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Vincenzo wrote:

I don't understand, it was displaying on my computer.

The paint job looks relatively simple but the sign writing ..........

Cheers Vincenzo

Picture is working here.
I'd say JR's article covers what you need to know.

Paint basic colour scheme (with paint ).
Find images of the individual decals from the Internet.
Resize and touch them up in a PC graphics program (Gimp www.gimp.org/ is free), print onto vinyl and apply them.

The difficulties you will have are:
The white decals (you can't print white at home). You may have to print the background colour on white vinyl and do some very careful cutting out.
Matching the yellow colour and getting it bright enough. Again may be better printing on white.

There was just a message saying "the user has deleted or moved the image" earlier


Anyway, 1984 Lancia 037 as piloted by Tabaton & Tedeschini ... you might find someone who specialises in RC decals willing to do that as it's a set for a Tamiya car that won't result in a cease & desist letter (at least not from Tamiya), but I don't have any leads on that ...





For home production, I wouldn't anticipate any problems finding the logos you need on line, or even in redrawing them.

Easy bits: yellow ears & lower body parts, dark blue top, medium blue on bonnet/hood = paint (colour matched to yellow vinyl - see later); yellow stripe on front wing = paint, or self adhesive yellow vinyl. Decals on lower body = mostly black on clear inkjet vinyl

Grifone above rear arches, VS on sun visor & rear wings/fenders, Magneti Marelli on front wings = forget it (although these are candidates for printing the background colour on white inkjet vinyl - but in my experience that tends to look rubbish).







More easy bits: White stripes on bonnet.

Trickier bits: VS on roof & rear aerofoil = cut out from yellow vinyl

More involved bits: cutting out background colour in sticky vinyl, lettering printed on clear inkjet film & layered up.

I concur with Jonny, to get something that looks good you are going to have to simplify it a lot in terms of the logos etc. There is too much fine detail for some of the logos. Thats not to say its impossible, if I were to try and get it exactly or as close as possible, I would probably screen print the finer decals. But that process would end up costing you a lot more than you would have spent on the entire car.

I like to vinyl cut my decals for my car, but a cutter is really hard pressed to cut text below about 5 mm high. Printing white onto clear has its own issues, although that technology is slowly getting better.

I won't worry about the copyright issues mentioned, you are only doing it for yourself. But if you tried to sell copies for other people to do, then there would be issues.

Your first step is trying to get artwork together. If you can do that and print it on your home printer you are half way there. If its decent enough find a local sign supplier and they should print it for you for a bit of cash in hand (or beer!). You could probably get some scrap vinyl from then for the large coloured sections as well.

Thanks to everyone but it is all for nothing now. I bid on the lancia eight days ago - someone came along and bid the exact same amount as me in the last three minutes and won the auction - seller claims he had nothing to do with it. I will keep the advice in mind for the next time thanks.

Cheers Vincenzo