[Race] Big Red1500 - Liveries based on my vintage race shop colors

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:

FIAT Abarth 131:

Opel GT:

Toyota 2000GT:

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:

SRT TF Viper:

Brabham BT24:

Nissan R382:

Mustang GT350R:


Lola T163:

Bugatti EB110:

Fort GT40 MkII:

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

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I forgot to post my Lotus Cortina livery last time:

This livery is based on the actual 1965 Lotus Cortina we take care of and I occasionally race:


I also made a livery for the Swedish-liveried Volvo S60 Polestar for the current league. Unfortunately the only race I’ve been able to connect to in Pinnacle saw everybody quit…but hopefully I’ll use it soon!



I wasn’t convinced of the design at the rear, but it was a tough area to finish up I felt. Any thoughts?

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I finished some designs for a few more cars!

I won my first race in the Eagle-Weslake T1G, so I thought I’d start there:

I also used the Chaparral 2E for the first time in a while and wanted to put it back in the rotation, so I spent some time on a design for it:


Finally, I decided to do the Honda RA300 as my Brabham will be at max affinity soon and I’ll have to move on:

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To celebrate making the T1G handle less like a horrible pig, I decided to paint the Lotus 49 which completes the list of '60s F1 cars I believe:


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I wanted a new B-Class car to run, so I settled on the Alfa TZ2. I had a hard time deciding how to design the livery for this one, so I ended up with three different setups. Please let me know what you think of each!

Design 1:


Design 2:

Design 3:

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I’ve been running the 2E lately and the design felt a bit unfinished. I decided to take another look at it, and I added some more yellow highlights. I’ve colored the headlight covers and the center engine cover, and I ran a yellow stripe down the rear. On a more detail-oriented note, I cleaned up the edges of the decals around the front fender air exits.

The old design for comparison:


I’m not sold on the vertical stripe at the rear. Any thoughts?

So I need a little help. I want to make a shop livery for the E30 M3 for a race I’ll be doing, but the E30 shape really sucks for painting. I’ve started a couple things and wanted to get some input:

I’m going for a Fina-type thing on the car’s left side, but I have a more solid-fill type design on the right. I think I prefer the left, but it’s hard to say. I also changed the rockers from side to side and can’t decide which I prefer.

Fina livery for reference: