Many thanks

Take no notice of Tony, he has a wit as sharp as his pencil Mick

Tony!!!!

Have a read through this Mick
http://forums.autosport.com/index.php?showtopic=70638

Hi Thanks for this Watch this space!

Look forward to it Mick, welcome

Mick, if you use the "Delete" button, you can get get rid of your duplicated posts.

you apologized for butting in ????

Hiho, fellas!

FYI:

This thread started in 2006 but didn't really take wing til our Tony Matthews joined us in September, 2008. Since then, we've been bombarded with glorious cutaways from him and others. I dedicated a folder in my pictures section to most of the offerings in the thread and as of today, it contains fully 233 images. Thank you so much.

I haven't bothered starting to count because I still have a ton of paper in the loft to dig through. Started exchanging stuff with cutaway friend Anders Bonde by mail years ago, as I do now with
Ibsen.
TM joining us has made our day of course !!, and am looking forward to him starting his tips and hints on how to.....
Hope you may have a couple of scans to treat us to Manfred, as I have been told to take it easy for a bit.
Anyway I am too busy touching up all the stuff I found in the loft during my last diggings.

JPS Lotus 72 cutaway
I can't read the artist name.
From The Automobile Year.



Ibsen

Manfred, I was initially embarrassed to see myself refered to as 'our TM', but many thanks to you and all the others who have welcomed me to the forum. I am only one illustrator out of tens of thousands World wide, and I have no illusions about my talent or ability - I only have to look at the work done for 'Flight' magazine to realise that I had a long way to go. I think the difference is that I was only really inspired to illustrate subjects that grabbed me, and that happened to be interesting, exciting machinery, namely raceing cars and engines. If I had worked for Hoover or Zannusi you would not be seeing my work here. The point is that we have a shared interest, and although we hardly ever meet face to face I have made the aquaintance of a lot of nice, intertesting, generous-hearted enthusiasts, and although the chances of me ever illustrating again are 99.9% against, you have made me feel that it was worthwhile.

And speaking of washing machines, I now have to nip out and buy a new one, as ours has developed the habit of filling up overnight, and I don't think it is worth the time and effort to sort it.

I just bumped into something:



Unfortunately (once again) no name on it.

In Vol 2 of "Profili Ferrari" that I have it is signed by "G.Betti"
Gab

Well I have managed to get the image onto image shack but from there I have spent most of the afternoon trying to post it! The FAQ page is empty so someone please give us a clue!

Just found the programme from the 28th May 1977 Donington Park Race - was that the "first" event there?
Anyway, the inside back cover is "Cutaway Drawing of the New JPS MK III" and it's in portrait style for some reason!!
I can't see any name on the drawing and size-wise it's typical '70s programme size but the programme is a bit rough round the edges.
Am I allowed to scan it and post it?

Mick, like many people I too had a sudden failure with Imageshack, after using it for some period. Try this hosting option. One of the TNFers directed me to it. It is pretty straightforward.
http://www.postimage.org/
or try post 351 on here for the redoubtable Ray Bell's idiots' guide to Imageshack, which may refer to the earlier version of Imageshack.
http://forums.autosport.com/index.php?show...p;#entry3668877
Roger Lund

Roger many thanks I'm on it.I have tried it but my problem is that I get the image loaded but cant find how to get it attached to my post

Once it is loaded in Image Shack
rightmouse click to copy the thumbnail link
open your thread reply and paste the link in

Tony, Marc and everyone else who contributes here:

Your work is our pleasure, believe you me, and yes, you are 'ours', TM. Just see what happens to anyone who tries to pirate you away!

BTW, I neglected to mention in my previous post re the 233...now 235...images that I named the folder, 'Tony Matthews et al'. Double

To give you an idea of how it should look in your post when correctly formatted, find a post with a picture in it (eg Duc-Man's post 1562 above or, for an Imageshack-hosted pic, Ibsenop's post 1560) and click on the 'Reply' button at the bottom right of the post. As Macoran says, when using Imageshack just copy and paste one of the links directly into your post.

well here goes

http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/7507/lotus97tsample1.jpg

well it worked to a point now have to work on the image size at this end.

Almost there! I'll get rid of the copyright bit once I get it sorted

Looks like a beaut Mick ! A wee bit larger would let us see the details a lot clearer though !
BTW your site is

G Betti's GLTL 72

Many thanks for the nice comments about the site!

This I hope works it should be bigger!


<a href="http://img7.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lotus97tfinished.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/272/lotus97tfinished.th.jpg" border="0"/></a>

URL=http://img38.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lotus97tfinished.jpg

http://yfrog.com/12lotus97tfinishedj

Well this is after an hour of trying still can't get it to link like the first sample.

http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/272/lotus97tfinished.jpg

Hope this is clear enough, if not let me know and I'll try again!

Wow, that's so much better, Mick!

Don't mind me, I've been on the Syrup all night, she's quite a girl!

I cannot see anything Mick? Mind you, I was chief cook at the BBQ yesterday, hot and thirsty work

Must be good stuff Tony , if it makes you see things !!

I was refering to Gwendolyn, Marc, she's a game old bird...Our relationship is normally platonic, but every now and then the gin works its magic...

I can't see anything either mick although the page opens straight away to reveal nothing.

Heres another Lotus 72. This time the best, by who other than Tony.

I'll join in with his 78

Ford MkIV by Mati Palk

Anyone know of more work by him ?

freezing Dutch Genever does wonders here.

Cheers/Proost/Prosit/Sante/Skol/Nastrovja

While we were on Loti
Here is Gordon Bruce's rendering of 24

Ah, I can remember when there was always a bottle of Bols in the freezer, along with three schnapps glasses, waiting for kpy and A.N. Other to arrive to watch the BBC recorded GP high-lights!

I never thought I'd see a cutaway more 'nibbled' than Jim Allington's but, as I live and breath, here it is! I mean this in the nicest possible way, but it does look as though it has spent several decades on the sea-bed.

So, two cutaways of the Ford Mk IV, any more out there?

What do you exactly mean by nibbled Tony? the teethmark bites out of the outer layer to show innards ?
And .....several decades on the sea bed ?

Here is Allington's MkII which I hope Ibsen can give a run through his magic programs because the colour is .............

Not rainbow colored monocoque version.



Ibsen

Lotus 78
Cutaway artist: Bruno Betti



Ibsen

Ferrari Windtunnel

from De Agostini publications “Ferrari la Passion”
The only credits given to artists is in the colofon on the front inside cover page .
Under drawing credits, the following names are listed:
Silivana Ghioni, Alberto Ipsilanti, Jimmy Rubin and Marco Vinelli.
So one of them is the artist of the above rendering.

That's nice!. First time I've seen it in colour, obviously I saw the original, B&W version, and I was responsible, I think, for shading the tyres. I certainly worked on the Ferrari P4, and possibly did the tyres on the Porsche 910, too, I'd have to look at them to know for sure. Jim did most of the work on the set of four in France, at his parents-in-laws' converted mill not too far from Le Mans, and then he finished them back at the studio with some help from moi.

First time I've seen B. Betti's T78 as well, more interesting than my version, I was working to a very tight deadline - for not much money - and was under strict instructions not to show anything of interest! I wanted to do a better version later, but it didn't happen, same with the T79, but that, as you know, dear reader, remains un-finished.

The wind tunnel looks interesting, more compact, or at least it looks smaller, than the Benetton tunnel that I drew. It's always a surprise, first time you enter what looks like quite a bland building, to find so much large machinery crammed inside! The only quibble I have is the stairs, I don't like to see them cut off before they reach their destination, it looks wrong to me. And dangerous!

Well, that's what I mean, Marc, it looks like it's been attacked with a can-opener. It is all down to personal taste, and as I have said before, I grew up with Jim Allingtons style, which was a bit 'nibbled' but changed my style to a less-'nibbled' style, but still obviously 'cut'. If some people prefer the 'nibbled' look that's fine by me.

What I meant by several decades on the sea bed is that when you see underwater film of sunken ships, or Japanese fighters in the sea around the islands that saw action in the Pacific War, they all look extremely ' nibbled'!

You've made it look a sight better Ibsen


'nibbled' , even my English vocabulary is getting boosted here, it always buggers me a bit when I don't dig things immediately.

Can't have you being buggered Marc, what would happen to the archive?

Just found something online:



Lotus Omega by one of the Bettis. Can't read or remember which one.

I would hunch Bruno. I think his brother only signed with G Betti never his full first name.

BTW that was some car ! You could come snorting out of a corner as if it was a much smaller sports job. The steering
was really responsive, partially to good grippy front end, you could really hook the corners.

http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/4143/thrustssc.jpg

Don't know if this one works let me know.

Mick

I've tried it and I get the image!

You have a bingo there Mick !