'Arty' paint liveries
#1
Posted 26 February 2007 - 09:18
with the internals painted on the bodywork and the Jordan B&H F1 cars. The new F1 Honda design should turn heads / raise eyebrows. Any others that spring to mind?
http://img178.images...ara107hiuf3.jpg
Try painting that one as a model Barry!
#3
Posted 26 February 2007 - 10:36
#4
Posted 26 February 2007 - 11:54
Originally posted by Andrew Kitson
The new Honda does look great from the side view though.
http://www.hondaraci...php?section=108
Eye test for Mr Kitson or has irony once again infested The Nostalgia Forum?
#5
Posted 26 February 2007 - 11:58
Roger Lund
#6
Posted 26 February 2007 - 12:16
Honda's black test livery looked sweet and so did the Ferrari plain red at Monza '01. Graphic designers have lost the art of simplicity. Even plain ol' BRG (the colour, not the missing poster) could be livened by careful trim a la Gilby. I quite like the Honda scheme in the arty shots.Originally posted by bradbury west
Perhaps it is an age/generational thing, having elegant cars with delicate simplicity of lines to look at in my formative years, but the modern f1 cars are invariably so hideously unattractive and aesthetically unappealing that no paint seems to make them look good IMHO, although I did like the early Jordans.
#8
Posted 26 February 2007 - 12:25
Each little carbon fibre trinket on a modern F1 car is intself a work of art IMO - yet when all the trinkets are combined, the overall impression is one of deliberate uglyness. I havn't cared to look for this year's McLaren, but last year's was definitely one of the ugliest racing cars ever produced, IMO - some grotesque, mutated monster from 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. The wannabe polished aluminium bodywork didn't help either - just made the whole thing even more messy to look at. Polished aluminium needs simple elegance of line to work - and, of course, aluminium bodywork - not oven-baked black plastic.
#9
Posted 26 February 2007 - 12:31
Originally posted by Stephen W
Eye test for Mr Kitson
Just booked one Stephen following your advice.
#10
Posted 26 February 2007 - 12:40
We showed pictures of current cars to thier drivers in Suzuka one year, after all the pictures of the cars had been "paintshopped" black. Not one could identify his own car!! Current colour schemes are hideous!!
#11
Posted 26 February 2007 - 12:51
Originally posted by macoran ...
I vote for the Ligier. The BAR was just a redo of the '93 Williams.
#12
Posted 26 February 2007 - 12:53
#13
Posted 26 February 2007 - 12:59
Originally posted by jcbc3
I vote for the Ligier. The BAR was just a redo of the '93 Williams.
And that was just a re-do of Alan Raine's 1979 FF1600 PRS.
#14
Posted 26 February 2007 - 13:25
Originally posted by Andrew Kitson
And that was just a re-do of Alan Raine's 1979 FF1600 PRS.
But nowhere near as good to look at as the PRS. Does anyone on here care how modern F1 cars look ??
#15
Posted 26 February 2007 - 13:50
Originally posted by Andrew Kitson
And that was just a re-do of Alan Raine's 1979 FF1600 PRS.
I bow to your superior knowledge. Any pics?
#16
Posted 26 February 2007 - 17:31
#17
Posted 26 February 2007 - 17:38
#18
Posted 26 February 2007 - 18:06
I thought I had seen the WORST POSSIBLE colour scheme when the 2007 Renault was announced but without doubt, this abomination on the Honda moves me to tears of frustration.
What ARE they thinking?
#19
Posted 26 February 2007 - 19:00
[BTW, I admit to being An Olde Farte, too, Barry...]
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#20
Posted 26 February 2007 - 19:05
It's allllllll blue-ish except forthe Champion and Firestone logos....oh and the little kiwi on Chris's helmet.
#21
Posted 26 February 2007 - 19:13
I know what I am thinking..Originally posted by Barry Boor
What ARE they thinking?
Renault = "Pavement Pizza"
Honda = "Something to step in at a farmyard"
Rob
#22
Posted 26 February 2007 - 19:55
#23
Posted 26 February 2007 - 19:57
Originally posted by Barry Boor
Being the archetypal old f**t, I liked racing cars when they were pretty-well one colour. Maybe a stripe or two, or a nose band, but nothing flash.
I thought I had seen the WORST POSSIBLE colour scheme when the 2007 Renault was announced but without doubt, this abomination on the Honda moves me to tears of frustration.
What ARE they thinking?
Yes, yes, yes. But nobody has asked the question: how on earth did they do it?
#24
Posted 26 February 2007 - 20:13
Either that, or they just let it sit in the chicken coop long enough...
Marc.
I'm looking forward to seing your Amon on the TNF'er artworks thread...!
#25
Posted 26 February 2007 - 21:27
Originally posted by jcb3
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Originally posted by Andrew Kitson
And that was just a re-do of Alan Raine's 1979 FF1600 PRS.
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I bow to your superior knowledge. Any pics?
http://www.alanraine...ans_history.htm
His PRS is car no 59 in the picture at the bottom of the page.
#26
Posted 26 February 2007 - 21:47
Originally posted by Alan Cox
http://www.alanraine...ans_history.htm
His PRS is car no 59 in the picture at the bottom of the page.
I was thinking more of a side view. To see his execution of the 'tub window'.
#27
Posted 27 February 2007 - 00:58
#28
Posted 27 February 2007 - 09:38
Originally posted by dbw
you can go back a ways for " art car" paintjobs....the indy "wonder bread special"of the '30s...that shocking zebra-striped british hillclimb car [ can't remember the make -brain fade] and sonia delaunay's fabulous cubist t-35 bug....
Wasn't there also a Clubman's car racing in Britain in the late 60s/early 70s with a black and white striped livery - entered by "Humbug Racing" or something similar? Or was that the one on the hills? Got a feeling it was a Lotus 7, but could be wrong (as usual).
#29
Posted 27 February 2007 - 09:44
I mean today we call the Ed Hugus Porsche 908 Zebra an Art Car, but was it called that way back then? And many other cars in the past have had very special liveries, e.g. Sonia Delaunay Bugatti.
#30
Posted 27 February 2007 - 09:52
Originally posted by ian senior
Wasn't there also a Clubman's car racing in Britain in the late 60s/early 70s with a black and white striped livery - entered by "Humbug Racing" or something similar? Or was that the one on the hills? Got a feeling it was a Lotus 7, but could be wrong (as usual).
Robin Hall, 1-litre Lotus 7 Humbug Racing.
Mid to late 60s raced in clubmans against Max Mosley,Tim Goss, Jeremy Lord etc... White car with black and white stripes on the nose.
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Posted 27 February 2007 - 09:52
#32
Posted 27 February 2007 - 09:53
Bertie Kensington Moir's Straker-Squire. Not exactly zebra-striped: it was based on the dazzle-painted camouflage used on warships.Originally posted by dbw
that shocking zebra-striped british hillclimb car [ can't remember the make -brain fade]
http://www.hartlana....hive/im0324.htm
ps 29 posts and not a mention of the Porsche Pink Pig.
#33
Posted 27 February 2007 - 10:09
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Posted 27 February 2007 - 10:27
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Posted 27 February 2007 - 10:28
#36
Posted 27 February 2007 - 10:49
The Carver is available all in matt black (they call it 'Stealth Black ' ) including the wheels and in over 40 orders this is, perhaps surprisingly, the most popular colour choice
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Posted 27 February 2007 - 11:07
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#42
Posted 27 February 2007 - 15:53
Like Warhol, Lichtenstein, Calder, Stella and Ken Done on the BMW's. Cesar on the Venturi and McLaren.
Arman on the Venturi LP400. And Wollinski's Porsche that ran at Le Mans 1998.
Karel Appel once did a Mercedes 190 (no racing intended)
Mahlangu also did a BMW (no racer as well I believe)
The Shadow DN9B of Jan Lammers was painted by a local UK artist I believe. The livery looks stunning. However the mechanics were shocked and amused when they lifted the body and saw the nose painting only...
"Protect me from what I want..."
#43
Posted 27 February 2007 - 16:13
Always a very subjective thing, though, after all, there are even people who find 1980s f2 cars pretty.........................
RL