Mazda RX-7 GTP livery competition 08 entry minus the mandatory Sunday Cup number plates and bigger and better pics. Not usually a style of car I would bother with as I generally keep my liveries as real world race replicas and I wasn't even going to bother sharing it but I think it's turned out okay so it's now shared.
I kept it pretty simple to tie in with my interpretation of the competition theme, a track day car. Went for an RE-Amemiya theme as they're probably the best known tuners of rotary engine Mazdas (the RE in RE-Amemiya actually stands for Rotary Engine) so it was a natural choice.
As for actually creating it it was fairly straightforward, a gold liquid metallic special paint base and masks easily created in Photoshop and converted in Illustrator. A white car with gold decals was my choice as soon as I decided to enter the competition and it looks nicely subtle in race replays which again suits the competition theme. Gold wheels were pretty much a given and again it was decided from the start and I didn't even bother to try any other colours.
Carbon fibre texture decals used on the bonnet, splitter, wing mirrors and spoiler, credit goes to
@BLiTZ as the carbon decal I used is his creation and the bonnet and spoiler rounded off with RE-Amemiya decals which are usually white on RE-Amemiya tuned cars but to keep the car as low profile as possible for the competition I went with black with the idea that you can't really see it unless you're looking for it or the lighting is bright.
One other small addition is the Japanese licence plates which suggests that this car is driven to and from the track and to emphasize further that this is not a race car which is also the reason that there's no kill switch, extinguisher or tow hook decals on the car.