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![[*]](./images/xn/default_icon.gif) posted on 8-21-2010 at 01:47 PM |
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| posted on 8-21-2010 at 08:42 PM |
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That looks cool. You should try to incorporate the "Turbo2.4" a little more tho.
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| posted on 8-21-2010 at 09:30 PM |
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I agree. I threw it together kind of quick.
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| posted on 8-21-2010 at 09:35 PM |
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Looks good.. I'm not one to work with sigs/pictures etc.
With the mirror image effect that you have, it looks like you have 3 piston motor. It goes real well with the logo, but it gives the impression
you're either a Geo Metro or you're packing a v6 motor somehow.
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| posted on 8-21-2010 at 10:58 PM |
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I should rearrange them and add three more and go with a radial design, stick with my aviation profession.
My other thought was to drop the middle two pistons and replace them with a set of camshafts.
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| posted on 8-22-2010 at 09:05 AM |
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How about this?
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| posted on 8-22-2010 at 01:46 PM |
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I hope you take this as some constructive criticism. As I, in no way feel I could do any better.
I love the turbo deal tying things together. It's goes real well but the one piece of the turbo looks more like tranny part then a turbo one. Not
sure if you drew those or found them, but maybe find something closer to a oil/water housing.
4 pistons work real well.
Adding the cams is a nice touch.. Maybe pull the two closer together and add some gears, one on the top, one on the bottom to symbolize the
top/bottom of the letter "I". The pistons on top of the rods do a good job at symbolizing the top/bottom in the letter "X" so it would go well to
find a way to mimic that on the cams.
Here's thought..
Drop the green logo completely and have all the parts closer together. Place the combined parts as a background image, slightly faded and off center,
then from that have the green logo centered and slightly larger, colored as it is, etc. Make it look like the logo was created from the parts in the
background.
Then take a look at dropping the white box that makes it all look like a drawing, and fill it with something that ties it all together.
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| posted on 8-22-2010 at 02:03 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally posted by turbo2.4
I should rearrange them and add three more and go with a radial design, stick with my aviation profession.
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If you went this route, you'll probably want to drop the 2.4 for something more fitting like T700 or something similar depending on what motor(s) you
work on.
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BTW.. that T700 motor has a 15:1 compression ratio.. That's crazy.
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| posted on 8-22-2010 at 08:20 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Grawill
I hope you take this as some constructive criticism. As I, in no way feel I could do any better. |
I am not sure I am good at taking constructive criticism.... 
I put the cam gears on and am working on it. Probably wont get a chance to work on it this week,but I will try. It has been a fun project....now if
only I could make my car the way I want it.......
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| posted on 8-27-2010 at 08:29 PM |
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The T700 in some variants is up to 17x compression and 2,380 Shaft Horsepower (similar to crank horsepower.) The ones in the birds that I am around
are in transition from the lower powered T700 to the 1700 shp T701c engines.
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| posted on 8-27-2010 at 08:30 PM |
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How about this? I am leaning more towards something like this for the next decal that I put out.
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| posted on 8-27-2010 at 08:58 PM |
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That's sweet looking. Are you adding this stuff by hand and scanning it or using some program?
Have you noticed.. the name is shown as XMI.. but the graphic only has XI.
I'm thinking, maybe drop the M.. and spell the Xperimental backwards (from the graphic to the left.)
Or if you're thinking decals.. maybe circle the graphic with the two words.. X at 9 o'clock going up.. and I at 3 o'clock going down.
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| posted on 8-27-2010 at 09:24 PM |
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Ha,I wish I could draw like this.....
It is from line drawings that I locate online and fonts I have found and I piece them together with MS Paint and or GIMP. I have thought about the
'M' and I just could not think of a good way to integrate it, but I do not want to drop it because of all the times I have been crazy for some of my
ideas.
I will play with the backward idea......
I like the circle decal idea.I will try to find some time to make a version like that.
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| posted on 8-28-2010 at 07:42 AM |
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Still using MSPaint? I'm a huge fan of MSPaint, have been since win95. But last year I ran into a program that really does a great job at taking
the MSPaint concept and adding a few necessary features. Check it out..
Paint.net
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| posted on 8-28-2010 at 09:15 AM |
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I have been a MS Paint ninja for awhile now. It is simple and straight forward. I even used it to create a recruiting ad that my A&P school ( all 7
across the country) use to this day.
It does have some limitations and I hit a wall when I was trying to design the logo early this year. That is when I decided to at least try to get
a basic hold on operating Gimp. Gimp is a free editing program similar to photoshop. I use it mainly for flipping images, color effects, motion blurs
and other things that paint cannot do.
When it comes to final assembly or fonts, I usually go back to paint.
I will check out the program though.
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| posted on 8-28-2010 at 06:13 PM |
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| posted on 8-29-2010 at 06:08 PM |
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They're awesome man.
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L6 6 cylinder engine, hoping to swap out for a 454 soon enough. Stock 3 speed on the floor with a Hurst Indy shifter.
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| posted on 8-30-2010 at 06:24 PM |
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I like that 1st one of the last 2 you posted.
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| posted on 9-1-2010 at 08:42 PM |
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Me too. The font really makes the entire thing come together. I love it.
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