Cute family

Thanks.

what a happy lil family :3

how is your recovery going? you doing ok?^^

Thanks! I'm still recovering. dealing with all kinds of mounting issues from medical supplies, employer attitudes and other nagging inconsistencies related to a major health incident. But, it's expected to be that way... nobody ever told me going through medical crap was heaven on earth...

i dont even want to imagine what you are going thorugh...
but hey as long as you are recovering everything is ok i guess^^ at least it means that its gonna be over sooner or later!

Funny... that seems to be the standard motto of undertakers and The Grim Reaper himself....

i have never mentioned my nighttime job, right? ;D

Not in my recollection, but I figure it's going to be....dark.

Interesting car they've got!

It's a V-9 Twin Turbo... (yes, as in "9" cylinders) and two air scrubbers. Better power than a V-8, less gas usage than a V-10.

Heh! I'm reminded of George Trosley's work in CARToons!

They should revive that rag... it's been out of circulation for...how long???

At least a decade.

Really? I thought it was a lot longer than that...

actually, I think a revival would end up as some web book you download to one of those E-book readers or such...

(researches) 1991! Wow, gone 20 years now...

Thought so... I wonder if any of the artists in tat rag got better gigs because of CARtoons?

This looks like a spring day in Orange County, or the San Fernando Valley.

Scott

Heh... if it was ol' San Fern... I'd have to filter in a LOT of brownish sunlight effects... that city looks like it has a bad case of cholesterol.

Then probably O.C.

That IS more appealing...(even though it's evil Disney territory... )

Okay, Dad's hobby looks nice, but where's the car the kids will allowed to drive (when they get old enough)?

Look in the garage, Mole...

The Minivan! Wah Wah Waaaaah! XD

Dad's got good taste in cars...and vixens!

He's got the kits to prove it... maybe even more soon....

Good to see ya active! Man, that's really some computer coloring. Very....computerish?

"...computerish..." Yeah..... I can see that. Sorta' like: eating a banana is "Engulfing"... or walking around the city is "Concretish"... or breathing is "Overindulgent Oxygen Transactional"................

thats cute!

*hugs* hope ur doin better :)

I can only try... though I hate giving myself injections....

i can imagine...i dont like needles, so i don't think i'd be able to give myself shots

For me, when it comes down to it, I resort to my bull-headed stubbornness and say "F*** IT... it costs so much I CAN'T not take it..." so, in goes the needle, push goes the medicine, swell goes the shoulder and on goes the TV...

It get routine after a while....

well, yeah...i'm sure if i had to, it would be easier each time

'Beirocuda', huh?

Yyyyyyyyyep! A classic onto it's own...

Very nice work here... this leading to a story arc?
keep up the great work
--Rick

Well.... there are comics strips I have done. This is just one of those static ideas of a family portrait I somewhat dabble into from time to time...

First thing I thought when I saw that ride was "Uh-oh, V-9.. that's Dad's car. Sitting on the hood is as close as those kids are gonna get to it..." Then I checked the garage and saw the eco-friendly subcompact and thought "Ah. Answered that question."

Details are everything... even to, dare I say it? "...Deez-TAILS"







....oh well,,,,,,,,,,

I just had to fave it. I just had to.

Kinda like visual drugs, huh? It's like potato chips... can't just have one....

Now let's discuss the possibility of building the scene as a 1/24th or 1/12 scale model diorama. The "V-9" looks like it's gonna need a LOT of custom work as I don't quite think there's anything in this reality that matches those body panels.

I think you might have to do some MAJOR custom alterations on plastic to make it work... my art class in Jr. High did this technique of clay model with paper mache' (is that how it's spelled?) overlay, and lifted the paper off. Fiberglass is also an option, though expensive, time consuming and chemically hazardous...

Foamcore is an option, too...

Do you remember the days when Auto Bodies were prototyped from the dimensions off a 1:1 scale mockup carved in clay? It was one of the reasons I took Ceramics and Design in College. Now Paper Mache' is not a bad idea. Of course there might be something to Vacuforming a rough body over a clay prototype like they do with the R/C cars. I'll keep thinkin' about it, and you keep drawing it. Let's start with a Five View, eh? (No big hurry.) I was eyeballing those roughly 1/12 scale auto bodies at Toys R Us based on "Cars" charaters mainly because they have interchangeable wheels, tires and engine options. Also, "Toys fer Brats" is clearing out the shelf cloggers for $9.00 apiece instead of the near $30.00 for the basic sets. (Need a big blower ans zoomie pipes?) The "Lightning McQueen" roof line looks like it might closely match your design.

I've done plan views before and have taken drafting courses in college... so I know how to draft out a car like the bcV-9tt in such views... though I use graph paper to speed up the process. A couple of concept interior views might help as well, as I see them exactly in my head already. The real head-twister is if you are going to include a functional front hood that reveals the *mysterious* V-9 engine block. I have a layman's idea what it could look like with no real knowledge of engineering logic other than what my mind says... what I came up with it looks like a muscle-car engine with 4 cylinders on the left and 5 on the right, with a small centrifuge "air scrubber" in place of the "10th" cylinder would be. Other than that is just your basic architectural auto standards.

You are really contemplating this project? I am rather humbled to have a concept of mine considered worthy of talented interest... much of what I have done in this era of fandom rarely takes notice and bears little... enthusiasm, so I am, for lack of better words, humbled.

If that was my old man, he'd be yelling about sitting on the car... "You'll scratch my paint!" Of course, he'd lean against my car (at which time I yell'd at him for doing that).

I think dad here would be more worried about traveling during the shedding season...

I can't believe I goofed TWICE on the wrong button... ..........sorry.

No problem man. I love the picture.

The serenity of this picture masks such evil within those children. >.>

You sound like a TV tabloid writer with that observation...

Heck, remember that flick "Blue Velvet"?

Eeep. :< Is that bad?

Also no, I've never seen nor heard of that movie until now. >_>

If that's the case, when you actually have the gumption to see it, I'd entertain the thought of your opinion on it, correlated with the sly suggestion of my response to your first query...

No, it wasn't "bad"... it just sounded "Marketable Juxtaposition"-ish.... like we here in Tucson have crazy local news weatherpeople that push "Monsoon Awareness" every season, what in fact is that we are HUNDREDS of MILES from anything coastal to be related to such a term. ( Hope that is some type of explanation?)

Well I didn't mean to sound as such. >.> Seems I put off the wrong message. ^^;

Incidentally, if I do come across this movie, I'll get back to you with a response. >.>

I can see the future and I tell ya, Janice will look very hot when she´s older.

...and, a lot angrier... or bitchy. I'd sympathize with whomever becomes HER mate...

Or it could be a W-9----3 banks of 3 like the brit "Broad Arrow"aircraft engines. Ain'tone of the high dollar exotics, a w-12???? THE COLONEL

Hmm... I'll have to research that... it would make the Beirocuda more exotic, but more of a custom job like Lamborghini than a Detroit assembly-line muscle car.

But the exhaust note would be ---different. And the exhaust and intake plumbing would be complex,esp if it had a turbo boosted mechanical supercharger! I'm trying torember, I thinl the cyl banks would be 60 degrees apart,so there would be left,right and middle. The Roll-Royce [or was it Napier?] Lion W-12 A/C engin was used in one of the Bluebird LSR cars [Ithink is was one of the Bluebirds] that held the LSR record for long time,upuntil the summers bros Goldenrod in the late 60's.Well over 350mph, have to lok that one up. Still a really great looking muscle car. would make agreat model.
Changing tye subject, take care of ourself.Diabetes is not fun. I have to start taking more care of my self for the same reasons. It can be a lotworse, in control with drugs and diet. At least it hasn;t gone to the insulin injection stage,like my wifes' younger brother. Goo forbid!! Keep up the good work and take care.. THE COLONEL

Campbells'early Bluebird used the Napier Lion {1} but was later reengined with a R/R V-12. The one I was thinking of was John Cobbs' Railton Special in its' various incarnations, which topped cambells' record in 38 to369mph. After the war [47] he pushed it to 394+ which stood as the piston powered record until the sommers GOLDENROD pushed it to 409+. Cobbs Railton had 2 Lions,The Goldenrod had 4 Hemis if I remember correctly. Ain't this trivia search fun????? LSR record have gotten complexin the last few years. Jet,rocket,turbine or piston wheel driven, electric[!!?]and STEAM would U believe!! now there'sathought. Some of your furry girl gearheads with a Stear LSRcar!!!! Fasinating [insert Spockian raised eyebrow here] LOL ROTFL!! Do take care of yourself.
THE COLONEL