Truck: "True Blue" Ford Falcon AU ute
Pod Name: TruBlu.pod
Version: MTM2
Released: 30 December 2003


This truck is a repaint of the Ford Falcon AU utility model that I built from scratch over a period of many months and released earlier this year. The original design for this paintjob is actually well over a year old - some may remember I released a version around September '02! At the time I was still tweaking the model, and that truck was never anything more than a 'test mule'. Now that I've finally arrived at a model I'm happy with, I felt I better get this truck finished before we click over to 2004! 

In the time since the early beta-release, I'd made some subtle changes to the model, and drastic changes to the layout of the texture files. This meant that I couldn't carry over everything from the older version, so most of the art on this is new work. In particular I redrew the flag art on the sides of the bed, which was the main thing that was holding up the whole production - I couldn't easily get a look I was satisfied with, until I took a new approach to it when I restarted work on it just after Christmas. When I finally got that down, the rest of the truck flowed together quite easily over just a couple of days.

I'd already used the chassis texture from the TS50 in NFS HP2 for the underbody detail of my base model, and for this truck I also borrowed the TS50's headlight texture, which is higher-resolution than what I've been using and has the cool darkened bezels on the light surrounds. I repainted the tailights by hand to resemble a custom circular arrangment with silver bezels that I've seen on a real Falcon ute. The exhaust pipe was modified, and as a finishing touch I added triangular driving lights to the corners of the bumper airdam.

The web address across the windshield reads www.trueblueford.com, a real website by dedicated to the Falcon and Falcon fanatics... check it out ;)


Suggestions and comments welcome please.
You can e-mail me at d2smtm2@email.com
Check out my websites at http://mtm2.com/~d2s/

That's about all... have fun with this!

---Drive2Survive
"Live for the Ride. Drive to Survive."