Nosferatu's new colours Page 1 of 1
	What's the story behind Nosferatu's dark, moody paint job? Vince reveals all...
This year I had something else to look forward to for our first outing, revealing the new paint. Ray and I had tried for months to find a sponsor who would help with the cost of the re-paint and the best offer we had was a bargain price of £2,000 for prepping the car and applying a base coat. No way could we justify spending that amount of money for no improvement in out ETs, so the only other option was to do it myself. I had a garage, a compressor and bought a small space heater. I had painted my old Toyota three times, and a Mini, so I had some experience. Nosferatu can be taken apart so panel by panel I prepped, undercoated and top coated one panel at a time. Once re-assembled I set about laying on the graphics. This stage was new to me, so after buying an airbrush and practicing on some plywood sheets I started airbrushing the skulls. This was done by making stencils scalpel cut from glossy photo paper prints then freehand airbrushing the shadows. The lettering was done in the same way. When revealed to the rest of the team they were blown away. The transformation from 1970s style disco colours to Nosferatu was complete. Revealing Nosferatu at the Thunderball couldn’t have been better. The graphics are gloss black over satin black so at first you don’t see them and the amount of people who walked by and then reversed to look closer was great to watch.