coleman stratos

did you ever wish you hadnt started something ? lol......

rory, in your 1st pic above, do you know what is the decal between the word 'flag' on the rear quarter-panel, and the henley forklifts on the boot? it seems to be lettering running down the panel from the rear window to the n/s rear boot spoiler corner...
second q m8, when you say full plate on the roof, i presume its identical in size and design to the door plates?

cheers rory

Northern telecom-I have a sticker from that era which I can scan and send on to you. I will be working on my own one again soon if you want to wait a bit longer for a decal sheet. Don't forget the rear arches are wider on the main body and then it has a road car rear section over the engine and rear wheels with no arch extensions.

Yes I believe it is a doorplate sized decal on the roof as well but it could also be a Henly Forklift Ireland Limited Logo similar to the one on Clarks bonnet: http://www.classicfordmag.co.uk/files/2012/12/CLF194.poster.1977_130_70_rgb.jpg

Clark escort would make a nice conversion?

daivideo wrote:Clark escort would make a nice conversion?

Working on that one too! Again art work mostly complete.

Will you be doing decals only as have a base here?

I will be working on my own one again soon if you want to wait a bit longer for a decal sheet.

rory, that sounds like a plan, i'll set her aside and wait for your sheet to be done...trying now to work out these rear arches....not sure i fully understand the make-up of the rear section, am i right in thinking its a non-arched road design, but with after-market arches applied, instead of the wider fully-arched 'rally' design that came all as one? some of the pix seem to show quite a wide arch, would we not get awy with that, is the difference sizeable?

cheers

rory many thanks yet again for your pix and advice on this one...........tbh i have a few conversions unfinished sitting here and im considering changing this to the 79 ypres......simply because the arches are right and the decals i have seem not to be as inaccurate as the galway 77 ones.....it would get another one finished and into the cabinet lol!

right thats it decided, i have no patience so i'll be doing the ypres 79 version instead if i can work with those fiddly blue stripes lol!!

bmd wrote:right thats it decided, i have no patience so i'll be doing the ypres 79 version instead if i can work with those fiddly blue stripes lol!!

Are you sure its 79?

The Stratos had a variation of narrow arches up 'till the Circuit 78 then had the wider black group 4 arches. In 1979 Billy was mostly driving the red and white Motorcraft Escort except for his one Stratos outing in the BP Esgair Rallysprint as far as I know.


...but open to correction!

Thats put the cat amongst the pigeons as they say.

Billy

sean i bow to your much superior knowledge m8 lol, im just working from these 3 cars listed on arenas page...

http://www.arenamodelli.com/modelli_lancia.htm

they could of course be wrong lol!!

thanks chris!!!

bmd wrote:sean i bow to your much superior knowledge m8 lol, im just working from these 3 cars listed on arenas page...

http://www.arenamodelli.com/modelli_lancia.htm

they could of course be wrong lol!!  

He definitely did Ypres in the Stratos with Peter Scott in 1978 (He had David Richards in with him in the Stratos the year before)

was that with the narrow arches sean?

bmd wrote:was that with the narrow arches sean?

Wide Group 4 arches in '78 (arches all black).

well thats good to know sean, many thanks m8... so if the year 1979 doesnt appear on these decals its just arenas website thats wrong and the decals are actually 78 and correct? please say yes!!!

bmd wrote:well thats good to know sean, many thanks m8... so if the year 1979 doesnt appear on these decals its just arenas website thats wrong and the decals are actually 78 and correct? please say yes!!!    

I would say yes

yay!!!!!!!!!!!!! thank goodness for that!!! lol!!

right, ahem, what i meant to say above then was that i intend to do billys stratos from 1978 ypres...so there!!!

cheers sean for working hard to keep me right m8!!

All of the arena decals have some errors on the Flag Stratos as far as I can see.

As usual.

I'll have a look if I have any pics that might help you.

cheers juha, i'm almost finished her and will post pix so you guys can show me where they're wrong....

I best post 1977 and 1978, you never know what you're making with Arena.

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1977

juha absolutely brilliant m8, many thanks... i do believe i'm not far away with the 1978 version..need to tidy the rear arches and, apart from the wheels being debatable, i think she'll be there...

cheers m8!!

Sorry I have not been much help to you-