Just in time for the anticipated public reveal of Forza Motorsport 3 at E3 2009, I’ve remembered a couple of Forza 2 liveries that I never posted before. Sadly, I can’t remember anything about their creation. This one is clearly inspired by the McLaren Formula One team and their Vodafone sponsorship.
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Forza Motorsport 2: McLaren F1 GT Vodafone custom paint job
Posted by Mister Slimm on May 14, 2009
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Forza Motorsport 2: Ferrari F430 Italian Flag custom paint job
Just in time for the anticipated public reveal of Forza Motorsport 3 at E3 2009, I’ve remembered a couple of Forza 2 liveries that I never posted before. Sadly, I can’t remember anything about their creation but I can see that this one was pretty straightforward combining the Italian national colours with the Ferrari logo.
Posted by Mister Slimm on May 14, 2009
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Story of the Week and People More Talented Than Me: Sara Watson’s Invisible Skoda
Look closely at the picture above. There’s a Skoda parked there and art student Sara Watson has meticulously painted it so that, from this angle, it matches the surroundings and appears transparent. Very cool. The original story appeared on telegraph.co.uk and news.bbc.oc.uk.
Posted by Mister Slimm on May 3, 2009
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Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli: Ferrari 575M Maranello Italia and Not Italia custom livery
Italia Not Italia Another competition entry for FCTP and, as you can see, the original design was based on the Italian flag. The competition didn’t allow you to use flags so I altered the colours and submitted that as NotItalia.
Posted by Mister Slimm on February 14, 2009
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Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli: 365 GTB/4 Comp. Track custom livery
I’m not too convinced that I pulled this idea off. It’s supposed to be a race track with kerbing and grass. The racing numbers are styled as a grid marker (I was rather pleased with that idea). While I felt the design looked a bit naff in the screenshots above, in replays it worked surprisingly [...]
Posted by Mister Slimm on February 7, 2009
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Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli: F355 Berlinetta Thorny custom livery
Original Colour Base Paint Variations I’m really bad at abstract pattern creation but this is my attempt at one and, because it is made from the neutral colours of black and white, the base paint can be changed to almost any other colour and it still looks fine. While I was quite pleased with the [...]
Posted by Mister Slimm on February 6, 2009
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Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli Ferrari 512 S and M / Midnight Club Los Angeles Mercedes Benz S600 “DUB” Saturn custom livery
Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli Ferrari 512 S Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli Ferrari 512 M Midnight Club Los Angeles This design is inspired by the iconic Saturn V rockets which took men to the moon in the twentieth century. It is a particularly simple design and quick to reproduce. I initially produced it on the 512 [...]
Posted by Mister Slimm on February 2, 2009
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Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli: 348 TB F1 custom livery
This is another red, white and black paint job and the principle design is the silhouette of a Formula One car along the side (a 2007 Renault, specifically). The silhouette was created by placed red blanking pieces over the chequered flag pattern and there’s nothing else to say. The painting went really smoothly.
Posted by Mister Slimm on January 20, 2009
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Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli: F50 Stave custom livery
The inspiration of this was a super documentary on music conductor Herbert Von Karajan (called Karajan: or Beauty As I See It) and I wondered if I could spell something racing-related out with musical notes. C, D, E, F, G, A, and B are the letters available and I couldn’t readily think of one. Then [...]
Posted by Mister Slimm on January 20, 2009
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Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli: Ferrari 348 Challenge Splat custom livery
Take One Take Two I started this one knowing what colours I wanted to use and that I wanted a bright livery that would be more abstract than I normally produce. After fiddling around for a bit I came across a vinyl that, if I turned it, looked a bit like a blob of paint [...]
Posted by Mister Slimm on January 18, 2009
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Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli: Ferrari FXX Rainbow custom livery
A simple idea this one. Rainbow and clouds with sponsors and racing numbers in the clouds. As is typical in in-game livery editors, getting a pattern to transition smoothly from the side to the roof is extremely tricky. It’s harder than most in FCTP as the aspect ratio of vinyls on the roof is not [...]
Posted by Mister Slimm on January 17, 2009
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Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli: Ferrari 250 GTO Dragon custom livery
Take One Take Two The most immediately obvious shortcoming of FCTP’s livery editor compared to the mighty goodness of Forza Motorsport 2 is the lack of gradient vinyls which are an easy and powerful way to make extremely cool paint jobs. However, concentrating on shortcomings is an easy way to become despondent and so [...]
Posted by Mister Slimm on January 16, 2009
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Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli: Ferrari 575 GTC Jota Sport custom livery
Jota Sport are a Porsche Carrera racing team based in Kent, England. Their cars have a very clean design that can be clearly seen in desktop wallpapers from their site. There were two problems going in. The first was relatively minor and that is that the 575 is a completely different shape to the [...]
Posted by Mister Slimm on January 5, 2009
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Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli: Ferrari F40 Eighties Senna Marlboro custom livery
The Ferrari F40 was touted, at the time, as a Formula One car for the road and was Ferrari’s most expensive and their and the world’s fastest production car. Given that and the strong Senna branding in Ferrari Challenge, I hit upon the simple idea of implementing the classic Marlboro livery from Ayrton Senna’s MP4/4 [...]
Posted by Mister Slimm on January 1, 2009
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Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli: F333 SP Gulf custom livery
There is no orange paint for cars or primitives in Ferrari Challenge. Therefore I changed the colour to red and hope to evoke the classic Gulf livery rather than accurately duplicate it. As there are no small letters in Ferrari Challenge’s vinyl editor, the “u” of Gulf used a capital U shrunk down and required [...]
Posted by Mister Slimm on December 25, 2008
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Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli: 550 Maranello Maranello Village custom livery
I based this design on a sign (pictured right) at Ferrari’s Maranello Village. I immediately liked the two-tone and replicated it using grey (Canna Da Fucile) primitives on a red (Rosso Corsa) base paint with strong white text. Once the simple background was complete and running around the whole car I simply pasted the available [...]
Posted by Mister Slimm on December 22, 2008
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Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli: F430 Challenge Taxi custom livery
Attempting to come up with an appropriate paint job for my North American Challenge F430 and not wanting to replicate my black-and-white police car by hand (you can’t copy part or whole liveries from one car to another, even the exact same model), I ended up thinking of a yellow cab taxi. Using our old [...]
Posted by Mister Slimm on November 26, 2008
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Nissan Skyline: Import Tuner Challenge custom paint jobs
While certainly not on the same level as Forza Motorsport 2, the 2006 instalment of the Shutokou Battle series (also known as Tokyo Highway Battle, Tokyo Highway Challenge, Tokyo Xtreme Racer and, now, Import Tuner Challenge) also has extensive car customisation that includes vinyl and sticker placements. You can place three vinyls on the side [...]
Posted by Mister Slimm on July 21, 2008
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Project Gotham Racing 3 (PGR3) HD HDR 1920×1080 widescreen wallpapers
I just love the photo-taking options in console games. It was probably kicked off in style by Gran Turismo 4 which was brilliant because it generated a higher resolution image that the game ran at (the game ran at 640×480 on NTSC and slightly higher vertically on PAL but the photo renders were 1280×1024 or [...]
Posted by Mister Slimm on May 12, 2008
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Gran Turismo 5 Prologue Ferrari F1
One of the unexpected joys of reaching the end-game of Gran Turismo 3 was the reward of being given a Formula One in all but name. They were called Polyphony001 and Polyphony002 and were Williams F1 cars with different paint jobs. Though I haven’t got there yet myself, there were also F1 cars in Gran [...]
Posted by Mister Slimm on April 8, 2008
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Toyota VeilSide Supra: Studio Ghibli Forza Motorsport 2 custom paint job
Now I actually finished Forza Motorsport 2 some time ago (970 gamerscore, yay!) but hadn’t got around to posting this paint job which is the one I’m most proud of. This is a reproduction of the Studio Ghibli title card, a DVD capture of which you can see below. Studio Ghibli is the home of [...]
Posted by Mister Slimm on March 4, 2008
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Ferrari F1 (February 2008) HD widescreen wallpaper
The Ferrari 248 F1 used during the 2006 Formula One FIA World Championship campaign. Images hosted at Shareapic.
Posted by Mister Slimm on February 29, 2008
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Saab 9-3: Lazy Saab and Sweden Saab Forza Motorsport 2 custom paint job
I bought the Saab for a specific championship and not wanting to drive around in a plain old car, I decided to quickly slap the manufacturer’s decal all over it. I came up with the following design: However, I enjoyed driving the car so much that I decided to spend some time on a more [...]
Posted by Mister Slimm on February 21, 2008
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Gran Turismo 5 Prologue HD widescreen wallpapers
Two wallpapers cut from super high res photo mode shots from Gran Turismo 5 Prologue posted by www.threespeech.com. Ferrari 430 Nissan Skyline Type-R Update 11 February 2008: Image host changed to Shareapic.
Posted by Mister Slimm on February 11, 2008
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Burnout Paradise HD widescreen wallpapers
To celebrate my, hopefully, impending purchase of Burnout Paradise on PS3 here are 1920×1080 wallpapers taken from the original materials on the official Burnout Paradise site. Images hosted at Shareapic.
Posted by Mister Slimm on February 6, 2008
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Lotus Exige: 1960′s Lotus Formula One Forza Motorsport 2 custom paint job
This was modelled after the paint scheme of early Lotus F1 cars. A 1962 Lotus F1 car A nice little detail I am pleased with is the addition of an antique Ford logo on the front of the car as Lotus were powered by engines built by Cosworth and paid for by Ford. Unfortunately, I [...]
Posted by Mister Slimm on January 31, 2008
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2006 Dodge Charger SRT8: Dukes of Hazzard Forza Motorsport 2 custom paint job
I quite like the stupid, chunky, Desperate Dan-styling of this car and happily applied my General Lee stylings from the 1969 Dodge Charger made famous by The Dukes of Hazzard television series. As soon as I got it out on the track, though, in a B-class championship it was instantly clear (by my driving straight [...]
Posted by Mister Slimm on January 27, 2008
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Jaguar E-type: Austin Powers’ Shaguar Forza Motorsport 2 custom paint job
Started as a bit of a lazy paint job this one as I had constructed a decent Union Flag for the Top Gear Britcar and it just needed stamping on an E-type to make an Austin Power’s Shaguar. While that was virtually all I had to do, there was, naturally, a little more work involved. [...]
Posted by Mister Slimm on January 23, 2008
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TVR Speed 12: Top Gear Forza Motorsport 2 custom paint job
After the nightmare of trying to manhandle the TVR Tuscan S around, well, anything I wasn’t looking forward to driving around in my favourite car from Gran Turismo 2: TVR’s mental concept car, the Speed 12. Imagine my delight, then, as I found the car to be much more predictable than the Tuscan S and [...]
Posted by Mister Slimm on January 15, 2008
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