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Porsche 962-004 "Colour Crime"
WARNING: This one is NOT for the purists.
My entry to the LEC #7 "Colour Crime" was a recoloured version of the 1985 Porsche 962-004 Works car driven by Jacky Ickx and Jochen Mass in the Spa 1000 km race (see previous post for the original). It's an iconic livery on one of my favourite racing cars, and one of the most successful racing platforms in history. It felt truly criminal to recolour this iconic colour scheme, but at the same time it was a lot of fun!
Taking an original legend and rethinking all the colours to create something that gives a different vibe was a difficult and controversial process, in which I ended up making nine different colour variations over the space of a couple of weeks. There were pale greens, pastel yellows, rusty reds, muddy oranges, even monochromatic versions, before I finally settled on a combination of bright pink and baby blue, with yellow and PZK colourshift detailing. The end result is, well, bright!
If you're brave enough to race in this colour variation, here's the link.
I almost settled on a monochromatic version before I changed my entry to the one above, in which the base colours were switch to black/grey, with green and metallic silver detailing. In the end I felt it was just a bit too subtle against the incredible entries in that round, so I upped my criminal activity to a less conspicuous level!
Another notable version which I almost submitted was one inspired by the Silk Cut Jaguar XJR-9. I switch the contrast and made it a white/purple with yellow/red detailing, and to be honest I think it works quite well! The Rothmans logo just didn't pop enough for my liking, so it was relegated back to 3rd in the queue...
WARNING: This one is NOT for the purists.
My entry to the LEC #7 "Colour Crime" was a recoloured version of the 1985 Porsche 962-004 Works car driven by Jacky Ickx and Jochen Mass in the Spa 1000 km race (see previous post for the original). It's an iconic livery on one of my favourite racing cars, and one of the most successful racing platforms in history. It felt truly criminal to recolour this iconic colour scheme, but at the same time it was a lot of fun!
Taking an original legend and rethinking all the colours to create something that gives a different vibe was a difficult and controversial process, in which I ended up making nine different colour variations over the space of a couple of weeks. There were pale greens, pastel yellows, rusty reds, muddy oranges, even monochromatic versions, before I finally settled on a combination of bright pink and baby blue, with yellow and PZK colourshift detailing. The end result is, well, bright!
If you're brave enough to race in this colour variation, here's the link.
I almost settled on a monochromatic version before I changed my entry to the one above, in which the base colours were switch to black/grey, with green and metallic silver detailing. In the end I felt it was just a bit too subtle against the incredible entries in that round, so I upped my criminal activity to a less conspicuous level!
Another notable version which I almost submitted was one inspired by the Silk Cut Jaguar XJR-9. I switch the contrast and made it a white/purple with yellow/red detailing, and to be honest I think it works quite well! The Rothmans logo just didn't pop enough for my liking, so it was relegated back to 3rd in the queue...
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