Paint idea: dystopian sci-fi racing livery

JoeyM wrote: FWIW, I was talking to my dad about tires this morning and said something about contact patches "the size of a big woman's thighs" (yes, I know that was paraphrased a bit)

Neil Stephenson said: You want to talk contact patches? Your car's tires have tiny contact patches, talk to the asphalt in four places the size of your tongue. The Deliverator's car has big sticky tires with contact patches the size of a fat lady's thighs. The Deliverator is in touch with the road, starts like a bad day, stops on a peseta.

I was already planning Cosa Nostra Pizza sponsorship not getting any feedback on the design I was working on though, is it that bad?

GameboyRMH wrote: I was already planning Cosa Nostra Pizza sponsorship not getting any feedback on the design I was working on though, is it that bad?

I'm thinking it's more a combination of your slapdash 'rendering' and us getting sidetracked easily than us being unhappy with your design.
I think it's got potential.

GameboyRMH wrote: I was already planning Cosa Nostra Pizza sponsorship not getting any feedback on the design I was working on though, is it that bad?

your dog needs rat-thing armor....don't forget the stegasaurus-like plates to vent the heat from the nuclear reactor

Yeah I don't intend to put effort into making it look more realistic. I'd go straight from slapping yellow pixels on the car to slapping yellow paint on it. I'm just laying out where the paint will go.

You could always go with the Zorg logo

the down side is that people might expect you to go with the haircut

Thanks for the logos! I don't recognize some of them though. The blue triangular one looks familiar but I don't know where from. Don't recognize the white one above and to the left of it.

Definitely gonna fit some Fallout stuff in there and the UAC logo from Doom. Think I'll squeeze in a Buy N' Large logo too.

Gonna post a revised striping & numbers design tonight.

Now that Detroit it bankrupt, you have plenty of Detroit themed options to use!

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I think I'd go with Aperture Science over Black Mesa, especially with the suggestions in the Portal series that some apocalyptic event has occurred outside (possibly related to the HL storyline).

Think this is the best I can do, I lost the numbers to make room for "sponsors:"

Changed the color of the stripes to the same light gray as the factory emblem-stickers on the rear of the car, think I like this better, it's not so LOUD

So not really dystopian, but plenty of futuristic syfi sponsors from Matt Groening's head.

Futurama's dystopian enough, they have suicide booths after all

Definitely gonna get a Slurm logo in there.

Sticker placement, 1st draft:

GameboyRMH wrote: Sticker placement, 1st draft:

Bad. That isn't a dystopian theme, that's a bunch of stickers. If you want your car to look like it was designed by a bunch of 13 year old Redditors you're on the right track.

You're right, it doesn't look dystopian enough somehow. I'm trying to find a way to make it look more dystopian without going full Mad Max with the silly spikes and stuff.

Edit: Think I may have to lose the stickers and add graffiti. What say ye?

I think you need to limit your Dystopian logos down to a couple or just one. Pick one and make it your theme.

Too late, already started tagging it up

If I go with a main theme it'll have to be after something fictional and generic or it'll look too fanfic/cosplay-ish.

• Lee

I plan to someday have some vinyl designed and cut for the Burban. It's sort of dystopian, from a certain perspective...

Borderlands is pretty damn dystopian....