1967 Mario Andretti Daytona 500 winner

[MarkJ]

The front fender contingencies decal groups are finally finished. I will make one decal for each fender with all the images in them. Should fit just fine. It would take forever to apply each of these decals one at a time. I would go nuts. On to the numbers and sponsors and I can't forget the cubic inch decals.

[MarkJ]

I finished all the fender contingencies, so I completed the door 11 decal. Then I made a pattern, using the real car photo, to cut out the 1/4 panel wheel openings. They are just a little bigger and will have a lip on them. Then I started on the quarter panel sponsor that will be good for both sides of the car. I used a photo of the real car for a pattern to make the letters with the font tool in the program.

[MarkJ]

Did some more work on the sponsor decal. This shows how when making the letters if you have a letter more than once in the word, you're doing you can just copy and paste the letter into the position instead of making a whole new letter. Saves a lot of time. I also just copy and pasted the big Bunnell word down to the small Bunnell word which saved enormous time. Won't be able to do that with the Florida word. Really don't like making decals. Very pain staking work. Also, you have to keep saving your work after just a few moves or the program just shuts down for some unknown reason and you lose all the work you did up to the last time you saved your work. That is truly a bummer when that happens.

[jokar124]

On 8/5/2025 at 10:06 AM, MarkJ said:

Started working on the right-side front fender contingencies. Turned out that mystery decal on the right fender is Coffee-mate. Go figure. I just made a c4 decal out of the air. You can't read what's on the decal anyway when it's on the model because it's so small. That ad for Coffee-mate was published in 1967. You can barely make it out in that picture of the right front of the real car. 5th picture down.

 

On 8/5/2025 at 8:26 PM, Shark said:

I'm kind of scratching my head on that on too. Can remember which forum it was, maybe Randy Ayers old one, but someone was trying to figure out a decal that looked similar. May have been some type of oil additive, can't remember.

Hold on there Mark! "Shark" is right! Didn't we discover during your build of the Bud Moore '66 Comet a few years ago that the "bottle-shaped" contingency sticker you were looking for at that time turned out to be for "Solder Seal  M-P Sealant and Conditioner" like the bottle shown below? As I recall it was J.C. Reckner (A/FX) on this or Randy Ayers' forum that found it. Not Coffee Mate!

 

Edited August 9 by jokar124

[MarkJ]

9 hours ago, jokar124 said:

 

Hold on there Mark! "Shark" is right! Didn't we discover during your build of the Bud Moore '66 Comet a few years ago that the "bottle-shaped" contingency sticker you were looking for at that time turned out to be for "Solder Seal  M-P Sealant and Conditioner" like the bottle shown below? As I recall it was J.C. Reckner (A/FX) on this or Randy Ayers' forum that found it. Not Coffee Mate!

 

Thanks, Jo. Let me do some more studying on that. It's not too late to change it. Makes more sense that it would be the m-p product.

[MarkJ]

Thanks Jo, and Todd for keeping me from making a big mistake. I found ref pictures of the m-p product I had saved, and photos of the model showing I made a decal for it and its right next to the autolite on the Comet. I sure am glad you guys spoke up instead of waiting till the model was completed. That would have been a bummer. Weird how close the coffee -mate product is to the sealant and conditioner product in the way they look. It should be an easy fix. I will use the white label jar you supplied, Jo. It must have changed colors in 1967 because my ref picture shows that it is a white label and lid on the Andretti car.

Edited August 9 by MarkJ

[MarkJ]

I'm going to take a rest on the wip . I'm using too much airtime sending photos with my phone. But you all get the jest of what's going on here. No bigee.

[MarkJ]

As soon as my airtime for the phone is not in jeopardy I will post some more wip pictures. Got the ford decal on the quarter panel finished and am now working on the 427 C.I. decal. Have to wait till the 22nd next week. apparently sending photos to my computer via my mail server takes up a lot of air  time. And I was posting way too many pictures.

[MarkJ]

Finally got my airtime back. Posted the last two decals that I made and the final color sheet that is 8.5 x 11 inches.  I'm working to turn the final color sheet into a white inlay sheet by turning all the images into black images. That way the ghost white toner in the laser printer will make a sheet of all the decals on the color sheet into pure white images for the white inlay sheet.  Then I can start building the model. I didn't want to start on the model until I knew I would have decals for it.

[MarkJ]

Got the left front fender contingencies changed over to solid black. Just need to get the right front fender contingencies done and I can make the black images sheet so I can use it to make all white images using the ghost white toner in my laser printer. It will all become clearer when I get them done and you all can see what I'm talking about. Basically, you have to have white backgrounds for color decals on any model that is not white. But if the color decal is black like Marios name, that does not have to have a white background. Probably lost anybody watching this thread a long time ago.

[Straightliner59]

8 hours ago, MarkJ said:

Got the left front fender contingencies changed over to solid black. Just need to get the right front fender contingencies done and I can make the black images sheet so I can use it to make all white images using the ghost white toner in my laser printer. It will all become clearer when I get them done and you all can see what I'm talking about. Basically, you have to have white backgrounds for color decals on any model that is not white. But if the color decal is black like Marios name, that does not have to have a white background. Probably lost anybody watching this thread a long time ago.

 

 

 

Nope! I know exactly what you mean! I've made almost all the decals for my models, the last few years. Unfortunately, I can't print white, so I have to figure out other ways around it. I really wish I had a space to set up my Cricut, then I could just print them on white, and cut them out. Anyway, this stuff interests me!

[MarkJ]

5 hours ago, Straightliner59 said:

Nope! I know exactly what you mean! I've made almost all the decals for my models, the last few years. Unfortunately, I can't print white, so I have to figure out other ways around it. I really wish I had a space to set up my Cricut, then I could just print them on white, and cut them out. Anyway, this stuff interests me!

Thanks, Daniel. This process works but it takes a lot of time to get it done. I had to learn how to use the laser printer without being hooked to my main p.c.  I use a thumb drive to insert the picture file, and it has a little touch screen you give it commands on. but it works and I only use it to make white decals that are backgrounds for the color decals. As long as the files are the same other than one being just black images it works. the black images print out as white images from the laser printer. I print the color images on my ink jet printer which makes sharper images than the laser printer can make. If a good decal is available, I will buy it over making it every time, like my last build that I was able to buy Power Slide for and those are always accurate and sized right. This model I could find no decals for it that looked very good or had all the contingencies that this build will need.

[MarkJ]

Finally got the color and white decal sheets printed so I can start building the model. The pictures below show how I used a flash drive and touch screen on the printer to print the white sheet on the laser printer. Don't know how it was told to do 11 copies but I only had one decal sheet in the printer, so it had to stop after one. Should have looked at it closer before I hit the print button. So glad this part of the build is over.

[FUSIONBOY]

Mind is officially BLOWN!!!!  Very Kool way to do your decal sets!!!

[MarkJ]

27 minutes ago, FUSIONBOY said:

Mind is officially BLOWN!!!!  Very Kool way to do your decal sets!!!

Thanks, Rick. I had to print another color sheet because the red came out too dark . Looked more like maroon. Now the decals are officially finished.

[MarkJ]

Here is the reprint with the red stuff red instead of maroon. Bought some testors lacquer 1261 clear today to seal the decals. I'm not foreseeing any problems getting them on okay when I finally get the model painted and built. Should go on like the Camaro I did a few months ago . Those decals were made the same way

[MarkJ]

Here is the target I'm trying to get close to. Sadly, not many good color photos of the real car in full race trim are available as per usual. Museum cars just don't seem to ever get it right. 

[Volzfan59]

She’s gonna be a beaut Mark!

[slusher]

3 hours ago, Volzfan59 said:

She’s gonna be a beaut Mark!

I totally agree!

Edited yesterday at 01:33 AM by slusher
Left my comment outk

[MarkJ]

21 hours ago, Volzfan59 said:

She’s gonna be a beaut Mark!

Thanks, Steve. It should be a fun build.

17 hours ago, slusher said:

I totally agree!

Thanks, Carl. Can't wait to start working on some styrene for a change instead of these decal sheets. 

[MarkJ]

Got some work done using a pattern to get the wheel openings cut out correctly to match the decals that will be placed closely to them. I printed out an image of the car and cut it out to place it on top of the model body to use as a pattern.  Also cut out a copy of the decal sheet printed on white paper to see if it will fit which it seems that it will. I will put a small lip on the wheel openings which was done on the real car. Those photos will be coming soon. Ran out of time today.

[MarkJ]

here are those photos.