Truck: "Falcon Unbelievable" Ford XR8 ute
Pod Name: Unblvble.pod
Version: MTM2
Completed: 14 February 2004


When I created my series of Falcon ute models for MTM2, the intention was always there (drumming in the back of my mind) to do a swathe of repaints and custom trucks using them. And though it's taken me a while to finally get around to it, this truck was always one of the foremost designs I wanted to do. It's based on a Ford Motor Co owned ute I saw saundering around parc ferme at the 2001 Bathurst 1000 race (Ford and Holden always bring a sideshow of party tricks to this event). It would have been hard not to notice, with the paint job this thing was wearing - really underscores the sign writing on the side! Luckily I managed to grab a quick photo of it, and later found another pic at www.trueblueford.com, for use as reference while making this rendition some two years later :)

This is just a straight repaint of my AUII XR8 ute - no model modifications whatsoever. But what a paint job it is! This one really pushed my painting skills to places they'd never been before - that two-tone-blue on white sawtooth pattern all the way around the front was killer, never mind the sky-blue blending on the nose! There was frustration in getting the sign writing to fit on the side, and the agony of trying to squeeze my hand-drawn and antialiased truecolour originals into MTM2's 256-colour palettes (somehow it went, even with the addition of colourful Triple-M radio logos on the flanks stealing away a whole bunch of palette indices). But after all that, I reckon the end result is magnificent - the sharpest paint I've ever done! Sadly that sky-blue doesn't always look right in the game, but as you can probably tell, I'm pretty stoked with it regardless.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!


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."