WIP - 1978 Brabham BT-46B 'Fan Car' (F1)

[bluestar77]

Just thought I'd show something I've been working on to get some crits - there's still lots of modelling to do, mesh errors and loads of details in some places and bare in others. The mirrors are toast, too but it's getting there. It's high-poly. Apologies for the grainy renders...

Brabham's seriously wacky Fan Car...

[Icekid84]

Sweet work, the car looks great, goto love that clay type look in renders. Really shows the shading or as my art appreciation teacher says curiscuro. Great work so far, its indeed very detailed

[Bjolletts]

excellent !

love those older F1 cars .. and this one has alot of "new ideas" ... whats the story ? I remember reading somewhere that the FIA ruled it out after just one race or something ?

[dppd69]

Originally Posted by Icekid84 ...art appreciation teacher says curiscuro...

Probably you mean CHIAROSCURO. It's an italian word and I'm the forum Italian teacher !!!

Joking... What school are you attending for listening to this words ??? (big envy from me, I'm 34 and the school times are gone away forever )

Cheers, Dario

[bluestar77]

Chiaroscuro...I'll have to remember that one...

Bjolletts - The car was deemed legal by scrutineers and was 'banned' by the FIA (it considered the fan to be a moving aerodynamic device, outlawed earlier in the decade). Although Brabham insisted that the fan was for cooling, not strictly untrue because the fan sucked air through the horizontally-mounted radiators on the top, team leader Bernie Ecclestone decided to withdraw it after it totally dominated the Swedish GP in '78 because of the turbulence between FOCA and the FIA. The other teams were concerned about the debris picked up off the track and thrown out the back and the habit of the fan blades to disintegrate. The fan was so effective at sucking the car to the ground that it would squat when the throttle was blipped...while stationary...(!)

More renders to come, working on texturing...

[dppd69]

Thanks for the F1 story lesson... Great work and I am looking forward to see it finished.

I appreciate a lot your infos, so I give to you the mine:
Chiaroscuro --> it is an artistic drawing technical word, and it indicates a particular effect you give to your drawing using ONLY the pencil, that would be 3B or 4B (pencil classification sistem, based on the "hardness". They are scaled from the hardest-9H to the softest-9B. The 'H' stands for hardness, the 'B' stands for blackness, and HB, in the middle, is for hard and black pencils). Normally the HB is used for the sketches (it's easier to delete its signs) and the 2B is used for the shadows.

Sorry if I bored you ops: .

CYA Dario

[bluestar77]

dppd69 - you didn't bore at all, mate. I'm familiar with sketching pencils - I spent many years at college back in the UK brushing flakes of 6B's off my work and smearing them beyond recognition hock: although I can't say I've seen that grading system here in the US so far.

Anyway - here's an update, just a texture and reflection test. Still haven't replaced the mirrors. :roll:

[discocandy]

ow yeah!! another great F1 car..
hoped to see more of that stuff. and there it is!!
beautiful addition!!
great work again.
:twisted: now i'm waiting for even older racecars... :lol: :lol: :twisted:

[Bjolletts]

sweet, really like that you made the tires look a bit worn ! the body feels a little bit too reflective though.

excellent model ! thanks for showing!

[Icekid84]

lol yeah spelling is not my best online I just type it down. But I'm attending a local college and its a class of Art Appreciation.

Great Model, the car looks very very well made. I'm kind of out of interesting replys today hehe. But a lot of work has gone into it thats for sure. Thanks for showing

[dppd69]

It needs only a racetrack now...

Great work, I didn't know that the engine was AlfaRomeo.

Cheers Dario

[bluestar77]

This is probably about done. There's a couple of textures need finishing on the fan and it needs a few finishing touches to the cockpit. I'll post whenever I get to them.

[Icekid84]

Hey thats looking great bluestar. Love the tire slick, looks very realisitc. But you know what..... I'm missing some updates on the Arrow.......

[bluestar77]

LOL...I'm trying to collect a few more reference pics of the V8 before I go too much further with the engine. I'll update asap

Thanks again for your time

[martin farmer]

Hello All

This is my first post on this forum.

I have discovered it by searching on websites containing items on the BT46B fan car.

This work that you have done is first rate on this model
One question I have is where did you get the info from to draw this model or did you use photographs.
I use Autodesk Inventor in my day job and I know what's needed to get images like you have here.

Regards

Martin

[Catlin]

This Topic is from 2003,could you please PM the Topics user if you have any questions...

[Johnas]

2004 actually

But yeah try pm'ng Bluestar or emailing. He hasn't been online for awhile tho