MacDonald Motorsports Base (My first ever base I ever done)

[nascarbrake]

This is the base of the MacDonald Motorsports #81 Which was mostly used this year
Note the one you see is not the finished product

Credits
Base-Me

 

[ScottHuhn88]

Just to let you know that painting bases can lead to lack of sleep LOL I should know, nice base bud

 

[Cheeze]

The red should prolly be just a tinsy bit mor brighter. Nice job though

 

[scottw73]

The red should prolly be just a tinsy bit mor brighter. Nice job though

I agree, just make the red a tad bit darker and your golden. great job

 

[nascarbrake]

I agree, just make the red a tad bit darker and your golden. great job

Well the only problem is how do I do that with the lack of painting experience of nr2003 I have I really dont know how I could do that.

 

[Michael James]

The render dulled it out a bit. What program do you use?

 

[nascarbrake]

The render dulled it out a bit. What program do you use?

for the paint: Adobe Photoshop CS3
for the render: Ten0r's Website

 

[Michael James]

OK, I dont have or know anything about cs3 but I can sure as hell bet you want to tweak with the colors tab and something along the lines of colorize and contrast.

 

[nascarbrake]

OK, I dont have or know anything about cs3 but I can sure as hell bet you want to tweak with the colors tab and something along the lines of colorize and contrast.

Well what I did was find a picture of the real car then use the color selector and picked the color of that part

 

[Michael James]

That could have been the pictures colors that hurt you.
Here is an example.

This car is pure black, but the picture makes it look gray.

 

[nascarbrake]

That could have been the pictures colors that hurt you.
Here is an example.

This car is pure black, but the picture makes it look gray.

Yeah your right because some of the cars I did when I use pics like that It could change the color a little bit

 

[nascarjohn2]

Cant use color picker when making bases. You'll be thrown off by lighting in the picture which will make the color seem lighter or darker. One of the more common examples I use when explaining this is the old 31 cingular/AT&T car. In pictures and on TV it looked orange. But when you got up close to it, it was more of a bright reddish orange.

 

[Snoopy0626]

Just to let you know that painting bases can lead to lack of sleep LOL I should know, nice base bud

Yep you are correct there

But paint any car set can do the same

By the way nice base

 

[nascarbrake]

Thanks I wish I could release but since nnracing is down for like the 100,000th time lately not really that much.

 

[Michael James]

Start out easy, then go big. May I suggest this one next...

 

[nascarbrake]

Start out easy, then go big. May I suggest this one next...

hmmmm I think I can do it but it may not be well.

Edit: Im currently trying to make the base and addition to that Im also doing the #05 Wayne Day Enterprises Base