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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Can I hate the wheels? Because those ugly bastards kinda spoil it. If the form is driven by function, and it functions well, it's gorgeous IMO.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Also WHERE'S THE GRILL? Someone at Aston had a seizure when they saw it missing on this, guaranteed. 
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donut posted:I didn't think about this until you said this but they actually did a really good job of implying the traditional Aston grille on this design. You can put lipstick on a pig... (ok, it's a fast as gently caress pig, but still)
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Come to my birthday party thread and post some awesome AI car poo poo there https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3826635
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iospace posted:You can put lipstick on a pig... Car is loving beautiful. gently caress the haters.
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MrYenko posted:Car is loving beautiful. gently caress the haters. I concur.
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This was probably posted around here when it was first published earlier in the year, but I just stumbled on it and wanted to (re)post it because I just love the 90's nonchalantness of the whole thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93CjrQDC0Ic "Well, that was pretty quick" "I need more revs please" "Why would I need a suit?"
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xzzy posted:If weight/thickness is that big a deal, why not just paint it on the body and bury it under the clearcoat they're certainly layering over everything? Paint is heavy! http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2017/04/global-mazda-mx-5-cup-car-built/ quote:LRR is set up similar to a Mazda dealer and receives cars in the same manner. In its testing, LRR found the single-stage white cars were 15-pounds lighter than the multi-stage colors, so it decide to use only white cars. (I know that's for a whole car not a badge)
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Old German race cars were unpainted for the same reason 
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"Old german race car" is nearly slanderous when you're talking about anything Auto Union. It's like calling a Miura an "old Italian car."
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I'm pretty sure silver was the official color of german race cars in that era, while italian were red and GB green. (hence british racing green)hackbunny posted:Old German race cars were unpainted for the same reason
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Crustashio posted:Paint is heavy! american airlines saves a bunch of money with their polished aluminum planes due to less paint weight being flown around
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donut posted:I didn't think about this until you said this but they actually did a really good job of implying the traditional Aston grille on this design. Well gently caress.
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Double posting because this is actually great. http://englishrussia.com/2015/06/28/wolfen-dragon-car/    It appears to have been made a few years ago for some Russian Circus type thing.
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dee eight posted:I'm pretty sure silver was the official color of german race cars in that era It was white, in fact, but as soon as they found out how much the paint weighed, they went with bare metal Metal Geir Skogul posted:"Old german race car" is nearly slanderous when you're talking about anything Auto Union. It's like calling a Miura an "old Italian car." I wanted to post more than just interwar grand prix cars, but I couldn't find good photos of unpainted Porsche T64s and so I gave up 
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Double posting because this is actually great. Found my car for when I settle in. That appears to be a GAZ/YAZ frame based off the hangars/splitrearend/hub lockouts.
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dee eight posted:I'm pretty sure silver was the official color of german race cars in that era, while italian were red and GB green. (hence british racing green) Actually, red was originally America's colour.
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hackbunny posted:It was white, in fact, but as soon as they found out how much the paint weighed, they went with bare metal In the period the Grand Prix cars had maximum weight limit, IIRC 750 kg. The version of the paint story I've heard is that before the first race they found out the cars was slightly overweight. Be leaving out the paint they stayed within the regulations.
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InitialDave posted:Technically we pinched green from the Irish, both to commemorate the relevant 1903 race being held there, and because all our flag's constituent colours had been claimed by someone else. Yeah, then we got stuck with dark blue with white stripes and the italians took our glorious red. You thought us invading them first in ww2 was some big tactical thing? Nah, we just wanted to kick their rear end for taking red race cars from us.
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DoLittle posted:In the period the Grand Prix cars had maximum weight limit, IIRC 750 kg. The version of the paint story I've heard is that before the first race they found out the cars was slightly overweight. Be leaving out the paint they stayed within the regulations. Yup. Cars were getting too powerful and the organizers thought a maximum weight limit would stop people building even bigger engines.
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hackbunny posted:Old German race cars were unpainted for the same reason As were American bombers toward the end of WWII, after we had total air supremacy over the Luftwaffe/IJAA. The paint that weighs fifteen pounds on a car adds up to several hundred pounds on a B-17 or B-29, enough to carry one or two more bombs if you don't paint the plane. Kinda surprised unpainted is so rare in airline liveries -- pretty sure American was the only airline that stuck with (half) polished aluminum into the jet age.
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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Delivery McGee posted:As were American bombers toward the end of WWII, after we had total air supremacy over the Luftwaffe/IJAA. The paint that weighs fifteen pounds on a car adds up to several hundred pounds on a B-17 or B-29, enough to carry one or two more bombs if you don't paint the plane. Kinda surprised unpainted is so rare in airline liveries -- pretty sure American was the only airline that stuck with (half) polished aluminum into the jet age. Keeping the polish up is more labour and materials expensive. Someone probably did some math. And now it's redundant anyway because airplanes are made of plastic, so they paint them grey.
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Finger Prince posted:Keeping the polish up is more labour and materials expensive. Someone probably did some math. And now it's redundant anyway because airplanes are made of plastic, so they paint them grey. most modern planes are still aluminum skinned
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Finger Prince posted:Keeping the polish up is more labour and materials expensive. Someone probably did some math. And now it's redundant anyway because airplanes are made of plastic, so they paint them grey. Fair play for airliners, I guess, but the point stands for bombers. BraveUlysses posted:most modern planes are still aluminum skinned 
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Delivery McGee posted:Fair play for airliners, I guess, but the point stands for bombers. hey cool i worked on the 787 for 9 years with about 550 delivered over a decade how many A319, A320, A321, 737 and 777's have been delivered in that time frame? how many total are currently flying? namaste
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KakerMix posted:To bring up fire engines again, this is going to be up for auction in about 24 hours What happens when you fill the water tank and floor it? Wheelie fire truck?
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wayfinder posted:Sorry not a car You might like Radical Ducati or Walt Siegl.
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wayfinder posted:Sorry not a car That's alright. The cycle thread would probably lynch you for posting that.
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BraveUlysses posted:hey cool i worked on the 787 for 9 years with about 550 delivered over a decade Yeah but when it's time for a corporate livery refresh, are you going to do two separate ones, or just design the new one to cover all your airframes, old and new?
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:That's alright. The cycle thread would probably lynch you for posting that. Why, is it like hacking a classic bike or something?
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Oh boy, I can't wait for a multi-page flying-contraption derail.
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Wistful of Dollars posted:Oh boy, I can't wait for a multi-page flying-contraption derail. Nope, there's a thread for that. Come join us and moan about everything that flies and sometimes there's some cool stuff too. Mainly moaning though. It's pretty great.
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kimbo305 posted:Why, is it like hacking a classic bike or something? An old /5 is sort of a classic bike, I guess -- they're not particularly rare but not particularly common either. No, mostly just that that style of bike is the hellaflush of motorcycles. Everything's done for looks. - Ancient balloon tires that are outperformed by any modern cheap chinese commuter tire - No fenders front or rear, so you get sprayed with rocks and muck - Ridiculously positioned (unrideably low) clip-on handlebars and rear-set foot controls, which would fold you up in a riding position that would be considered pretty over-the-top on a dedicated drag bike - Needlessly complicated exhaust system that runs the headers directly underneath the gas tank and along your right thigh - An almost certainly obnoxiously loud barely-legal muffler - Appears to have no taillight or turn signals (or if they exist, they're tiny invisible LEDs) - Shrunken fuel tank that probably holds about 70 miles of gas - Retains the original bike's 1960s-era rear brake, engine design and suspension layout e: here, because I'm waiting for a 3D print to finish and I'm bored. This is the 50th percentile American male attempting to ride that motorcycle, using anthropometric models directly from The Measure of Man, which is the world reference publication for this sort of thing.  and the same person riding a more conventional sport-standard 
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Sagebrush posted:An old /5 is sort of a classic bike, I guess -- they're not particularly rare but not particularly common either. No, mostly just that that style of bike is the hellaflush of motorcycles. Everything's done for looks. Thanks for this. As a non-rider, the only thing I picked up from the pictures was the lack of fenders and the oddball exhaust. Otherwise I had no idea what I was looking at other than a motorcycle that has a fairly interesting look.
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Sagebrush posted:e: here, because I'm waiting for a 3D print to finish and I'm bored. This is the 50th percentile American male attempting to ride that motorcycle, using anthropometric models directly from The Measure of Man, which is the world reference publication for this sort of thing. These are really neat. But wouldn't the back be arched more in the first case? Can you do one more for a real race bike?
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kimbo305 posted:These are really neat. But wouldn't the back be arched more in the first case? Can you do one more for a real race bike?  http://cycle-ergo.com/
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wayfinder posted:Sorry not a car Designer/builder has taken what my wife would call autistic license. I had a couple1973 /5s and they were decent transport.
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The Locator posted:Thanks for this. As a non-rider, the only thing I picked up from the pictures was the lack of fenders and the oddball exhaust. Otherwise I had no idea what I was looking at other than a motorcycle that has a fairly interesting look. Eh, it's fine, it's still an interesting piece of mechanical sculpture. (I'm not a huge fan of the look but to each their own). It's just not very rideable in that form. I think Hellaflush is a good analogy, in that it's kind of taking aesthetic elements that you might see on a high-performance vehicle and exaggerating them to a cartoonish level. Race bikes have cut-down fenders; we have no fenders. Race bikes have low bars; we have the lowest bars. Race bikes have complicated exhaust systems; we have the craziest exhaust system. It can be a fine line, though. Here's a ridiculous-looking motorcycle that happens to be also one of the best racing machines ever made  kimbo305 posted:These are really neat. But wouldn't the back be arched more in the first case? Can you do one more for a real race bike? The back might be arched a bit more, yeah, but my models don't support that particular movement. In any case it's not desirable to arch your back when riding -- you want to be in a neutral position. The forward lean on a true sportbike serves a couple of purposes, such as shifting weight to the front tire for better cornering, and pulling you into a racing tuck for better aerodynamics, but it's poo poo for street riding. You have a reduced field of view, the steering leverage that you have is not suited for making quick dodges around potholes and stuff, and you end up supporting a lot of your body weight on your wrists, which is both bad for your wrists and bad for the bike's handling. (At high speeds on a racetrack, the air blast supports your chest and helps you keep weight off the bars). Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 05:50 on Jul 14, 2017 |
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