Chris B

39 minutes ago, LordFrosting said:

Is that a shorter W/B or just the angle? 

I think it's a little shorter than the old truck, it'll wheelie easier. But it's nothing drastic 

New Saigon Shaker 

10 minutes ago, GuyLiner849 said:

Here is the truck ive been working on. 20+ hours of paint (no joke xD)

Still needs some cities in the roof and in the left side. Also needs the side flames and roof flames but here is the progress

 

Suggestions are welcome as always

Love that paint man! Just a few quick suggestions. First, the very front of the body is just overlayed with paint, kind of looks off. Maybe rip grill and headlight "stickers" from Jester or Bounty Hunter.  Also, not sure if you need to put the whole schedule on there lol, maybe just put a few of the bigger stops on there. I know you're trying to replicate that one diecast truck, but just giving you some ideas how to make it even better.

5 minutes ago, Garrett Hanson said:

@AmiHoudeFanBoiiii wanna go m8t?
 

just kidding man. this is done. 

Please put some more time into your trucks! You come out with one like every day! Things that take a longer time to make pretty much always means a better product. Tampa for example took a month for me because I had to learn all those modeling skills for the pirate ship and skull, and it's still not done! (my future stuff obviously won't take that long) Use Blender, model a new body, make a new node beam, model a new chassis, model some new parts, or something! Also, please put more effort into your paints, and learn some more paint.net or GIMP stuff. Take some time to learn some skills, not everything has to be posted on SYP the second it gets into game. 

Will Tom be back soon? Hope all is okay with him

EDIT

Due to a lower back injury, Colton Eichelberger will take over the driving responsibilities for his father, Tom Meents in Max-D^TM this weekend at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Monster Jam driver Blake Granger will drive the Max-D truck on the Monster Jam Triple Threat Series East in Charleston, West Virginia at the Charleston Civic Center in Colton’s absence. All points acquired this weekend on each tour will remain with the truck. No further updates are available at this time.  

1 minute ago, GuyLiner849 said:

Does anyone know what happened to Scott Douglass?

Lol this gets posted so often. He has a more "corporate" position at FELD now, training new announcers. I wish they let him still do live/FS1 shows though 

Cuz I was posting the pictures while he made his. Plus it's show your projects, and I actually showed a project. Mods can delete who ever's

Hey check this out. http://www.judgeszone.com/. Monster Jam was using this website for the extra fan score last night at Anaheim (and apparently other places too but I cannot confirm). What it does is instead of the stupid "noise" meter, each fan in the stadium can type in the code for the show, and after every run, they can choose what score they thought it deserved. After 30 seconds, the average score everyone gave is the 6th judge.

Pretty cool...

Edit:

New Orleans had it too, so might just be for the FS1 Series

Has Kelvin been playing Rigs of Rods lately? First the "hack" save and now this! 

56 minutes ago, TheRetroStyle said:

What I mean is that instead of bringing in the usual crew to Toronto (Tom Meents, Jim Koehler, Candice Jolly etc.), they give us a lineup that is completely different, and most of the lineup is competitors that may be able to do great in arenas, but really don't stand a chance against some of the other competitors in there, such as Ryan Anderson, Coty Saucier, Carl Van Horn and Mike Vaters II. I mean yeah there is the wheelie competition, but let's be honest; with a track like that, do you really think ANY OF THEM would be able to truly impress?

Lol I find it funny that you put Candice Jolly on those who normally impress. Not implying she sucks, but she's not really any different than any other FELD driver. Also, half of those indies run Throwdown, and since I'm guessing you've never bothered to buy Joyride, you are completely unaware of what they can do.  

Avenger wins freestyle in San Antonio!! YEAAAAHHHHHHHH!!

13 minutes ago, kmp21093 said:

not sure how close anyone else is following the points series(personally I think its awesome and one of the best things to come to monster jam, but would like to see some changes like the WF going back to 16 trucks) but Justin Sipes is running away with the point lead in the central tour and Krysten Anderson is barely out of last place. Which slightly bothers me because back in the early 2000's only the elite got the chance to drive a Grave Digger or Max-D(goldberg and team meent etc) and now Krysten, Colton, Jared, and Cole jump right into these trucks for their first seasons driving. 

I agree with you on the last part, except for Colton and Cole. Cole has worked with Adam for years and proved he could drive hard enough in a digger filling in for Legend a few times. Colton also deserves it because he's a wild man period. Jared and Krysten need some development before I think they deserve it (Jareds obviously closer). But then again, FELD likes to get as many Andersons and Meents's into the sport, and the obvious choice for them is to stick them in the truck they're affiliated with. Maybe they could make some more "Son uva _____" trucks or something. 

Also, why would you want the world finals to go back to 16 trucks? The shows are rushed as they are, and there's way too much good talent out there now.

Just now, Goldberg6734 said:

Well, okay then.

ROR'ed the crap out of that!

Linsey doubles down in San Antonio

Coty wins racing in Orlando, Mikey wins freestyle. Cory in Rage nailed a perfect backflip too

EDIT

Way better picture of the new Avenger

Ok, I'm half decent at painting, so I'll give ya some tips.

First, I got all my skills from taking photography classes at school, then transferring what I learned from that into ROR painting. Therefore, yes, I use photoshop. I'm sure you can do most of the stuff in paint.net and Gimp if you don't wanna buy it (it's pretty expensive lol). There's just a couple easier ways to do stuff in Photoshop. 

Next, start with a bake, and fine tune the base color over it. Then start from the back and go to the front or vise versa. If there's a pretty complicated character or design on the truck, open up a new image and either trace off a lower quality picture or free hand it from reference photos. Sometimes you can get lucky and find some of the designs through Google and different monster truck websites. 

Once you are done with the paint, just a little suggestion i do, overlay the original bake to the finished paint so you get realistic shadows. 

Just takes some time and patience to make something really high quality. Have fun!

1 hour ago, Garrett Hanson said:

revamped this thing:
 

you like?
also got more stuff in the works.
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 Get rid of those ugly tires, I made them like a year ago and compared to my stuff now they look like crap. Just use junky dogs like Rocco said. Also, remember all those color tips we gave you a few weeks ago for your paint? Use those

Made this for @cp2013. Even though it's just a repainted Avenger (cp painted body, I did the rest), turned out good enough to be shown off

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Dennis landed flat on the roll cage and medics came out. They drove him off in one of their carts.  

I know the new Wrecking Crew was getting some hate, but up close it looks pretty darn good

1 minute ago, Taurus Racer 13 said:

Jim said there was going to be a new Avenger body this year Any news on this ?

 

Next weekend is his first show of the year... hopefully he has a new body to go along with the new chassis 

1 hour ago, Mr. Self Destruct said:

i sorry for the double post

 

logo by me (i actually painted something good for once lol)

Logo's purple as of last summer, hasn't been green for a few years I think.

Cynthia wins overall champ in Salt Lake City, and Sipes in Megalodon runs away with it in Nashville taking overall points