F1 car with a crooked decal?
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Re: F1 car with a crooked decal?
BTW Clark won the race.
As it is an interesting little detail I did my Lotus 25 kit in this version.
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Re: F1 car with a crooked decal?
Does the crooked yellow stripe on the P34s in Japan 1976 count? All this time i've been unhappy with the stripe on my kit not being perfectly vertical and i'm just now seeing that the real cars stripes weren't squared off either.
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Re: F1 car with a crooked decal?
Is that really crooked. It seems to be deliberate since both cars are the same on both right an left sides. It appeared already at the Holland GP.
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Re: F1 car with a crooked decal?
Well, the Tyrrell cars never had any good sticker placement.
The P34 is a good example, with the yellow stripe crowding the "elf" ahead of it.
And the Jackie Steward era also had the "elf" stickers also applied at random sides.
But never crooked though.
The P34 is a good example, with the yellow stripe crowding the "elf" ahead of it.
And the Jackie Steward era also had the "elf" stickers also applied at random sides.
But never crooked though.
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Re: F1 car with a crooked decal?
It's interesting as, earlier in the season they were nice and straight verticaly but late season: not so much. But the original question by Eric begs a similar question that I have always had of whether or not teams use laser levels or some such thing not only to keep markings straight but also for centering. Every time I apply a number decal to the nose of a kit, i phsyc myself out trying to get it centered and having shadow and light play havoc with me.
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Re: F1 car with a crooked decal?
In that era, all the decal/stickers were hand applied using the TLAR method. Laser levels had not been invented yet, but I know you will probably get dinged at a contest if everything is not square unless you provide evidence(like this photo) of dicrepancies.bossy122 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 27, 2022 8:55 pm
It's interesting as, earlier in the season they were nice and straight verticaly but late season: not so much. But the original question by Eric begs a similar question that I have always had of whether or not teams use laser levels or some such thing not only to keep markings straight but also for centering. Every time I apply a number decal to the nose of a kit, i phsyc myself out trying to get it centered and having shadow and light play havoc with me.
By the way TLAR stands for That Looks About Right!