Speedy88's Thirteen:...

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Re: Speedy88's The Tardis: Weekend faffing

Post by Speedy88 » 28 Apr 2011 11:21 pm

HEY.

Firstly, a video. Excuse the smoke, sensor issue.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA2960H49Yk

I had a go at giving a splatter effect with Ford's "terrible orange" that they use on the Focus RS. I "threw" the paint, using a brush, sticks, hands etc. Turns out that metalic spray paint is too thin. So it came out kinda gold coloured. However, it's not bad and it'll do for now. Enjoy some pictars and a videar of me doing it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31rEvEy04SA

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Even did the keys:
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Comments welcome!
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Re: Speedy88's The Tardis: Weekend faffing

Post by jon-ovlov » 28 Apr 2011 11:30 pm

Cool! Like the steering wheel a lot!. Paint on the grill needs to be thicker though, looks a little like mud :lol: I like the keys too.

Is that tunnel around brizzle? if so we should get a photoshoot on the go!
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Re: Speedy88's The Tardis: Weekend faffing

Post by Nimminz » 28 Apr 2011 11:33 pm

+1 on the steering wheel, looks class!
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Re: Speedy88's The Tardis: Weekend faffing

Post by Speedy88 » 28 Apr 2011 11:42 pm

Oops! forgot to post the first video, its now up there. Thanks guys! Yeah it's just south of brizzle (that motorway bridge you see is the M5). There's loads of locations I want to try. Photoshoot night when you zorst is done? :D
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Re: Speedy88's The Tardis: Weekend faffing

Post by jon-ovlov » 28 Apr 2011 11:53 pm

Yes. that'll be saturday then :D your on.
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Re: Speedy88's The Tardis: Weekend faffing

Post by Speedy88 » 29 Apr 2011 12:02 am

Working all weekend but I'm free after 7 sat/sun. Or we could wait until Monday if you've got that off? Depends if you wanna do a night or day shoot!
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Re: Speedy88's The Tardis: Weekend faffing

Post by jon-ovlov » 29 Apr 2011 12:03 am

Im free any time lad. Uni student :wink: 7 would be cool, evening twilight shoot, best of both worlds, night and day effectively.

BTW, love that first vid. bwaaaaaap!! yeah!
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Re: Speedy88's The Tardis: Weekend faffing

Post by volvosneverdie » 29 Apr 2011 08:15 am

Fosters Ad wrote:Youre good at painting!
Looks good man, loving the vids. 8)
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Re: Speedy88's The Tardis: Weekend faffing

Post by roadrallyliam » 30 Apr 2011 09:46 pm

i love this car!!

i want one

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Re: Speedy88's The Tardis: Weekend faffing

Post by Speedy88 » 30 Apr 2011 10:54 pm

Glad you like it :D It's lovely apart from a small running issue I'm getting to the bottom of. I've been really tempted to buy a muscle car recently though :oops:
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Re: Speedy88's Thirteen:...

Post by Speedy88 » 29 Jun 2011 06:08 pm

I've been a little busy in Speedy land, starting a new job and such. The tardis has proved pretty reliable though, bar a few non-starts (mostly electrical issues in the custom loom which were mostly my fault to begin with :lol: )

I've since decided to rename my car. This was the tardis a few months after I bought it in August 2009 and after a knackered Fiesta diesel it was quite an upgrade! I was really happy to have it:

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That was then, a friend of a friend commented "did you travel back in time to buy that?" and thus "The Tardis" was born.

It's morphed into it's current form through ideas that I and other people have had along the way. It's become part of me that's not removable and like me, shares my bad luck. Thinking of names I realised that the orange striped ball in pool is a 13. And so I began to grow to this name. Being very un-supersticious I thought it was perfect. This and it's also the name of a character my favourite actress plays (Thirteen in House). Of course my car is just as pretty so it suited it down to the core.

And thus, The tardis is no more. And Thirteen has been born.

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I'm so scene it hurts.

In other news I decided to swap out my old rear shocks for some slightly less old ones. It was proper jokes - the old ones has stuff growing on them :lol: After removing I put some weight on one and it sort of went *no resistance, no resistance, no resistance, no resistance, STOP*

More to happen this summer. More exciting stuff.
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Re: Speedy88's Thirteen:...

Post by volvosneverdie » 29 Jun 2011 06:24 pm

Hipster Aviators. -10pts.

Poolball shifter. + 1,000,000 pts.
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Re: Speedy88's Thirteen:...

Post by Chris_C » 29 Jun 2011 09:48 pm

I can't get over how scene you've become recently :lol: :lol: :lol:

The orange theme is starting to grow on me though :shock: :oops:
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Re: Speedy88's Thirteen:...

Post by Speedy88 » 29 Jun 2011 10:15 pm

I've always tried to be such the anti-scene though. Damn yoooou retro cars magazine sm2
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Re: Speedy88's Thirteen:...

Post by jon-ovlov » 29 Jun 2011 10:34 pm

Ha ha! Like the new name! Shifter looks wicked. Might have to get in on this pool ball action :wink: Have you managed to sort the running issues out then?
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