Modelers lead the way!

[Richard Bartrop]

Model cars have long been used as a way to explore ideas for customizing full sized autos, but who knew that when you were a little too impatient, and left a big thumb print in a freshly painted hood, you were in fact exploring the cutting edge of automotive style?

For a no doubt modest fee, the good people at Porsche AG, will custom print your fingerprint right onto the hood of your brand new 911.

More details here  https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/2020/products/porsche-exclusive-manufaktur-innovative-printing-method-body-paintwork-fingerprint-911-19997.html

How soon before we see FCA respond with a Challenger Hellcat Gluebomb Edition?

 

Edited February 25, 2020 by Richard Bartrop

[BeakDoc]

It just won’t feel right unless they etch it into the windshield. LOL

[Roadrunner]

Excellent. Now the NSA can see my fingerprints from a helicopter.

[Snake45]

9 minutes ago, Roadrunner said:

Excellent. Now the NSA can see my fingerprints from a helicopter.

And NASA can see them from space! 

[NOBLNG]

And the door to the parkade should open automatically as you drive up.

[Bucky]

Big brudder is watching you!

[Bucky]

3 hours ago, BeakDoc said:

It just won’t feel right unless they etch it into the windshield. LOL

And put the taillights in upside down!

[Oldcarfan27]

6 hours ago, Richard Bartrop said:

 

For a no doubt modest fee, the good people at Porsche AG, will custom print your fingerprint right onto the hood of your brand new 911.

At least you'll be able to PROVE that car in the impound lot is yours. 

[Bucky]

Yep...couldn't use it as a getaway car and then ditch it.

[Richard Bartrop]

7 hours ago, BeakDoc said:

It just won’t feel right unless they etch it into the windshield. LOL

Why stop there?  Get some metal master like Chip Foose to sculpt mould lines, flash and ejector pin marks into the sheet metal. 

Edited February 25, 2020 by Richard Bartrop

[Bucky]

3 hours ago, Richard Bartrop said:

Why stop there?  Get some metal master like Chip Foose to sculpt mould lines, flash and ejector pin marks into the sheet metal. 

And don't forget the swirl lines in the molded in metallic.

[espo]

Begs the question of changing the hood out at the end of the lease. 

[jaymcminn]

Meh, let me know when they embed a three-foot-long simulated cat hair in the paint.

[Roadrunner]

49 minutes ago, jaymcminn said:

Meh, let me know when they embed a three-foot-long simulated cat hair in the paint.

Or a huge fly!

[Goose1957]

I wonder if they could leave a part or two off to represent the parts I loose when I build something, lol.

Jeff 

[Bucky]

1 hour ago, Goose1957 said:

I wonder if they could leave a part or two off to represent the parts I loose when I build something, lol.

Jeff 

Or replace those parts with some from another car.

[slusher]

2 hours ago, Roadrunner said:

Or a huge fly!

I have had that happen. Bugs must be attracted to model paint...

[Roadrunner]

3 minutes ago, slusher said:

I have had that happen. Bugs must be attracted to model paint...

Me too, I had a big fly land right in some fresh paint. He got stuck pretty bad, so I waited until he was dead and sanded him off.

[Mark]

16 hours ago, Roadrunner said:

Or a huge fly!

There was a cartoon in MAD magazine years ago, where a guy on a construction site swatted a fly that landed on a blueprint.  When you flipped the page, there was a full-page picture of the completed skyscraper, with a huge fly splattered across it...

[Bucky]

Is that called, "Engineering on the fly"?

Okay...I'll get me 'at and coat!