What is a good Tamiya spray can color for a red Ferarri Enzo?
Hi!
For a red Enzo it’s TS-8 Italian red over white primer as the red is somewhat transluscent. But as you can have your Enzo in almost any color it’s up to you to pick the color. Mine is going to be metallic black with black/yellow upholstery.
Niclas
I like the yellow, but I agree with proosen about spraying TS-8 over a white undercoat. You can change the hue (is that the right word?) of the red but changing the colour of the undercoat.
To be accurate, the Enzo only came in 2 colors, red and yellow. If ya want to be accurate to factory specs anyway, but if not, then the sky is the limit.
Lee
I am also spraying my Enzo with Tamiya TS-08. I am using the Scalemotorsport superdetail set with it. The photo cd they provide is invaluable for color references throughout the car. I do find myself deviating from what is actually on the real car. For example, the brake calipers are gloss black. The Scalemotorsports brake assemblies are 18 pieces per wheel. With this much detail, painting the calipers black would hide some of that detail. So I chose to paint them TS-08 to match the body. This way they stand out and draw the eye towards the wheel and brake assm. This is not “technicly” correct but I don’t care. To me red calipers look better than black.
You never know, someone out there may have modified their Enzo to stand out from the rest. How embarrassing would it be to park your $650,000 Enzo right next to another identical Enzo…Egads!!![:p]
Darren
There are red enzos, yellow enzos, black enzos, and I’ve seen a couple silver ones. All awesome on the Enzo.
There was car customizing special on on one of the cable educational channels a couple days ago. I was about high dollar cars customized by “West Coast Customs” and “310 Customs[sp?]”. One of the cars focused on was a red 2million dollar Enzo from an owner in Canada. He had a custom set of wheels made for it. The Enzo’s formula racing style wheels only have one lug in the center. The original ferrari center caps were used on the new wheels.
TS-8 seems to be the general consensus. As proosen says, the red is somewhat translucent you will want to spray over a primer. The actual colour of the primer Ferrari uses for the Enzo is somewhat of a bright orange colour. This should make the red is bright as the actual car. BTW, I’m using Testors Model Master Italian Red for my Enzo since it looks more “orangey” for my tastes.[:D]
HTH,
Nick
The trick with orange primer works just fine, I tried that one and you’ll end up with a very vivid red hue. I didn’t know Ferrari used that one for them selfs. My own Enzo is metalic black with a couple of clear coats and at the moment it’s resting for a couple of weeks before polishing. Pics will be posted as soon as I get the camera back from the little vacation the wife and kids took this week. I’ve been home alone with a flu, and has had a lot of time building. Has 5 projects up and running for the moment and one’s almost ready for the display case.
Niclas