New Art Car NSX Body

Just finished up this HPI NSX 190mm body. This continues my experimentation with texture on an R/C car body. I used the principals and styles that I've been dealing with in my visual design fundamentals class. The orange is strategically placed to give emphasis to the shape on the roof. I also tried to use contrasting textures to separate the elements of the design. The sharpness of the shape on the roof causes it to stand out from the other 3 triangular shapes coming from the sides of the body.

First shot with some dramatic lighting. I'm not actually finished applying all the decals to the body yet. I'm not really to sure if I should. If they don't look good I can always peel them off easily. I put the first decal on the hood before these pics and it looks pretty good, so we'll see how the rest of them look on the car.

New bodies

Hpi S2000

WCICS Edmonton

The first round of the Western Canadian Indoor Championship Series was held in Edmonton the first weekend of November. It was my first carpet race and holy crap, wow, it was some pretty tough racing! 50 cars in touring stock and about 35 cars in super stock. Pretty good turnout. I managed to finish 16th and 14th in each class. Not up to my normal offroad racing standards! Disappointing, but I've got an excuse, I'm a carpet n00b. The next round I'll be going to is in March, which gives me a decent amount of time to practice. Hopefully those few months will give me some time to speed up and make the A for next time.

I did get some pictures.

*Edit- The formatting on this site is insane. It won't let me set this post up the way I want. So, this is a bit messed up.

Drivers meeting. A very different feel from a RC Pro drivers meeting.

Judging concourse

Close up of my body that was literally finger painted. Going to try this style again with a couple more bodies. I like the texture, but there isn't enough differentiation between the colour and textures.

Mandie's HPI Supra on a TC3

A Tamiya car. Wicked paint. Placed in the top 3 in concourse.

Some of the carnage from the World GT A-main. That's Buddha in the Green "Aston" making it cleanly through on the inside. He started in 2nd and in the ensuing insanity of the first lap ended up dead last after getting stuck on the boards for a good 8 seconds. He managed to make it up to 4th (I think) by the end of the race.

Some more World GT. These cars are tough to shoot. Especially because of the low light indoors. I was shooting with a ƒ2.0 and ISO800-1600 and it was impossible to get the shutter speed below 1/100th sec, which made getting a clear action shot of a car very difficult.

Gary Fleigal's WGT car sporting his signature paint scheme. Nice looking car. He had a tough time with traffic in the main. Looked like there was some traction rolling going on too.

Buddha screwin' it up in a quali, lol. :-p

Lots of guys running the RC10R5.

One last shot of the craziness from the WGT class.

My T2'007. Brushed. Yeah, that's right, not a brushless motor OMG! 

Korgae Scales with his brand new T3. Fast. The guy can wheel. All I can do is hope to stay on the same lap as him by the end of this season.

Buddha hitting the tire machine. Crazy foam tire people.

Pretty busy pit area. Not huge like the late great Winter Nats, but quite a few guys.

KETCHUP!!!!!

The "other RD" Circa! You could hear her tiny barks through the RD's sound system randomly, lol.