The front wing must be attached to the body, though. That's just how F1 cars are. I'm shooting for a super realistic model.


JB

The way you are using the wing now, can be done like i described.

A real F1 car doesn't exactly uses a TVP either.

What I mean by realistic is that once it's assembled it looks near real. When assembled, the front wing is attached to the nose cone. I'm not sure if bodywork regs will allow the rear wing to be mounted to the knuckle. I'll check it out, but for now it has to be attached to the chassis.


JB

This weekend was very productive. It might not look like it, but it was. Think of the amount you get done as the graph of an exponential function: the more you get done, the harder it is to do more. A lot of what I did was touch up type stuff. I added the deans connectors with that cool little mount I designed for my Savage. I don't have wires yet because I'm not sure how to do it but they will hopefully come soon. I rebuilt the entire car as a new assembly which helped immensly: It allowed me to go over every single part and find out what I could do to make it better. A lot of the aluminum has chamfered edges which, I think, makes it look better. I added all of the fastners such as screws, bolts, and body clips. The nosecone isn't mounted yet because I havet to figure out how to make it structurally sound. There were a lot of other little things, but I think I'm starting to ramble so I'll stop. Here are some pics:

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...pfront1112.jpg
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...uprear1112.jpg
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...elecronics.jpg
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...erside1112.jpg
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...etion11124.jpg
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...livery1111.jpg
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...etion11122.jpg

I'm not extremely happy with the renders and it's pretty frustrating and time consuming to get them right. I hope I can get some good ones this week or next weekend. One thing I can't change too much is the way the rear wings look super bright: they are mostly flat which translates into poor rendering. I'll work on it though. Hope you guys like it.


JB

If thats what they're going to look like in '08, I'll be watching more F1

:004: :004: :043: wow man thats amasing i love that

Asbsolutely amazing work there!

It looks awesome. Have you got any parts made up yet? I like to see the real
deal.

Yeah man, great job! When do you plan on starting the production?

Definately not at the moment. All of the parts are based off of estimations. The car would work, but not very well. A lot of math would have to be done before production. Aside from that, a lot of money would have to come into my posession to make it.


JB

You trying to hint for donations. :D
I hope it comes thru for you. I think it be a phat ride. Totally tight dude.

Well, yea, money's always nice. Can I put anyone down for 10k?

If I place in the contest (and thus score a copy of SW Pro) I'll start seriously designing some rc parts in SW. The main inhibitor at the moment is that to use SW commercially I need a commercial license which costs at a minimum about $3,000. Then I could get some money from that and then it could snowball into a total car. It's a nice fantasy.


JB

I've spent the last couple days nearly totally devoted to getting a nice render. It's very time consuming, but the results are awesome. I'm definately glad I spent the time. If anyone wants the big (3000x2250 pixel) versions just pm me your email.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...y/shq71117.jpg
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...y/shq81117.jpg


JB

Holy $h!t!!! That is by far the best work I have EVER seen...

VERY nice! Once you get this built and work out the "bugs" (as there is almost always something that needs to be changed), you ought to package everything as a kit and get a little more return on your hard work!

BTW: you could simply provide a link to the large version so people can D/L at will. Just an idea...