If this looks a little familiar, it's because it was the car I was working on when I entered the GAMING LEC with a Geoguessr livery! That entry took about an hour... but I've been working on this for 4+ years! I started it early on during GT Sport, and never got it finished... it was one of a couple of liveries I was struggling to finish and gave up on when the world starting going to ****. Since I last worked on this I've endured crippling work pressure thanks to Brexit, split up with my GF, my Mum's died, my best friend's died, we've had a global pandemic, and lurched closer to nuclear war than ever before! Thought it was about time to get it finished!
The original car was a BMW M1, which raced at Le Mans in 1980. I don't have that many good photo's of it, so I've worked almost entirely from the 1/18th die-cast I have of it, which I dropped at one point, so that's now got a broken engine cover and wing.
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Interestingly Marcel Mignot, one of the drivers, also drove the Lichtenstein and Warhol art cars.
I ended up figuring out which bits of France were represented, and tracing them from Google Maps to make the coastline. The map on the real car is actually quite badly distorted (to 'work' I guess), so I figured starting with what it actually should look like was the best bet, but it's ended up still needing to be fudged together to fit the VGT shape and still look like the M1 design. I made it harder for myself than it should have been, but it's harder than you might think.
