Your progress brings up a smile every time I read ! Lol I have about 15 Ikea Lack table sets of parts on my walls converted for decoration in my house. Please keep updating your RBS2 build, as it is informational and entertaining at the same time...thanks! Keep it up !
Your progress brings up a smile every time I read ! Lol I have about 15 Ikea Lack table sets of parts on my walls converted for decoration in my house. Please keep updating your RBS2 build, as it is informational and entertaining at the same time...thanks! Keep it up !
Thanks Fie Ro for your nice comments, as you can see I'm having fun with life...
Wednesday made a round trip with top down to Hope, Princeton, Penticton, Kelowna, Vernon, Kamloops, Lillooet, Whistler and back home Pic shot at Kamloops Lake lookout point.
Something came today...
Hey Fie Ro, we are both smiling today a little update...
Seems they got you before you finished your zombie device. Immortal after 70 years, now this build may take forever. I'll grab some you grab some blood I suggest tinted windows.
Seems they got you before you finished your zombie device. Immortal after 70 years, now this build may take forever. I'll grab some you grab some blood I suggest tinted windows.
At Fierofest I really looked like a zombie anyway wrinkled sagging skin tinted windows for sure
Sounds and looks great. Car designer, artist, mechanic, metal and fiber/plastic fabricator, and now a film director, lol. That Zombie didn't eat Patrick did he ?
I know as for color chioce you are thinking red but after I did this phot chop I thought I might share it with you and RBS let me know what you and her think of it? The car was a Zenos E10s
I know as for color chioce you are thinking red but after I did this phot chop I thought I might share it with you and RBS let me know what you and her think of it? The car was a Zenos E10s
You two may need to see it like this?
Everybody wanted a front shot too
Thanks Terry I love it that would make a great "TerryArch kit " I like the fastback better
I change my mind on colour I like the Peugeot concept colour scheme just silver and black it suits an old man better
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Sounds and looks great. Car designer, artist, mechanic, metal and fiber/plastic fabricator, and now a film director, lol. That Zombie didn't eat Patrick did he ?
Thanks davylon86, but I'm only one of them and the rest just butchered amateur work my friends are professionals oh about Patrick, yes eaten up by everybody
Anyway yesterday I took the day off Today I flipped the lights right side up just to see what did you guys think about that
The bottom is the first
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I'd vote for the lights flipped as you had them originally. IMHO, they flow better with the body lines.
As to the rest of it, of course it's your vision, but methinks what with all the vertical and angled planes it's getting confused and crowded back there. Remember, less is more.
If you go with the tail light flipped in this position it will flow with the lines of the defuser.
If you go with the tail light flipped in this position it will flow with the lines of the trunk lid.
I vote for the TOP one...follow the lines of the defuser!
Thanks TXOPIE and Habanera Hal for your feed back that's the best and I'll go with the first
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Originally posted by Habanera Hal:
I'd vote for the lights flipped as you had them originally. IMHO, they flow better with the body lines.
As to the rest of it, of course it's your vision, but methinks what with all the vertical and angled planes it's getting confused and crowded back there. Remember, less is more.
That vertical thing yes very defusing you're making me rethink, I'll play with it after dinner
Hi - the lights can only go one way - pic 2 - the original way - most of the lines fit great and you can adjust the fin angles on the rear to suit the light segment angles - job jobbed. I don't think its looking too busy either - from the side you have built meaningful depth and form and from the straight rear I think its looking great. Keep up the great work, and thanks for sharing.
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^This^ You may know that already or I will fly to Vancouver with a suitcase full of garlic
One serious suggestion, you could put in some lightbulbs and run 12V to them, do a walkaround the car and see what the shape AND lights do compared to the bodylines from all angles.
One thought might be to put a solid piece of fiberglass or board of some kind in between the rear lights to help remove the internal workings of the rear clip. Not sure what you plan on back there as a final but to get a good idea of how everything works for fins and lights, put that inner panel in there to remove some of the alternate angles of the rear clip panel mounts to get a really good feel.... Back to that old saying of make it all one backdrop colour/surface to get a good feel toward a finished product.
^This^ You may know that already or I will fly to Vancouver with a suitcase full of garlic
One serious suggestion, you could put in some lightbulbs and run 12V to them, do a walkaround the car and see what the shape AND lights do compared to the bodylines from all angles.
At twilight would be good
Thanks for the tip Fie Ro it's too late for the garlic
Lightbulbs are already in, just waiting for front and rear harness with connectors from GM, then it would be easier to wire it up to the lights.
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One thought might be to put a solid piece of fiberglass or board of some kind in between the rear lights to help remove the internal workings of the rear clip. Not sure what you plan on back there as a final but to get a good idea of how everything works for fins and lights, put that inner panel in there to remove some of the alternate angles of the rear clip panel mounts to get a really good feel.... Back to that old saying of make it all one backdrop colour/surface to get a good feel toward a finished product.
Keep up the brilliant work. Don
Thanks again Don, taken day off today to travel, so no playing with RBS2 Tomorrow I'll cover top portion of rear clip with black foam core area shown in red is going to stay exposed she wants to look raw and mean
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Hi - the lights can only go one way - pic 2 - the original way - most of the lines fit great and you can adjust the fin angles on the rear to suit the light segment angles - job jobbed. I don't think its looking too busy either - from the side you have built meaningful depth and form and from the straight rear I think its looking great. Keep up the great work, and thanks for sharing.
OOPS almost forgot about you Thanks for your feed back and your work just like you and everyone else said the first original is a better fit
You may know this already, but thought I'd mention it. All lights/lenses are designed to be in one position for correct light distribution. For that reason alone I'd stay pretty darn close to what factory position of those lamps was. Headlamps are a little more forgiving because they can be aimed/adjusted. Tail lights are more sensitive to position as the adjustment is purely mounting the assembly. Many hours go into designing and testing of the lamps to me Federal Requirements for optics/light distribution.
Very interesting thread, do you have a target date you hope to complete by ?
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Not to much action this week with R2, busy enjoying life
Playing with rear really rough photoshop to visualize, rear clip finished in silver / deffuser all blacked out, what do you think ?
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Originally posted by California Kid:
You may know this already, but thought I'd mention it. All lights/lenses are designed to be in one position for correct light distribution. For that reason alone I'd stay pretty darn close to what factory position of those lamps was. Headlamps are a little more forgiving because they can be aimed/adjusted. Tail lights are more sensitive to position as the adjustment is purely mounting the assembly. Many hours go into designing and testing of the lamps to me Federal Requirements for optics/light distribution.
Very interesting thread, do you have a target date you hope to complete by ?
Thank you so much for your tips as for TARGET DATE she had so many I may not live that long
Madcurly's taillights are 2015 (not the newest Camaro) two versions in 2015
they have some flavour of the C7 tail lights
hiking, we'll be back 
taking a hike...
makes it easy to slip the unit on and off without breaking vertical fins
to Hope, Princeton, Penticton, Kelowna, Vernon, Kamloops, Lillooet, Whistler and back home
we are both smiling today 
they are the best ones so far ( she had many 
)
welds are in the back side (you don't want to see them 
)
planing to have exterior paint red / all inside blacked out
I really looked like a zombie anyway 
wrinkled sagging skin 
thanks again for choosing the first design 
that would make a great "TerryArch kit " 
it suits an old man better 
2, busy enjoying life 
