Chris B

Ryan Disharoon in Saigon Shaker takes event champion in Charlotte

Indies FTW!

Jailbird gets the first roll of 2017! 

1 hour ago, rockgod88 said:

I never liked being stuck in between a rock and a hard place but.....

 

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Not 100% done yet, but not bad eh?

 

Looking great! However, I've got a few suggestions

The logo on the body's too low. On the real truck, it's much higher. Not sure if you did the paint yourself, but try and raise it up. As a matter of fact, that whole paint could use some touch ups. Also, I know you said it's not done, and I'm not sure if you're going to add this, but he runs a sponsor plate. It's a really simple solid black one with like 3 stickers, so it shouldn't be hard. Last, I'm pretty sure the trucks a tiny bit higher. I don't think the 4 links go below horizontal.

Just trying to give some constructive criticism, keep up the awesome work!

Amateur hour's over kiddos.

Guys, if you're going to make a "dirty" looking truck, you have to paint more than just the tires!!!! 

I know this would water lock the engine, but who cares!

Photoshop is fun

Looks like Atlanta will be rescheduled to Sunday March 5th at 3:30 pm.

9 minutes ago, ChaoticMayhem said:

 

WIP but what fired Up would look like if it were ice themed. Welcome Chiller to Sim Monsters

 

If it's supposed to be ice themed, why is the chassis red/pink, and why are the words on fire?

Honestly the truck doesn't look too bad, but it doesn't match the theme at all...

on phone but here

https://s24.postimg.org/rxniohbir/image.png?dl=1&_ga=1.124657039.40748532.1483116794 

New Truck- Over Bored (Even tho the name isn't new, the entire truck is)

New Scheme- Bigfoot: all of them

Rookie- Tyler Menniga

New Venue- Plymouth Speedway, Plymouth Indiana (Hands down cause of the fountain jump )

Save- Blackwell at San Antonio (One of the few "saves" this year where the body didn't hit the ground)

Air- Todd Leduc: Everywhere

Race of the year- Crushstation vs. Heavy Hitter, Mt Pleasant (Go watch it on Joyride, youtube doesn't do it justice)

Breakthrough- Groth Bros (Both had a great year)

Driver to watch- Bryan Wright- Hooked

Stadium freestyle of the year- Damon Bradshaw: Everywhere (Consistent af this year)

Arena freestyle of the year- Derric Anson in Beaumont, TX

Crash Madness-  Red Solo Truck and Snake Bite in Wildwood (C'mon, if anyone says anything else they obviously only watch MJ )

11 minutes ago, Jackattack29 said:

Did FELD release him or was it his own decision?

FELD's been looking to get rid of some of the older drivers for a while now. Duhon, Rod Schmidt, Dustin Brown (still working mechanically), Soza, Krmel, Norm Miller, Liddycoat (he's not on any schedules for 1st quarter, but idk for sure) and others are being released/transferred, which totally sucks cause all them have worked hard to get where they got. FELD wants a bunch of young "marketable" drivers to help their image. That's also why there's an entire tour of rookies for the Triple Threat thing. Mcdonald wasn't even supposed to get a seat until Madusa got hurt. 

2 minutes ago, Garrett Hanson said:

@Jackattack29 i'm mostly a multi color person when it comes to trucks, very rarely would I ever just stick with one color.
speaking of colors:
 

don't worry about the driveshaft and other stuff it'll change.

He doesn't mean sticking to one color. What he means is to use colors that flow with each other or belong to a similar color scheme. A great way to make the scheme flow and not look like you just bucket filled in everything is to use gradients and only pick a few colors to use (like 2-3), not all of them. Another suggestion I have is to use some cool textures and overlay them to the body, and not just always use flat colors. Make sure the rims go along with the truck's scheme too, and not just a random color that looks cool.. Also, make your decals and logos fit in certain parts of the body. The way you have them laid out is going over the imprints (just look at the "crusher" logo) and often being over sized (just look at the Monster Jam logo). Last, cmon, that's just a repainted overkill evo, maybe try and build your own truck from the ground up using blender. 

That's all.

So some pretty cool indie 2016 highlight videos came out recently 

Throwdown's

BMPS (Basically just every show MonsterBlog have covered this year)

1 hour ago, Mr. Self Destruct said:

thought that Captain's Curse was just a result of Huffaker hitting the brakes too late? I thought he just didn't have enough time to slow the truck down, and by the time he hit the brakes he was already past the turn. I'll look into that

I can confirm that Blackwell's roll was due to a brake failure. I was at the event, and he burned them up a little the race before, but in an interview after the semis, his crew chief said they fixed them and they were good for the finals. However, that obviously wasn't the case. 

Also, because of that crash, the year later, they started putting dumpsters down there to try and prevent trucks from rolling up into stands again. It actually kind of worked with crashes from Avenger, Captain USA, and let's not forget about how they might of saved Donald from serious injury.

New truck for 2017. Gonna run Toughest Monster Truck Tour 1st quarter

Kevin drove for Meents before too

I actually heard from a very reliable source that there was a problem with how FELD had motorcross coming into some of the same venues as Monster Jam, and the parts of the cars/vans/busses were getting left in the dirt. That's another reason they limited their tracks down to just dirt.

The tracks FELD used this past year in first quarter were okay, and I really like the style of racing they've been doing. However, I just hope they alternate between the style they did first quarter and the style they did at St Louis/Minneapolis recently.

Just follow this

Lol that's exactly how I got my start to making stuff. Anyway, go into the .zip of the file, and find the png of the paint (isn't hard to find). Once there, open it with paint.net, gimp, Photoshop, etc. You might need to overlay it to start from scratch. Once done, save it as the same name as it was, and you're done.

If it doesn't show up the first time in game, regen your cache and it will. Also, if you want it to be its own individual truck( and not overlay), follow the cloning tutorial on here

EDIT; Dang it, didn't see sky's post lol 

I'm wet

17 minutes ago, Charlie H. said:

That's lame they won't post them online. 2011's video was one of the all time best

Hate to take this thread even more off topic, but here's 2016's 

And 2015's!

Enjoy! (22 sec in confirms Pablo was driving Doomsday)

19 minutes ago, Charlie H. said:

Remember when they used to do videos at the World Finals where drivers lip synched to songs? They need to bring that back

Actually, they still do them. For this year, it was only played at the actual show to the song Happy. At the other years it wasn't shown, they only played it at the award ceremony. 2015's was leaked on YouTube, but idk if it's still there

3 minutes ago, maxdman said:

I loved this track for some reason...  Gotta support the Monster Truck Throwdown.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This may be one of my favorite pictures...

 

Wild Side sure would look good on this track @Chris B  

All that detail 

I'm working on Wild Side a little bit more now. I'm gonna ask around for some help with the chassis and I'll fix the paint, but then it should be good to go

Track for Minny, looks like USA 1 is out on the track for the pit party

Photo cred Nathan Williamson on instagram