back a few hours later, collect perfect upscaled copy. DIY sounds appealing but do you really want a headache that bad?

aren't there any Belfasts knocking about, failing that an old Bristol or Argosy might do

excuse this if it comes across as a numpty question, but are scale 'grenade launchers' made at all which could be fitted to these vehicles?

no worries, nice build, just wish I could do some modelling, maybe later on in the year.

will you be building it as a true to life TS or creating a faux GTS? Many TS owners spray the lower black areas in the body work colour to pass the car of as something else? Plenty of apres factory extras are added like, shields, alli foot pedals, chrome instrument trims, drilled brake rotors, colour coded brake calipers, colour coded roof panels, after market wheels, spacers, etc If you haven't got the factory fit out, exterior and interior colours, differences for each country, I'll have that somewhere and probably an owners maual in .pdf. Let me know if you would like fotos.

will you be building it as a true to life TS or creating a faux GTS? Many TS owners spray the lower black areas in the body work colour to pass the car of as something else? Let me know if you would like some interior fotos.

how do you guys go about masking off the demarcation line between the external paint colour and the semi-matt black internal colour on Ferrari road cars? It's a pretty narrow band of a few millimetres or so.

not sure if you are aware of these websites, but good for the engineering drawings for most if not all Ferrari road cars http://www.eurospares.co.uk/index.asp http://www.ricambiamerica.com/ hope it helps, Peter

no, mine is a full spider, similar to the 348 GTS/B and series special, obviosly with a full soft top. If I can work out how to upload images I'll post one. The GTS/B Spider, series special were developments from the TS/TB, these had received some bad press for road holding at high speed, 140mph +. It has blighted the 348 ever since. Personally this reputation is not deserved, there aren't many times you can drive at these speeds. I've done plenty of circuit bashes in the early 348 and the car has felt secure and safe on track, hardly normal driving conditions. The later models had a series of improvements including suspension and wheel track changes. The later 348 and 355 are identical in many ways, their panels, seats are interchangable etc, the 355 had an uprated 3.5 litre engine with 5 valves per cylinder and for the first time 100bhp per litre. My car has the final H version of F119 engine giving a basic 320bhp and with a few simple changes in air filter and after market exhaust it opens the breathing of the car. Going up through the cars and getting close to the red line of 7500rpm, its real pleasure to drive, the engine sounds great particularly going through the european tunnels. Like many sports cars there are issues which need to be understood, the three year/50,000km service which includes cam belts is a tad expensive, my technician charges £1100 +vat, you'll see many other prices out there on the web much cheaper but only include the cam belts and not a full 50,000 service. Happy to share this info, if you have any get togethers, let me know and you can come out for a spin or to. Taken at the Le Mans Classic 2006, waiting to go out in our group for the full LM circuit, three laps of bliss and cheap as chips. Peter

not sure if you are aware of this page, ohmygod John is a well known character in the Ferrari fraternity, he's onto his second nut and bolt resto of a 246, it may be of interest. http://www.dinorestoration.com/