Doing a 41-car roster. Got 13 to go. Special thanks to Dr. Noise for some help tracking down some logos for this 1994 car set...and shout-out to me for shamelessly stealing from some of his hard work -- and special thanks to jameswiggin for helping me through some things template-wise and working on some logos.
Anyway, this car -- Getting the gray paint lines on the roof to line up is a nightmare...and ends up looking like a nightmare anyway...so you get a black roof; get over it. I was reading the debate on the "TOUGH ONE" font for the Delco decal in Dr. Noise's thread. Uh, er, I'm using the accurate one, just believe me. Again, not messing around with valences, side skirts, or jack tape. Can always add jack tape down the homestretch.
If it looks like the Chevy logo on the hood is comically large, that's because it has to be. Anything smaller than that pixel-by-pixel re-creation, then colors all around it start bleeding into it and it looks like poo.
Decided to go with black on the underbody parts going from the side to the roof because white just didn't look right.
Don't ask about the silver numbers because I don't want to talk about it.
Didn't fuss with the silver stroke on the side orange going to the back because, again, it just look distorted back there.
I'm not worrying about accuracy with the front contingency decals because -- come on. Even the experts in these forums couldn't I.D. all of them in this pixelized format if their lives depended on it. I do have slightly different set for Ford/Pontiac/Chevy, but that's where I stop. I would want to be there in person if someone downloaded this obscure car set and was like, "What the heck, man? DW didn't have the Clevite decal. This is stupid."
Overall, I know I'm giving myself a 7/10 on these. The judges knock 2 points off for getting lazy with the front contingencies, and an extra point deducted for being a jobber.
Anyway, this car -- Getting the gray paint lines on the roof to line up is a nightmare...and ends up looking like a nightmare anyway...so you get a black roof; get over it. I was reading the debate on the "TOUGH ONE" font for the Delco decal in Dr. Noise's thread. Uh, er, I'm using the accurate one, just believe me. Again, not messing around with valences, side skirts, or jack tape. Can always add jack tape down the homestretch.
If it looks like the Chevy logo on the hood is comically large, that's because it has to be. Anything smaller than that pixel-by-pixel re-creation, then colors all around it start bleeding into it and it looks like poo.
Decided to go with black on the underbody parts going from the side to the roof because white just didn't look right.
Don't ask about the silver numbers because I don't want to talk about it.
Didn't fuss with the silver stroke on the side orange going to the back because, again, it just look distorted back there.
I'm not worrying about accuracy with the front contingency decals because -- come on. Even the experts in these forums couldn't I.D. all of them in this pixelized format if their lives depended on it. I do have slightly different set for Ford/Pontiac/Chevy, but that's where I stop. I would want to be there in person if someone downloaded this obscure car set and was like, "What the heck, man? DW didn't have the Clevite decal. This is stupid."
Overall, I know I'm giving myself a 7/10 on these. The judges knock 2 points off for getting lazy with the front contingencies, and an extra point deducted for being a jobber.