F1 Concept Development

F1 Concept Development

This is not the usual thing I would display, as I don’t consider it “finished” or “presentable”. However, this is the basis for a fifth scale model I will be making over the summer, and I thought that this might be interesting to display for that reason. The top two drawings are “top” and “side” elevation and were used to establish the idea, and the lower drawing is a perspective view, constructed with more care than usual as it is meant to inform during the model-making stage. There is still much to develop with regard to this concept, but this will be the base.

1936 Auto Union

1936 Auto Union

One of the strangest looking Grand prix cars ever… but an amazing piece of engineering. The engine was a 6 litre V16 and made 520 bhp. For the full appreciation of it’s “strangeness”, one must really see it from the side; the driver is shoved forward into the blunt nose and the V16 fills the back end of the car.

“Powder”

A Break from cars… at least for today. This is my dog, a chocolate lab – she looks a little sad, but she practices this look as it is useful when food is in the vicinity…

Her name comes from my sons, who thought that I should name my next lab (my last had been a black lab) “gunpowder”. “Gunpowder didn’t work for her, and “cocoa powder” seemed long for a puppy, so, “Powder” she is – which kinda works, because she like snow…

Pinto

Pinto

…I’m not sure why…

Belly tank racer concept

Belly tank racer concept

Always thought these things look remarkably cool. I wish modern F1 cars were more like this….

Perception

Mercedes Cars Bruce thomsonSelf explanatory, I think…

2013 Malaysian GP – Alternate

2013 Malaysian Grand Prix Cartoon - Alternate

One of the problems with rushing off the cartoons as fast as I try to is that sometimes you come up with another idea as you’re doing it – as I did here. In the end I liked this one enough to think it was deserving of an “airing” so I thought I’d provide a rough sketch.

Honda CL350

Honda CL350

Based on the bike created for the English version of the movie “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”. I started this sketch on the weekend – this is a reasonably “involved” sketch. The geometry was set up in my sketchbook, and then the actual drawing was traced from that on tracing vellum – which accepts the pencil very nicely. Elipse templates were used in order to get some semblance of accuracy in the wheels.

2013 Malaysian GP

2013 Malaysian Grand Prix Cartoon

Toyota Sports 800

Toyota Sports 800 Bruce ThomsonBrilliant car – an 800cc, 45 HP car that topped out at (claimed) 160km/h – which in something this small would seem like warp speed. These cars were a reaction to the introduction of the first Honda production car, the S500. It’s not hard to see a “little brother” likeness to the Toyota 2000GT. I desperately want one of these (the 800) but they rarely come up for sale, and when they do, never in Canada… last 3 I’ve seen available were in Portugal, Zimbabwe and Guatemala…