Hey everyone!
I’ll try my best not to ramble too much…I’m brand new in here, but I have a few replica liveries under my belt. Back on Forza 4, I did a Motorsport CSL and a works Lancia 037:
(I could only find one picture of the CSL, in black)
I also did one replica livery in Forza 6 which I entered in the 19th contest. It’s a near-perfect copy of Michele Mouton’s 1985 Pikes Peak-winning Audi Quattro:
But anyway, my favorite thing to do is to create simple liveries using my vintage race shop’s colors. For some background, my father and I have a shop in New York state which takes care of about 15 vintage race cars. We have sedans, sports cars, sports racers, and formula cars under our roof. If you’d like to learn more, I made a website for us at michaelsvintageracing.com. I hope that doesn’t count as advertising because I’m sure most of you aren’t looking to get into vintage racing! : )
Our shop colors are dark blue and yellow, as seen on Dad’s 1965 Ginetta G4:
I think it’s a great color combination and it’s fairly unique to our shop, so I started putting it onto the older cars I drove online:
Porsche 550:
(Those stupid rear stripes were horrible to make, by the way.)
I was having a good time so I branched out to some different types of cars, as well as building a copy of our logo as a decal to add to the cars:
Another fun fact is my Dad worked for Luigi Chinetti and N.A.R.T. in the early '70s. Because I respect the hell out of that, I did a couple tribute liveries on the Ferrari 250LM and 365GTB/4 Daytona:
Some of these photos were pre-logo, but the rest is the same. Comments are welcome and I’m open to a request if someone would like to see it!
So who else really likes a simple livery? I’m around pre-advertising liveries all the time at the vintage races, and they just feel much…cleaner to me. Also, they’re a lot simpler to put together on Forza! : P
Thanks for looking,
Mike