Yeah, I've been thinking about a drift patrol for awhile now. Forzzzzaplaya, that Viper I got from you is just downright nasty - that was the first time I've ever tried drifting and I was awfully impressed by how easy it was to kick that rear end out and keep it at the right angle without overcompensating. Didn't someone tell me level50 was involved in the creation of that Viper?
Anyway, that got me thinking that we could do a drift car. And thanks to some helpful hints on here, I've got that undercover paint working now. Iit'll be black instead of blue, but it's a pretty cool effect when the lettering just pops out of nowhere as the car turns! That's going to take some time, though, because of the fact that instead of painting letters, I have to paint where letters
aren't, which is kind of awkward. But it might be interesting having a drift car as an undercover cop...
Budtheweiser, I'm liking that DC car a lot - I can tell a lot of work has gone into it. Murdock is right on about the blue stripe and the white zone around the body molding - the Vic's is just wider than the Charger's, so I think the white part should be thinner on the Charger, just over the molding itself. This is just one of the hard parts of adapting a design from a Vic to a Charger - if you look at the Boston and Chicago cars, you'll see that I had to take some liberties with those designs, too, in order to get them onto the different body lines of the big Mopar.
I'll point out one other minor little detail: the badge on the back looks like it wants to be fatter on bottom and thinner towards the top. The detail on the inside is perfect, though, so it's just the outer silhouette of the badge.
Still, I'm very impressed! Keep up the good work!
xshadowsxfallx: Re: the Bluesmobile, yeah, I was thinking about keeping the Bluesmobile as sort of a FMP limited edition car, selling only one a week in no-buyout auctions, but then I started thinking that it kind of goes against my philosophy about FMP. It's all about cop cars cheap, and as flattering (and profitable) as it would be for an auction to go through a bidding war and end up in the tens of millions, I'd rather keep it cheap and easy to get. So it's just part of our regular lineup now, same price as any other car, even though it was a lot more work than most of our Interceptors. There's got to be plenty of Blues Brothers fans who aren't high rollers on Forza - I'd just as soon make sure they're able to get one for their own garage, too. More fun for it to be plentiful. (Besides, the one time I tried such an auction, it was discouragingly empty.)
Nice long MAD today for Connecticon - just got home now after being there since 10:00 AM. My fingers are sore from Rock Band, but at least I finally got my gold stars on Boston's "Smokin'" and the 20-point achievement for unlocking the jet. Stockholm, here I come!
In unrelated news: Also, a buddy of mine got inspired by my Barricade and did up the Alternators version of the Autobot Prowl, sort of an Americanized version of the Tokyo PD Acura RSX. I loaned him my Decepticon logo, and then he started cranking out Stunticons, Alternators, even some of the original Transformers, like Sideswipe and Sunstreaker, and today he was working on the original Jazz as the '80s-era Martini Rossi Porsche race livery. I guess he was inspired by all the work we've done on FMP as a niche car company, and decided to start doing all these designs for a catalog of his own niche company just for Transformers replicas from all eras.
As you can tell by my avatar pic, I'm a huge Transformers fan, so I'm very psyched about this. There will be some crossover between us - I'm going to add Barricade to his starting portfolio, and he'll be granting us use of Prowl (original series and Alternators), Red Alert, and any other Transformers that seem appropriate for FMP. I've even started using some of the techniques that I learned on the Bluesmobile - dents, scrapes, rust, dirt, and just general aging and stressing, to do up a '73 Trans Am to double as the Bumblebee from Transformers: The Movie, although he's also going to want a clean one on a New Beetle. Unlike our catalog of mostly Chargers, his will have a lot of different cars, but I'll be helping to tune a bunch of them - I'm already getting my feet wet with the Countach and the Porsches for Jazz, Dead End, and the like. But basically, he's working toward doing a catalog of painted, tuned cars very much like our own, but with a whole different theme. I've suggested the name "Planet Cybertron" for this venture, but we'll see what he ends up calling it.
Okay, moral of the story: if there's any tuners out there who might like to help out getting this stable full of Transformers running like cartoon robots should - I imagine he'll be aiming for a lot of S- and U-class tunes to be cartoonishly fast - then drop him a line at GamerTag
WylieJL and let him know you'd like to help tune some Cybertronians.
"So what do you say, is it the new Bluesmobile?"
"Fix the lighter."
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