Our Alfa Romeo Giulia (mustard yellow)

Dear All,

A little while ago we’d ordered a new shell for the M03 (Medium Wheelbase). the ALFA ROMEO GIULIA GTA (for the geeks out there, it appears that the ‘A’ in GTA stands for ‘Allegerita’ which means ‘lighter’ in Italian)

It arrived without Decals and without any of the Plastic parts that go with it (side mirrors and headlights) We weren’t too concerned as our aim wasn’t that of recreating an original Alfa Romeo Giulia GTA but more an Ad-Hoc “vintage” looking vehicle.

Armed with nail-scissors we cut out the wheel-arches but the lack of window-masks got us a bit confused at first. How were we going to paint the inside of the shell without making the windows of the car the same colour as the shell itself ?

We thought of stenciling the window masks with a pencil but holding the tracing paper down would have proved tricky (if not very frustrating) In the end we used some large masking tape (the one used for painting/decorating) and applied it directly inside the shell. With a very sharp stanley knife we traced the outside of each window and carefully removed the excess tape.

The result was actually BETTER than what happens with most ready made window-masks that are a bit of a pain to lay down properly. We learnt a trick we may want to use again !

Next, we got a can of PS56 (Tamiya Mustard Yellow Paint ) and finished the shell up with some spare Rally decals and some custom made ones.

Eager to try the Shell out (before it was even properly finished) we rushed out to LMCC and look at what happened!

 It simply didn’t go anywhere..the track was covered in Snow and Ice.

Since that day though, our Giulia has completed its maiden lap (driven by TeamVebra driver Ka) and has had some additional decals applied to it.

(don’t pay attention to the very Large Rear Foam tyres, that was just a temporary “dragster look”)

Thanks for watching and feel free to post comments below!

Cheers

A.