You are so right!!!
Family comes above all else! I bet you are proud of him!
You're absolutely right, Tom. My old man (God rest his soul) was first and foremost a friend more than JUST a Dad. In more ways than one, I find I've developed his hobbies, his likes, his dislikes, and his passions. The '65 Impala for example...my old man always used to rave about the '65 (it was the car he owned when I was born in '66)...about the luxury, the opulence, the beauty of it. He'd often tell me about how this was the car I came home from the hospital in as a nipper. My bringing one such '65 back to life (be it with a Toyota engine) was perhaps a subliminal way of my connecting with his penchant for this great car. The Range Rover in my signature was Dad's last car, and after he passed away, it went into a state of complete neglect and disuse for a number of years. This vehicle too, had to be resurrected in a manner of speaking. Having done that, I will NEVER part with this Range Rover. Come what may. Shayaan (when he comes of legal driving age) is going to get all these rides eventually. I think they'll be a part of whatever legacy I might leave in my wake. So yes...family comes first...always and every time. And I'm very proud of my boy!
And getting back to our secondary obsession, that PHANTOM lettering couldn't have been done better, even by someone having access to the largest font library imaginable and specialist presses.
Your use of the words "maestro" and "artisan" are entirely appropriate!
When I eventually got that rear plate, I was actually gobsmacked. I mean...rendered completely, utterly, and all-encompassingly speechless. More than anything else, it was an experiment to see if the Team could pull it off...and to be honest, I was somewhat skeptical that they could do exactly that, and go beyond my wildest expectations!
BTW -I'm sooooo glad you really know what YOU like and are prepared to go to so much trouble to achieve it. Because if you were to instead ask for a consensus-MUD-view on every aspect (or worse - blindly follow the opinion of someone like myself), the end result would surely be vastly inferior to what we see here.
On this topic .... I bet you've already got a fairly firm view on your intended colour despite asking for the opinions of others. AND THAT'S THE WAY IT SHOULD BE. (A build could never reach this level if the builder wasn't opinionated.)
So with this long pre-amble (that's telling you to ignore my silly opinions anyway, in case I haven't got through) - I vote Mustard for the body colour (with cignus white for the roof, bezel, and PHANTOM panel) and I oppose Black for any 40-series.
Truthfully, colour choice has been one of the things I'm absolutely undecided about. White has been on my shortlist. As has matte black (yeah...sacrilege, right?
). Mustard has, too. As has a high-contrast yellow-black combination. I've also very seriously considered FJ Blue (the dark, cobalt colour...and Shayaan is with me on this one). So you can see, it's far from a decided thing! With at least a month and a half between now and the time when we paint it, I think there'll be ample time for me to come to a decision. For now, with its matte black primer, I'm just going to thrash it around some, and allow inspiration to strike me in due course of time!
Cheers!
Nice work.
