The Coloring of Mazda 787B Model Cars - AUTOart

The Mazda 787B racing livery is by far the most colourful and also the most complicated to produce. The livery involves almost 300 hits of tampon prints of colours. Each hit the rubber pad only prints a small patch of a single colour. It started with the manual cleaning of the metal casting body then oven baked dry before painting the base colour. Multiple colours body requires mask spraying of different colours onto the base colour. Mask spraying leaves traces of over-spraying paint residue along the separation lines and it requires manual cleaning of the residue. Paint touch up is also needed for any under-spray area. After all the hits of tampon prints, workers require to inspect visually the accuracy of the printed colours piece by piece. Hundreds of processes are needed in the colouring of this model and it is a labor intensive and costly exercise. Most makers would adapt a more simple and economy way by using water decal with all the colours pre-printed on a piece of membrance and then lay on the model body.