Hi there, folks! For those who don’t know me, I’m Clyde, writing from not-so-sunny Turin, Italy! I have been putting colorful shapes on cars since the days of Forza Motorsport 4 (that would be 2012), but life has sadly led me away from the paint booth, and from the official forza.net forums.
Eventually the painting bug was going to bite me back, tho - that much is inevitable. So, stay tuned for Forza Motorsport (and the occasional Forza Horizon 5) paint schemes!
And to get things started, here’s three simple paint jobs for the Featured Lobby fanatics out there! The Momo Lotus Emira is the newest addition to my stable; but it’s joined by reworked versions of the Dunlop Subaru BRZ and RAYS Nissan Z that I had made available closer to the launch of the game.
Filename: #31 Momo
Filename: #23 Dunlop
Filename: #35 Rays
Excellent work Clyde! Always nice to see a Forza veteran still knocking out quality work. Thanks for sharing! 
Did anybody say, “Super GT liveries”? No? Too bad! Here’s an Aston Martin Vantage wearing the Tamron colors (Tamron SGT), and a McLaren 720S with the black-and-orange of G’Zox (#99 GZox SGT).
But wait, there’s more! Both liveries are also available with generic “Forza Motorsport” number tabs for lobby racing (Tamron, #99 GZox), and 2023 Super Taikyu tabs (Tamron STai, #99 GZox STai)!
Stay tuned for more; I’m working on re-releasing improved variants of older liveries, and on some new paint schemes…
Apparently October is Mustang Month… And I’ve two new liveries for those looking to step into the Featured lobbies this month.
#17 Castrol - Ford Shelby GT350R
#6 Valvoline - Ford Mustang Dark Horse
No Car Pass? No worries! The #6 Valvoline is also available on the 2024 Mustang GT.
This week’s Featured rotation has us racing in Ginetta Juniors… I couldn’t stop myself from putting some shapes on it. The end result is available in two color variations, as #14 Motul and #41 Motul respectively.
Nice clean work here!
It’s been a hot minute, huh? Anyhow, here’s a quick livery for the i20N I have uploaded the week it was launched and have used in the public lobbies, but haven’t posted here due to real life ensuing at an inopportune moment, hahah. Hopefully some paint schemes for the GR86 and Elantra N will be forthcoming.
Filename: #57 Liqui Moly
I’ve also been doing a bit of racing in the TORA GTCC and XITE NASCAR… Pictures of my liveries for the latter will also be coming at a later date, but for now enjoy some pre-season shots of the FIT Garage Civic(s), sporting the new team paint scheme.
So, I was bored a couple evenings ago and decided to set up an A-class Yaris GR for the Multi-Class lobbies. As it turns out, this specific build is rather competitive, and quickly gained a spot as one of my go-to cars… And as such, it needed a livery. Wako’s was an easy choice for a main sponsor, and the base came together in a matter of minutes.
Filename: #50 Wako’s
Up next: the re-release of “new and improved” versions of some older liveries that I had removed from my Sharefront.
Great works like always, amazing and clean liveries my dear friend and team mate.
It’s also nice for me to come back here in the forum, it give me much nostalgia of our beautiful years through FM3 and FM4 4 overall.
I’ll back too here in the forum asap.
People, don’t get your hopes up. “asap” means that our dear friend punny72 will open a new thread in maybe a couple years, and only after the rest of the team will hound him about that. 
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Anyhow, let’s have some liveries, shall we? First and foremost, a quick paint scheme I cooked up for the Mazda MX-5 RF… And then forgot to post here 
. It’s been out for a while, now, but life got in the way of me posting an update to the forums.
Filename: #72 Ohlins
And speaking of things I embarassingly forgot about… I did a paint scheme on the GT4 Ginetta when it came out, and I was absolutely convinced I had shared it. But alas, it was still marked as “private” in my liveries screen. Oh, well - you can now enjoy this fictional 2022 British GT livery (also available with generic Forza Motorsport tabs, as #58 AG).
Filename: #58 AG BGT
But wait, there’s more!
Remember how I promised the return of some older paints in my previous post? Well, after a careful inspection and some modifications that take advantage of functions introduced to the Paint Booth since its original release, I’m proud to announce the return of the Festool Civic! Available in 2022 Nurburgring 24h (#401 Festool N24), 2022 NLS (#401 Festool NLS) and lobby pads (#41 Festool) variants!
Also returning from FM7 is this Red Lobster livery for the Momo 935/78, heavily inspired by the March 83G campaigned by Miller & Cowart in the 1983 and 1984 IMSA seasons, and imagined as a contender in the 1982 Daytona 24h.
Filename: #25 Red Lobster
And with the return of Fujimi Kaido, I had to finally bring to FM this Toyo Tires livery for the Varis-kitted 370Z NISMO that I first released in Horizon 5. Yes, folks, the Varis bodykit is mandatory!
Filename: Toyo Tires
Last but not least, I have also made available several paint schemes for the Plymouth Hemi Cuda and Shelby GT500 with the King of the Road package, featuring picture-perfect replicas of the factory colors and vinyl kits featured on these cars!
You can find on my Storefront thirteen color options for the Cuda (Scorch Red, Curious Yellow, Vitamin C, Alpine White, Tor-Red, Lime Lite, Blue Fire, Burnt Orange, Jamaica Blue, Lemon Twist, Moulin Rouge, Black Velvet and In-Violet), and nine color options for the Shelby (Highland Green, Acapulco Blue, Candy Apple Red, Special Yellow, Lime Gold, Pepper Gray Metallic, Wimbledon White, Raven Black and Dark Orange).
That will be all for now.
This week marks the first appearance of the 488 Challenge Spec Series in the Featured rotation. What better way to celebrate, than with some Ferrari Challenge liveries? Knocking those three paint schemes off didn’t take too long - but making all the series stickers for the 2019 Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific series? Oh boy…
Filename: #25 Bauer
Filename: #25 Weathernews
Filename: #25 Xpel
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This Sunday I’ve also returned to the XITE NASCAR Cup, after missing the first two races of Season 4 - and I thought I may show here my paint schemes for the regular season.
Hello! No new liveries in this post; but I’ve only now reached the conclusion that, with the addition of Fujimi Kaido to Forza Motorsport’s track roster, it would make some sense to port the various rally replicas I’ve already released in FH5. So, without further ado, I give you a group A bonanza! And there are some extra liveries I plan to release in FH5; going forward they will be released concurrently in FM.
For the 1999 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI GSR
#99 Ralliart
For the 1992 Lancia Delta HF Integrale Evo
#6 Esso
#15 Clarion
For the 1992 Ford Escort RS Cosworth
#1 Michelin
#3 Mercurio
#7 Ford
#8 Giesse
#9 Red Bull
#11 Lombard
#54 Repsol
#80 Escort
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On another note, Casual Racing Mondays ran a Indy 200 race this Monday, and I managed to put my STP Oil Treatment McLaren M23 in P1! Hopefully this will be a sign of things to come in next year’s TORA Indy 500?
Another week of a spec series in the Featured rotation, and another intercontinental livery pack! This time it’s three Huracan Super Trofeo. While the 2019 series (and Super Trofeo in general) doesn’t have different sponsors and number tabs for each regional championship, I still thought it would be fun to give these paint schemes a distinct flavor through my choice of sponsors.
Hopefully it will be time to create some Carrera Cup liveries soon?
Filename: #28 GWFX
Filename: #42 Mapei
Filename: #73 Expert
Here’s two all-original liveries for the Indycars, one for each manufacturer - and available in both Oval and Road Course spec.
#27 Bardahl
#40 STP
I’ve also thrown together a quick livery for the Spec Miatas! And the NA MX-5 is a surprisingly fun car to paint, so perhaps I’ll return to it at a later point.
#18 Haltech
Had to chime in and let you know that your Tamron Vantage livery is quite possibly my favorite design out of everything I’ve come across. The AM was a big main of mine due to how it drove, and now it’s a go-to just because of how darn good it looks. Great job at balancing colors and proportions. Love how you handled every angle of this thing. Thank you for sharing it!
Long time no see, folks! I went on a bit of a coerced hiatus, lately. But with Japan looming over the horizon (har har) I ended up rediscovering yet again the joy of painting colorful shapes on fast cars. I am in the process of expanding my vinyl group catalogue, preparing older paint schemes for porting in FH6, and who knows, perhaps even creating some new ones…
In the process, and with a Casual Racing Monday appointment acting in the role of the instigating incident, I found the Nissan R88C - a car that’s not only a hoot to drive, but also surprisingly well-mapped. Or, in other words: my kind of car. And what is there to do with an old and nearly-forgotten race car but put some historically credible liveries on it?
Without further ado, I bring you…
The Brototype Cinematic Universe, ep. 1: March Madness
Or: what if the Nissan R88C wasn’t abandoned so quickly?
The late 1980s saw the quiet dissolution of one of endurance racing’s more curious technical partnerships. The collaboration between March Engineering and Nissan, which had produced a succession of turbocharged Group C prototypes, effectively came to an end after the 1988 season. Nissan, increasingly determined to centralise its racing activities under NISMO, chose to move away from March chassis and toward the new Lola-built programme that would yield the R89C.
March, for its part, viewed the break less as a strategic realignment than a missed opportunity. With several Nissan-powered chassis already in circulation and little prospect of further factory work, the Bicester constructor sought to salvage what it could from the remains of the partnership.
Two chassis originally prepared to late R87 specification were returned to March during the winter of 1988–89. These were subsequently upgraded to 1988-spec and informally referred to within the team as the “March 88G-Nissan”, effectively a continuation of the earlier turbocharged concept using the familiar Nissan VRH30T.
The first of these cars found its way across the Atlantic. Hotchkis Racing, which had campaigned the March 83G in the 1985 and 1986 seasons before switching to the ubiquitous Porsche 962, had grown increasingly frustrated with the limitations of running what had become, by 1989, a thoroughly crowded platform.
The March-Nissan offered a potential alternative, and the deal was quietly supported by Nissan’s American racing arm, which at the time was attempting to reduce its reliance on Electramotive and the dated GTP ZX-Turbo, and move its factory activities more directly under NISMO control.
The car debuted at the 24 Hours of Daytona in early 1989. In truth, it proved little more than a curiosity. Over the following four IMSA rounds the Hotchkis entry circulated faithfully at the back of the field, collecting a series of retirements that ranged from overheating to persistent turbocharger maladies.
By the time the championship reached Palm Beach the experiment had run its course. The team quietly returned to the dependable 962, and the March-Nissan disappeared from the American grid almost as quickly as it had arrived.
The second chassis remained with March itself. In an increasingly strained financial climate the company chose to enter the car in selected rounds of the World Sportscar Championship, hoping that a respectable performance might attract partners interested in funding the development of a new prototype.
At least on the surface, March’s WSPC entry appeared far more substantial than the improvised reality behind it. While the title sponsor of the March F1 programme, Leyton House, had prior commitments with the Kremer racing team in the world of sportscars, the programme attracted a respectable group of patrons, chief amongst them that same Computervision whose name had previously appeared on the factory MG Metro 6R4 during its brief tenure in the World Rally Championship. British automotive firms Autoglass and Unipart completed the sponsorship package, lending the entry a suitably domestic flavour.
The driver line-up was equally reassuring: endurance regular Dudley Wood was joined by sports car veteran David Piper, whose name still carried considerable prestige in the paddock. The programme even enjoyed the patronage of the British Racing Drivers’ Club.
On paper, at least, the ingredients seemed promising. On track, as events quickly showed, they proved far less so.
At the Brands Hatch Trophy the Computervision March 88G was circulating in a distant fifteenth position when the engine expired dramatically on the descent into Paddock Hill bend. The official explanation from the March pit was that Wood had misjudged a downshift and briefly over-revved the engine, but not everybody in the paddock were convinced.
The following appointment at the Nürburgring proved scarcely more encouraging: Piper returned to the pits after contact with a slower C2 entry, the March arriving with a crumpled nose and little prospect of repair within the weekend.
The final humiliation came at Donington Park. After a troubled weekend dominated by intermittent electrical faults and a fruitless qualifying session, the car (which, ironically, was sponsored by not one, but two battery manufacturers) failed to take the start due to a flat battery.
March’s brief return to the World Championship ended there, the money and goodwill of its sponsors having run its course.
The story of the Nissan R88C itself followed a different, if no less unkind, trajectory.
For the 1989 24 Hours of Le Mans, Nissan supplied one example of the ageing prototype to the aftermarket giant Autobacs. The programme was widely interpreted as insurance against Nissan’s new Nissan R89C woes, and a way to provide NISMO veterans Auguri Suzuki and Keiji Matsumoto a chance to dispute the most prestigious endurance event in the calendar; they shared driving duties with the promising Ukyo Katayama, who had made his Le Mans debut the previous year with Courage, and would go on to leave his mark in the annals of the event in the following decade.
Qualifying placed the bright orange machine squarely in the midfield. The race itself proved largely uneventful: by the early hours of the night the Autobacs Nissan had steadily climbed to eighth position in a battle of attrition, before turbocharger trouble forced the car to crawl back to the pits and retire from the race.
Yet the R88C’s career did not end there.
In 1990 an ex-works example was passed to the racing outfit of works Nissan driver Masahiro Hasemi, and entered in the All-Japan Sports Prototype Championship. Now painted bright yellow and sponsored by Tomica and Dunlop, the car was entrusted to two rising drivers from the Japanese Formula 3000 ranks: Hideki Okada and Enrico Bertaggia.
Officially a customer entry, the car nevertheless carried unmistakable signs of factory involvement. Some observers suggested that team owner Hasemi, dissatisfied with the unreliability and lack of performance in Nissan’s 1989 Lola-engineered contender, had quietly secured the R88C as insurance should the new Nissan R90C prove equally disappointing. Others believed the programme served primarily as a tyre development platform for Dunlop ahead of Le Mans.
At the opening Fuji rounds the ageing machine were no match for the latest Nissan and Toyota machinery, and struggled to keep pace even the better-prepared 962s. Meanwhile Hasemi’s R90C demonstrated formidable speed and positioned itself as the car to beat for the championship, and early-season speculation faded.
The third round, the 1000 km of Suzuka, briefly revived the story. During the first qualifying session, Okada managed to place the car in an astonishing sixth place, behind all of its Japanese competition, but in front of the field of the midfield Porsches. But it was midway through the race that a heavily offset pit strategy produced the most improbabile moment of the Hasemi R88C’s short career: for five short laps, Bertaggia led the field outright, before a failure of the right-rear tyre entering the infamous Degner corner sent the car hard into the barriers, the impact fatally damaging the chassis.
With Nissan’s interest already waning, Hasemi’s attention focused on the competitive R90C, and both drivers committed to their Formula 3000 campaigns, the #50 quietly disappeared from the championship thereafter.
Like many Group C machines of the era, the last of the R88Cs faded not with a final victory, but with the quiet end of a programme that had simply run out of reasons to continue.
Four liveries, four championships, and four different visual identities for you to choose should you think the red-white-and-blue NISMO paintjobs are a bit too passé.
Filename: #10 Wynn’s (BBS E55 wheels recommended)
Filename: Computervision (Speedline F1 wheels recommended)
Filename: #43 Autobacs
Filename: #50 Tomica
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Also, a quick livery I threw on the RC-F Track Edition back when it was the Spec Series du jour. May be more your tempo if you are not a huge fan of turbo lag!
Filename: #39 G’Zox
Another week, another couple of a-historical historical liveries!
All the way back in the late FM7 days, me and my teammate @bt014 entered a couple of widebody 924s with a familiar Sonax paint scheme in the TORA Vintage Le Mans support race. When a proper racing 944 was added to the game the idea of adapting the concept crossed my mind… Somehow I only got around it next week, tho.
I have re-imagined as a car entered by Brumos in the 1985 IMSA GT Championship, perhaps with a version of the Typ 949 stroked to 3 litres and upgraded to keep up with the Mustangs and Celicas of the time; it’s available in Daytona 24h and championship versions.
Filename: #59 Daytona
Filename: #59 Sonax
Quick paint scheme I threw on the A90 Supra for this week’s Casual Racing Monday races… But it came out nice enough to warrant a general release, no?
Filename: #99 Achilles
